Roger Sathre is an interdisciplinary scientist and engineer, working on technologies for global human development and resilience. This is his personal website.
Roger is Chief Scientist at the Institute for Transformative Technologies. He conducts research on the viability of water, energy and food systems, and he ensures the scientific rigor of the Institute's portfolio of technologies to reduce global poverty.
He worked for a decade at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, successively as Post Doc, Research Scientist, Guest Scientist and Affiliate. At Berkeley Lab, Roger led prospective life-cycle assessment of emerging energy technologies.
Roger worked for a decade as Professor and Researcher at Linnaeus University, where he modeled alternate development pathways for energy systems, forest management and the built environment.
For more than a decade, Roger managed refugee relief activities in African countries including Angola, Mozambique and Sudan. In various roles, he was responsible for the design, implementation and evaluation of emergency humanitarian efforts.
Roger's educational background includes:
- Ph.D. degree in Environmental Science from Mid Sweden University
- M.Sc. degree in Forestry from University of Idaho
- B.Sc. degree in Civil Engineering from Northwestern University
- Permaculture design course from Fambidzanai Permaculture Centre
- Breadmaking course from San Francisco Baking Institute.
Select publications include:
- Lifecycle climate impact and primary energy use of electric and biofuel cargo trucks (2023)
- Water security in South Asian cities: A review of challenges and opportunities (2022)
- The global challenge of clean cooking systems (2020)
- 50 Breakthroughs: Critical scientific and technological advances needed for sustainable global development (2019)
- Opportunities to improve the net energy performance of photoelectrochemical water-splitting technology (2016)
- Energy and climate effects of second-life use of electric vehicle batteries in California through 2050 (2015)
- Primary energy and greenhouse gas implications of increasing biomass production through forest fertilization (2010)
- Industrial symbiosis in the former Soviet Union (2006)
- Improving the performance of wooden journal bearings (2005).
A complete list of Roger's publications can be found here.
Other information can be found here.