Sept. 4, 2015
Nathaniel D. Leonard (PhD CHEM EGR ’15) will be awarded the 2015 Norman Hackerman Young Author Award at the 228th Electrochemical Society (ECS) Meeting in Phoenix in October 2015.
Leonard received his PhD in chemical engineering from Michigan State University in 2015, under the supervision of Scott Calabrese Barton, associate professor of chemical engineering and materials science.
Leonard’s work focused on synthesis, characterization, and modeling of non-precious metal catalysts for oxygen reduction in proton-exchange membrane fuel cells.
During his time at MSU, he was selected to be a Transatlantic Program Young Technology Leader in automotive research and development.
He completed his undergraduate studies in mechanical engineering and German from Valparaiso University in Indiana, where he found his appreciation for electrochemistry while conducting high temperature electrolysis studies in molten salt electrolytes. He was also a German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) undergraduate scholar.
His research interests include electrode design and optimization for non-precious metal catalysts, modeling of transport phenomena in porous electrochemical systems, and rotating ring-disk electrode studies of metal-nitrogen-catalysts.
About Norman Hackerman Young Author Award
Established in 1928 for the best paper published in the Journal of The Electrochemical Society for a topic in the field of electrochemical science and technology by a young author or authors.
About ECS
Leading the world in electrochemistry and solid-state science and technology for more than 112 years, The Electrochemical Society was founded in 1902 as an international nonprofit, educational organization. ECS now has more than 9,000 individual and institutional members in more than 75 countries. Home of the Journal of The Electrochemical Society—the oldest peer-reviewed journal in its field—ECS technical content is published in the ECS Digital Library, a searchable online collection of ECS technical journals and other publications.
