Nikit Abhyankar
Short & long duration storage and multi-sector integration for a resilient grid.
Faiz Ahmed
Development of Solid electrolytes
Division Director, Chemical Sciences
Polly Arnold
Catalytic transformations of energy carriers; N2, CO2, renewable oxygenates
Antonio Baclig
Creating an ultra-low cost grid battery made from salt and iron
Nitash Balsara
Rechargeable solid-state batteries.
Group Leader, Energy Storage
Vince Battaglia
Understanding the effect of material properties and process conditions with regard to the fabrication and functionality of composite electrodes.
Hans Bechtel
Characterization of nanoscale chemistry at interfaces with infrared spectroscopy.
Associate Lab Director, Earth & Environmental Sciences
Jens Birkholzer
Subsurface energy storage, such as thermal, hydrogen and natural gas storage.
Group Leader, Grid Integration
Doug Black
Design and demonstration of controls for renewable and resilient microgrids.
Samuel Blau
Data-driven simulation of complex reaction cascades.
David Blum
Building and urban energy system modeling for controls development.
Hanna Breunig
Process modeling and techno-economic analysis to identify the key material and system properties to meet cost and performance targets.
Young-Woon Byeon
Investigation of the buried interface of all-solid-state batteries
Project Lead, GMLC Technical Assistance
Peter Cappers
Regulatory and policy options for promoting and leveraging storage as a grid asset.
Associate Laboratory Director, Computing Sciences
Jonathan Carter
Simulations to understand the properties of new materials.
Gerbrand Ceder
Development of novel materials for energy storage.
Sudong Chae
Design and development of advanced catalyst
Chun Chang
Functional nanomaterial for low-T thermal energy recovery and storage
Guoying Chen
Developing functional materials based on rational design.
Qian Chen
Exploration and design of novel battery materials using computational techniques
Jianli Cheng
Theory-driven design of Li-ion battery and interface engineering.
Associate Lab Director, Earth and Environmental Sciences Area
William Collins
Intersection of climate change mitigation and energy storage
Daniel Collins-Wildman
Development of low-cost energy storage systems for the grid
Ethan Crumlin
Understanding/Revealing echem storage and conversion interfacial chemistry
Lead, Geothermal Systems Program
Patrick Dobson
Seasonal thermal energy storage of water in geologic formations.
Deputy Division Director, Energy Storage & Distributed Resources
Marca Doeff
Materials for beyond lithium ion batteries (solid-state, sodium-ion).
Christine Doughty
Modeling geological thermal energy storage
Spencer Dutton
Building hybrid HVAC with integrated phase change material based thermal storage
Thomas Feggeler
My research focuses on energy saving, magnetism-based computation concepts.
Sydney Forrester
Distributed batteries' market and policy drivers, grid value, and adoption.
Hongxiang Fu
Modelica simulation models for thermal storage components and systems.
Division Director, Accelerator Technology & Applied Physics
Cameron Geddes
Precision processing and probing via ultrafast lasers, unlocking new properties.
Brian Gerke
Modeling distributed storage for demand-side management and resiliency
Benjamin Gilbert
Broad interests in use of geologic systems for energy storage.
Will Gorman
Assessing the costs, benefits, market development, and resiliency potential of hybrid, renewable plus battery projects
Jinghua Guo
Operando soft x-ray spectroscopy for electrochemical interfacial phenomena.
Andrew Haddad
Electrified approaches to produce materials needed for energy storage.
Stephen Harris
Solid state lithium batteries: failure and safety.
Tanjin He
Predictive synthesis of novel energy storage materials enabled by text mining.
Co-Lead, Energy Storage Across Time & Length Scales Strategic Initiative
Miguel Heleno
Storage valuation models for electricity markets and grid resilience planning.
Dre Helmns
Physics-based modeling of thermal equipment to enable innovative design and optimal operation of integrated energy systems for buildings and districts.
Brett Helms
Digital design and discovery of new materials for electrochemical energy storage devices.
Thomas Hendrickson
Life-cycle assessment to analyze greenhouse gas and energy consumption implications of emerging energy storage technologies.
Kenny Higa
Mathematical modeling, electrode manufacturing, automation, cell design
Eric M.V. Hoek
Synthesis of novel electrode materials for green hydrogen production via seawater and waste acid electrolysis.
Tianzhen Hong
District energy systems with waste heat recovery, thermal storage, and aquifers.
Deputy Director, Liquid Sunlight Alliance
Frances Houle
Photoelectrochemical conversion air to chemicals using only sunlight as an energy source.
Jianjun Hu
Modeling approach for geothermal district energy system
Muhammad Ihsan Ul Haq
Cryo-EM and nanospectroscopy to study SEI layer in battery electrodes.
Co-Lead, Energy Storage Across Time & Length Scales Strategic Initiative
Anubhav Jain
Computational design of novel energy storage materials.
Qing Ji
Catalytic plasma-assisted conversion of CO2 and plastic waste to fuel.
Nihan Karali
Critical raw material demand and supply.
Leader, Thermal Energy Group
Sumanjeet Kaur
Design and development of optimal materials and systems for thermal storage.
Donghun Kim
Optimal sizing & control of energy storage systems. Demonstrated MPC at a campus
Haegyum Kim
Fundamental understanding of synthesis process-structure-performance relation via operando and in situ characterization.
James Hyungkwan Kim
Value and costs of energy storage technologies and related market policy in response to deep decarbonized grid needs.
Ryan Kingsbury
Fundamental study of ion solvation and transport in engineered materials.
Division Director, Energy Analysis & Environmental Impact
Thomas Kirchstetter
Role of energy storage in integrated energy systems.
Youngmin Ko
Materials design for energy storage systems beyond Li-ion batteries
Division Director, Energy Storage and Distributed Resources / Interim Executive Director, Berkeley Lab Energy Storage Center
Robert Kostecki
Fundamental phenomena that determine performance of electrochemical materials.
Ahmet Kusoglu
Mechanochemistry, solid-polymer electrolytes & interfaces, hydrogen technologies.
GJ la O'
Tyfast designs fast charge and long life batteries for always on applications
Haitam Laarabi
BTMS Optimization to support electric vehicles charging
Head, Center for Sustainable Materials and Innovation at UCB
Alessandra Lanzara
Driven quantum materials for enhanced properties and multi-functionality.
Jonathan Larson
Diagnosing fundamental battery interface properties with nanoscale FTIR
Baojie Li
Degradation analysis of PV power plants
Yi Liu
Dielectric film capacitors for high temperature applications.
Leader, Applied Energy Materials Group
Gao Liu
Design and synthesis of new materials and system engineering for energy storage.
Sean Lubner
Developing new materials for high temperature (>1000 C) thermal energy storage, and noninvasive sensors for property mapping in batteries.
Ana Sanz Matias
Free-energy, data mining and x-ray absorption simulations for atomic views
Wilson McNeil
Electric trucks, grid emissions
Bryan D. McCloskey
Characterization of interfacial and transport processes in Li-ion batteries.
Program Manager, Electricity Markets and Policy
Chandler Miller
Program design, economics, and implementation for grid-connected systems.
Program Manager, Sustainable Transportation Initiative
Mike Mills
Program Manager for the Energy Technologies Area Sustainable Transportation Initiative
Dev Millstein
Integration of energy storage, wind, and solar, into electricity markets.
Cristina Crespo Montañés
Modeling market value and costs of hybrid renewables-plus-battery power plants.
Hee Seung Moon
Storages for ships, grids, and off-the-grids
PATH Faculty Director + Clare and Hsieh Wen Shen Endowed Distinguished Professor
Scott Moura
AI for Batteries, Electrified Transportation, Grid Storage
Associate Lab Director, Energy Sciences
Jeffrey Neaton
Theory and computation of novel phases and phenomena for solar energy conversion.
Division Director, Energy Geosciences
Peter Nico
Uses of the subsurface for energy storage.
Marcus Noack
Methods for autonomous discovery of materials for energy storage.
Bruce Nordman
System architectures and communication technologies for managing storage in buildings for maximum customer and grid benefit.
Curtis Oldenburg
Mechanistic simulation of subsurface/geologic energy storage.
Umed Paliwal
Research on how storage can help integrate large share of renewables in grid.
Won Young Park
Applications to off- and weak-grid energy systems and transportation
Dula Parkinson
Synchrotron X-ray microCT (3D imaging) of batteries, fuel cells, and materials.
Sean Peisert
Cybersecurity for energy delivery systems, including storage.
Peng Peng
Hydrogen and thermal energy storage: process and techno-economic analysis.
Division Director, Molecular Foundry & Director, Materials Project
Kristin Persson
Computational, data-driven approaches to understand and design novel electrolytes, electrode materials, and cathode coatings.
Amol Phadke
Storage for heavy duty transport: trucks, rail, and ships.
Associate Laboratory Director (Interim), Energy Technologies
Mary Ann Piette
Integration of storage building buildings to enable lowering bills, GHG, and integration with grid, includes sizing and control.
Natalie Popovich
Cross-sector energy storage applications to rail and marine modes and the grid.
Jason Porzio
Techno-economics and life-cycle assessment of large-scale Li-ion batteries
Marco Pritoni
Controls for thermal and electrical storage in buildings and DER.
Joseph Rand
Analysis of storage and hybrid projects in transmission interconnection queues
Prakash Rao
Energy storage needs and opportunities for industrial processes.
Vi Rapp
Technology development, validation, commercialization.
Executive Director, FLEXLAB®
Cindy Regnier
Associate Laboratory Director, Physical Sciences
Natalie Roe
Applications of plasma and accelerator physics; engineering expertise.
Farshid Roumi
Visualizing inhomogeneities deep inside a battery: Ultrafast charging
Ann Rutt
Computational materials discovery of high-performance magnesium cathodes
Miquel Salmeron
Characterization of the atomic scale structure and dynamics of solid-electrolyte interfaces under operating conditions.
Deputy Leader, Electricity Markets and Policy Department
Andrew Satchwell
Alignment of regulation and policy with energy storage systems.
Program Head, Fusion Science & Ion Beam Technology
Thomas Schenkel
Development of applied physics techniques to advance energy storage R&D.
Deputy Division Director for Science, Advanced Light Source
Andreas Scholl
X-ray instrumentation for ALS users with nanoscale chemical sensitivity.
Lisa Schwartz
Electricity system planning and demand flexibility.
Mary Scott
Characterization of battery materials and devices.
Deputy Division Director for Research, Energy Analysis & Environmental Impacts
Corinne Scown
Life-cycle assessment and technoeconomic analysis of battery storage applications.
Arman Shehabi
LCA/TEA and energy/material flow analysis of energy storage technologies.
Bo Shen
PCM-enabled thermal storage; repurposing coal facilities for energy storage.
Co-Lead, DOE Energy Storage Grand Challenge sub-group
Sarah Smith
Techno-economic analysis and domestic manufacturing opportunities and impacts.
Michael Sohn
Evan Spotte-Smith
Computational exploration of electrochemical reactivity
Justice40 Fellow
C. Anna Spurlock
Transportation behavior, transportation system modeling, decarbonization, equity.
Ishan Srivastava
Simulating battery electrode manufacturing, and structure-property correlations.
William T. Stringfellow
Technological and environmental analysis of critical material supply chains.
Ji Su
Development of highly efficient and reversible liquid organic hydrogen carrier system.
Gregory Su
Characterization of the nanostructure of energy materials with x-rays.
Jeroen van Tilborg
Applying lasers to advanced manufacturing and in-situ diagnostics.
Wei Tong
Material design, synthesis, and processing for Li-ion batteries and beyond.
David Trebotich
Life cycle simulation of electrode microstructure; slurry manufacturing process.
Mike Tucker
Scalable processing, diagnostics, and optimization of Solid State Battery and Solid Oxide Cell devices, components, and materials.
Facility Director, Inorganic Nanostructures
Jeff Urban
Molecular, thermal, and ionic storage in multicomponent media.
Dani Ushizima
Analysis based on machine learning for quality control of lithium metal battery.
Bin Wang
Electric vehicle charging infrastructure assessment and vehicle-grid integration.
Duo Wang
Design materials for electrochemical water treatment
Leader, Energy Conversion Group & Deputy Director of HydroGEN Consortium
Adam Weber
Optimizing electrochemical and chemical storage including flow batteries and H2.
Nate Weger
High-temperature thermal energy storage systems and materials
Max Wei
Hydrogen energy storage cost analysis (reversible fuel cells, MW-scale PEM FC).
Dilni Kaveendi Koggala Wellalage
High energy density electrode development.
Michael Wetter
Computational tools for design and operation of building energy systems, including their storage and control strategies.
Director of the Lithium Resource Research and Innovation Center (LiRRIC)
Michael Whittaker
Sustainable mineral resource use.
Ryan Wiser
Market analysis and valuation of hybrid power plants that pair wind or solar with storage.
Wanli Yang
Soft X-ray spectroscopy characterizations of reaction mechanism in batteries.
Division Director, Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging Division
Junko Yano
Mechanistic understanding of solar energy conversion to create fuels.
Rongxin Yin
building thermal mass, electric vehicle, battery storage, grid integration
Yan Zeng
AI-driven synthesis lab (A-lab), energy storage materials
Jian Zhang
Crystalline porous materials for electrochemical energy storage application
Jingjing Zhang
Analysis to reduce cost, improve manufacturing, and enhance equity.
Haimei Zheng
In situ TEM study of Li dendrite formation, SEI, low temperature electrolyte.
Group Leader, Laser Technologies
Vassilia Zorba
Next-generation laser technologies in energy storage applications.