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Executive Director, National Alliance for Water Innovation (NAWI)
Operations Dept
- Executive Director, National Alliance for Water Innovation (NAWI)Operations Dept
BIO
Dr. Peter S. Fiske is the Director of the National Alliance for Water Innovation (NAWI) the U.S. Department of Energy's 5-year, $110M Energy-Water Innovation Hub. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. NAWI's goal is the dramatically lower the cost and energy of desalination and water reuse through a 5-year program of early-stage applied research. NAWI's key focus is on lowering the cost of small-scale, modular water treatment and reuse systems so that more water can be reused locally, lowering the cost and energy associated with water transport and distribution.
Prior to joining LBL, Fiske was the Chief Executive Officer of PAX Water Technologies, Inc. from 2008 until January, 2017 when it was acquired by UGSI Inc. PAX Water pioneered the use of biomimicry to develop innovative and energy efficient technologies to improve drinking water quality and reliability in municipal water systems. Fiske is also on the Board of Fontus Blue, Inc., and occasionally lectures at U.C. Berkeley's Haas School of Business. He has been an advisor, mentor and friend to numerous early-stage technology entrepreneurs. He is also a frequent writer and lecturer on the subject of career strategy, entrepreneurship and leadership for scientists and engineers. He has been a keynote speaker or guest lecturer at some of the leading research universities in the United States including MIT, Harvard, Stanford, Northwestern, Princeton and the University of California at Berkeley. He is a founding faculty member of the Department of Energy’s I-Corps Program. He is the author of Put Your Science to WORK!, numerous articles for the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s career website ScienceCareers.org, and writes an occasional career strategy column in the journal Nature.
Prior to joining PAX Water, Fiske was co-founder of RAPT Industries, Inc., a pioneer in the field of plasma processing of optics and semiconductors. Fiske led negotiations to license a portion of the technology to a major semiconductor equipment manufacturer, and led the first sales of products. Fiske was CEO of the Company from May, 2001 to April, 2004. Fiske spun the company out of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory where he was a staff scientist.
Prior to starting RAPT, Fiske led a research team in condensed matter physics at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory with applications to materials science, energy storage and weapons. He is the author of 24 technical articles, most in international peer-reviewed journals including SCIENCE. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1994 and an M.B.A. from the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley in 2002. In 1996, Fiske was one of 18 young professionals selected nationally for the White House Fellowship. He served his fellowship year as Special Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Special Projects where he led a major personnel policy reform initiative for the Pentagon.
Prior to joining LBL, Fiske was the Chief Executive Officer of PAX Water Technologies, Inc. from 2008 until January, 2017 when it was acquired by UGSI Inc. PAX Water pioneered the use of biomimicry to develop innovative and energy efficient technologies to improve drinking water quality and reliability in municipal water systems. Fiske is also on the Board of Fontus Blue, Inc., and occasionally lectures at U.C. Berkeley's Haas School of Business. He has been an advisor, mentor and friend to numerous early-stage technology entrepreneurs. He is also a frequent writer and lecturer on the subject of career strategy, entrepreneurship and leadership for scientists and engineers. He has been a keynote speaker or guest lecturer at some of the leading research universities in the United States including MIT, Harvard, Stanford, Northwestern, Princeton and the University of California at Berkeley. He is a founding faculty member of the Department of Energy’s I-Corps Program. He is the author of Put Your Science to WORK!, numerous articles for the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s career website ScienceCareers.org, and writes an occasional career strategy column in the journal Nature.
Prior to joining PAX Water, Fiske was co-founder of RAPT Industries, Inc., a pioneer in the field of plasma processing of optics and semiconductors. Fiske led negotiations to license a portion of the technology to a major semiconductor equipment manufacturer, and led the first sales of products. Fiske was CEO of the Company from May, 2001 to April, 2004. Fiske spun the company out of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory where he was a staff scientist.
Prior to starting RAPT, Fiske led a research team in condensed matter physics at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory with applications to materials science, energy storage and weapons. He is the author of 24 technical articles, most in international peer-reviewed journals including SCIENCE. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1994 and an M.B.A. from the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley in 2002. In 1996, Fiske was one of 18 young professionals selected nationally for the White House Fellowship. He served his fellowship year as Special Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Special Projects where he led a major personnel policy reform initiative for the Pentagon.
LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LAB APPOINTMENTS
- Business Development Manager 3Operations Dept, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Earth&Envmntal Sciences, Berkeley, CA, USA5 May 2017 - present
DEGREES
- Ph.D., Geological and Environmental SciencesStanford University, Stanford, United States1993
- MBAUniversity of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, United States1 Sep 1998 - 30 Jun 2001
AREA
- Earth and Environmental Sciences
DIVISION
- Earth & Environmental Sciences
DEPARTMENT
- Operations Dept