Henry B. Linford Award for Distinguished Teaching
Intricacies of High-Energy Cathodes for Lithium-Ion Batteries
By Arumugam Manthiram
Arumugam Manthiram is currently the Cockrell Family Regents Chair in Engineering and Director of the Texas Materials Institute and the Materials Science and Engineering Program at the University of Texas at Austin (UT-Austin), US. He received his PhD in Chemistry from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras in 1981. After working as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oxford, England, and at the University of Texas at Austin (UT-Austin) with 2019 Chemistry Nobel Laureate John B. Goodenough, he became a faculty member in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at UT-Austin in 1991.
Dr. Manthiram’s research focuses on batteries and fuel cells. He authored over 770 journal articles with 59,000 citations and an H-index of 122. He provided research training to more than 250 students and postdoctoral fellows, including the graduation of 60 PhD students and 26 MS students.
Dr. Manthiram is a Fellow of The Electrochemical Society, Materials Research Society, American Ceramic Society, Royal Society of Chemistry, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and World Academy of Materials and Manufacturing Engineering. He received the university-wide (one per year) Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award (2012), ECS Battery Division Research Award (2014), Distinguished Alumnus Award of the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (2015), Billy and Claude R. Hocott Distinguished Centennial Engineering Research Award (2016), and Da Vinci Award (2017). An elected member of the World Academy of Ceramics, Manthiram is a Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher (2017 and 2018). He served as Chair of the ECS Battery Division from 2010-2012 and founded the ECS UT-Austin Student Chapter in 2006 which he continues to serve as Faculty Advisor.
Vittoria de Nora Award
Analysis of the Catalyst Requirements with Regards to Catalyst Structure and Catalyst Durability Studies for PEM Water Electrolysis
By Hubert Gasteiger
Hubert Gasteiger received his PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley), US, in 1993, working with Elton Cairns, Phil Ross, and Nenad Marković. After postdoctoral studies at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory with Phil Ross and Nenad Marković (1994–1995) and at Universität Ulm, Germany, with Jürgen Behm (1996–1998), he joined the GM/Opel Fuel Cell Program as Technical Manager (1999–2007), leading the development of catalysts and membrane electrode assemblies. In 2009, he was Visiting Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US, with Prof. Yang Shao-Horn, and in 2010 was appointed Chair of Technical Electrochemistry at Technische Universität München, Germany, where his group develops materials, electrode designs, and diagnostics for PEM fuel cells/electrolyzers and lithium ion batteries.
He published 202 refereed articles (H-index 74), 15 book chapters, 38 patent applications/patents, and served as Editor-In-Chief for Wiley’s Handbook of Fuel Cells (2003 and 2009). In 2004, he received the Klaus-Jürgen Vetter Award of the International Society of Electrochemistry and was promoted to Technical Fellow at General Motors. He became a Fellow of The Electrochemical Society in 2011, and in 2012, received the Grove Medal. More recently, he was honored with the ECS David C. Grahame Award (2015) and the ECS Energy Technology Division Research Award (2017). Gasteiger delivered the 2018 Jacobus van’t Hoff Lecture of the Process Technology Institute at Technische Universiteit Delft, Netherlands. Since 2017, he has served as a member of the European Union’s Scientific Committee for the Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking.
