CEI Interdisciplinary Seminar: Jeffery Lopez, Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Nanoengineering & Sciences Building (NAN). Campus room: Nano 181. Accessibility Contact: Danica Hendrickson, danicah@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Target Audience: Clean Energy Community and Anyone interested in Current Clean Energy Research.
Thursday, April 2, 2026, 4:00 PM – 4:50 PM.
CEI Interdisciplinary Seminar: Chase Dowling - Head of Market Operations; Base Power Company
Seminar Title: Scaling Distributed Energy Resources in North America, About the Speaker: Chase Dowling is the Head of Market Operations for Base Power Company, an Austin-based home battery startup. Founded in 2023, Base Power is on a mission to deploy energy storage faster and cheaper than any other energy storage developer today, where Chase leads the aggregation and participation of Base's battery assets in realtime energy markets. Prior to joining Base Power, Chase was most recently an algorithms engineer with Tesla's Autobidder team, optimizing utility-scale battery energy storage systems in wholesale energy markets internationally; and previously a principal investigator with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, leading research focused on the intersection of power systems and transportation electrification funded by the Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. Chase earned his PhD from UW's ECE department in 2019 under the advisement of Baosen Zhang, and holds an…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Nanoengineering & Sciences Building (NAN). Campus room: Nano 181. Accessibility Contact: Danica Hendrickson, danicah@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Target Audience: Clean Energy Community and Anyone interested in Current Clean Energy Research.
Tuesday, April 7, 2026, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM.
CEI Interdisciplinary Seminar: Eleftheria Roumeli, Associate Professor of Materials Science & Engineering, University of Washington
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Nanoengineering & Sciences Building (NAN). Campus room: NAN 181. Accessibility Contact: Danica Hendrickson, danicah@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Thursday, April 9, 2026, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM.
CEI Interdisciplinary Seminar: Jungwon Choi, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Washington
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Nanoengineering & Sciences Building (NAN). Campus room: NAN 181. Accessibility Contact: Danica Hendrickson, danicah@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Thursday, April 23, 2026, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM.
CEI Interdisciplinary Seminar: Jill Pestana, Battery Scientist & Engineer, Founder & CEO, Pestana Solutions
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Nanoengineering & Sciences Building (NAN). Campus room: Nano 181. Accessibility Contact: Danica Hendrickson, danicah@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Target Audience: Clean Energy Community and Anyone interested in Current Clean Energy Research.
Thursday, April 30, 2026, 4:00 PM – 4:50 PM.
CEI Interdisciplinary Seminar: Dylan Stevenson, Assistant Professor of Urban Design & Planning, University of Washington
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Nanoengineering & Sciences Building (NAN). Campus room: NAN 181. Accessibility Contact: Danica Hendrickson, danicah@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Thursday, May 7, 2026, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM.
CEI End of Year Seminar
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Nanoengineering & Sciences Building (NAN). Campus room: NAN 181. Accessibility Contact: Danica Hendrickson, danicah@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Thursday, May 28, 2026, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM.