Water Desalination with Energy Storage Electrode Materials

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Matthew Suss obtained his PhD in Mechanical Engineering in 2013 from Stanford University and was a Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Chemical Engineering at MIT from 2013 to 2014. Matthew was also a Lawrence Scholar at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California, from 2010 to 2013. Since 2014, Matthew has been an Assistant Professor at Technion – Israel Institute of Technology where he also holds an Alon Fellowship. At Technion, Matthew leads the Energy & Environmental Innovations Laboratory, which focuses on development of next-generation electrochemical systems for energy storage and water desalination applications. Volker Presser obtained his PhD in Applied Mineralogy in 2006 from the Eberhard Karls University in Tubingen, Germany. As a Humboldt Research Fellow and Research Assistant Professor, he worked between 2010 and 2012 at the A.J. Drexel Nanotechnology Institute in the team of Yury Gogotsi at Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA. Since 2015, he has been Full Professor for Energy Materials at Saarland University and Program Division Leader at the INM – Leibniz Institute for New Materials in Saarbrucken, Germany. His research activities encompass nanocarbon and hybrid nanomaterials for electrochemical energy storage, harvesting, and water desalination.