Saul Griffith is the Co-Founder and Chief Scientist at Rewiring America. As Founder at Otherlab, an independent R&D lab, he helps government agencies and Fortune 500 companies understand energy infrastructure and deep decarbonization. He’s been a principal investigator and project lead on federally-funded research projects for agencies including NASA, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy (ARPA-e), National Science Foundation and United States Special Operations Command (SOCOM). He is founder or co-founder of numerous companies, including Sunfolding, Makani Power, Volute, Roam Robotics, Canvas Construction, Optiopia, Squid Labs, Potenco, Instructables.com, and Howtoons. 

He was awarded the MacArthur “Genius Grant” in 2007.