Dr. Eric Larson is on the research faculty at Princeton University as a senior member of the Energy Systems Analysis Group in the Princeton Environmental Institute (PEI). He is also part of PEI’s Carbon Mitigation Initiative. He is also an affiliated faculty member in the Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy Program of Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

His research interests include engineering, economic, and policy-related analysis of advanced clean-energy systems, especially for gasification-based electric power and transport fuels production from carbonaceous fuels.

He is currently leading a multi-institution assessment, supported by the US Department of Energy and the America Forest and Paper Association, of prospective applications for gasification-based biorefinery technologies in the U.S. pulp and paper industry. He is also involved in analysis of coal and biomass co-gasification technologies and strategies in collaboration with colleagues in the U.S. and in China.

Larson has degrees in mechanical engineering from Washington University (BS, 1979) and the University of Minnesota (MSE, 1981; PhD, 1983). He has been with Princeton University since 1983.