Program 2025

Day 1 (25th September, 2025)

Time   Location
4:00 pm Check-in, setup for poster session

 

WIL Atrium
4:30 pm Session Chair: Prof. Gary Harlow

Housekeeping and general information

WIL 100
4:40 pm Keynote Speaker:  Prof Prof. Sossina M. Haile

Northwestern University

WIL 100
5:30 pm Invited Speaker: Michael Nellist

Manager of Technology Integration at Solid Power

WIL 100
 6:20 pm Invited Speaker: Prof. Jin Suntivich

Cornell University

WIL 100
7:10 pm ECS PNW Award Ceremony

Presented by:  ECS PNW Section (Paul Kempler) and sponsors

WIL 100
7:20 pm Poster Session and Banquet Dinner WIL Atrium
9:30 pm End of Day 1

Day 2 (26th September 2025)

Time Location
8:00 am Check-in LISB Atrium
9:00 am Session Chair: Gary Harlow

Invited Speaker: Prof. Iryna Zenyuk

UC Irvine

WIL 100
9:50 am Dongping Lu, Chief Scientist/Lead of Battery Materials Research Team at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory PNNL

(ECS PNW Section Research Award Winner 2024)

WIL 100
10:20 am Conference Photo To be announced
10:30 am Coffee Break (coffee/tea/water and pastries) WIL Atrium
11:10 am Michelle Katz, PhD Student Cobb Lab, UW (ECS PNW Section Student Award) WIL 100
11:40 am Micah Hickethier, PhD Student Feng Lab, Oregon State University WIL 100
12:00 pm Mark Mancini,  PhD Student Tolbert Lab, UCLA

(OCE class of ’22)

WIL 100
12:20 pm Lunch (provided) WIL Atrium
1:30 pm Session Chair: Celeste Melamed

Invited Speaker: Prof. Nicolas Holubowitch

New Mexico Tech

WIL 100
2:10 pm Avi Grinberg, Battery Scientist at Ion Storage Systems

(OCE class of ’21)

WIL 100
2:30 pm Andrew Goldman PhD Student Kempler Group, University of Oregon

(OCE class of ’24)

WIL 100
2:50 pm Break (Coffee/Tea/Water) WIL Atrium
3:30 pm Serafina Fortiner, Chemical Engineer, Nel Hydrogen

(OCE class of ’22)

WILL 100
3:50 pm Berkley Noble, Duranium

(OCE class of ’23)

WIL 100
4:20 pm Closing Remarks WIL 100
4:30 pm End of Day 2, End of Conference WIL 100