Senior Advisor
It is with deep respect and gratitude that we remember Dr. Carl Koval, who served as a Senior Advisor to Saoradh Enterprise Partners. His leadership, mentorship, and friendship over the years made a meaningful impact on our work and on the many people he mentored and influenced so well. We will long remember his level-headed, precise perspective.
Dr. Koval was a Professor Emeritus in Chemistry at the University of Colorado Boulder and former Director of the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (JCAP). He joined the faculty at CU Boulder in 1980, where he became a Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and served as Chair from 1998-2001 and 2015-18. He was the Faculty Director for the Initiative on Renewable and Sustainable Energy, and the founding Co-Director and later Associate Director for Research of the Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute (RASEI), a joint institute between CU Boulder and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). His research interests included electron transfer processes, photoelectrochemistry, membrane and electrochemical separations, and non-mechanical fluid pumping. At CU, he was supported by 47 separate research contracts and grants and collaborated with several current and former scientists at NREL.
Dr. Koval held a BS from Juniata College and received a PhD in Chemistry from the California Institute of Technology. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Purdue University. He served as thesis advisor for 26 PhD students, five MS students, and five research associates, and his research resulted in 114 publications and 11 patents.
