Professor, Northweatern University
SECTOR
Hydrogen Energy
LOCATIONS
USA, North America
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Sossina Haile’s research broadly encompasses materials for sustainable electrochemical energy technologies, including fuel cells and solar-driven hydrogen production. Newsweek magazine named her “one of 12 people to watch in 2008”. Amongst her many awards, in 2008 she received an American Competitiveness and Innovation (ACI) Fellowship from the U.S. National Science Foundation, in 2010 the Chemical Pioneer Award (American Institute of Chemists) and the Chow Foundation Humanitarian Award, in 2012 the International Ceramics Prize (World Academy of Ceramics), and in 2020 the Turnbull Lectureship (Materials Research Society). She is a fellow of the Materials Research Society, the American Ceramics Society, the Royal Society of Chemistry, the African Academy of Sciences, and the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences, and serves on the editorial boards of Joule and MRS Energy and Sustainability.
Sossina received her PhD and BS degrees in Materials Science and Engineering from MIT.
