Pacific Northwest National Lab now has 16 WSAS members
August 22, 2016 
RICHLAND, Wash. - 2 scientists at the D.O.E.'s Pacific Northwest National Lab have been selected to join the Washington State Academy of Sciences.
Suresh Baskaran and Jun Liu will join other scientists and engineers from across the state being acknowledged for outstanding scientific achievement and leadership. Academy members provide expert scientific and engineering analysis to inform public policy-making, and work to increase the role and visibility of science in Washington state.
The academy was created in 2005 and consists of members from diverse academic disciplines and industries, including aerospace, agriculture, computer, science, energy, engineering, ecology and transportation. The 2 new inductees bring PNNL's total number of current staff who are members to 16.
Twenty-four new members will be inducted this year, bringing the total number of active members to 264. The incoming members will be recognized at the academy's yearly meeting in Seattle in September.
Suresh Baskaran
Baskaran is the chief science and technology officer for energy and environmental research at PNNL. He is responsible for directing science and technology investments to deliver solutions for the nation's most important energy and environment challenges. He was acknowledged for development of new materials for automotive, fuel cell, and microelectronic applications; leadership of hydrogen and gas separations research; and leadership in advancing energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies. His research is reflected in 50 technical papers, 10 U.S. patents, a spark plug resistor technology that was put into full-scale production by industry, and an R&D 100 award for automotive emissions control in 2001 given by R&D Magazine for the most technologically significant new innovations of the year.
Jun Liu
Liu is a Lab Fellow and the division director for energy processes and materials research at PNNL. He also serves as the director of the D.O.E. Battery500 Consortium. He was acknowledged "for significant and sustained contribution to nanostructured materials, and their applications in energy, environments and health, and for his leadership role in developing and commercializing large-scale energy storage technologies." He is a Fellow of both the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Materials Research Society and has received 2 R&D 100 awards. He was among the top one percent of authors cited by other researchers worldwide in 2014 and 2015, and was one of the most-cited materials scientists in the world. He was named the Battelle Distinguished Inventor in 2007 and the PNNL Inventor of the Year in 2013.
Tags: Energy, Awards and Recognizes, Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy, Fuel Cells, Batteries, Green Energy
Interdisciplinary teams at Pacific Northwest National Lab address many of America's most pressing issues in energy, the environment and national security through advances in basic and applied science. Founded in 1965, PNNL employs 4,400 staff and has an yearly budget of nearly $1 billion. It is managed by Battelle for the D.O.E.'s Office of Science. As the single biggest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States, the Office of Science is working to address some of the most pressing challenges of our time. For more information on PNNL, visit the PNNL News Center, or follow PNNL on Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn and Twitter.
