Marca M. Doeff is an Affiliate with the Energy Storage & Distributed Resources Division (ESDR) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). Her research focusing on materials for lithium-ion batteries, sodium-ion batteries, and solid state batteries was funded primarily by industry, the U.S. Department of Energy, and California Energy Commission. She has published some 170 peer-reviewed papers and patented extensively in these areas.
After receiving her BA in Chemistry from Swarthmore College in 1978 and PhD in Inorganic Chemistry from Brown University in 1983, Dr. Doeff completed postdoctoral work at the University of California, Santa Barbara and University of California, Berkeley. She joined the Naval Ocean Systems Center in 1986 to research antifouling coatings, then in 1990 began research related to electric vehicle batteries at LBNL. Before retiring in June 2024, Dr. Doeff was Senior Scientist at LBNL and Deputy Division Director of ESDR (2019-2024).
A Fellow of The Electrochemical Society and Royal Society of Chemistry, Dr. Doeff received a 2024 ECS San Francisco Section Award, 2024 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Director’s Lifetime Achievement Award, 2023 U.S. Department of Energy Office of Vehicle Technologies Distinguished Achievement Award, and 2020 R&D 100 Award. She held various positions on the ECS Battery Division Executive Committee, culminating with Chair from 2019-2020, and volunteered on Society committees including Technical Affairs (2003-2007) and Honors & Awards (2014-2018). From 2020-2024, she served as Secretary of The Electrochemical Society.
