Christopher Matranga is a senior research scientist in the Materials Engineering and Manufacturing Directorate at the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) and leads the in-house research program in Carbon Materials Manufacturing. His research team develops new processing methods to convert coal, coal waste, plastic waste, biomass, and other unconventional manufacturing feedstocks into the high value, engineered, carbon materials used to fabricate advanced microelectronics (memristors & field effect transistors) and electrochemical energy storage devices (lithium-ion battery anodes & supercapacitor electrodes). Christopher began his career at NETL in 2002 as a post-doctoral fellow and since then has held positions as a research scientist, principal investigator, team lead, division director, and technical manager in the organization. Christopher received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Chicago (2002), an M.B.A. from the University of Pittsburgh (2009), and a B.S. in Industrial Chemistry from the University of Houston-Downtown (1997).