Liquid Solvation Science Thrust
Focus Area Leads
Nathan Hahn
Nathan Hahn received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 2012, completing his graduate work in photoelectrochemical solar energy conversion. From 2012-2018 Hahn worked as a postdoc at Sandia National Laboratories studying electrolytes and interfaces for electrochemical energy storage in JCESR’s Charge Transfer at Dynamic Interfaces Thrust.
Solid Solvation Science Thrust
Focus Area Leads
Donald Siegel
As Associate Professor at the University of Michigan, Donald Siegel’s contributions to JCESR focus on atomic scale modeling of multivalent and precipitation/dissolution systems. He also serves in a leadership role as a member of the JCESR Directorate.
Robert Darling
A Technical Fellow at United Technologies Research Center (UTRC), Robert Darling is responsible for electrochemical technologies including batteries, fuel cells, and corrosion. Previously, as Principal Research Engineer at UTRC, he was a member of the core team that developed and licensed high-power flow battery technology and received an R&D 100 Award. He also led the automotive fuel cell development efforts for major automotive original equipment manufacturers for five years.
Flowable Redoxmer Science Thrust
Focus Area Leads
Joaquin Rodriguez-Lopez
Joaquin Rodriguez-Lopez leads a group at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a programmatic focus to advance cutting-edge electroanalysis – to address pressing challenges in high-performance energy storage and conversion.
Melanie Sanford
Melanie Sanford is an internationally renowned leader in the fields of catalysis, organic synthesis, and energy storage. She has won numerous awards, including the ACS Award in Pure Chemistry, a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, and the Blavatnik Prize.
Charge Transfer at Dynamic Interfaces Thrust
Focus Area Leads
Vijayakumar Murugesan
VijayakumarMurugesan has 15 years experience analyzing local-structure evolution and associated ion transport process in solid-phase energy storage materials using multimodal spectroscopy. He has in depth understanding of ion solvate structure and diffusion properties in both aqueous and non-aqueous electrolyte materials using multinuclear NMR analysis.
Rajeev Surendran Assary
Argonne Chemist, Rajeev Assary’s research interests include fundamental and applied aspects of computational modeling based on quantum chemistry in biomass catalysis and beyond-lithium-ion energy storage systems. He conducts research for JCESR, the Consortium for Computational Physics and Chemistry, and the UChicago/Argonne Strategic Collaborative Initiative.
Science of Material Complexity Thrust
Focus Area Leads
Saul Lapidus
Argonne Physicist, Saul Lapidus’ expertise is in the structural characterization and analysis of materials through powder X-ray diffraction and pair distribution function analysis.
