Kelsey Hatzell receives Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
Energy materials expert Kelsey Hatzell has been awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).
The PECASE award is the highest honor given by the U.S. government to early career scientists and engineers. According to a White House press release, 400 researchers from across the country were recognized for exceptional leadership potential.
Hatzell is an associate professor of mechanical and aerospace and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment. She works on understanding and designing materials for a more sustainable future, driving energy-storage technologies like next-generation batteries, carbon capture technologies that could reduce the impact of fossil fuels, and advanced membranes to desalinate water.
Hatzell is also an associated faculty member with the Princeton Materials Institute. Past honors include an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship in Chemistry, an NSF CAREER Award, the Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, the Materials Research Society’s Nelson “Buck” Robinson Award, and three teaching commendations from Princeton’s School of Engineering and Applied Science, among many others. Hatzell earned her Ph.D. from Drexel University. She joined Princeton from Vanderbilt University, where she was an assistant professor, in 2021.
The PECASE Awards were established in 1996 and are coordinated by the Office of Science and Technology Policy in the Executive Office of the White House. The recipients are nominated by government agencies. Hatzell, Korolova and Russakovsky were nominated by the National Science Foundation.
Adapted from a story originally published on Princeton Engineering.