Charles W. Tobias Young Investigator Award
Betar Gallant
Monday, 0920h / Room 316B (Level 3, Hawaii Convention Center)
“Lithium Oxide Content in the Li Metal Anode Solid Electrolyte Interphase Drives High Coulombic Efficiency“
by Betar Gallant
BETAR M. GALLANT is Associate Professor and Class of ‘22 Career Development Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where she leads the Energy and Carbon Conversion Laboratory. Her research group focuses on advanced battery chemistries and materials for high-energy primary and rechargeable batteries, including fluorinated cathode conversion reactions and lithium, sodium, and calcium metal anodes and their interfaces. The group leads research into CO2 capture and its integration with direct electrochemical conversion in the captured state. Dr. Gallant obtained her SB, SM, and PhD in Mechanical Engineering at MIT, followed by a Kavli Nanoscience Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship at the California Institute of Technology. She received multiple awards including the MIT Bose Fellowship, Army Research Office Young Investigator Award, Scialog Fellow in Energy Storage and Negative Emissions Science, National Science Foundation CAREER Award, ECS Battery Division Early Career Award, ECS Toyota Young Investigator Award, ACS Energy and Fuels Division Glenn Award, and MIT Ruth and Joel Spira Award for Distinguished Teaching. Dr. Gallant joined ECS in 2012.
Edward Goodrich Acheson Award
Paul Kohl
Tuesday, 1400h / Room 313C (Level 3, Hawaii Convention Center)
“Improvements in Anion Exchange Membrane Water Electrolysis Materials and Devices“
by Paul Kohl
PAUL KOHL is a Regents’ Professor and holds the Thomas L. Gossage Chair at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His research interests include electrochemical devices for energy storage and conversion, new ion-conducting polymers electrolytes, and advanced polymer dielectrics for electronic devices. He received a PhD in Chemistry from The University of Texas in 1978 with Allen J. Bard as advisor. He was employed at AT&T Bell Laboratories from 1978-1989, where he participated in the development of new chemical processes for the manufacture of electronic devices. In 1989, he joined Georgia Tech’s faculty in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. He is the author of 340 journal publications, 69 US patents, and more than 500 conference presentations. Dr. Kohl is past Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of The Electrochemical Society; and founding editor of Electrochemical and Solid-State Letters and ECS Interface. An ECS member since 1975, Prof. Kohl served as the Society’s President from 2014-2015. ECS honored Prof. Kohl with the 1977 Edward G. Weston Fellowship, 2001 Carl Wagner Memorial Award, 2017 Gordon E. Moore Medal for Outstanding Achievement in Solid State Science & Technology, and 2008 Dielectric Science and Technology Division Thomas D. Callinan Award. He also received the American Chemical Society ACS Award in Polymer Science and is a Fellow of The Electrochemical Society and AIChE.
