The 2019 MIT Energy Initiative Fall Colloquium was held on Wednesday, October 23, 2019. For over a decade, this annual event has brought the MIT community together to hear about an important area of energy research from a prominent thought leader addressing energy technology and related policy issues.

In this talk, Susan Hockfield discusses her new book, The Age of Living Machines, and some of the breathtaking new technologies that are coming our way in the energy/water/food nexus, including virus-built batteries, protein-based water filters, and computer-engineered crops.

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About the speaker:

Susan Hockfield served from 2004 to 2012 as the sixteenth president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is now President Emerita, professor of neuroscience, and a member of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research. As president, Hockfield strengthened the foundations of MIT’s finances and campus planning while advancing Institute-wide programs in sustainable energy and the convergence of the life, physical, and engineering sciences. Hockfield helped shape national policy for energy and next-generation manufacturing, appointed by President Obama in 2011 to co-chair the steering committee of the Advanced Manufacturing Partnership and by serving as a member of a Congressional Commission evaluating the Department of Energy laboratories in 2015. As a biologist, she pioneered the use of monoclonal antibody technology in brain research. She is the past president and chairman of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and currently serves as a director of Partners HealthCare System, Charles Stark Draper Laboratory and Fidelity Non-Profit Management Foundation, is a life member of the MIT Corporation, and a board member of the Belfer Center at the Harvard Kennedy School.

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