National Laboratory of the Rockies

2026 · award

Microbial REE Atlas: Discovery, validation, and functional elucidation of rare-earth element (REE) binding proteins towards critical mineral recovery

Allison Werner · National Laboratory of the Rockies · funded by U.S. Department of Energy

2025–2027 · grant · Standard Grant

EPSCoR Research Fellows: NSF: Advancing Lithium Metal Protection with Ion-Conducting Polymer Coatings

Xiangbo Meng · National Laboratory of the Rockies · funded by National Science Foundation

$299.5kAdvanced Battery Materials and Technologies

2024–2026 · grant · Standard Grant

RII Track-4:NSF: An Integrated Urban Meteorological and Building Stock Modeling Framework to Enhance City-level Building Energy Use Predictions

Chenghao Wang · National Laboratory of the Rockies · funded by National Science Foundation

$295.7kBuilding Energy and Comfort Optimization

2024–2026 · grant · Standard Grant

RII Track-4: NSF: Advancing High Density and High Operation Temperature Traction Inverter by Gallium Oxide Packaged Power Module

Xiaoqing Song · National Laboratory of the Rockies · funded by National Science Foundation

$300k

2023 · training · Postdoctoral Fellowships

Design and Optimization of Water Filters using Scientific Machine Learning

Saad Saad Akhtar · National Laboratory of the Rockies · funded by Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada

CAD 45k

2022–2023 · grant · Standard Grant

STTR Phase I: Validation of a Floating Wind Turbine Platform Optimized for Low Cost and Extensive Deployment

Jeremy Papadopoulos · National Laboratory of the Rockies · funded by National Science Foundation

$256kWave and Wind Energy Systems

2021–2025 · grant · Standard Grant

RII Track 4: Probabilistic Dynamic Control Stability Analysis in Power Grids with High Penetration of Renewable Resources

Di Wu · National Laboratory of the Rockies · funded by National Science Foundation

$191.8k

2020–2022 · grant · Standard Grant

RII Track-4: Applying Transient Reflectance Spectroscopy to Decipher the Impact of Energetics and Electronic Coupling on Interfacial Recombination in Hybrid Halide Perovskites

Kenneth Graham · National Laboratory of the Rockies · funded by National Science Foundation

$179.2kPerovskite Materials and Applications

2019–2023 · grant · Standard Grant

RII Track-4: Robust Matrix Completion State Estimation in Low-Observability Distribution Systems under False Data Injection Attacks

Hongyu Wu · National Laboratory of the Rockies · funded by National Science Foundation

$198.7k

2019–2020 · grant · Standard Grant

RII Track-4: Novel Electrochemistry in Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Perovskite Materials

Yuanyuan Zhou · National Laboratory of the Rockies · funded by National Science Foundation

$94.1k

2019–2020 · grant · Standard Grant

SBIR Phase I: High-power, lightweight, and flexible tandem perovskite solar panels

Kevin Bush · National Laboratory of the Rockies · funded by National Science Foundation

$225k

2018–2019 · grant · Standard Grant

RII Track-4: Digital Alloy Contact Layers for Solar Cells

Matthew White · National Laboratory of the Rockies · funded by National Science Foundation

$114.5k

2018–2022 · grant · Standard Grant

RII Track-4: Advanced Control Strategies for Floating Offshore Wind Farms

Andrew Goupee · National Laboratory of the Rockies · funded by National Science Foundation

$96.3kWave and Wind Energy Systems

2017–2019 · award

Offshore Renewable Energy Feasibility Study Across Technology Types for the U.S. Gulf of Mexico

National Laboratory of the Rockies · funded by Bureau of Ocean Energy Management

$344.2k