Washington Clean Energy Testbeds

An expert in emerging electronic materials, including printed and flexible electronics, photovoltaics, and thin film batteries, Professor MacKenzie has founded and led five printed and flexible electronics startup companies and holds over 110 patents and publications. He received the Global Cleantech 100 Award and led Imprint Energy to be recognized as one of the 50 Smartest Companies by The MIT Technology Review.

An expert in material development and electroanalytical characterization of energy devices, as well as other catalytic systems, Dr. Pomfret has experience in academic, national, and industry research facilities throughout the U.S. and has managed growing laboratories for cleantech companies. In 2018, the CleanTech Alliance and the Northwest Environmental Business Council awarded him the Energy Leadership Achievement Award for his work to support energy innovation in the Pacific Northwest.

Our resident materials and device characterization expert, Dr. Cox supports lab users across all functional areas and is responsible for not only the totality of the lab's instrumentation uptime, but also its award-winning safety protocols. Dr. Cox's graduate work at the University of Washington focused on developing electrostatic force microscopy for studying the relationship between film structure and device function and degradation in organic photovoltaics.

Our resident materials and device fabrication expert, Dr. Murrey supports Testbeds users in developing and testing complex fabrication processes. Dr. Murrey has extensive experience developing solution-based processing methods for molecular and polymeric semiconductors, as well as optical, structural, and electronic characterization methods. He received his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of California, Davis, and was a postdoctoral associate at Princeton University studying photovoltaic and semi-conducting materials.

Dr. Li is the primary staff scientist working in the Systems Integration Testbed. She received her Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, and performed postdoctoral research at the UW in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Bosong is currently exploring the topic of power system resilience enhancement, especially the mitigation of malicious cyber attacks.

Dr. De Siena supports users at the Research Training Testbed facility as well as the Photonics Research Center at the University of Washington. Dr. De Siena received his Ph.D. in Chemistry here at the UW, studying the properties of magnetic and magnetically-doped nanocrystals through a variety of advanced spectroscopic techniques. He then worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern University to develop new materials and devices for next-generation hard radiation detection.

Joey has expertise in additive manufacturing, prototype fabrication, and process engineering for novel devices. He has worked with numerous academic research groups and industry users from startups to global corporations.

Sarah has expertise in conducting materials development, process engineering and materials and device characterization. She graduated from the UW with a B.S. in Materials Science & Engineering and has since worked for multiple clean energy startup companies.

Dr. Woods-Robinson focuses on life-cycle assessment (LCA) for solar photovoltaics and other emerging climate technologies. She joined the University of Washington as a Clean Energy Institute Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow with a collaborative appointment at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Rachel received her Ph.D. in Applied Science and Technology with a focus on Materials Physics from the University of California-Berkeley, and performed postdoctoral research at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory prior to joining the UW.