Carlos Romero

Dr. Carlos Romero is a Full Research Professor at the Mechanical Engineering & Mechanics Department, Director of the Energy Research Center (ERC) and Associate Director of the Institute for Cyber Physical Infrastructure and Energy (I-CPIE). He has over thirty years of experience in energy research, power generation systems, combustion and clean fuel utilization, renewable energy and energy storage, and environmental science. Dr. Romero has provided Lehigh University with close to 30 years of service. In 1995, he came to Lehigh, and since 2013 he leads the ERC. As part of these activities, Dr. Romero oversees the operation of the Center, supervises ERC laboratories, develops concepts and assembles teams to respond to funding opportunities, manages and perform large research projects, and supports university scholarly activities in the form of research results dissemination, teaching of classes and short courses, and student, postdoc and visiting scholar research supervision, including theses and dissertations. He has a record of professional achievement and reputation in the energy/power research community.

Dr. Romero is engaged in international collaboration and has participated as principal investigator (PI) in research projects in North America, Europe and Asia. He was invited to talk at the United Nations’ Third Meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP3) to the Minamata Convention on Mercury in Geneva, Switzerland. During his tenure at Lehigh University, Dr. Romero has attracted funding of peer-reviewed grants from multiple government funding agencies, national laboratories, industry and international sources for more than $50 million dollars. Over the last five years, Dr. Romero has attracted more than $25 million dollars on topics of current interest, which include thermal energy storage, recovery of critical materials, decarbonization and hydrogen. Dr. Romero is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and a Lehigh University Fellow and has written more than 400 journal publications, book chapters, conference papers, technical reports, and patents, and has edited a book.