Scripps Energy & Materials Center
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| Established | 2007 |
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| Location | TSRI Jupiter, Florida Campus |
| Address | 130 Scripps Way Jupiter, Florida 33458 USA |
| Website | www |
The Scripps Energy & Materials Center (SEMC) is an American research center that focuses on research in the basic energy and materials sciences. Located in Jupiter, Florida, the center is home to scientists, graduate students, and administrative staff. It is a part of the Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), one of the largest non-profit research institutes in the world.
TSRI was founded as the Scripps Metabolic Clinic in 1924 by the philanthropist Ellen Browning Scripps in La Jolla, California. This eventually evolved into the Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation. In 1991, the Scripps Clinic and research division became separate corporations and The Scripps Research Institute was founded. In 1989, TSRI started a graduate program. This was followed by starting a second campus located in Jupiter, Florida in 2005. Then, in 2007, TSRI president Richard Lerner hired internationally renowned chemist Roy A. Periana to lead what would become the Scripps Energy & Materials Center. The goal was to expand beyond the biomedical research that TSRI had focused on in the past and into examining all large scale human problems from disease to how humans will access future raw materials from natural resources and how to manipulate and store energy from renewable resources.
The Scripps Energy & Materials Center is located on the Scripps Research Institute Jupiter, Florida campus Scripps that occupies 30 acres (120,000 m2) next to the adjacent John D. MacArthur campus of Florida Atlantic University and Max Planck Florida Institute in Palm Beach County, Florida. SEMC scientists operate in the 350,000-square-foot (33,000 m2) state-of-the-art research facilities located on TSRI's Jupiter, Florida campus among the ~450 faculty, staff, and students that study and work at the campus.
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