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He is a chemical engineer at Argonne National Laboratory with specializations in process analysis and modeling, and experimental validation of breadboard reactor systems. His interests include the design and technoeconomic analysis of lithium-ion batteries and production process of these batteries and their supply chain. He is responsible for the continuing development of BatPaC, a spreadsheet tool used for the design of lithium ion batteries and to estimate their cost. He is active in the analysis of vehicle batteries and production processes. He has conducted extensive analytical and experimental studies on the development of portable and distributed hydrogen production processes. These studies include the development of catalysts, reactor designs for the conversion of liquid and gaseous fuels to hydrogen, breadboard demonstrations, hydrogen concentrators, along with modeling studies of fuel cell systems, hydrogen production processes, and materials used in the production of lithium-ion batteries.

Rangachary (Mukund) Mukundan

Los Alamos National Laboratory

Areas of Expertise

Sensors

Materials Characterization

Electrochemistry

Electrochemical

Diagnostics

Energy Storage

Energy Conversion

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He is a technical staff member at the Materials Synthesis and Integrated Devices (MPA-11) group. He received his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia) in February 1997. His thesis titled "Characterization of Mixed-Conducting Barium Cerate-Based Perovskites for Potential Fuel Cell Applications" was awarded the S. J. Stein Prize for superior achievement in the field of new or unique materials in electronics. His current research interests include fuel cells, energy storage devices, and electrochemical gas sensors. He currently serves as a Thrust Area Leader for the Consortium on Fuel Cell Performance and Durability (FC-PAD) and is PI on an energy storage project that develops non-aqueous flow batteries. He also serves as program manager for the DOE-EERE- Fuel Cell Technologies Office -hydrogen safety codes and standards sub program. He has led several projects at LANL funded by various agencies including, EERE-Fuel Cell Technologies office, ARPA-E, and EERE-Vehicle Technologies. He is the co-inventor on 6 US patents and has authored over 150 peer-reviewed journal and transaction papers, cited over 6000 times. His work has also been recognized through numerous awards including two R&D 100 awards in 1999 and 2017, the Scientific American’s top 50 Science and Technology achievements for 2003, the J.B Wagner Award of the High Temperature Materials Division of the Electrochemical Society in 2005 and the Sensor Division outstanding achievement award in 2016. He is a fellow of the Electrochemical Society and is currently serving as the technical editor in the area of Sensors and Measurement Sciences for the ECS Journals.

Jeffrey Joe

Idaho National Laboratory

Areas of Expertise

Human Reliability Analysis

Nuclear

Organizational Development

Psychology

Human Performance Improvement

Human Factors

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He is a senior human factors scientist/engineer in the Human Factors, Controls, and Statistics Department at Idaho National Laboratory (INL). His research skills and expertise are in the areas of human factors engineering, human reliability analysis, human performance improvement, safety culture, organizational development, energy policy, and social and industrial/organizational psychology. Since joining INL in 2000, he also gained extensive business development and project management experience, managing projects for the U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. He has a master’s degree in social psychology from the University of Utah.

Piyush Sabharwall

Idaho National Laboratory

Areas of Expertise

Coating Materials

Computational Fluid Dynamics

Gas Separation

High Temp Conditions

Lifecycle Analysis (LCA)

Instrumentation

System Performance

Modeling

Energy Integration

Structural Materials

Simulation

Energy Conversion

Solar

Advanced Materials

Energy Storage

Thermal-hydraulic analysis

Nuclear

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He is a staff research scientist working in the Nuclear System Design and Analysis Division at Idaho National Laboratory (INL). He has expertise in heat transfer, fluid mechanics, thermal design, thermodynamics and nuclear safety analyses. Over the last few years, he has been researching high temperature heat exchanger design and optimization, system integration and power conversion systems, and safety and reliability for Advanced Reactor Concepts, and also has extensive experience in the design and construction of large-scale experimental systems for nuclear and thermal-hydraulic research. He has more than 12 years of research and development experience in nuclear/thermal engineering and has been involved in several academic, industrial, and cross-discipline national laboratory research projects. He is currently working to develop a new multi-loop, multi-fluid advanced test facility designed to examine thermal hydraulic and materials issues associated with advanced nuclear reactor technologies. He has authored two books; contributed chapters to technical books on advanced reactors, thermal systems and process heat transfer; published over 100 peer-reviewed publications; and served as the INL lead for numerous partnerships. He holds an adjunct faculty appointment in the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He obtained his bachelor’s in mechanical engineering with concentration in robotics and controls from Wilkes University in Pennsylvania, a master’s degree in nuclear engineering with a minor in mechanical engineering from Oregon State University, a master’s degree in engineering management from University of Idaho, and doctorate in nuclear engineering from University of Idaho.

Khalil Amine

Argonne National Laboratory

Areas of Expertise

Energy Storage

Materials Characterization

Materials Discovery

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He is a distinguished fellow and manager of the Advanced Battery Technology team at Argonne National Laboratory with responsibilities directing the research and development of advanced materials and battery systems for hybrid electric, plug-in, and electric vehicles and satellite, military, and medical applications. He is also the deputy director of Clean Energy Research Center at Argonne and currently serving as a committee member of the U.S. National Research Council on battery-related technologies. He is an adjunct distinguished professor at Stanford University. Among his many awards, he is a 2003 recipient of Scientific America’s Top Worldwide 50 Researcher Award, a 2008 University of Chicago distinguished performance award, a 2009 recipient of the U.S. Federal Laboratory Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer, 2013 U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Vehicle Technologies Office award, and a five-time recipient of the R&D 100 Award. In addition, he was recently awarded the Electrochemical Society (ECS) battery technology award and the international battery association award. He holds over 176 patents and patent applications and over 461 publications. From 1998-2008, he was the most-cited scientist in the world in the field of battery technology. He serves as the president of International Meeting on Lithium Batteries, chairman of the International Automotive Lithium Battery Association, ECS fellow, and associate editor of the journal, Nano Energy.

Mihail Bora

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Areas of Expertise

Solar

Modeling

Instrumentation

Optics

Chemical Imaging

Diagnostics

Sensors

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His expertise in the solar area is focused on photovoltaic module reliability with emphasis on testing for water ingress and lifetime service prediction. Experimental capabilities in our group, includes sample fabrication in clean room facilities, spectroscopic characterization of water content up to module sized samples in near and mid infrared, and direct determination of water in polymers with Karl Fisher oven drying titration. Modelling capabilities in our group, include numerical simulation of diffusion in polymeric material, ray-tracing modelling through complex structures (including non-linear absorbance, scattering, and optimization), and ab initio simulations of interaction of water with polymers. Our group has been collaborating with solar industry partners to assess water ingress in solar modules as part of product development cycle.

Massimiliano Delferro

Argonne National Laboratory

Area of Expertise

Carbon Recycling and Upcycling

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Massimiliano “Max” Delferro is a chemist and group leader of the Catalysis Science Program in the Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division at Argonne National Laboratory.

Max’s work focuses on plastics recycling and the development of cleaner, safer solutions that benefit industries and individuals around the world. He is also a principal investigator of the Inorganometallic Catalyst Design Center, an Energy Frontier Research Center funded by the U.S. Department of Energy.

Max earned his doctorate in organometallic chemistry from the University of Parma, Italy in 2008. He is a member of the American Chemical Society and has served as the president and program chair of the Catalysis Club of Chicago since 2016.

His research interests include the synthesis and characterization of multimetallic single-site hydrogenation/dehydrogenation catalysts to atomic layer deposition, polymer recycling and upcycling, additives for tribological applications, and supported organometallic catalysis for C-H and C-C transformation.

Education

Ph.D., organometallic chemistry, University of Parma, 2008
M.S., chemistry, University of Parma, 2005
BS, chemistry, University of Parma, 2003

Awards, Honors, and Memberships

DOE Polymer Upcycling Roundtable 2019, observer
DOE Basic Research Needs in Catalysis 2017, observer
Omar Farha Award for Research Leadership (Northwestern University, 2014)
Member of the American Chemical Society
President and Program Chair, The Catalysis Club of Chicago
Scholars of Global School for Advanced Studies, National Science Foundation, Session on “Catalysis and Materials for Hydrocarbon Conversions”, Doha, Qatar, January 6-8, 2013

Judith Vidal

National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Areas of Expertise

Thin Films

Nanomaterials

Coating Materials

High Temp Conditions

Insulation

Corrosion

Water Splitting

Fuel Cells

Electrochemical

Damage Resistance

Diffraction

Materials Characterization

Structural Materials

Synthesis

Solar

Advanced Materials

Energy Storage

Diagnostics

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She is a materials engineer for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in charge of determining new fluid formulations (molten salts, liquid metals, supercritical) for thermal applications. She is researching in corrosion mitigation to control degradation at high temperature under extreme conditions (mechanical, chemical, and thermal). She has become a material’s expert in solar thermal applications. She successfully managed complex, multimillion dollar projects, including coordinating multiple partners and professional scientists and engineers. Her understanding of the interaction of materials with the surrounding environment is key for selecting the appropriate materials used in thermal energy storage and heat transfer fluid systems. She has a patent, multiple publications in molten-salt utilization and characterization with applications as sensible heat fluid and phase-change materials, and other publications on corrosion evaluation of ceramics, alloys and surface treatments for high-temperature applications in harsh environments. She earned a bachelor’s and master’s in materials engineering from Simon Bolivar University and a doctorate from Colorado School of Mines in metallurgical and materials engineering. She also holds a research assistant professor appointment in the Metallurgical & Materials Engineering Department at the Colorado School of Mines. She has accumulated over 25 years of experience in materials science and engineering.

Lauren Charles

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Areas of Expertise

Epidemiology Tools Contact Tracing

Epidemiology Tools

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Dr. Lauren Charles, D.V.M., Ph.D., is a research data scientist in the Data Science and Analytics group at PNNL. Dr. Charles is a Veterinarian with a PhD trained in public health, epidemiology and zoonotic diseases as well as mathematics, biology, environmental and geographic information science, plant pathology, and bioinformatics.

Dr. Charles' research integrates heterogeneous data sources, e.g., medical records and disease reporting with social and news media, natural disasters, meteorological and climatic data, behavioral and cultural factors, into complex mathematical models to advance current Biosurveillance, event and anomaly detection, threat assessment, and early warning through a one-health approach. Her past research has focused on wildlife population health, epidemiology, ecology, and the interface between wildlife, humans, domestic, and agricultural animals. She currently focuses on One Health and National Security solutions in support of non-governmental and governmental organizations, e.g., State Department of Health, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Defense, Department of Health and Human Services, U.S. Agency for International Development, and Department of Energy.

Mark DeHart

Idaho National Laboratory

Areas of Expertise

Spent Fuel Characterization

Reactor Kinetics

Depletion

Computer Code Validation

Code Development

Benchmarking

Modeling

Simulation

Nuclear

System Performance

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He is a senior nuclear reactor physicist and a fellow in the Nuclear Science and Technology Directorate at Idaho National Laboratory (INL). He has extensive experience in reactor physics, criticality safety, depletion and spent fuel characterization, cross-section processing, and computer code verification and validation. He joined INL in 2010 from Oak Ridge National Laboratory to assume a leadership role in reactor physics methods and applications, supporting both the INL Advanced Test Reactor (ATR) and Transient Reactor Test Facility (TREAT). He is currently the principal investigator and research director for development and validation of a modeling and simulation capability for TREAT under the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Nuclear Energy Advanced Modeling and Simulation program (NEAMS). He also served as a technical lead for design, methods development, and validation for the conversion of ATR to Low Enriched Uranium (LEU) under the DOE Office of Material Management and Minimization. He is the primary developer of the NEWT and TRITON reactor physics computer codes released within the SCALE code system for nuclear analysis. He holds degrees in nuclear engineering from Texas A&M University and is a fellow of the American Nuclear Society (ANS). He has served as session organizer and chair for numerous technical sessions at national conferences. He has more than 100 publications in journals, conference proceedings, and national laboratory reports related to computational methods and applications in reactor physics, radiation transport, criticality safety and depletion methods for spent nuclear fuel.

Matt Eichenfield

Sandia National Laboratories

Areas of Expertise

Quantum Materials and Qubit Technologies

Quantum Hardware

Quantum Networking and Communication

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Matt Eichenfield is a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff and the group leader of the MEMS-Enabled Quantum Photonics (MEQP) group at Sandia National Laboratories. Under Matt's direction and in collaboration with many other Sandia experts, the MEQP group works on bold solutions to the most demanding quantum science and engineering challenges using microsystems fabricated in Sandia's MESA nanofabrication facility. Examples of these microsystems include: piezoelectric photonic integrated circuits for control of atomic species with dense UV and optical circuitry; quantum transducers that convert microwave frequency quantum information between superconducting circuits, phonons, and photons; and generation of massive entangled states of photons using integrated quantum emitters and photonic integrated circuits at cryogenic temperatures. Matt received his PhD from Caltech in 2009 in the field of quantum nano-optomechanical systems and received the Demetriades Award for best thesis. Subsequently, Matt was the Kavli Nanoscience Institute Prize Postdoctoral Fellow at Caltech until joining Sandia in 2011 as a Harry S. Truman Presidential Fellow in National Security Science and Engineering.

Igor Slowing

Ames Laboratory

Areas of Expertise

Additive Manufacturing

Adsorption

Critical Material Recovery

Nanomaterials

Coating Materials

Gas Separation

Catalysts

Aqueous Separations

Materials Characterization

Advanced Materials

Rare Earth Materials Technology

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Igor I. Slowing received his License degree in Chemistry at San Carlos University, Guatemala in 1995, and his Ph.D. at Iowa State University in 2008. He joined the Ames Laboratory as a staff scientist in 2009, and joined the Department of Chemistry of Iowa State University in 2013 as an Adjunct Professor. His research focuses on the development of multifunctionalized nanostructured materials for catalysis, especially for conversions of biorenewable resources into commodity chemicals, and in the design of additive manufacturing approaches for generating chemically active architectures.

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