Technical Program

Last update: Wednesday, July 3, 2025, 10:00 pm (PDT)

July 8 - Morning: Well-Defined Electrodes and Electrolytes

Time	Speaker/Event	Title	Location
08:00	Breakfast		CSE2, Amazon Gallery
08:40	Eric Stuve University of Washington	Welcoming Remarks	CSE2 G01, David & Cathy Habib Classroom
08:45	Anne Co The Ohio State University	Electrolyte Purity and Experimental Parameters Affecting Measurements
09:05	Q&A
09:15	Alexander Bagger Technical University of Denmark	Comparing Experiments & Simulations - Variations, Limitations & Challenges
09:35	Q&A
09:45	Kelsey Stoerzinger University of Minnesota	Defining or Understanding the Electrode: Common Approaches and Room for Improvement
10:05	Q&A
10:15	Break		CSE2, Amazon Gallery
10:45	Break-out		CSE2 G01, David & Cathy Habib Classroom
11:15	Report-out
11:35	Summary Discussion
12:00	Lunch & Walk		CSE2, Amazon Gallery Lower Rainier Vista

July 8 - Afternoon: Electrochemical Kinetics

Time	Presenter	Title	Location
13:15	Marcel Schreier University of Wisconsin-Madison	Electrocatalysis and monolayer studies - What are we really measuring?	CSE2 G01, David & Cathy Habib Classroom
13:35	Q&A
13:45	Ezra Clark Pennsylvania State University	Avoiding Common Pitfalls in the Pursuit of Meaningful Electrocatalytic Activity Data
14:05	Q&A
14:15	Elizabeth J. Biddinger City College of New York, CUNY	Closing the Mass Balance in Electro-Organic Reactions
14:35	Q&A
14:45	Break		CSE2, Amazon Gallery
15:15	Break-out		CSE2 G01, David & Cathy Habib Classroom
15:45	Report-out
16:05	Summary Discussion
16:35	Adjourn Session
18:00	Dinner & Poster Session		HUB 334/332

July 8 - Evening: Posters

Time	Presenter	Title	Location
18:00	Elizabeth Corson The University of Kansas	Measuring Interfacial pH during Electrocatalysis using ATR–SEIRAS	HUB 334/332
18:00	Guoxiang (Emma) Hu Georgia Institute of Technology	Computational Design of Electrocatalysts: The Critical Role of Operando Structures
18:00	Qiaowan Chang Washington State University	Mechanistic Understanding of MOF Electrocatalytic Stability via In-situ Characterization
18:00	Elizabeth J. Biddinger City College of New York, CUNY	Electric Field & Current Distribution Effects in Reactor Design: A CO₂ Electroreduction Case Study
18:00	Dohyung Kim University of Pennsylvania	Non-uniform Enhancement in CO₂ Electroreduction by Hydrophobic Additives
18:00	Ezra L. Clark The Pennsylvania State University	Electrochemical H₂ Pumping Enhances the Activity of Selective Semi-Hydrogenation Catalysts
18:00	Adam S. Hoffman SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory	Potpourri of Interesting Electrochemical Results Observed with In-situ XAS
18:00	Jason S. Bates University of Virginia	Influence of Organocations on the Kinetics and Mechanism of Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution in Alkaline Media

July 9 - Morning: Spectroscopies and Operando Analysis

Time	Presenter	Title	Location
08:00	Breakfast		CSE2, Amazon Gallery
08:45	Jingguang Chen Columbia University	Dynamic Changes of Oxygen Evolution and CO₂ Reduction Catalysts Studied with Synchrotron XRD and X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy (XANES and EXAFS)	CSE2 G01, David & Cathy Habib Classroom
08:35	Q&A
09:15	Matthias Waegele Boston College	Pitfalls in the Practice of Surface-Enhanced IR Absorption Spectroscopy
09:35	Q&A
09:45	Linsey Seitz Northwestern University	Considerations for Spectroscopy and Electrochemistry Techniques to Characterize Dynamic Electrocatalyst Materials
10:05	Q&A
10:15	Break		CSE2, Amazon Gallery
10:45	Break-out		CSE2 G01, David & Cathy Habib Classroom
11:15	Report-out
11:35	Summary Discussion
12:00	Lunch & Walk		CSE2, Amazon Gallery Upper Rainier Vista

July 9 - Afternoon: General Session

Time	Presenter	Title	Location
13:20	Adam Holewinski University of Colorado Boulder	Understanding the Interplay of Bifunctional and Electronic Effects: Kinetic Fingerprints of C₁ Electro-Oxidation on Bimetallics	CSE2 G01, David & Cathy Habib Classroom
13:35	Q&A
13:40	Nirala Singh University of Michigan	Electrocatalyst and Reactor Control to Understand Selectivity for Series and Parallel Reactions
13:55	Q&A
14:00	Joaquin Resasco University of Texas at Austin	Smoke and Mirrors in Electrocatalysis
14:15	Q&A
14:20	Raul Marquez University of Texas at Austin	Getting the Basics Right: Electrolyte Essentials for Electrocatalysis
14:35	Q&A
14:40	Break		CSE2, Amazon Gallery
15:10	William Tarpeh Stanford University	Dynamic Electrolytes and Electrodes during Wastewater Nitrate Reduction	CSE2 G01, David & Cathy Habib Classroom
15:25	Q&A
15:30	Juliana S. A. Carneiro Columbia University	Electrocatalysis in Solid Oxide Fuel Cells and Electrolyzers
15:45	Q&A
15:50	Carlos Morales-Guio University of California Los Angeles	Decoupling Mass, Heat, and Charge Transport in Electrocatalysis: A Gastight RCE Platform for Determining Intrinsic Kinetics and Constructing Multi-scale Transport-Reaction Models
16:05	Q&A
16:10	A. Shoji Hall University of Pennsylvania	Promoting CO₂ Reduction by Tuning the Interfacial Properties of H₂O
16:25	Q&A
16:30	Adjourn Session
18:00	Dinner		Ivar's Salmon House

July 10 - Morning: Keynote Speakers

Time	Presenter	Title	Location
08:00	Breakfast		CSE2, Amazon Gallery
08:45	Peter Strasser Technical University Berlin	Mistakes that Matter: Toward Accuracy and Reproducibility in Electrocatalyst Research	CSE2 G01, David & Cathy Habib Classroom
09:15	Q&A
09:30	Michael Janik Pennsylvania State University	Best Practices in Electrocatalysis DFT
10:00	Q&A
10:15	Break		CSE2, Amazon Gallery
10:45	Alexis T. Bell University of California Berkeley	Rigor and Reproducibility in Studies of the Electrochemical Reduction of CO₂	CSE2 G01, David & Cathy Habib Classroom
11:15	Q&A
11:30	Summary & Discussion
12:30	Adjourn Workshop