Darlene Steward joined the staff of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in 2007. She is a Senior Engineer in the Strategic Energy Analysis Center whose research focuses on environmental and energy systems techno-economic analysis and research in resilience, sustainability and the circular economy. Darlene emphasizes finding creative and practical solutions for reaching client goals while broadening understanding of energy systems interrelationships. Darlene holds Bachelor’s and Master’s of Chemical Engineering degrees from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Prior to joining NREL,...Read more
In this paper we provide an overview of how simple kinetic models are developed from calorimetry data and how they are used for the modeling of thermal stability and thermal explosion theory.
Hans Wijmans received his master’s degree in chemical engineering in 1980. He then worked in the membrane research group of Professor C.A. Smolders at the University of Twente, The Netherlands, where he received his Ph.D. in 1984. The subject of his thesis was the mechanism of formation of membranes and the concentration polarization phenomenon in ultrafiltration. He was awarded the 1984 Royal Dutch/Shell Research Award for young scientists.
Wijmans joined Membrane Technology and Research, Inc. (MTR) in Menlo Park, California, in 1984 as a Senior Research Scientist, and...Read more
Fikile Brushett is being honored for pioneering advances in understanding and controlling fundamental processes governing performance, cost, and lifetime of flow electrochemical systems for energy storage and conversion.
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From 2004-2014, Segalman was a faculty member of UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories where she was also the Division Director for Materials Science. In 2014, she moved to UC Santa Barbara to be the Kramer Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials and became Department Chair of Chemical Engineering in 2015. In 2018 she also became the Associate Director of the UT/UCSB/LBL EFRC: Center for Materials for Water and Energy Systems. She is the co-editor of the Annual Reviews of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and an associate editor of ACS Macro...Read more
Federico Sciammarella serves as the President & CTO of MxD, he is in charge of developing and implementing the technology vision for the institute and is looking forward to leading the outstanding team that is currently in place.
Federico was previously an associate professor at Northern Illinois University where he directed the Advanced Research in Materials and Manufacturing for more than 10 years which generated over $2.5million dollars in funding and created a launch pad for many students and technologies in advanced manufacturing. He has a long list of publications and...Read more
