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2014 ITRI-Rosenfeld Fellowship Winners Announced

July 1, 2014

Zhenhua Liu and Chinmayee Subban were recently announced as the winners of the 2014 ITRI-Rosenfeld Postdoctoral Fellowship. The fellowship honors the contributions of Arthur H. Rosenfeld, of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s (Berkeley Lab's) Environmental Energy Technologies Division (EETD), for his pioneering work toward the advancement of energy efficiency on a global scale. The selection process includes scrutiny of the applications by a selection committee, presentations by the finalists, and panel interviews. The award enables the applicants to engage in innovative research that leads to new energy-efficiency technologies or policies, as well as the reduction of adverse energy-related environmental impacts. It is made possible through a gift from the Industrial Technology Research Institute of Taiwan (ITRI) and with EETD support.

Zhenhua Liu earned his PhD in Computer Science at California Institute of Technology (Caltech). His research focuses on the efficient integration of renewable energy into IT and the power grid. His proposal topic for the fellowship was Demand Response: Coordinating IT and the Smart Grid Towards a More Sustainable Future, and his mentor for this work is EETD’s Mary Ann Piette. For this project Liu plans to develop new demand management algorithms, develop new demand-response programs, and investigate other opportunities that would help guide the management of data centers, buildings, and other systems. He has already begun working on his project at the Lab.

Chinmayee Subban earned her PhD from Cornell University’s Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology. Her graduate and postdoctoral research has been focused on the design and characterization of electrode materials for fuels cells and lithium-ion batteries. Her proposed topic of research for the fellowship was Technology Invention: New Electrode Materials for Water Treatment with Capacitive Deionization (CDI), and her mentor for the work is EETD’s Ashok Gadgil. Her goal for this project is to develop more efficient, affordable electrode materials for CDI, bringing costs down and thus enabling the widespread use of the technology in treating brackish water for poor and rural communities around the world. She will begin at the Lab in September.

The award ceremony will take place in October 2014, at Berkeley Lab.

The application period for the 2015 ITRI-Rosenfeld Postdoctoral Fellowship will open in August 2014.

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Mark Wilson