Jennifer King is a group manager at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory working at the National Wind Technology Center, primarily focused on systems engineering and controls for industrial decarbonization applications such as ammonia, steel, fuels, etc. She is passionate about finding new ways to better integrate and operate renewable energy into the energy system of the future. She obtained her Ph.D. in aerospace engineering and mechanics from the University of Minnesota, where she developed her passion for renewable energy and controls, where her primary focus was on reduced-order modeling and control of wind farms. Her current research focus areas are in modeling and distributed control/optimization of large-scale hybrid systems.