Jeremy Pearson Utah Office of Energy Development Director, Utah Advanced Nuclear and Energy Institute https://profile.usu.edu/images/utah-energy-conference/speakers/jeremy-pearson.png Dr. Jeremy Pearson serves as the Director of the Utah Office of Energy Development’s Utah Advanced Nuclear and Energy Institute where he works with Utah universities, Idaho National Lab and industry to research and commercialize groundbreaking energy technologies including nuclear, fossil, hydrogen, battery, water and other technologies. Dr. Pearson received an undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering in 2002 from Brigham Young University and worked in manufacturing and process development at Amgen prior to returning to school to pursue a graduate degree in Chemical Engineering at the University of California, Irvine. During his graduate work, Dr. Pearson studied the backend of the nuclear fuel cycle and used nuclear fuel recycling. In 2015 Dr. Pearson worked in Senator Hatch’s office as a AAAS Congressional Science and Engineering fellow advising the office on science and energy policy and briefly as an Energy Security Fellow for SAFE (Securing America’s Future Energy). Following his time in D.C. Dr. Pearson moved to Utah to work as a Development Scientist at Red Leaf in the fossil fuel industry pursuing economical solutions to synthetic fuels development, and served for three years as director of the Utah San Rafael Energy Lab. Dr. Pearson is from Los Angeles California and has enjoyed the mountains and outdoors in both California and Utah.