Jens Birkholzer is a Senior Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. As an internationally recognized expert in subsurface energy applications and environmental impact assessment, he currently serves as the Division Director for the Energy Geosciences Divsion (EGD) within the Earth and Environmental Sciences Area (EESA) at LBNL. EESA is a premier organization of ~500 staff and affiliates with expertise in climate and ecosystem sciences and energy geosciences. This organization is focused on tackling some of the most pressing environmental and energy challenges of the 21st Century.

Peter Nico is the deputy director of the Energy Geosciences Division, and also leads the Resilient Energy, Water, and Infrastructure Program Domain. His research emphasizes the role of mineral surfaces and redox active metals such as Fe and Mn. Much of the work uses synchrotron-based X-ray spectromicroscopy techniques to probe chemical and physical heterogeneity on the micron and nanometer scale. Nico received a PhD in agricultural and environmental chemistry from the University of Davis, and a master's in organic chemistry from the University of California Los Angeles.