Sally Benson

Sally Merrick Benson is a professor of energy engineering at Stanford University. In 2014, she was appointed as director of the Precourt Institute for Energy, the university's hub of energy research and education. Benson will continue on as director of Stanford's Global Climate and Energy Project (GCEP), a position she has had since 2007.

Biography Benson received a B.S. in geology from Barnard College, an M.Sc.and a Ph.D. in materials and mineral engineering from the University of California-Berkeley.

Awards and honours Benson has won various awards, including the 2012 Greenman Award, Michel T. Halbouty Distinguished Lecture Award from the Geological Society, and the ARCS American Pacesetter Award. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2023 and to the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences & Engineering in 2024.