Kyle R. Gluesenkamp

Dr. Kyle R. Gluesenkamp is a Distinguished R&D Scientist leading a research portfolio of advanced future equipment for buildings, spanning heat pumps, water heating, residential appliances, and thermal energy storage. He currently serves as a co-director of the Stor4Build Consortium, as ORNL’s Subprogram Manager for Thermal Energy Storage, and as an ORNL Graduate Advisor with the University of Tennessee Bredesen Center. He has over 15 years of experience and deep expertise in heat pumps, thermal storage and phase change materials, residential appliances (clothes dryers and dishwashers), dual fuel heat pumps, sorption technologies, combined heat and power, heat transfer, psychrometrics, and experimental prototype evaluation. He has published two book chapters, over 50 journal articles, over 100 conference articles, and has 7 granted patents. 

Dr. Gluesenkamp is the first recipient of the Outstanding Researcher Award, awarded in 2024 by the Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer, with one awardee chosen from researchers at all 17 DOE national laboratories. He has also received a Bredesen Center Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award and ORNL’s Mentor of Student Researchers award. He serves on multiple ASHRAE committees, has served as US expert on IEA HPT Annexes on sorption and thermal storage topics, and is also active in ASME and multiple conference scientific steering committees.