ECS Honors & Awards Program

Upcoming Award Nomination Deadlines – Winter 2021

Society Awards

Fellow of The Electrochemical Society
Recognizes advanced individual technological contributions in the field of electrochemical and solid state science and technology, and active ECS membership. Award includes a certificate and gold lapel pin.
Nomination deadline – February 1, 2021. (more…)

ECS is proud to present Dr. María Escudero-Escribano via webinar on January 13, 2021, at 1000h ET.

Oxygen and Carbon Monoxide Electrocatalysis for Renewable Energy Conversion

Dr. María Escudero-Escribano
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Date: January 13, 2021

Time: 1000h ET (more…)

Nominations deadline: January 15, 2021

Nominations are now being accepted for the ECS Organic and Biological Electrochemistry Division (OBE) Manuel M. Baizer Award sponsored by The Electrosynthesis Company, Inc. and Monsanto Company.

The award was established in 1992 to recognize outstanding scientific achievements in the electrochemistry of organics and organometallic compounds, carbon-based polymers and biomass—whether fundamental or applied—and including, but not limited to: (more…)

J. Bruce Wagner, Jr., ECS President (1983-1984)

New nomination deadline: February 1, 2021

The deadline for nominations for the J. Bruce Wagner, Jr. Award has been extended to February 1, 2021. The award was established by the ECS High Temperature Materials Division (H-Temp) in 1998 to recognize a young Society member who has demonstrated exceptional promise for a successful career in science and/or technology in the field of high temperature materials. The award consists of a framed certificate and a $1,000 prize.

Please review the award rules carefully before completing the application. View the list of distinguished past recipients. (more…)

ECS is proud to present Dr. Anita Ho-Baillie via webinar on December 16, 2020, at 1000h ET.

Durable Perovskite Solar Cells

Dr. Anita Ho-Baillie
John Hooke Chair of Nanoscience
University of Sydney, Australia

Date: December 16, 2020

Time: 1000h ET (more…)

2020 ECS Corrosion Division Morris Cohen Graduate Student Award Goes to Chao Liu

Each year, the ECS Corrosion Division recognizes outstanding academic achievements in corrosion science and/or engineering through the Morris Cohen Graduate Student Award. Congratulations to the 2020 Corrosion Division Morris Cohen Graduate Student Award winner, Chao (Gilbert) Liu of the Shell Technology Center. (more…)

Congratulations to Aicheng Chen, the 2020 Canada Section R. C. Jacobsen Award recipient!

Dr. Aicheng Chen is Professor of Chemistry, Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Electrochemistry and Nanoscience, and Director of the Electrochemical Technology Centre (ETC) at the University of Guelph, Canada. He received his MSc from Xiamen University, China, under the supervision of Prof. S.-G. Sun, and his PhD from the University of Guelph in 1998 under the direction of Prof. J. Lipkowski. After working in the chemical industry as Research Scientist and Electrochemical Specialist for four years, Chen joined Lakehead University, Canada, as Assistant Professor in 2002. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 2005, Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in 2006, and Professor in 2010. He received a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Senior Fellowship in 2006 to work with Prof. B. Ohtani at Hokkaido University, Japan. During his 2008 sabbatical, Dr. Chen worked with Prof. R. Compton as a visiting scholar at Oxford University, England. He joined the University of Guelph in 2017. (more…)

Application deadline: January 15, 2021

It’s hard to think about summer in the depths of winter and the pandemic, but summer will be here before you know it! The summer months are a great time to further your career. You may be eligible for an ECS Summer Fellowship which supports graduate students during the months of June through September who pursue work in a field of interest to The Electrochemical Society. (more…)

The ECS Summer Fellowship Program assists students during the summer months of June through September to pursue work in a field of interest to ECS. The 2020 fellowship recipients are:

Edward G Weston Fellowship

“Towards Quantifying Ion Kinetics at Confined Nanointerfaces using Electrochemical Fluctuation Methods”
Andrew Pendergast (more…)

Application deadline: January 15, 2021

The ECS Colin Garfield Fink Summer Fellowship assists a postdoctoral scientist or engineer to pursue research from June through August. The fellowship includes $5,000 and recognition in the ECS Blog and Interface. It is named in honor of Colin G. Fink, ECS president from 1917-1918.

To qualify for the fellowship, applicants must be a current postdoc and a Society member in good standing.

Apply now (more…)