Bryan McCloskey ’03

Bryan D. McCloskey is an Associate Professor and the Vice Chair of Graduate Education in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley.  Bryan also holds a joint appointment as a Faculty Engineer in the Energy Storage and Distributed Resources Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Bryan’s laboratory aims to understand fundamental limitations facing Li-ion and metal-air batteries, where his work has focused on improving high voltage cathode stability, enabling more energy-dense and earth-abundant cathode materials, improving battery fast charging, identifying promising low temperature electrolyte formulations, and characterizing polyelectrolyte solution transport phenomena. Bryan has published over 130 research articles and won numerous awards, including an NSF CAREER award, the Electrochemical Society Tobias Young Investigator Award,  and the VW/BASF Electrochemistry Science Award. Prior to joining Berkeley in 2014, he was a Research Staff Member at IBM Almaden Research Center, where he worked on understanding the electrochemistry of Li-air batteries. His PhD work (2009), supervised by Benny Freeman at the University of Texas at Austin, focused on improving fouling resistance of water purification membranes.  He received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from C.S.M. in 2003, where he worked with Keith Gneshin, David Petrick, Andy Herring, and Tom McKinnon on the characterization of biomass char pyrolysis.  More information about the McCloskey Lab can be found at the Lab’s website, www.mccloskeylab.com, and updates on the Lab’s latest research and new publications can be found on Twitter, @The_McLab.