Link Foundation Energy Fellowship Recipients
Current Fellows
| Name | Year | Institution | Project |
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| Samuel David Juárez Escamilla | 2024-2026 | Mississippi State University | Dinitrogen reduction to ammonia with Group 6 CCC-NHC Pincer Complexes |
| Ryan Katherine McCord | 2024-2026 | Duke University | Powering Progress: A Multidimensional Approach to Assessing and Improving Energy Access at Health Facilities |
| Candelaria Bergero | 2023-2025 | University of California, Irvine | A Just Transition to a Net-Zero Energy System in the United States |
| Sabrina Marecos Ortiz | 2023-2025 | Cornell University | Genetic Engineering for Biomining Rare Earth Elements for Sustainable Energy Technologies |
| Samuel Miles | 2023-2025 | University of California, Berkeley | The Power of Health in Africa: Measuring the Impacts of Electricity Quality and Reliability on Health Facility Performance in the Democratic Republic of the Congo |
| Amanda Whai Shin Ooi | 2023-2025 | Columbia University | Developing Structured Ligands an CO2-based Hydrometallurgy: Recovery, Separation, and Purification of Energy-Relevant Elements from Secondary Resources |
Past Fellows
| Name | Year | Institution | Project |
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| Cristina Crespo Montañés | 2022-2024 | University of California, Berkeley | Economics, Emissions and Equity: Evaluating the Potential for Urban Solar-Plus-Battery Hybrids to Replace Polluting Peaker Power Plants |
| Abhiroop Mishra | 2022-2024 | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign | Assessing the Real-Time Surface Degradation in High-Voltage Cathodes: Toward Next Generation Batteries for Transport Electrification |
| Rachel Nixon | 2022-2024 | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign | Ammonia Fuel Synthesis Through Plasmon-Assisted Electrocatalysis |
| Prince Ikenna Ochonma | 2022-2024 | Cornell University | Integrated carbon-negative bio-hydrogen recovery with inherent carbon removal via mineralization |
| Taryn Fransen | 2021-2023 | University of California, Berkeley | Decarbonizing the Energy Sector Assessing Policy, Innovation, and Investment Pathways Under Paris Agreement Pledges |
| Xiaomeng Liu | 2021-2023 | University of Massachusetts, Amherst | Harvesting Electricity form Ambient Humidity |
| Nora Schopp | 2021-2023 | University of California, Santa Barbara | A Targeted Approach towards Efficient Semitransparent Organic Photovoltaics for Next-Generation Energy-Efficient Buildings |
| Prajwal Prakash Adiga | 2020-2022 | Oregon State University | Selective Oxidation of Sea Water Using Earth Abundant Electrodes |
| Will Gorman | 2020-2022 | University of California, Berkeley | Electric Reliability, Distributed Energy Resources (DERs), and the Impact of Consumer Preferences in California |
| Elizabeth Hann | 2020-2022 | University of California, Riverside |
A Combined Electrochemical-Biological System for the Production of Liquid Fuel from CO2 |
| Saket Bhargava | 2019-2021 | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
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| Shawn Gregory | 2019-2021 | Georgia Institute of Technology |
Thermoelectric Materials for Localized Cooling and Thermal Energy Harvesting |
| Samantha Anne Lindgren | 2018-2020 | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
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| Darien Morrow | 2018-2020 | University of Wisconsin - Madison |
Investigation of Coherent Charge Transfer in Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Heterostructures with Multiresonant Coherent Multidimensional Spectroscopy |
| Yiren Zhong | 2018-2020 | Yale University |
Developing High-Capacity Rechargeable Batteries Based on Lithium-Sulfur Chemistry |
| Shuting Feng | 2017-2019 | MIT |
Computation-assisted Design of Stable and Ion-conducting Polymer Electrolytes for Li-O2 Batteries |
| Shanyuan Niu | 2017-2019 | University of Southern California |
Transition metal perovskite chalcogenide, next generation versatile semiconductors for photovoltaics |
| Philip (Nick) Turman-Bryant | 2017-2019 | Portland State University |
Paid-To-Save: Using Dynamic Sensors and Cash Transfers to Improve Cookstove Use in Rwanda |
| Amelie Nicolay | 2016-2018 | University of California, Berkeley |
Synthesis, Structure and Reactivity of Heterobimetallic Complexes for Small Molecule Activation and Catalysis |
| Firas Siala | 2016-2018 | Oregon State University |
Enhanced kinetic energy harvesting based on oscillating flexible foils |
| Duyen Cao | 2015-2017 | Northwestern University |
Development of Non-toxic and Stable Perovskites for High Efficiency Solar Cells |
| Mihai Duduta | 2015-2017 | Harvard University |
Polyelectrolyte Materials for Dielectric Elastomer Energy Harvesting |
| Diego Ponce de Leon Barido | 2015-2017 | University of California, Berkeley |
Evaluating the Potential of Ubiquitous Flexible Energy Loads to Provide Grid-Scale Balancing in Resource Constrained Environments: A Case Study in Nicaragua |
| Ana Brown | 2014-2016 | California Institute of Technology | Exploring the Plasmoelectric Effect – a Novel Mechanism for Solar Energy
Conversion Final Report |
| John Helveston | 2014-2016 | Carnegie Mellon University | Environmental Implications of Consumer Preferences and Policy Incentives for Plug-in
Vehicles in China and the U.S. Final Report |
| Christopher W. Roske | 2014-2016 | California Institute of Technology | Earth-Abundant Hydrobromic Acid Splitting Device Final Report |
| Véronique Archanbault-Léger | 2013-2015 | Dartmouth College | Countercurrent Flowthrough Pretreatment of Cellulosic Biomass Final Report |
| Ranjit Amod Deshmukh | 2013-2015 | University of California, Berkeley | High-Resolution, Stochastic Electricity System Models are Key to Driving Low Carbon
Policies in India Final Report |
| Letian Dou | 2013-2015 | University of California, Los Angeles | Design and Synthesis of Low-bandgap Polymers for Organic Photovoltaic Applications Final Report |
| Gairik Sachdeva | 2012-2014 | Harvard University | Synthetic Metabolic Control for Biofuel Production Final Report |
| Daniel Andrew Krest Schnitzer | 2012-2014 | Carnegie Mellon University | Measuring and Modeling the Effects of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy on
Microgrid Operational Performance and Community Welfare in Haiti Final Report |
| Huiliang (Evan) Wang | 2012-2014 | Stanford University | Semiconducting Polymer Assisted Separation of Semiconducting Carbon Nanotubes for High
Efficiency Hybrid Photovoltaics Final Report |
| Phillip K. Chiu | 2011-2013 | University of California, Los Angeles | Next-Generation Wind Turbine Blades: Transformative Design of Inboard
Cross-sections Final Report |
| James Henry Nelson | 2011-2013 | University of California, Berkeley | Deployment of an Inexpensive, Reliable, and Low Carbon Electric Power System Requires
New Modeling Tools Final Report |
| Leslie Esther O'Leary | 2011-2013 | California Institute of Technology | Interfaces for the Conversion of Solar Energy to Chemical Fuel: GaP Surface Functionalization |
| Can Bayram | 2010-2012 | Northwestern University | III-Nitride Optoelectronic Devices: From Ultraviolet Detectors and Visible Emitters
Towards Terahertz Intersubband Devices Final Report |
| Adam Straith Brewer | 2010-2012 | University of Wisconsin, Madison | Organic-Copper Sulfide Heterojunctions for Economical Solar Energy Harvesting Absorbers
for Economically Efficient Photovoltaics Final Report |
| Jayakanth Ravichandran | 2010-2012 | University of California, Berkeley | Thermoelectric Oxides for Waste Heat Recovery |
| Timothy Paul Osedach | 2009-2011 | Harvard University | Hybrid Organic/Quantum Dot Photovoltaics Final Report |
| Pratap Mahesh Rao | 2009-2011 | Stanford University | Flame Synthesis of Iron Oxide Nanowires for Direct Coal Chemical Looping Combustion, and
Tungsten Oxide Nanowires for Enhanced Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting Final Report |
| Jonathan Servaites | 2009-2011 | Northwestern University | Efficient and Cost Effective Solar Cells: New Materials for Improved Recombination and
Charge Dissociation Losses in Organic Photovoltaics Final Report |
| Michael Thomas Colvin | 2008-2010 | Northwestern University | Final Report |
| Dong Rip Kim | 2008-2010 | Stanford University | Semiconducting Nanowire Solar Cells for Enhanced Energy Harvesting Final Report |
| Vanessa Jine Schweizer | 2008-2010 | Carnegie Mellon University | Final Report |
| Samuel Coats Krevor | 2007-2009 | Columbia University | Permanent Disposal of Greenhouse Gases through Mineral Carbon Dioxide Sequestration |
| Jonathan King Mapel | 2007-2009 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |
| Yiting Zhu | 2007-2009 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | Optimizing the Performance of White Light-emitting Diodes for Energy-efficient
Lighting Final Report |
| Cullen Richard Buie | 2006-2008 | Stanford University | |
| Elisabeth Anne Gilmore | 2006-2008 | Carnegie Mellon University | Final Report |
| Arthur J. Shaw IV | 2006-2008 | Dartmouth College | Final Report |
| Kurt Zenz House | 2005-2007 | Harvard University | Storage of Captured Anthropogenic CO2 in Ocean Sediment Final Report |
| Kamal Kapadia | 2005-2007 | University of California, Berkeley | Electrification, Economic Development and Poverty Alleviation: Examining the Role of
Macro-factors in Sri Lanka Final Report |
| Randall H. Goldsmith | 2005-2006 | Northwestern University | Optimization of Long Range Electron Transfer for Solar Energy a |