Caroline Draxl

Caroline Draxl

NREL
Caroline Draxl, Ph.D., is a senior scientist at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Flatirons Campus, where she advances the current state-of-the-art in mesoscale modeling as it specifically pertains to wind energy. Her research includes using numerical weather prediction models to study wind resources in various countries, conducting land-based and offshore boundary layer research, and coupling of the mesoscale flow features (kilometer scale) to the microscale (tens of meters) using mesoscale...
Paul King

Paul King

NREL
Paul King, PhD, is the Acting Center Director for Biosciences, and Manager of the Physical Biochemistry and Photosynthesis Group at NREL. His research interests are on reduction-oxidation (redox) enzymes that catalyze biological transformation reactions that are fundamental to solar energy conversion. A focus of the work is to apply biophysical and spectroscopic approaches to understand electron transfer and small molecule activation mechanisms, where light-capture by nanoscale materials is utilized to...
Michael Marshak

Michael Marshak

CU Boulder
Michael Marshak, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of chemistry at CU-Boulder. His research program spans the fields of organic and inorganic chemistry to make new chemicals and materials. Specifically, he plans to investigate organic reactions featuring new transition metal catalysts, nanoparticle and thin-film materials, and chemical transformations related to biomass and carbon dioxide. Michael has helped to pioneer the use of organic materials called quinones for flow batteries, a promising...

Josef Michl

CU Boulder
Charles Rogers

Charles Rogers

CU Boulder
Charles Rogers, Ph.D., is a physics professor at CU-Boulder. His laboratory has a long history of work on thin-film materials including energy-oriented materials such as high temperature superconductors and transparent conductors, with the best collection of novel thin-film growth systems available on the CU-Boulder campus (four laser ablation systems, six-target sputtering system, 9kV e-gun deposition system, two thermal evaporators). The lab also has a long history of working with nanofabricated...
Patricia Romero-Lankao

Patricia Romero-Lankao

NREL
Dr. “Paty” Romero-Lankao joined NREL’s Center for Integrated Mobility Sciences in 2018 as a senior research scientist in joint appointment with the University of Chicago’s Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation, where she is a research fellow. Previously, she has senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. Paty examines the interactions among people and cities, with a particular emphasis on the sustainability of energy systems, mobility, and the built...