This fall session of Just Desserts offers attendees access to bona fide Energy I-Corps full-program alum to better understand the value of the program to researchers and research teams.
Ron Boring is a Distinguished Scientist and Manager for the Human Factors and Reliability Department at Idaho National Laboratory (INL) and participated in Cohort 9. He was part of Team Rotoro that developed a simplified nuclear power plant simulator called the Rancor Mircroworld. Because Rancor is streamlined, it allows rapid demonstration of control room concepts for new reactors.
Kirstin Alberi is the center director of the Materials Science Center in the Materials, Chemical and Computational Science directorate at NREL and participated in Cohort 9. Her team, Amber LEDs, improved the efficiency of red and amber light emitting diodes (LEDs) while utilizing existing manufacturing and device design practices. This technology displays higher efficiency and narrow emission band which is expected to enable spectral tuning of illumination sources for a variety of applications.
Christina is the lead for the Center of Microwave Chemistry at NETL and participated in Cohort 12. She participated in Team MAC (Microwave Assisted Catalysis) which provided a microwave-based natural gas conversion process for independent operators to produce oil from wells without access to midstream gas pipeline resources. This process converts natural gas to higher valued products (BTX) as an alternative to flaring.
Please join us in person or virtually via RTeams to hear more about the I-Corps full program and for dedicated Q&A to answer any questions you might have.