Stanford Energy Student Lectures (SESL)

Join us as grad student/ postdoc speakers from various technical areas deliever short and accessible presentations about their innovative clean energy research. Learn more about cutting-edge science and the most recent breakthroughs in areas such as renewables, energy conversion materials and devices, catalysis, and decarbonization from the researchers themselves!

Refreshments will be provided starting at 2:45pm. Share your feedback on the speakers for a chance to win a Coupa giftcard!

Speaker Topics: 

June 23

• Amy McKeown-Green- Under Pressure: Watching Photocatalysts Restructure During Ammonia Synthesis

• Jaekwon Lee- Free-space Reconfigurable Optical Interconnects for the Next Generation Datacenters

June 30

• Chi Cao- In Situ X-ray Imaging of Aqueous Zinc Ion Battery Anodes

• Andreas Mühlbauer- Between Hourly Optimization and Sub-Minute Simulation: Implications for Highly Renewable Energy System Planning

July 7

• Will McNeil- Data Center Load Growth and Power System Costs in California

• Yousif Alkhulaifi- A stirred-tank flow-electrode reactor for direct lithium extraction from brines

July 14

• Wylie Kau- A hybrid design framework for ion selective membranes in critical mineral separations

• Philip Onffroy- Micro-Architected 3D Printed Carbon Materials for Energy Storage and Inertial Fusion Energy

No session on July 21

July 28

• Adam Potter- Breaking properties tradeoffs for the next generation of high-temperature hydrogen catalysts

• Taeho Kim- Controlling Earthquakes and Fractures for Next-Generation Geothermal Energy

August 4

• Xiaoyu Yang- Bridging Physics, Data, and Learning in Lithium Battery Modeling

• Ireri Hernandez- Environmental Social SciencesDesigning Fair Agreements for Solar Energy: What Communities Want from Large-Scale Solar Development

• Sreya Vangara- Mechanical EngineeringFrom Battery Data to Discovery: AI Agents for Energy Materials Research

August 11

• Zhiqiao Jiang- Two-Step Photon Absorbers for Obtaining High Solar-Cell Voltages with Low-Energy Photons

• Joseph Lucero- Seeing Inside Batteries from the Outside: State Estimation for Reliable Energy Storage

August 18

• Yun Ni- A Robotic Approach for Real-Time Hybrid Simulation of Floating Offshore Wind Turbines

• Edem Honu- High temperature defect and microstructural evolution in single crystal Mg