Susan Odom is an Associate Professor of Chemistry at the University of Kentucky in 2011, the same institution from which she received a B.S. in Chemistry. She received a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from Georgia Institute of Technology in 2008 and served as a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Visiting positions include Cornell University (2001), the University of Oxford (2005), Argonne National Laboratory (2009-2011), and, most recently, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University (both 2017-18). Her research focus on the design and characterization of organic materials for applications in energy storage, with a particular focus on reactivity of charged species. Ranging from fundamental studies to device assembly and cycling, she develops materials for a variety of electrochemical energy storage systems, so far mainly electrolyte additives for lithium-ion batteries and active storage materials for redox flow batteries. Two patents on her inventions have led to materials currently licensed by chemical companies. This talk will focus on her career trajectory and how she came to be an organic chemist who assembles, cycles, and characterizes redox flow batteries.

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