Robert Socolow is a Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton Univerity. He also teaches in The Energy Group at Princeton University's Environmental Institute.

Professor Socolow's current research focuses on global carbon management, the hydrogen economy, and fossil-carbon sequestration. He is the co-principal investigator (with ecologist, Stephen Pacala) of Princeton University's new Carbon Mitigation Initiative (CMI), a $20-million dollar, ten-year (2001-2010) project, supported by BP and Ford.

Under CMI, Princeton is launching coordinated research in environmental science, energy technology, hydrology, and economics. Pacala and Socolow are the authors of "Stabilization wedges: Solving the climate problem for the next 50 years with current technologies," which appeared in the August 13, 2004 issue of Science.

In July 1997 Socolow co-chaired the Workshop on Fuels Decarbonization and Carbon Sequestration, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy. Other research interests include efficient use of energy, renewable energy, nuclear fission and fusion, the nitrogen cycle, advanced technologies for vehicles, and metals recycling.

Professor Socolow received his B.A. and Ph.D. in Physics from Harvard University.

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