Seth W. Snyder

Dr. Seth W. Snyder is the director of the Clean Energy & Transportation Division at Idaho National Laboratory. He also serves as relationship manager for the DOE Vehicle Technologies Office and on the steering committee for the DOE Systems and Modeling for Accelerated Research in Transportation (SMART) Mobility Consortium. Before taking this position, he was leader of Argonne National Laboratory’s water initiative, coordinating work with other Department of Energy National Laboratories to address the Energy-Water Nexus. He is the acting chief technical officer for the Directed Research Institute for Clean Water (DRINC), a public/private clean-water research consortium. He is an adjunct professor of engineering at Northwestern University and a senior fellow at the University of Chicago’s Energy Policy Institute at Chicago (EPIC) and Institute of Molecular Engineering (IME). His work has resulted in three R&D 100 Awards and a Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer. He published more than 60 papers in more than 40 different journals, has 18 issued patents, and has presented at more than 100 conferences over the past decade. He earned his bachelor’s from University of Pennsylvania with a dual major in chemistry and environmental studies. He has a master’s in physical chemistry and a Ph.D. in biophysics from the University of Virginia.