William Chueh

Biography

Will Chueh is an Associate Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and in the Department of Energy Science & Engineering, a Senior Fellow of the Precourt Institute for Energy at Stanford University, and a faculty scientist at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. He leads a group of more than thirty researchers tackling the fundamentals of redox and electrochemical processes in the solid state.

Additionally, he directs Stanford's StorageX Initiative which builds academic-industrial partnerships to accelerate the electrification of transportation and the penetration of intermittent renewable electricity in energy systems. He received his BS in applied physics, and his MS and PhD in materials science from Caltech.

Before joining Stanford in 2012, William was a Distinguished Truman Fellow at Sandia National Laboratories. He has received numerous honors:

• Humboldt’s Bessel Award (2021)
• MRS Outstanding Young Investigator Award (2018)
• Volkswagen/BASF Science Award Electrochemistry (2016)
• Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award (2016)
• Sloan Research Fellowship (2016)
• NSF CAREER Award (2015)
• Solid State Ionics Young Scientist Award (2013)
• Caltech Demetriades-Tsafka-Kokkalis Prize in Energy (2012)
• American Ceramics Society Diamond Award (2008)

In 2012, he was named as one of the “Top 35 Innovators Under the Age of 35” by MIT’s Technology Review.

The Chueh group’s research is rooted in fundamental questions that underlie materials for energy storage and transformation:

• Understanding solid-state, redox and defect chemistries in ionic conductors, especially the local chemistry induced by disorder
• Probing dynamics and heterogeneities across atomic, mesoscopic and device scales through characterization and modeling
• Controlling ionic and electronic transport by tuning materials chemistry 

RSC affiliations

• Editorial board, Energy & Environmental Science