Johanna Wolfson is the former Technology-to-Market Director in the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE). 

In this position, she led efforts to reduce barriers and inefficiencies in the U.S. innovation system in service of getting promising clean energy technologies to market.

Existing efforts under Tech-to-Market help launch entrepreneurs and new businesses out of universities and national labs, such as Cleantech UP and Lab-Corps. These efforts help support early-stage clean energy businesses with funding and incubator services including the Small Business Innovation and Research and National Incubator Initiative for Clean Energy. Tech-to-Market also provides small businesses with technical support at national labs through the Small Business Voucher Program.

Johanna was also responsible for developing new EERE programs in service of the Tech-to-Market mission, and for coordinating Tech-to-Market efforts across EERE’s technology offices.

Before joining EERE, Johanna was with the Fraunhofer Center for Sustainable Energy Systems in Boston where she led TechBridge, an innovative program for start-ups that mitigates risks for investors and strategic partners by providing demonstration and validation services from applied R&D labs. She also served as the President of the MIT Science Policy Initiative, an organization focused on engaging scientists and engineers in the policy dialogue for R&D funding and better innovation models.

Johanna has a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from MIT, where she conducted research on photo-induced solid-state dynamics.