Dr. Charles (Charlie) Werth serves as a Program Director at the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA E). His focus at ARPA-E is novel water-energy systems (e.g., wastewater resource recovery, water treatment electrification), carbon sequestration, and geological hydrogen storage.

Dr. Werth joined ARPA-E from the University of Texas at Austin, where he is a professor in the Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Department. Over the last 30 years, he has engaged in a wide range of interdisciplinary research projects at the intersection of mass transport, fluid flow, interfacial and geo-chemistry, redox reactions, microbial physiology, and material science for the development of sustainable water treatment, groundwater remediation, and geological carbon sequestration technologies.

Dr. Werth has published more than 150 archival journal publications, mainly with his Ph.D. and M.S. thesis students, and secured research funding from numerous federal and private sources. He received his B.S. in mechanical engineering from Texas A&M University, M.S. and Ph.D. in civil and environmental engineering from Stanford University, and Ph.D. minor in chemistry from Stanford University.

Technical Focus: Water-Energy Systems; Carbon Sequestration; Geological Hydrogen Storage