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Tony Pan, PhD

2010 HERTZ FELLOW

Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, Modern Hydrogen

MAKING HISTORY

Tony is the co-founder and CEO of Modern Hydrogen, which produces clean hydrogen by decarbonizing natural gas at the point of use. Modern also sells and sequesters the captured carbon as a clean material to decarbonize the built environment.

Tony is an inventor on 250+ patents pending, spanning fields such as energy, nanoelectronics, and medical devices. Formerly, he was a member of Global Future Council on Energy, World Economic Forum and a Term Member, Council on Foreign Relations. He consulted for the Invention Science Fund, Global Good Fund, and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. During the ’08 financial crisis, he was a strategist at Goldman Sachs, helping navigate the mortgage meltdown. Recognitions include the Forbes 30 under 30 in Science, the MIT Technology Review Innovators under 35 and the Business Journal 40 under 40.

Tony’s PhD is from Harvard, where he held three national fellowships from the Hertz Foundation, Soros, and National Science Foundation. There he explored the cosmic dawn, the “Let there be light” moment in the nascent universe, when the very first stars lived and died in spectacular explosions. His alma mater is Stanford University.

EDUCATION

Graduate Studies
Harvard University
Physics

Graduate Thesis
Properties of Unusually Luminous Supernovae

Undergraduate Studies
Harvard University

HERTZ RECOGNITION

2016 — Peter Strauss Award

SELECTED AWARDS

2020, 35 Innovators Under 35, MIT Technology Review
2018, 40 under 40, Business Journal
2016, Peter Strauss Award, Fannie & John Hertz Foundation
2015, Forbes “30 Under 30: Science”, Forbes
2010, Soros Fellow, Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans

 

IMPACT STORY

A Personal Power Plant for Your Home

Hertz Fellows Max Mankin and Tony Pan co-founded Modern Electron to make energy production work better and move it closer to home. With their new technology, you can get energy from your own furnace, powering your home without relying on...

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