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Samuel S. Mao

Ph.D. (2000) University of California at Berkeley

After receiving his Ph.D. degree from the University of California at Berkeley in 2000, Prof. Mao started his career at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where he was a career staff scientist until 2013. He returned to U.C. Berkeley campus as an adjunct professor in 2004, when he also established the Clean Energy Engineering Laboratory that has spun off an international technology development and commercialization institution, the Institute of New Energy, launched in 2013. Having published 130 research articles that have received more than 22,000 citations, Prof. Mao is also an inventor of 30 patents in the U.S. and abroad. He delivered nearly 100 invited, keynote or plenary speeches at international conferences, and previously served as a technical committee member, program review panelist, grant proposal evaluator, and national laboratory observer for the U.S. Department of Energy. In addition to co-founding three international materials and energy technology conferences, he co-chaired Materials Research Society (MRS) annual meeting in the spring of 2011, and the International Conference on Clean Energy in 2012. Prof. Mao received a “R&D 100” Technology Award (2011) for his technological innovation, and a Berkeley MEGSCO Faculty Teaching Award (2008) for his dedication to higher education.

Professional Activities

 
 
  • Editorial/Advisory Board

 

International Journal of Nanotechnology (Associate Editor)

Journal of Materiomics (co-Editor in Chief)

International Journal of Green Nanotechnology

Science of Advanced Materials

Energy Technology

 

 
  • Grant Reviewer

U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)

U.S. Department of Defense (DOD)

U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF)

U.S. Civilian Research and Development Foundation (CRDF)

Canada Natural Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC)

German Research Foundation (DFG)

Japan Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT)

Singapore Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)

Israel Science Foundation (ISF)

The Government of Hong Kong

The France-Berkeley Fund

The Global Climate and Energy Project

The Petroleum Fund

The State of Indiana, 21st Century Research & Technology Fund

 

 
  • Program Service

Program Review Committee Member, NSF Nano Science & Engineering Center

Program Review Committee Member, DOE Nonproliferation Research and Development

Technical Committee Member, DOE/EERE Solid-State Lighting Technology Committee

National Laboratory Observer, DOE/BES Solid-State Lighting Basic Research Program

Panel Member, DOE/EERE Hydrogen Storage High Throughput Screening Panning Meeting

 

 
  • Co-Organizer / Co-Chair, International Conferences

2006   1st Energy Nanotechnology International Conference

2006   1st International Symposium on Transparent Conducting Oxides

2009   6th International Symposium on Multiphase Flow, Heat Mass Transfer & Energy Conversion

2009   2nd Business of Nanotechnology Symposium, Materials Research Society Fall Meeting

2010   1st International Workshop on Renewable Energy

2011   Materials Research Society Spring Meeting

2012   Symposium on Photocatalysis and Photoelectrochemical Materials, International MRS Meeting

2012   12th International Conference on Clean Energy

2012   Materials as Tools for Sustainability Symposium, Materials Research Society Fall Meeting

2013   Titanium Dioxide Symposium, Materials Research Society Spring Meeting

2013   Japan-Korea Symposium on Catalysis

2013   Catalyst Symposium / International Conference on Materials for Energy

2015   China Forum on Materials Genome

2015   Advances in Solar Water Splitting Symposium, Materials Research Society Spring Meeting

 

2011 MRS Spring Meeting Vertical Orientation
 
  • Program Committee Member, International Conferences

2006   Photonics West, Laser Applications in Microelectronics Manufacturing Conference

2006   Photonic Applications, Systems and Technologies Conference

2006   Optics East, Nanostructure Integration Techniques Conference

2007   Optics East, Nanomaterial Synthesis, Interfacing, and Integration Conference

2008   International Congress on Applications of Lasers & Electro-Optics, Nanomanufacturing

2008   2nd International Symposium on Transparent Conducting Oxides

2009   SPIE Optics and Photonics Conference, Nanoepitaxy Symposium

2009   International Congress on Applications of Lasers & Electro-Optics, Nanomanufacturing

2010   3rd International Symposium on Transparent Conducting Oxides

2012   4th International Symposium on Transparent Conducting Oxides

2014   6th Forum on New Materials, International Congress on Ceramics

2014   5th International Symposium on Transparent Conducting Materials

 

SPIE Optics + Photonics

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