2015 Student and Postdoc Competition

2015 Meeting:

2015 Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Researcher Competition

From the 1100 graduate students and postdoctoral researchers involved in the EFRC program, each of the 32 EFRCs was invited to nominate one graduate student and one postdoctoral researcher to present a talk at the 2015 EFRC Principal Investigators’ Meeting in Washington, D.C. on October 26-27, 2015. The DOE EFRC management team selected 16 finalists from more than 50 nominations. At the meeting, teams of DOE program managers selected the top three graduate students and postdoctoral researchers based on how well the research exemplified the opportunities provided by the EFRC funding modality, scientific excellence, and topical diversity. The winners received an award certificate from Harriet Kung, Associate Director of the DOE Office of Basic Energy Sciences, during a ceremony at the end of the meeting.

The abstracts of all the finalist talks can be found here.

Graduate Student Winners

Probing Supercapacitor Carbon-Electrolyte Structure and Ion Dynamics with Neutrons Damage thro

Boris Dyatkin¹, Hsiu-Wen Wang², Eugene Mamontov³, Naresh Osti³, Katherine Page³, Ray Unocic³, Gernot Rother³, Matthew Thompson⁴, Yu Zhang⁴, Peter Cummings⁴, David Wesolowski³, Yury Gogotsi¹

¹Drexel University; ²University of Tennessee; ³Oak Ridge National Laboratory; ⁴Vanderbilt University

Fluid Interface Reactions, Structures and Transport Center (FIRST)

Expanding the Range of Light Absorbers for Bacterial Photosynthesis: YFP-Enhanced Charge Separation at the Rhodobacter Sphaeroides Reaction Centre

Kaitlyn M. Faries¹; Katie J. Grayson²; Pu Qian²; Preston Dilbeck¹; Elizabeth Martin²; Jonathan M. Yuen¹; Dariusz M. Niedzwiedzki¹; Dewey Holten¹; Christine Kirmaier¹ and C. Neil Hunter²

¹Washington University, St. Louis; ²University of Sheffield, UK

Photosynthetic Antenna Frontier Research Center (PARC)

Incorporation of Perylene-3,4-dicarboximides into Photoanodes and Photocathodes for Solar Fuels

Rebecca J. Lindquist¹; Marek B. Majewski¹; Julianne M. Thomsen²; William L. Hoffeditz¹; Brian T. Phelan¹; Kelly L. Materna²; Joseph T. Hupp¹, Gary W. Brudvig²; Michael R. Wasielewski¹

¹Northwestern University; ²Yale University

Argonne-Northwestern Solar Energy Research Center (ANSER)

Postdoctoral Researcher Winners

The Role of Advanced Reactive Surface Area Characterization in Improving Predictions of Mineral Reaction Rates in Subsurface Porous Media

Lauren E. Beckingham¹, Elizabeth Mitnick², Carl I. Steefel¹, Shuo Zhang², Li Yang¹, Marco Voltolini¹, Alexander M. Swift³, David R. Cole³, Julie M. Sheets³, Timothy Kneafsey¹, Gautier Landrot⁴, Lawrence Anovitz⁵, Saeko Mito⁶, Ziqiu Xue⁶, Donald DePaolo^1,2, Jonathan Ajo-Franklin¹

¹Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; ²University of California, Berkeley; ³Ohio State University; ⁴Synchrotron SOLEIL; ⁵Oak Ridge National Laboratory; ⁶Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth (RITE)

Center for Nanoscale Controls on Geologic CO₂ (NCGC)

Predicting and Controlling Polymorphism in Transition Metal Oxides

Lauren M. Garten¹, Hong Kevin Ding², Laura T. Schelhas³, Kevin Stone³, Prashun Gorai¹, Paul Ndione¹, Kristin Persson², Michael F. Toney³, Vladan Stevanović^1,4, David S. Ginley¹

¹National Renewable Energy Laboratory; ²Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; ³SSRL Materials Science Division, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory; ⁴Colorado School of Mines

Center for Next Generation of Materials by Design: Incorporating Metastability (CNGMD)

Metal-Organic Framework Nodes as Nearly Ideal Supports for Molecular Catalysts: NU-1000- and UiO-66-Supported Iridium Complexes for Ethylene Hydrogenation and Dimerization

[ICDC] Samuel O. Odoh¹, Dong Yang², Timothy Wang³, Omar K. Farha³, Joseph T. Hupp³, Christopher Cramer¹, Bruce C. Gates²,⁴, Laura Gagliardi¹

¹Department of Chemistry, Chemical Theory Center, and Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota; ²Department of Chemical Engineering & Materials Science, University of California, Davis; ³Departments of Chemistry and Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University

Inorganometallic Catalyst Design Center (ICDC)