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Indian-origin Princeton professor wins Schmidt award
Satish Myneni co-leads the project and research to accelerate natural hydrogen gas generation.
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Rwittika Chakraborty
- Tue, 23, Dec 2025
- 02:13 EST
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Indian-origin professor of geosciences at Princeton, Satish Myneni / Princeton University (geosciences.princeton.edu/)
Indian-origin professor of geosciences at Princeton, Satish Myneni, has received the 2025 Schmidt Transformative Technology Fund awards for breakthrough hydrogen research.
Myneni co-leads the project and research to accelerate natural hydrogen gas generation by studying mineral-driven reactions to produce sustainable, carbon-negative fuel as a renewable alternative to fossil fuels.
Other members of the team include Catherine Peters and Emily Carter.
Peters is the George J. Magee Professor of Geological Engineering, professor of civil and environmental engineering, and director of the Program in Geological Engineering.
Carter, meanwhile, is the senior strategic advisor and associate laboratory director for applied materials and sustainability sciences at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory and the Gerhard R. Andlinger Professor in Energy and the Environment, and a Professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, and applied and computational mathematics.
This project has been deemed to have great potential for generating knowledge to help scale the production of sustainable hydrogen gas, which is a key step toward decarbonizing the nation’s energy system.
The Eric and Wendy Schmidt Transformative Technology Fund aims to enable researchers to make leaps rather than incremental advances in the natural sciences and engineering. It supports projects that lead to the invention of a disruptive new technology that can have a major impact on a field of research, or to the development of equipment or an enabling technology that will transform research in a field.
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