MRS Nelson "Buck" Robinson Science and Technology Award for Renewable Energy

MRS Nelson "Buck" Robinson Award Recipients

• Kelsey Hatzell, Vanderbilt University (2019)

  

  Kelsey Hatzell earned her Ph.D. in Material Science and Engineering at Drexel University, her M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Pennsylvania State University, and her B.S./B.A. in Engineering/Economics from Swarthmore College.

  Hatzell’s research group works on multifunctional coatings and understanding phenomena at solid|liquid and solid|solid interfaces. The Inks and Interfaces group works on an array of different applications related to solid state batteries, electrochemical fuel production, printing, water desalination, and separations application. She is interested in understanding far-from equilibrium material systems and utilizes a suite of x-ray and neutron techniques to understand these systems. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Vanderbilt University.

  Hatzell was an ITRI-Rosenfeld Postdoctoral Fellow at Berkeley Lab and an NSF Graduate Research Fellow. She received the Arthur Nowick Award from Materials Research and the Silver Graduate Student Award in the Materials Research Society.  Since joining Vanderbilt she has won the ORAU Powe Junior Faculty Award (2017), NSF CAREER Award (2019), ECS Toyota Young Investigator Award (2019), and is a finalist for the BASF/Volkswagen Science in Electrochemistry Award. Hatzell was also named a SCIALOG Fellow in energy storage by the Research Corporation for Scientific Advancement (2017-2019).

  
  
• Aaswath P. Raman, University of California, Los Angeles (2018)

  Aaswath P. Raman is an assistant professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is also Co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of SkyCool Systems, a startup commercializing radiative sky cooling technology based on research that he originated. Raman previously held a faculty position at the University of Pennsylvania, and was a research associate and postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University. His research interests include nanophotonics, metamaterials, thermal sciences, energy systems, solar energy conversion and computational methods.

  Raman received his PhD degree in applied physics from Stanford University in 2013, and his AB degree in physics and astronomy and MS degree in computer science from Harvard University in 2006. He is the recipient of the Sir James Lougheed Award of Distinction (2011), the SPIE (International Society for Optics and Photonics) Green Photonics Award (2011), the Stanford Postdoctoral Research Award (2013), the MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35 (TR35) Award (2015), and recently was an invited speaker at TED 2018.