Announcement: 2025 EES Lectureship nominations now open
Nominations are open until 1 June 2025 for the 2025 EES Lectureship.
Owing to constraints at the time, there was no 2024 Lectureship award. To ensure that no candidates are disadvantaged by this, we are extending the eligibility criteria for the application round for 2025. Applicants will now need to be within 11 years from the completion of their PhD, rather than the usual 10 years.
You will find further information about the award, nomination criteria and assessment process below. We appreciate your understanding and look forward to your nominations.
This Lectureship recognises an outstanding emerging investigator working in an energy research topic within the scope of Energy & Environmental Science, providing a platform to showcase their research to the wider scientific community. The EES Lectureship is awarded annually through a process whereby nominations of candidates are invited from our fantastic community. The winner:
- receives a £1,000 honorarium
- is given the opportunity to attend and present their research at a leading international conference (in the event this is not possible, for example, due to travel restrictions, the presentation will be online)
Our latest lectureship winners 2023
Dr Hanna Breunig
is a Research Scientist and Deputy-Head of the Sustainable Energy and Environmental Systems Department at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Her group focuses on process design, modelling, and systems analysis of low Technology Readiness Level energy systems including hydrogen, energy storage, and negative emissions technologies.
Since 2022, Hanna has acted as co-director of the multi-lab United States Department of Energy Hydrogen Materials Advanced Research Consortium (HyMARC), where she works closely with teams conducting material discovery and characterization to accelerate the selection and development of material-based storage solutions that can compliment or outcompete compressed and liquid hydrogen storage. She received her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in Civil and Environmental Engineering (2015).
Read Hanna’s recent work in the journal:
Professor Dongliang Chao
is an Executive Director of the Centre for Aqueous Battery at Fudan University. Prof. Chao obtained his PhD from Nanyang Technological University (NTU, Singapore). He joined the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA, USA) in 2016 as a joint-researcher. Dr Chao served as a Research Fellow and senior researcher respectively at NTU and The University of Adelaide (UoA, Australia).
Prof. Chao’s main research activity is high-energy aqueous batteries. He has published 1 authored book and >150 journal articles; 1/3 of them are ESI H.C. papers, with an H-index of 70 and citations over 22,000. His awards include Innovators Under 35 (MIT Technology Review), Shanghai S&T 35, Rising Star Australia, DECRA Fellow Award (Australian Research Council), and Global Highly Cited Researcher (2020–2023, Clarivate).
Read Dongliang’s recent work in the journal:
See all previous winners
Guidelines for nominators and candidates
Find out who is eligible for this lectureship, about the nomination process and see who is on the selection panel.
Nomination deadline
1 June 2025
Lectureship announcement deadline
Late 2025
Since 2019, the EES Lectureship has been awarded through a process whereby nominations of candidates are invited from our community. As part of the 蜜桃社区, we believe we have a responsibility to promote inclusivity and accessibility to improve diversity. Where possible, we encourage each nominator to consider nominating candidates of all genders, races, and backgrounds.
Eligibility
To be eligible for the EES Lectureship, the candidate must:
- Have completed their PhD
- Have published in EES in the past 3 years
- Be working in a research area within the scope of Energy & Environmental Science
- Be at an early stage of their independent career (typically this will be within 11 years of completing their PhD, but appropriate consideration will be given to those who have taken a career break or followed a different study path)
Nominations are now open until 1 June 2025 for the 2025 EES Lectureship.
Nominations can be made by anyone (with the exception of members of the selection panel) and must be sent via email. Self-nominations are not permitted.
To nominate a candidate, please provide:
- A completed EES Lectureship nomination form
- A brief letter of recommendation
- An additional supporting letter of recommendation from an independent referee, with detailed comments on the specific contributions, achievements, or potential of the nominee
- A nominee curriculum vitae, including a complete list of publications and invited or plenary talks given
Consideration is given to all information provided in the letters of recommendation, candidate CV and nomination form. The winner of the EES Lectureship is selected by a panel of Editorial Board members, including the Editorial Board Chair and Executive Editor.
Selection panel
- Emma Eley, Executive Editor
- Energy & Environmental Science journal Editorial Board Members
Previous winners
Current winners: , Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA and , Fudan University, China
2022: , Georgia Institute of Technology, USA and , Paderborn University, Germany
2021: , University of Cambridge, UK
2020: , Technical University of Dresden, Germany and , Sookmyung Women’s University, South Korea
2019: ETH Zürich, Switzerland
2018: , Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter (FJIRSM) & Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China
2017: , National University of Singapore, Singapore
2016: , EPFL, Switzerland
2015: , EPFL, Switzerland
2013: , Stanford University, USA
2012: , Seoul National University, South Korea
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