Dr. Robert L Kleinberg
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Adjunct Senior Research Scholar, Center on Global Energy Policy (CGEP), School of International and Public Affairs
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Cambridge, Massachusetts USA
BIOGRAPHY: Robert L. Kleinberg is Adjunct Senior Research Scholar at the Columbia University Center on Global Energy Policy, and Senior Fellow at the Boston University Institute for Sustainable Energy. His current interests include energy technology and economics, and environmental and regulatory issues associated with the oil and gas industry. From 1980 to 2018 Dr. Kleinberg was employed by Schlumberger, attaining the rank of Schlumberger Fellow, one of about a dozen to have held this rank in a workforce of 100,000. From 1978 to 1980 he was a post-doctoral fellow at the Exxon Corporate Research Laboratory. Dr. Kleinberg was educated at the University of California, Berkeley (B.S. Chemistry, 1971) and the University of California, San Diego (Ph.D. Physics, 1978). Dr. Kleinberg has authored more than 120 academic and professional papers, holds 41 U.S. patents, and has invented several geophysical instruments that have been commercialized on a worldwide basis. Dr. Kleinberg is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
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CONTACT
203-820-9022
EXPERTISE
physics geology and geoscience petroleum technologyFIELDS OF INTEREST
Energy technology, economics, and policy
Environmental and regulatory issues associated with the oil and gas industry
EDUCATION
B.S. Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
Ph.D. Physics, University of California, San Diego
HONORS & AWARDS
National Academy of Engineering
American Physical Society Distinguished Lecturer on the Applications of Physics