Jane H. Davidson is an American mechanical engineer whose research involves renewable energy, thermal energy storage, alternative fuel, and solar-powered carbon capture and storage for the energy needs of homes, workplaces, and vehicles.
She is a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Minnesota, where she directs the Solar Energy Laboratory,[1] and is the former Ronald L. and Janet A. Christenson chair of renewable energy at the university.
[1] She has worked as a researcher at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Research Triangle Institute, and as a faculty member at the University of Delaware and Colorado State University.
[2] Davidson was elected as a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) in 1998.
In 2012 the ASME gave her their Frank Kreith Energy Award, "for significant research on solar systems for residential buildings and solar thermo chemical cycles to produce fuels".