Sridhar Seetharaman

Sridhar Seetharaman is the Chief Science Officer in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering. 

Seetharaman received his undergraduate degree from the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden and his PhD from MIT. He spent most of his faculty career at Carnegie Mellon as the POSCO Chair of Steelmaking with a joint appointment at National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), followed by a period in the UK as the TATA-Royal Academy Chair of Low Carbon Technologies. Sridhar then served at DOE as a Senior Technology Advisor at EERE. He is a member of the Industrial Technology Innovation Advisory Committee (ITIAC). Currently Sridhar is with Arizona State University, holds a joint affiliate appointment at National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and is the CEO of EPIXC, DOE’s 7th Manufacturing Innovation Institute.

In 2023, the U.S. Department of Energy selected Arizona State University to receive up to $70 million to establish a new manufacturing innovation institute devoted to improve competitiveness for US manufacturing through energy efficient process heating.

EPIXC joins the DOE’s six other Manufacturing USA institutes, which convene the nation’s brightest minds to solve the country’s toughest manufacturing challenges and move novel process heating technologies out of the lab and into the market.