Dr. Richard Wolfe

Dr. Wolfe earned his BS degree at Virginia Tech in Chemical Engineering and MS and Ph.D. degrees in Nuclear Engineering at the University of Cincinnati.  He served as program manager with the U.S. Department of Energy in Washington, D.C. before joining United Coal Company in Bristol, Virginia in 1979 as Vice President of Research and Development.  In 1988, he formed Coal Technology Corporation in Bristol, Virginia.  He has been appointed by five different Governors of Virginia to the Virginia Coal and Energy Commission.  He has served on the energy research staffs at the University of Kentucky, West Virginia University, Appalachian State University, and currently serves on the Board at Virginia Tech’s Center for Coal and Energy Research.