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Stanford Energy Research Showcase
Finding Energy Solutions for Large-Scale Impact
May 1, 2024
Overview I Agenda I Speakers I Poster Session
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Arrillaga Alumni Center
Fisher Conference Rooms
326 Galvez Street
Stanford, CA 94305
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| 8:30am- 8:45am | Opening Remarks - McCaw Hall |
| Roland Horne, Director, Precourt Institute for Energy, Stanford University Arun Majumdar, Dean, Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability | |
| 8:45am- 9:30am | Panel Discussion: Stanford's Energy Research Strategies - McCaw Hall |
| Moderator: Sally Benson, Professor, Energy Science & Engineering Yi Cui, Faculty Director, Sustainability Accelerator Arun Majumdar, Dean, Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability Deborah Sivas, Professor of Environmental Law | |
| 9:30am | Break |
| 9:40am-11:00am | Technical Area Breakouts - Session I | - Fisher Conference Center |
| A: Industrial Decarbonization | B: Building Energy & Carbon Management | |
| Moderator: Richard Sassoon, Managing Director, Strategic Energy Alliance | Moderator: Michael Lepech, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering | |
| Jennifer Dionne, Senior Associate Vice Provost of Research Platforms/Shared Facilities. Beyond Carbon Capture: Recycling CO2 to Decarbonize Steelmaking with Hydrogen and Photocatalysis. | Jacques de Chalendar, Adjunct Professor, Energy Science and Engineering. Hybrid data and physics models for multi-zone buildings. | |
| Jonathan Fan, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering. Electrification of high-temperature thermochemical reactors with high-frequency inductive heating. | Catherine Gorle, Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Shifting the gold-standard in building cooling: from mechanical to natural. | |
| Tiziana Vanorio, Professor, Rock Physics and Geomaterials Laboratory, Earth and Planetary Science. A Low Carbon Emissions Geomimetic Cement. | ||
| 11:00am | Break | |
| 11:15am- 12:45pm | Technical Area Breakouts - Session II | - Fisher Conference Center |
| A: Electric Grid and Devices | B: Materials in a Circular Economy | |
| Moderator: Liang Min, Managing Director, Bits & Watts Initiative, Stanford University | Moderator: Joseph DeSimone, Professor of Translational Medicine and Chemical Engineering | |
| Inês Azevedo, Associate Professor, Department of Energy Resources Engineering, Stanford University. Climate AI Hub. | Dan Congreve, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering. A Circular 3D-Printing Economy Enabled by Photon Upconversion. | |
| Juan Rivas-Davila, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering. Power electronics and finding new applications for power converters. | Simona Onori, Associate Professor of Energy Science Engineering. Data-Driven Lifetime Prediction of Second-Life Lithium-ion Batteries for Grid Energy Storage. | |
| Megan Mauter, Associate Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering. Engaging water supply system storage as a distributed flexible energy resource. | Will Tarpeh, Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering. Developing Polymeric Membrane Materials for Precision Lithium Separations to Circularize Battery Manufacturing/and Plastics. | |
| Ram Rajagopal, Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and of Electrical Engineering. Stochastic control for infrastructure networks. | ||
| Michael Wara, Senior Research Scholar. Removing Legal Barriers to Transmission in California and beyond for a Clean Electricity Grid. | ||
| 12:45pm | Lunch and Stanford Energy Programs Open House | Meet and Greet with Stanford Energy Initiatives over lunch on the Ford Fountain Patio. |
| Bits & Watts Initiative, Explore Energy | Hydrogen Initiative, Natural Gas Initiative | |
| Net Zero Executive Education, Strategic Energy Alliance | StorageX Initiative, Sustainability Accelerator | |
| TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy | Understand Energy | |
| 2:00pm- 3:30pm | Technical Area Breakouts - Session III | - Fisher Conference Center |
| A: New Devices and Their Pathway to TWhr Scale Deployment | B: Hydrogen & Fuels | |
| Moderator: Will Chueh, Associate Professor, Faculty Director, Stanford StorageX Initiative | Moderator: Thomas Jaramillo, Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering | |
| Karan Bhuwalka, Staff Scientist, STEER. Techno-economic learning for batteries. | Matteo Cargnello, Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering. Blue hydrogen via methane pyrolysis for carbon nanotubes production and use. | |
| Wendy Gu, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering. Strain engineering of fast charging solid state batteries. | Matthew Kanan, Professor of Chemistry and Director, TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy. Catalyst technology for scalable and high-efficiency power-to-liquid fuel systems. | |
| Hemamala Karunadasa, Associate Professor of Chemistry. Chemical approaches to addressing the instability of halide perovskite solar absorbers. | Anthony Kovscek, Professor, Energy Resources Engineering. Long-duration, large-scale hydrogen storage in natural porous formations. | |
| Johanna Nelson Weker, Lead Scientist, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. Water electrolyzers for green hydrogen production from impure water sources. | ||
| 3:30pm | Break | |
| 3:40pm-4:30pm | Stanford Energy Postdoctoral Fellows Session | - Fisher Conference Center |
| A: Battery Research | B: Sustainable Energy | |
| Moderator: Jennifer Milne, Associate Director for Advanced Research Projects | Moderator: Audrey Yau, Director, Stanford Energy Fellowships | |
| Sang Cheol Kim, Stanford Energy Fellow 2023. Lithium metal batteries. | Luca Vialetto, Stanford Energy Fellow 2023. Sustainable nitrogen fixation. | |
| Jack Holoubek, Stanford Energy Fellow 2023. Electrocatalysis. | Eli Lazarus, Stanford Energy Fellow 2023. Economics and energy modeling. | |
| Kyle Frohna, Stanford Energy Fellow 2023. Batteries and large-scale storage. | Liat Adler, Stanford Energy Fellow 2024. Algal biofuels. | |
| Yukio Cho, Stanford Energy Fellow 2024. Batteries. |
| 4:30pm- 6:00pm | Student Research Poster Session - Ford Fountain Patio The program concludes with a reception and student poster session. Enjoy relaxing with colleagues, and meeting with 40 graduate student presenters who have been selected to showcase their work in energy research. |
| Adjourn |
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