The Northwestern University Energy Innovation Lab is hiring its inaugural Energy Innovation Fellow who will work on a variety of energy innovation projects to help launch the Lab. The Fellow will collaborate on the research and initiatives of the Lab and also work on independent research projects, develop constructive policy and legal solutions, and help advance partnerships, programming, and public dialogue. The fellowship is ideal for someone planning on entering legal academia as it will provide opportunities for publishing and for mentoring on the academic market. It also would be good preparation for work in energy law and policy. Link to Apply: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4302197941
The Lab brings together bipartisan business, government, and nonprofit leaders with groundbreaking scholars whose expertise spans disciplines to advance needed energy innovation. At this critical moment of disruption and polarization, we have the opportunity to shape rapidly evolving technology, regulation, and investment in ways that could transform the future of energy.
The Lab’s initial projects aim to make constructive progress on important frontiers at the intersection of energy and technology. AI, quantum computing, and the growing private-sector space industry are changing the way that energy systems around the world interact with data and function. The data centers that power AI, cryptocurrency, and cloud computing are driving global energy demand and influencing how we will generate energy. New patterns of investment are emerging, such as by hyperscalars and private equity in data centers and in nuclear, geothermal, fusion, and hydrogen energy. Energy geopolitics are shifting, as the United States increasingly diverges from China and the European Union in its approach to AI, data center development, and renewable energy while other major energy producers like Saudi Arabia expand renewables. The Lab’s current projects focus on data center optimization, investment at the intersection of energy and technology, AI and energy geopolitics, and new developments in energy and space.