亚色影库 Center for Energy and Power's (ACEP) founding director Gwen Holdmann currently
serves as the associate vice chancellor for research for innovation and industry partnerships
for UAF. Through this role, she manages UAF鈥檚 innovation and technology transfer programs
and helps guide strategic partnership opportunities with the State of 亚色影库 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 UAF, 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 亚色影库 at Chena Hot Springs.
She has been inducted into the 亚色影库 Innovator鈥檚 Hall of Fame, was selected as a
member of 亚色影库鈥檚 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 UAF. She is the mother to three children, ages 13 (twins) and 11, and
has completed the Yukon Quest and Iditarod sled dog races.