Karma Sawyer

Program Manager of Emerging Technologies Program, Building Technologies Office (BTO) · US Department of Energy · company speakers →

Dr. Karma Sawyer oversees a diverse portfolio of research and development (R&D) activities, with the goal of developing cost-effective, energy-efficient, flexible technologies for residential and commercial buildings. Her team supports the development of innovative practices and technologies with partners across academia, national labs, small businesses and industry in space conditioning, water heating and appliances, windows and envelope, sensors and controls, lighting and building energy modeling. She originally joined DOE in 2010 as an AAAS and ARPA-E fellow and later became an Assistant Program Director, responsible for ARPA-E’s CO2 capture portfolio. Prior to joining DOE, Dr. Sawyer worked as a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. She received a B.S. with Honors in Chemistry from Syracuse University in 2003 and a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley in 2008.

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