AZSEC Fall 2020 Keynote Speakers
Katherine Jungjohann
Katherine Jungjohann received her doctoral degree in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of California, Davis in 2012. Her topic of study was on the imaging and growth of nanostructures in liquid using high-resolution in-situ scanning/transmission electron microscopy. She completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Center for Functional Nanomaterials at Brookhaven National Laboratory, continuing on imaging the formation of bimetallic nanoparticle catalysts. Since 2013, she has been a staff member at the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT) at Sandia National Laboratories with current research interests in energy storage materials, corrosion, nanoparticle assembly, and the coupled mechanical-environmental properties of nanoscale materials. Since 2019, she has led the In-situ Characterization and Nanomechanics thrust within CINT. In 2016-2017 she served on the Early Career Advisory Board for Nano Letters. Currently, she serves as the leader of the Microscopy Society of America’s Focused Interest Group on Electron Microscopy in Liquids and Gases.
Jeffrey Guldner
Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer, Pinnacle West Capital Corp. Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Arizona Public Service Company. Jeff Guldner leads Pinnacle West Capital Corporation and its primary subsidiary, Arizona Public Service Company (APS). The companies are headquartered in Phoenix. APS employs more than 6,000 people and serves nearly 1.3 million customers across Arizona. The company is among the nation’s top utilities for delivering clean and reliable energy to its customers and has announced an ambitious commitment to deliver 100% clean, carbon-free electricity to customers by 2050. APS operates the Palo Verde Generating Station, the nation’s largest energy producer—all of it carbon-free and ranks among the top five investor-owned utilities for solar energy capacity. Guldner was promoted to his current position in November 2019 from his dual roles as president of APS and executive vice president, public policy of Pinnacle West. Since joining APS in 2004, Guldner has held a number of leadership positions responsible for areas including legal, rates and regulation, government affairs and customer service. Prior to APS, Guldner was a partner in the Phoenix office of Snell & Wilmer LLP, where he practiced public utility, telecommunications and energy law. Before practicing law, Guldner served as a surface warfare officer in the United States Navy and was an assistant professor of naval history at the University of Washington. Guldner is dedicated to community involvement and actively serves on boards of directors, including the Greater Phoenix Economic Council, the Partnership for Economic Innovation, the National Association of Manufacturers and Arizona Theatre Company. He is chair of the East Valley Partnership board of directors.He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Iowa and graduated magna cum laude from the Arizona State University College of Law. Guldner also completed the Reactor Technology Course at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Advanced Management Program at Columbia Business School.
Joseph Berry
Joseph Berry (@joe_jberry) is a principle scientist at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). He is a graduate of the Penn State Department of Physics, receiving his PhD for work on spin physics of magnetic II-VI, III-V and hybrid metallic/semiconductor systems. After his PhD work, he was awarded a National Research Council Fellowship at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST/JILA), where he worked on the development and application of high-resolution spectroscopic techniques to solid-state electro-optical systems, including self-assembled quantum dots and related nanostructures. Since joining NREL he has worked on a range of next generation optoelectronic materials and devices with an emphasis on relating basic interfacial properties to device level performance (i.e. efficiency and stability). His research interests have led to his current work as team lead on the metal halide perovskite solar cells systems, a next generation technology of considerable interest.
Panel Speakers and Tutorials:
Tutorial 1: Charlie Smith - Introduction to Energy Systems Integration (ESI)
Charlie Smith is a member of the IEEE Power and Energy Society; a member of CIGRE, the International Council on Large Electric Systems; a member of the American Meteorological Society; and a Fellow of the IEEE. He is a guest editor for the IEEE Power and Energy magazine, and a past editor for the IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy. Mr. Smith received the IEEE PES Ramakumar Family Renewable Energy Excellence Award in 2014.
He received his BSME and MS degrees from MIT in 1970. He currently serves as the Executive Director of the Utility Variable-Generation Integration Group (UVIG). Previously, he served as President of Electrotek Concepts, a power engineering consulting firm. He has over 40 years of experience in the electric power industry.
Tutorial 2: Zachary Holman - Silicon Based Tandem Solar Cells
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Zachary Holman is an Associate Professor in the School of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering at Arizona State University, as well as the Director of Faculty Entrepreneurship within the Fulton Schools of Engineering. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Minnesota for his work on plasma- synthesized silicon and germanium nanocrystals, after which he spent two years as a postdoctoral researcher developing high-efficiency silicon solar cells at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland. His research group at ASU focuses on new materials, processes, and device designs for high-efficiency silicon solar cells and silicon-based tandem solar cells. He has been named a Moore Inventor Fellow, Trustees of ASU Professor, Fulton Entrepreneurial Professor, and Joseph C. Palais Distinguished Faculty Scholar, and he is the co-founder of an advanced materials start-up company, Swift Coat.
Tutorial 3: Ellen Stechel - Role of Hydrogen for Deep Decarbonization
Ellen B. Stechel is Co-Director, ASU LightWorks®; Professor of Practice, School of Molecular Sciences; Senior Sustainability Scientist, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability at Arizona State University (ASU;) and Fellow of the Institute for the Future of Innovation in Society. She received her PhD in Chemical Physics in 1978 from the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. Her career has afforded her opportunities to build and/or coordinate research programs at a national laboratory, industry, a U.S. government agency, and now in higher education at ASU; in both basic and applied research; policy and commercialization of emerging technologies; and in multidisciplinary R&D strategy and management. She has held and holds numerous positions of an advisory or editorial capacity nationally and internationally and has published >100 peer reviewed articles. Her current research focuses on materials and systems design for solar technologies for producing sustainable liquid hydrocarbons from carbon dioxide, hydrogen from advanced water splitting, clean water, renewable ammonia, and for thermochemical and chemical energy storage.
Tutorial 4: Andrea Achilli - Membrane Contactors at the Water/Energy Nexus
Andrea Achilli is an Assistant Professor in the Chemical and Environmental Engineering Department at the University of Arizona and affiliated faculty at the UA Water and Energy Sustainable Technology (WEST) Center. He received a PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Nevada, Reno where he developed the osmotic membrane bioreactor and investigated pressure retarded osmosis. He has 15 years of research experience in membrane processes for desalination and water reuse, including membrane distillation and energy recovery. His research focuses on process integration and energy aspects in water and wastewater treatments. Dr. Achilli is the PI or Co-PI of several funded research projects for membrane contactor processes and hybrid systems for desalination and water reuse. Current funding sources include the Bureau of Reclamation, the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), the Department of Energy RAPID program, and the Department of Defense ESTCP program.
Arizona Public Service Energy Commitment
Arizona Public Service Clean Energy Commitment Report - June 2020