Jeff Tester is the H.P. Meissner Professor of Chemical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. For three decades, he has been involved in chemical engineering process research as it relates to renewable and conventional energy extraction and conversion and environmental control technologies. He has published extensively in the energy area having co-authored over 200 research papers and 10 books. His other assignments have included Director of MIT's Energy Laboratory (1989-2001), Program Director of MIT’s School of Chemical Engineering Practice (1980-1989) and a group leader in the Geothermal Engineering Group at Los Alamos National Laboratory (1974-1980).
Tester is a member of the advisory boards of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory as chair, the Massachusetts Renewable Energy Trust as chair, American Council on Renewable Energy, Los Alamos National Laboratory, the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Cornell University, and the Paul Scherrer Institut in Switzerland. He was a member of the Energy R&D Panel of the President’s Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) in 1997 and has served as an advisor to the USDOE, the Defense Science Board and the National Research Council in areas related to concentrating solar power, geothermal energy, and other renewable technologies and waste minimization and pollution reduction. Tester received a BS with distinction and MS in chemical engineering in 1966 and 1967 at Cornell and a PhD in chemical engineering at MIT in 1971.
