Dr. Robin Newmark serves on the Onterris Board of Directors and has been a Director since January 2020. She was previously Executive Director Emeritus at the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), the national laboratory advancing renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies, a position she held from September 2018 to January 2021 where she led energy analysis and decision support efforts. Previously, Dr. Newmark has held senior leadership roles across strategic initiatives and energy analysis since 2009, including Executive Director, Strategic Initiatives, Associate Laboratory Director, Energy Analysis and Decision Support and Director, Strategic Energy Analysis Center and Principal Program Manager, Planning and Program Development.
Before NREL, Dr. Newmark led research and programs spanning energy, environment, climate and national security at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, including roles such as Deputy Program Director, Energy and Environmental Security, leadership positions in Water and Environment and External Relations Director, Global Security. She also previously served on the Board of Directors of a nonprofit organization initiated by the Colorado Governor’s Energy Office as a resource and energy efficiency asset for regional and national stakeholders. She has co-invented a suite of award-winning environmental remediation technologies and authored more than 100 papers and reports and holds five patents.
Dr. Newmark earned a BS in Earth and Planetary Sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Phi Beta Kappa), an MS in Earth Sciences (Marine Geophysics) from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and an MPhil and PhD in Marine Geophysics from Columbia University.