Staff

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 Testbeds users across all functional areas. He 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 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 has extensive experience developing solution-based processing methods for molecular and polymeric semiconductors, as well as optical, structural, and electronic characterization methods. He supports Testbeds users in developing and testing complex fabrication processes. Dr. Murrey received his Ph.D. in Material Science and Engineering from the University of California, Davis, and studied photovoltaic and semiconducting materials as a postdoctoral associate at Princeton University.

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

Joey Law 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.

Dr. Li is a Senior Staff Scientist at the Systems Integration Testbed. She leads the work in development of customized models for grid-edge technologies, power system operation and control simulations, project techno-economic analyses, and hardware-in-the-loop testing design. She also supports the CEI Community Engagement Testbed through technical assistance and student mentoring on clean energy projects. She received her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China. Prior to joining the Testbeds, she worked on power system resilience enhancement via cyber-attack mitigation as a postdoctoral researcher in ECE department at UW.

Dr. Woods-Robinson focuses on embedding life-cycle assessment (LCA), systems thinking, and circularity into the development of emerging climate technologies such as solar photovoltaics (PV). At the Testbeds, she is piloting a platform to help researchers and companies integrate sustainability and social wellbeing ​during design and throughout scale-up of their products. She also holds a joint appointment at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and serves on the International Energy Agency’s PV Sustainability Task. She joined the Testbeds after PhD work in solar cell materials physics at UC Berkeley, postdoctoral work at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and a UW Clean Energy Institute Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship.

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

Babak supports clean energy materials research, characterization, and device fabrication at the Testbeds. He has worked with both academic research groups and early-stage companies, assisting in the development of​ electrochemical systems, thin-film processes, and additive manufacturing. He also has a background in 3D design and prototyping, and holds a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Washington.