Gwen Holdmann
Senior Researcher
ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ Associate Vice Chancellor for Research, Innovation & Industry Partnerships
Email: gwen.holdmann@alaska.edu
Phone: 907-474-5402 (ACEP office)
Fax: 907-474-5475 (ACEP office)
Expertise
- Alternative Fuel
- Decarbonization
- Energy Education, Interns and Workforce
- Energy Transitions
- Geothermal
- Greenhouse Gas Inventories
- Hydrogen
- Microgrids
- Nuclear
- Organic Rankine Cycle
- Policy and Global Applications
- Railbelt
- Arctic Energy Systems
BIO
ACEP’s founding director Gwen Holdmann currently serves as the associate vice chancellor for research for innovation and industry partnerships for ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ. Through this role, she manages ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ’s innovation and technology transfer programs and helps guide strategic partnership opportunities with the State of ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ and industry. She continues to maintain an affiliation with ACEP as a senior researcher, focusing on energy policy and planning, and small-scale nuclear energy.
Prior to joining ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ, Holdmann worked in the private sector as a design engineer and project manager, including working on the design and construction of the only operating geothermal power plant in ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ at Chena Hot Springs.
She has been inducted into the ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ Innovator’s Hall of Fame, was selected as a member of ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ’s Top Forty Under 40, and is a former Arctic Fulbright Scholar. Holdmann has a B.S. in physics from Bradley University and an M.S. in energy engineering and policy from ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ. She is the mother to three children, ages 13 (twins) and 11, and has completed the Yukon Quest and Iditarod sled dog races.