Daniel Bullock directs the U.S. Department of Energy-funded Gulf Clean Energy Application Center, which provides education, project support, and policy development initiatives supporting combined heat and power, waste heat recovery, and district energy technologies. He focuses on development and commercialization of advanced clean and renewable energy technologies.
Dan has over twenty years experience in high technology covering a wide variety of roles such as research, engineering, operations, marketing and sales. Through positions with the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, IBM East Fishkill facility, Advanced Micro Devices, and a number of technology start-up companies in the energy, display, and microelectronics industries, Dan has developed extensive background in materials science and process engineering. He has process expertise in solar cells and integrated circuit fabrication, especially with regard to micro-fabrication of micro-electro-mechanical (MEMS) devices and processing techniques. Dan has worked on load and demand side management techniques and utility programs, including work with the Lower Colorado River Authority. He was part of the team that developed the Delaware Mountain Windplant, the first utility scale wind farm in Texas. He has experience in energy policy through work at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at UT Austin and through brief appointments as an assistant to the Commissioner of the Railroad Commission of Texas and in the Energy and Transportation Directorates of the European Commission in Brussels, Belgium.
Dan graduated with distinction in solid state physics from Pennsylvania State University, and holds advanced degrees from the University of Texas at Austin in both engineering and public administration.
Expertise
Technology Commercialization
Clean and Renewable Energy
Distributed Generation
Microelectronics and Nanotechnology
Process Engineering
Public Policy Development
Programs & Projects
Gulf Coast Clean Energy Application Center