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Samuel Pennell

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Samuel Pennell joined NREL in 2024. His expertise lies in high-temperature metallurgy and high-temperature energy storage, with a focus on the interactions between microstructure, macrostructure, and materials processing for metals production and processing as well as thermal energy storage systems.

Research Interests

High-temperature energy storage

Metals processing

Microstructure and architecture

Professional Experience

Graduate Research Assistant, Northwestern University (2020–2024)

Post-Bachelors Research Associate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (2019–2020)

Education/Academic Qualification

Bachelor, Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

PhD, Materials Science, Northwestern University