Postdoctoral researchers

Two chemists – one experimentalist and the other a theorist – join forces in the Stanford Energy Postdoctoral Fellowship to attempt to answer a long-standing question in catalysis: "What does the catalyst actually do inside the sealed reactor and how?"

Stanford Energy Postdoctoral Fellows Jackie Dowling and Chenfei Qu approach decarbonization from different but often overlapping angles. Together, they arrive at the same conclusion about what building clean, reliable energy systems will require.

Ten new postdoctoral scholars will expand and enrich the range of topics for potentially high-impact, scalable energy research in this unique postdoctoral program.

As a Stanford Energy Postdoctoral Fellow, Lisa Rennels applies her photographer’s eye to the economic costs of climate change.

Driven by a collaborative community of scholars, Wallenberg Postdoctoral Fellow Jean-Baptiste Jouffray studies marine social-ecological systems with an interdisciplinary lens.

The energy-centered postdoctoral research program is nurturing a global community of future leaders to realize sustainable, affordable, secure energy for the world.

"I was born in the coastal city of Limbe in Cameroon, where going to the sea is a way of life. It was emotional going back to where I was born with the expertise of a researcher listening to stories."

"Every time I go home, it's a powerful, grounding experience to visit Blue Bay. I grew up in Mauritius, a small island nation 500 miles east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean."

"I study how regional leaders manage their marine resources, like fisheries, and the lessons they offer to the rest of the world about the power of collective approaches to conservation," says Staci Lewis, Early Career Fellow at the Center for Ocean Solutions.

A new Stanford postdoc program focused on energy is developing a global community of future leaders to realize the vision of sustainable, affordable, secure energy for all.