It’s time for ECS’s annual officer elections which shape our organization’s leadership for the coming year. We will elect a new President and Third Vice President, each integral to the Society’s continued growth and success.

Voting opens on January 15. We encourage all ECS members to participate in choosing our next leaders. Your vote is essential in determining the Society’s future direction. Best of luck to all the candidates, and thank you to our members for making their voices heard!

Below you can read each candidate’s biography and candidacy statement, followed by voting instructions.

Candidate for President | Candidates for third Vice President

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Hydro-Québec’s Center of Excellence in Transportation Electrification and Energy Storage is a world-class innovation hub in the field of battery materials for electric vehicles and other energy storage applications, both stationary and mobile.

The Center’s efforts focus on advanced lithium-ion batteries and solid state batteries. Its know-how, impressive intellectual property portfolio, and leading-edge facilities draw interest from around the world and make it an essential partner for major industry players involved in the development of tomorrow’s battery materials and technologies.

The Center of Excellence is reinventing energy for the electrified world of the future through its research on a number of fronts: battery materials, electrodes, electrochemical cells, modules, and battery packs. Our aim is to develop ultra-high-performance battery technologies and storage systems that will accelerate transportation electrification and make it possible to bring more renewables onto power grids, on a global scale. If we want to leave a viable planet to future generations, the time to act is now.

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The ECS Georgia Section recognized the 2024 ECS Georgia Section Outstanding Student Achievement Award winner, Kelsey Anne Cavallaro of the Georgia Institute of Technology, at its fall meeting on November 20, 2024.

Learn more about the award and review the list of past recipients on the award page. (more…)

Yuzhang Li (University of California, Los Angeles) receives the 2023-2024 ECS Toyota Young Investigator Fellowship Award.

Submissions now accepted from Europe

The Electrochemical Society (ECS), in collaboration with the Toyota Research Institute of North America (TRINA), a division of Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc. (TEMA), is excited to announce the continued growth of the prestigious ECS Toyota Young Investigator Fellowship and opening of 2025-2026 award year submissions. For the first time, along with candidates from Canada, Mexico, and the United States, the fellowship will accept applications from Europe.

The fellowship program is a partnership between The Electrochemical Society and the Toyota Research Institute of North America (TRINA), a Toyota Motor North America (Toyota) R&D division that explores future technology. Through this program, ECS and Toyota promote innovative and unconventional green energy technologies born from electrochemical research and encourage young professionals and scholars to pursue battery and fuel cell research. (more…)

We are delighted to announce that 10 articles published in the Journal of The Electrochemical Society (JES) have been honored with the Institute of Physics Publishing’s (IOPP) North American Top Cited Paper Awards for 2024. These awards recognize the top one percent of the most-cited articles published in IOP journals over the past year, highlighting the significant impact and quality of research contributed by our authors.

We extend our heartfelt congratulations to the authors of the following distinguished papers: (more…)