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I'm an expert in heat transfer, with a special emphasis on understanding the science of energy transport, storage and conversion at the atomic level. My passion is the development of new industrial scale energy technologies to mitigate climate change, and I founded a company (Fourth power) that is commercializing a new technology that we developed in my laboratories at Georgia Tech and MIT over the last ~10 years.My research has led to significant advances and contributions to several fields within energy and heat transfer, namely: solar fuels and thermochemistry, phonon transport in disordered materials, phonon transport at interfaces, and my team developed the highest temperature pump on record, which used an all ceramic mechanical pump to pump liquid metal above 1400°C. This technological breakthrough is now in the Guinness Book of World Records (https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/441807-highest-operating-temperature-pump) and has opened the door for new high temperature energy systems concepts, such as methane cracking for CO2 free hydrogen production and a new grid level energy storage approach termed thermal batteries, also affectionately known as “Sun in a Box”. I have been the recipient of a number of awards including: The National Science Foundation Career Award The Lockheed Inspirational Young Faculty AwardThe Georgia Power Professor of Excellence Award The ASME Bergles-Rohsenow Young Investigator Award in Heat Transfer (https://www.asme.org/about-asme/honors-awards/achievement-awards/bergles-rohsenow-young-investigator-award-in-heat)The 2018 World Technology Award for EnergyThe 2021 Nokia Bell Labs Prize (https://www.bell-labs.com/institute/blog/capturing-the-sun-in-a-box-thermal-battery-inventor-wins-the-2021-bell-labs-prize/)The 2022 Inaugural Lewis Latimer Fellowship (https://www.latimerfellows.com/)and others. The 2023 NSF Waterman Award (https://new.nsf.gov/news/nsf-honors-3-early-career-researchers-alan-t)I was extremely fortunate to be able to have my entire post secondary education externally supported with a FAMU Distinguished scholars award, an MIT Lemelson Presidential Fellowship, a Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship, a UNCF-Merck Postdoctoral Fellowship, a Ford Foundation postdoctoral Fellowship and an ARPA-E Fellowship.www.gofourth.comhttps://ase.mit.edu
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Founder & CtoFourth Power Jun 2023 - PresentCambridge, Massachusetts, United States -
Full ProfessorMassachusetts Institute Of Technology Feb 2023 - PresentCambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesDirector of the Atomistic Simulation & Energy (ASE) Research Group (https://ase.mit.edu/). Research interests include: Technologies that mitigate climate change; Energy storage; Thermal Batteries/Thermal energy grid storage (TEGS); Methane pyrolysis using liquid metal based reactors; High temperature energy applications; Ceramics and refractories used for liquid metal handling, circulation and heat transfer; Atomistic level modeling of materials; density functional theory; phonon transport; Molecular dynamics simulations; Latrice dynamics calculations; The physics of thermal conductivity and thermal interface resistance involving crystals, disordered materials, alloys and molecules; The development of empirical interatomic potentials, specifically optimized for describing phonons from first principles inputs. -
Associate ProfessorMassachusetts Institute Of Technology Jul 2018 - Feb 2023Cambridge, MassachusettsDirector of the Atomistic Simulation & Energy (ASE) Research Group. Research interests include: Technologies that mitigate climate change; Energy storage; Thermal energy grid storage (TEGS); Methane pyrolysis using liquid metal based reactors; High temperature concentrated solar power; High temperature energy applications; Ceramics and refractories used for liquid metal handling, circulation and heat transfer; Atomistic level modeling of materials; density functional theory; phonon transport; Molecular dynamics simulations; Latrice dynamics calculations; The physics of thermal conductivity and thermal interface resistance involving crystals, disordered materials, alloys and molecules; The development of empirical interatomic potentials, specifically optimized for describing phonons from first principles inputs.
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Founder & CeoThermal Battery Corporation Dec 2022 - Sep 2023Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesTBC is a MIT spin out commercializing a new low cost ($10-20/kWh-e), grid scale rechargeable battery technology that has been developed at MIT and Georgia Tech over the last 10 years in my lab.www.thermalbattery.com
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Assistant ProfessorGeorgia Institute Of Technology Apr 2012 - Jul 2018Atlanta, GaResearch interests: high efficiency concentrated solar energy conversion; solar thermochemical reactor design and materials engineering; high temperature concentrated solar receiver design; atomistic level modeling of materials; density functional theory; nanoscale thermal transport; molecular dynamics simulations; thermal conductivity calculations. -
FellowAdvanced Research Projects Agency—Energy (Arpa-E) Jul 2011 - Apr 2012Developed ARPA-E emerging ideas, organized and hosted workshops on: topping cycles with no moving parts for higher efficiency stationary power generation; optics for higher efficiency photovoltaics through spectral splitting. -
Postdoctoral Researcher/Visiting ScholarNorthwestern University Sep 2010 - May 2011First principles calculations of the thermodynamic properties of oxides (i.e. Ceria-Zirconia alloys) for solar thermochemical applications. -
Postdoctoral ResearcherOak Ridge National Laboratory Sep 2009 - Aug 2010Developed a framework for calculating thermal conductivity from first principles via the Green-Kubo formula.
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