People

Corinne Scown is the Vice President and founder of the Life-cycle, Economics, and Agronomy Division (LEAD) at the Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI), Deputy Director for Research of the Energy Analysis and Environmental Impacts (EAEI) Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, and Head of Sustainability at the Energy and Biosciences Institute (EBI). Scown’s expertise includes life-cycle assessment and technoeconomic analysis applied to biofuels and bioproducts. She has led projects funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, California Energy Commission, California Air Resources Board, and Energy Biosciences Institute. She frequently collaborates with companies ranging from small startups to large multinational corporations in the bioenergy and bioproducts domain and enjoys finding ways to translate her research outputs into meaningful tools and insights for industry and policy makers. Scown is also co-founder of Cyklos Materials, a recyclable biopolymers startup. She earned a B.S. in civil engineering with a double-major in engineering and public policy at Carnegie Mellon University, and she received her Ph.D. and M.S. in civil and environmental engineering at UC Berkeley.