Stanford Energy Research Showcase Agenda

Stanford Energy Research Showcase
Finding Energy Solutions for Large-Scale Impact
May 1, 2024

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 PatioThe 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