Center for Energy Materials Team

Our team focuses on adding value to Wyoming resources that lead tocommercialization of high-valued materials. The initial focus has been onone of the most valuable mineral resources of Wyoming – rare earthelements (REEs).

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John Hoberg

Co-director, Center for Energy Materials | Professor in the Department of Chemistry

Materials Synthesis and REE Separations

Jing Zhou

Co-director, Center for Energy Materials | Professor in the Department of Chemistry

Materials Design and Catalysis

Juhyeon Ahn

Assistant Professor; Chemical & Biomedical Engineering

Materials Synthesis, Characterization, and Batteries

Tyler Brown

SER Research Program Manager; School of Energy Resources Directors Office

Critical Mineral Resource Assessment

TeYu Chien

Professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy

Atomic Scale Characterizations of Energy Materials

Alathea Davies

Research Scientist, Asst;  School of Computing

AI and Computational Studies

Caleb Hill

Department Manager | Mineral & Molecular Separations & Analysis | Idaho National Laboratory

Electrochemistry, Critical Materials Separations

Utkarsh Kapoor

Assistant Professor; Chemical & Biomedical Engineering

Modeling, Simulation and REE Separations

Brian Leonard

Professor in the Department of Chemistry

Materials Synthesis and Energy Storage

Kam Ng

Professor in the Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering

Construction Materials

Laura de Sousa Oliveira

UW Derecho Professor in the School of Computing | Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry

AI & Computational Studies

Jinke Tang

Professor in the Department of Physics

REE Materials Development

Rosa Melinda

Graduate Student

Felix Gboyero

Graduate Student