Panel on Science Policy Pathways

Adam Rosenberg

Democratic Staff Director for the Energy Subcommittee

U.S. House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology

https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-rosenberg-213682/

Adam Rosenberg is the Democratic Staff Director for the Energy Subcommittee of the U.S. House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, which he joined in April 2013, and previously served as a professional staff member on the Committee from mid-2007 through 2010. In these roles, he was lead staffer in the House for the comprehensive set of enacted energy science and innovation provisions in the CHIPS and Science Act and the Energy Act of 2020, lead Democratic staff for the Department of Energy (DOE) Research and Innovation Act, enacted in 2018, and lead for several enacted energy research provisions in the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007.

Dr. Rosenberg holds a B.S. in applied & engineering physics from Cornell University and a Ph.D. in plasma physics from Princeton University, where he studied magnetohydrodynamic instabilities and interactions between radio frequency waves and energetic ions in a large magnetic fusion experiment at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. While an undergraduate, he also completed internships at Argonne National Laboratory and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

From mid-2003 through 2004, Dr. Rosenberg was an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Congressional Fellow on the Democratic staff of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, where he worked on improving the direction for advanced scientific computing research, support for the physical sciences, overall U.S. competitiveness in high technology industries, and a variety of other issues. He then accepted a position as a Program Manager in the DOE Office of Science’s Fusion Energy Sciences Program, where he directly oversaw a major research facility at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as well as several other research activities across the nation.

Prior to his current position, Dr. Rosenberg served as Deputy Director for Technology Strategy in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Operational Energy Plans and Programs. There he managed the coordination of the Department of Defense’s joint activities with DOE to accelerate the development and deployment of advanced energy technologies for military applications. In addition, he served as the Assistant Secretary’s lead staffer on alternative fuels policy and technical analysis.

Chris Crawford

AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow, USDA

Chris is currently a AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow in the USDA Office of the Chief Scientist, where he advises on a range of agricultural science-policy issues related to biodiversity, natural resources, and the environment. Chris earned his PhD from the STEP program in May 2022, where he studied the impact of agricultural land use change on biodiversity and ecosystems, advised by Professor David Wilcove. Chris continued this work in a short postdoc in C-PREE before starting his fellowship in September 2023.

Before graduate school, Chris worked at the environmental NGO Sustainable Conservation, working to encourage river restoration in California’s Central Valley and prevent the use of invasive plants in gardening and landscaping. Chris grew up in East Lansing, MI and graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in ecology & evolutionary biology in 2012.

Elizabeth Zeitler

Associate Board Director, Energy and Environmental Systems

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine

Elizabeth (Beth) Zeitler is Associate Director of the Board on Energy and Environmental Systems at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. Across the Academies, she leads consensus studies to inform government, private, and public sector decisionmakers on key areas of domestic and global energy policy, such as carbon utilization markets, infrastructure and RD&D; technologies for vehicle energy efficiency; the future of the electric system; and technical and policy needs for deep decarbonization. She has previously led and supported projects in the future of electrochemistry, data, modeling and simulation for urban sustainability, electric vehicle deployment and energy resource potential on DOE lands. Beth received a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Princeton in 2014, and has previously served as a Christine Mirzayan Fellow at the Academies and as an AAAS STPF Fellow at the U.S. foreign assistance agency, the Millennium Challenge Corporation.

Hansen Tjo

GS CBE, GradFUTURES Professional Development Associate

Moderator

I am a 3rd year PhD Candidate in CBE and 2023-2024 GradFUTURES Professional Development Associate. Advised by Prof. Jonathan Conway, my research focuses on engineering the extremely thermophilic, non-model bacteria Caldicellulosiruptor bescii for producing biofuels. 

Julie Groeninger

Director (Incoming Assistant Vice President)

Office of Government Affairs, Princeton University

Julie Groeninger will lead Princeton University's Office of Government Affairs as Assistant Vice President from April 2024. She joined the Washington, D.C., office in June 2011. Prior to joining the office, Julie served as a legislative assistant for the late New Jersey Senator Frank R. Lautenberg, working on issues related to education, immigration, housing, and campaign finance.  She has also worked for Senator Carl Levin (D-MI) and the Senate Sergeant-at-Arms.

During her time at Princeton, Julie has taken on a number of leadership roles, including serving as chair of the Council on Federal Relations at AAU; chair of the AAU Task Force on Immigration; and chair of the Task Force on Innovation. She currently co-chairs the Energy Sciences Coalition, a consortium of universities, national laboratories, and industry partners who support the Department of Energy Office of Science.

In 2022, Julie received the President’s Achievement Award, one of Princeton University’s highest honors.  She has also received the “Ripple Effect Award” from AAU, in recognition of her public service contributions to the higher education community. 

Julie graduated from Hope College in Holland, Michigan, in 2004 with degrees in history and political science.