Addison Stark
Technical Advisor
Dr. Addison Killean Stark is the CEO and co-founder of AtmosZero, an industrial decarbonization start-up. He has worked between the research, business and policy worlds to drive the development and adoption of low-, zero- and negative-carbon energy technologies.
Prior to founding AtmosZero, Addison was an Associate Director for Energy Innovation at the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) working on policies that became parts of the Energy Act of 2020, the bipartisan infrastructure deal, and the inflation reduction act.
After finishing his PhD at MIT, Dr. Stark served as a Fellow at the US Department of Energy, Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) focusing on early-stage energy technology development and R&D across sectors including renewable fuels, green industrial chemistry, dry-cooling technologies for water conservation in power generation and leveraging advanced manufacturing for the fabrication of energy devices. While at ARPA-E, he also served as Acting Program Director for ARPA-E’s $33 million Energy-Water Nexus portfolio.
Dr. Stark is the author of multiple peer reviewed journal articles and popular press pieces on diverse topics in energy technology innovation. Outside AtmosZero, Addison advises early and mid-stage climatetech companies on technology development strategy, identification of non-dilutive funding sources to support critical-path R&D, and pre-development engineering.
Dr. Stark received his bachelor’s degrees in mathematics and chemistry from the University of Iowa and master’s degrees in technology and public policy and mechanical engineering from MIT. He received his PhD in mechanical engineering from MIT in 2015.
