Arun Majumdar

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|name = Arun Majumdar
|image = Arun Majumdar - NYC (cropped).jpg
|order = Acting
|office = Under Secretary of Energy
|status =
|president = [[Barack Obama]]
|term_start = March 2011
|term_end = June 2012
|predecessor = [[Kristina M. Johnson]]
|successor = [[David B. Sandalow]] (Acting)
|office1 = Director of [[ARPA-E|Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy]]
|president1 = [[Barack Obama]]
|term_start1 = September 2009
|term_end1 = June 2012
|predecessor1 = Position established
|successor1 = [[Cheryl Martin]] (acting)
|birth_date =
|birth_place =
|death_date =
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|party = [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
|education = [[Indian Institute of Technology Bombay|Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay]] ([[Bachelor of Science|BS]])<br>[[University of California, Berkeley]] ([[Master of Science|MS]], [[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]])
}}
'''Arunava "Arun" Majumdar''' is a [[materials science|materials scientist]], engineer, and professor who was nominated for the position of [[Under Secretary of Energy for Energy and Environment|Under Secretary of Energy]] in the United States between November 30, 2011 and May 15, 2012 but then the nomination was retracted.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://energy.gov/articles/president-obama-announces-more-key-administration-posts-10 | title=President Obama Announces More Key Administration Posts|publisher= [[U.S. Department of Energy]]| date= | accessdate=30 November 2011}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2012/05/15/presidential-nominations-and-withdrawal-sent-senate|title=Presidential Nominations and Withdrawal Sent to the Senate|date=May 15, 2012|website=whitehouse.gov}}</ref> He was previously the Director of the Environmental Energy Technologies Division at the [[Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory]], where he was also deputy director of LBNL as well as professor of [[mechanical engineering]] at the [[University of California, Berkeley]]. He was nominated<ref name=llbl-nomination>{{cite news|author=llbl-nomination|url=http://newscenter.lbl.gov/press-releases/2009/09/18/arpa-e-nomination/|title=White House nominates Berkeley Lab's Majumdar to head key DOE agency|date=September 18, 2009|work=[[Berkeley Lab]] News Center|accessdate=2009-10-03}}</ref> to be the first director of the [[U.S. Department of Energy]]'s [[ARPA-E|Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy]] (ARPA-E) and appointed to that position in September 2009.

In 2012, he joined [[Google]] to drive [[Google.org]]'s [[Google Energy|energy initiatives]] and advise the company on their broader energy strategy.<ref>http://blog.google.org/2012/12/an-energetic-welcome-to-arun-majumdar.html</ref> He is now the Jay Precourt Professor at Stanford University, where he serves on the faculty of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and is a Senior Fellow of the Precourt Institute for Energy.<ref>{{cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Dr. Arun Majumdar - Energy|url=https://energy.stanford.edu/people/arun-majumdar|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|accessdate=10 November 2020|website=Stanford University}}</ref> He also served on the Engineering and Computer Science jury for the [[Infosys Prize]] from 2012 to 2016.<ref>{{cite web |title=Infosys Prize - Jury 2016 |url=https://www.infosys-science-foundation.com/prize/jury/jury-2016.asp#Engineering-and-Computer-Science |access-date=1 March 2021}}</ref>

He completed his PhD at [[University of California, Berkeley]] after a bachelor's at [[Indian Institute of Technology Bombay]]. His scientific work is in the fields of [[thermoelectric]] materials, [[heat transfer|heat]] and [[mass transfer|mass]] transfer, [[thermal management (electronics)|thermal management]], and [[waste heat recovery unit|waste heat recovery]]. He has published several hundred papers, patents, and conference proceedings.<ref name=arun-majumdar-website>{{cite news|author=Arun-website|url=https://magiclab.stanford.edu/|title=Arun Majumdar's publications}}</ref> In 2005, Majumdar was elected a member of the [[National Academy of Engineering]] for contributions to nanoscale thermal engineering and molecular nanomechanics. He served as one of the Science Envoys of the US in 2014.

In November 2020, Majumdar was named a volunteer member of the [[Presidential transition of Joe Biden|Joe Biden presidential transition]] Agency Review Team to support transition efforts related to the [[United States Department of Energy]], [[Federal Energy Regulatory Commission]], and the [[Nuclear Regulatory Commission]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Agency Review Teams |url=https://buildbackbetter.com/the-transition/agency-review-teams/ |website=President-Elect Joe Biden |accessdate=10 November 2020}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://arpa-e.energy.gov/ ARPA-E]
*[https://magiclab.stanford.edu/ Arun Majumdar's research group at Stanford]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20081030074619/http://www.lbl.gov/msd/investigators/investigators_all/majumdar_investigator.html Arun Majumdar at LBNL]

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