Dr. Elizabeth Burrows is a Technology Manager for the Renewable Carbon Resources Program in the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy's Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO). Dr. Burrows has been working in various roles at BETO since 2016 and currently serves as BETO’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) coordinator. Before joining BETO, Burrows served as an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science & Technology Policy Fellow at the National Science Foundation.
Dr. Burrows prior work includes 14 years conducting research in algal biofuels and forest and wetland ecosystem science. Her research experience in algal biofuels includes nearly three years at Joule Unlimited, an alternative energy company based in Bedford, MA and postdoctoral research in Chemistry at Princeton and Rutgers Universities, a graduate internship at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and a PhD in Biological and Ecological Engineering from Oregon State University.
During graduate school, Burrows also completed an Ecosystem Informatics minor, which followed from her previous position studying forest biogeochemistry at Harvard Experimental Forest, through the Marine Biological Laboratory.
She holds bachelors degrees in Mathematics and Environmental Studies from Mount Holyoke College.
