Bryan D. McCloskey
Department Chair and Associate Professor, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
B.S: Colorado School of Mines, 2003
Ph.D.: University of Texas, Austin, 2009
E: bmcclosk@berkeley.edu
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Bryan McCloskey is the Department Chair and Warren & Katharine Schlinger Distinguished Professor in Chemical Engineering in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. He also holds a joint appointment as a Faculty Engineer in the Energy Storage and Distributed Resources Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. His laboratory explores numerous applications of electrochemistry to energy sustainability, conversion, and storage. Current projects focus on electrochemical regeneration of alkaline sorbents for direct air CO2 capture, elucidating the fundamental electrochemistry of metal-air batteries, and understanding a variety of challenges facing Li-ion batteries, including high voltage cathode stability, advanced cathode material development (Ni-rich and Li- rich NMC oxides and Li-excess disordered rocksalt materials), extreme fast charging, and low temperature and high transference number electrolyte formulations. He has co-authored more than 150 articles and has won numerous awards for his research, including The Electrochemical Society Charles Tobias Award, The International Society of Electrochemistry Tajima Prize, and the VW/BASF Science Award- Electrochemistry.
Dimitrios Fraggedakis
Miller Research Fellow
B.S. University of Patras, 2015
Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 2021
E: dfrag@berkeley.edu
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As a Miller Fellow, his goal is to understand the fundamentals and impact of topological, structural and chemical disorder on electrochemistry and transport. By combining his expertise on theoretical electrochemistry and transport phenomena with simulations and experiments, he plans to develop the fundamental understanding on the effects of disorder in the context of important biological (e.g. signaling, membrane formation) and electrochemical (e.g. CO2 capture, purification, electrocrystallization) applications. In his free time, Dimitrios enjoys thinking about problems related to fluid mechanics and the rheology of colloids, polymers and emulsions.