Biography

Jennifer Schaefer joined the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering as an assistant professor in 2015 after serving as an NRC postdoctoral fellow at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. She received her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Cornell University in 2014. The Schaefer research group studies ion transport and interfacial reactions with relevance to energy storage devices. The primary focus is liquid and polymer electrolytes to advance high energy density rechargeable batteries.