Robert
Williams, Princeton University (clip
duration: 2m 32s)
Robert H. Williams is Senior Research Scientist at Princeton University's Center
for Energy and Environmental Studies.His
research interests span a wide range of topics relating to advanced energy
technologies, energy strategies, and energy policy, for both industrialized and
developing countries.A
considerable part of his research is focused on energy technologies and
strategies for developing countries, where most of the growth in global energy
demand will take place, and where environmental and security challenges relating
to energy are especially great.He
was Chair of the Renewable Energy Task Force for the President's Committee of
Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) and was the principal author of
"Renewable Energy," (Chapter 6) in the 1997 report, Federal Energy
Research & Development for the Challenges of the 21st Century and Report of
the Energy R&D Panel.He
received a B.S. in physics from Yale University in 1962 and a Ph.D. in
theoretical plasma physics from the University of California at Berkeley in
1967.
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