Prof. Esther S. Takeuchi
Stony Brook University
Prof. Esther S. Takeuchi is a SUNY Distinguished Professor and the William and Jane Knapp Chair in Energy and the Environment at Stony Brook University. She holds a joint appointment at Brookhaven National Laboratory as Chair of the Interdisciplinary Science Department. Prior to her academic appointments, she was employed in industrial lithium battery research. She is a member of National Academy of Engineering, the National Inventors Hall of Fame, is a Charter Member of the National Academy of Innovation and received the European Inventor Award for non-EPO countries and the US National Medal of Technology and Innovation. She is a Fellow of the ECS, the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Prof. Serena DeBeer
Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion
Prof. Serena DeBeer is a Professor and Director at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion in Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany, an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Cornell University, and an honorary faculty member at Ruhr University in Bochum. She received her B.S. in Chemistry at Southwestern University in 1995 and her Ph.D. from Stanford University in 2002. From 2002-2009, she was a staff scientist at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory. Research in the DeBeer group is focused on the development and application of advanced X-ray spectroscopic tools for understanding key mechanisms in biological, homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis.
Australian Synchrotron Research Award recipient TBA
