CONFERENCE OVERVIEW
Technologies for electrochemical separations such as capacitive deionization, electrodialysis, faradaic adsorption and catalysis have received increased attention as potentially sustainable of electrifying chemical processing and water purification. This conference will gather world leaders to highlight the latest advances in the fundamental understanding, theory, and modeling of electrochemical separation materials and systems at the water-energy nexus. The topical list of this symposium is intended to cover a diverse range of materials science, process engineering, water chemistry and systems analysis related research. The conference will include skill building workshops, topical sessions for oral presentations and poster sessions.
CONFERENCE CHAIRS
MARTA HATZELL
Conference Co-Chair
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
ROLAND CUSICK
Conference Co-Chair
Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign
XIAO SU
Conference Co-Chair
Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular, University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign
PLENARY AND KEYNOTE LECTURES

ALAN HATTON
Opening Plenary
Ralph Landau Professor, Director, David H. Koch School of Chemical Engineering Practice

NINA BALKE
Keynote
Senior Research Staff Member at Oak Ridge National Lab, will be joining the NC State Dept. of Materials Science & Engineering as an Associate Professor

BRUCE LOGAN
Plenary
Evan Pugh Professor in Engineering and the Kappe Professor of Environmental Engineering in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Penn State

JUAN SANTIAGO
Keynote
Charles Lee Powell Foundation Professor of Mechanical Engineering Stanford University

LINDA ZOU
Keynote
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Khalifa University

MATTHEW SUSS
Keynote
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Technion
INVITED SPEAKERS
Maarten Biesheuvel - Wetsus
Ching-Hua Huang - Georgia Institute of Technology
Peng Liang - Tsinghua University
Volker Presser - Saarland University and INM - Leibniz Institute for New Materials
William Tarpeh - Stanford University
Shihong Lim - Vanderbilt University
Christopher Gorski - Pennsylvania State University
Brian Chaplin - University of Illinois- Chicago
Chris Arges - Louisiana State University
James Landon - Kentucky Energy Research Center
Xiuping Zhu - Louisiana State University
Patricia Taboada Serrano - Rochester Institute of Technology
Jouke Dykstra - Wetsus
Choonsoon Kim - Kongju National University
Taeyong Kim - Clarkson University