Corinne Scown

• Year

  2024

• Program

  Virtual Institute on Feedstocks of the Future (VIFF)

• Institution

  University of California, Berkeley

• Location

  Berkeley, USA

Corinne Scown is a Senior Scientist, Deputy Director for Research of the Energy Analysis and Environmental Impacts Division at Berkeley Lab, founder of the Life-cycle, Economics, and Agronomy Division at the Joint BioEnergy Institute, and Head of Sustainability at the Energy and Biosciences Institute. Scown’s expertise includes life-cycle assessment (LCA) and technoeconomic analysis (TEA) applied to agricultural systems, biofuels, bioproducts, and carbon dioxide removal. She leads the development of online tools for TEA, LCA, and bio-based feedstock assessment, including BioC2G and the Biositing tool. Scown was awarded the ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering Lectureship in 2022 for her work on TEA and LCA of emerging technologies and recently served as a member of the NASEM Committee on Current Methods for Life Cycle Analyses of Low-Carbon Transportation Fuels in the United States. She received her Ph.D. from UC Berkeley. She is currently on part-time detail to the U.S. Dept. of Energy as a senior advisor on clean fuels