Greg Jackson
Professor in Mechanical Engineering
Hi-TECS Director
Prof. Jackson has over 30 years of experience in research and development in energy conversion and storage. He joined Colorado School of Mines in January 2013 as the department head of Mechanical Engineering, a role in which he served through the summer of 2017. Before joining Mines in 2013, Jackson was a faculty member for over 15 years at the University of Maryland in Mechanical Engineering and the campus-wide Energy Research Center, for which he served as Associate Director for several years.
At Mines, Dr. Jackson manages the Hi_Temperature Energy Conversion & Storage Group (Hi-TECS), which has research projects in concentrated solar power, high-temperature energy storage, solid-oxide electrochemical systems, and reactive materials modeling. He has published broadly on materials and processes for heterogeneous combustion processes, high-temperature catalysis, electrochemistry, and more recently energy storage. He recently finished a term on the Board of Directors of the Electrochemical Society. He received his PhD from Cornell University where he performed research on liquid-fuel combustion. After his PhD, he worked at Precision Combustion Inc. where he led research and development on catalytic reactors for low-NOx combustion and aircraft engine ignition.