Congratulations Professor Kimberly See and Professor Iryna Zenyuk!
The ECS Toyota Young Investigator Fellowship, a partnership between The Electrochemical Society and Toyota Research Institute of North America, a division of Toyota Motor North America, is in its fourth year. The fellowship aims to encourage young professors and scholars to pursue research in green energy technology that may promote the development of next-generation vehicles capable of utilizing alternative fuels.
Electrochemical research has already informed the development and improvement of innovative batteries, electrocatalysts, photovoltaics, and fuel cells. Through this fellowship, ECS and Toyota hope to see further innovative and unconventional technologies borne from electrochemical research.
The ECS Toyota Young Investigator Fellowship Selection Committee has chosen two recipients to receive the 2018-2019 fellowship awards for projects in green energy technology. The awardees are Prof. Kimberly See, California Institute of Technology, and Prof. Iryna Zenyuk, University of California, Irvine.
The selected fellows will receive restricted grants of $50,000 to conduct the research outlined in their proposals within one year. They will also receive a one-year complimentary ECS membership as well as the opportunity to present and/or publish their research with ECS.
2018-2019 ECS Toyota Young Investigator Fellows
Prof. Kimberly See, California Institute of Technology
ECS Battery Division
“Structural Distortions in Multi-Electron Cathodes for High Capacity Batteries”
Prof. Iryna Zenyuk, University of California, Irvine
ECS Energy Technology Division
“Addressing the Activation Overpotential in Fuel Cell Cathodes”
The ECS Toyota Young Investigator Fellowship is an annual program, and the 2019-2020 request for proposals will be released in the fall of 2018.
Special thanks to the 2018-2019 selection committee:
Dr. John Muldoon, Toyota Research Institute of North America, Chair
Dr. Koji Suto, Toyota Research Institute of North America
Dr. Tomoyuki Nagai, Toyota Research Institute of North America
Dr. Tim Arthur, Toyota Research Institute of North America
Dr. John T. Vaughey, Argonne National Laboratory, ECS Battery Division
Prof. Peter Pintauro, Vanderbilt University, ECS Energy Technology Division
Prof. Brian McCloskey, University of California, Berkeley, ECS Battery Division
About ECS
Leading the world in electrochemistry and solid state science and technology for 117 years, The Electrochemical Society was founded in 1902 as an international nonprofit, educational organization. ECS now has more than 8,000 individual and institutional members in more than 75 countries. Home of the Journal of The Electrochemical Society, the oldest peer-reviewed journal in its field, the ECS Digital Library provides searchable online access to the collection of ECS technical journals and other publications. Find out about how ECS is taking its digital library open access at freethescience.org.
About Toyota
Toyota (NYSE:TM), creator of the Prius hybrid and the Mirai fuel cell vehicle, is committed to building vehicles for the way people live through our Toyota and Lexus brands. Over the past 60 years, we’ve built more than 36 million cars and trucks in North America, where we operate 14 manufacturing plants (10 in the U.S.) and directly employ more than 47,000 people (more than 37,000 in the U.S.). Our 1,800 North American dealerships (nearly 1,500 in the U.S.) sold nearly 2.7 million cars and trucks (2.4 million in the U.S.) in 2017 – and about 87 percent of all Toyota vehicles sold over the past 16 years are still on the road today.
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