{"679346":{"#nid":"679346","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Marta Hatzell Appointed Interim Deputy Director of the Strategic Energy Institute","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAssociate Professor Marta Hatzell has been appointed interim deputy director of the Georgia Tech Strategic Energy Institute (\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.research.gatech.edu\/energy\u0022\u003ESEI\u003C\/a\u003E).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/marta-hatzell\u0022\u003EHatzell\u003C\/a\u003E currently leads the industrial decarbonization and clean catalysis initiative at SEI and holds joint appointments in the George W. Woodruff \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/me.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Mechanical Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E and the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/chbe.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E. Most recently, she led the Materials for Carbon-Neutral Fuel Production track at this year\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/energymaterials\u0022\u003EEnergy Materials Day\u003C\/a\u003E, which attracted over 400 participants from academia and industry.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cMarta has been an outstanding addition to SEI\u2019s initiative lead program, where her contributions have already made a significant impact. I am excited to see her further engage with the Georgia Tech energy community in this role,\u201d said Christine Conwell, SEI interim executive director.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHatzell\u2019s research group focuses on exploring sustainable catalysis and separations to enable clean energy, water, and food production. She serves as the site principal investigator and research thrust leader for \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/awardsearch\/showAward?AWD_ID=2133576\u0022\u003ECASFER\u003C\/a\u003E, the National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center (NSF-ERC) with funding of $26 million for advancing sustainable fertilizer production. She is also a principal investigator in the Department of Energy\u2019s $100 million National Alliance for Water Innovation project.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHatzell is the recipient of the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/coe.gatech.edu\/news\/2019\/03\/kate-fu-and-marta-hatzell-win-nsf-career-awards\u0022\u003ENSF Early CAREER Award\u003C\/a\u003E for her work on distributed solar fertilizers and received the Gordon and Betty Moore Inventor fellowship to work on a low-cost, photocatalytic air-breathing system that converts air into liquid, ammonia-based fertilizer. She also received the 2020 Sloan Research \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.me.gatech.edu\/hatzell-one-two-georgia-tech-faculty-awarded-research-fellowships-sloan-foundation\u0022\u003EFellowship\u003C\/a\u003E in Chemistry and the American Chemical Society\u2019s (ACS) Sustainable Chemistry Lectureship \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/marta-hatzell-wins-acs-sustainable-chemistry-engineering-lectureship-award-0\u0022\u003EAward\u003C\/a\u003E in 2024. Hatzell serves as a senior editor of the \u003Cem\u003EACS Energy Letters\u003C\/em\u003E journal.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBefore her role at Georgia Tech, she was a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She holds a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Penn State University.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u201cI\u2019m looking forward to working with the SEI staff and faculty to continue to grow Georgia Tech\u2019s impact on the rapidly changing energy sector,\u201d says Hatzell. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAssociate Professor Marta Hatzell has been appointed interim deputy director of the Georgia Tech Strategic Energy Institute (\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.research.gatech.edu\/energy\u0022\u003ESEI\u003C\/a\u003E).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/marta-hatzell\u0022\u003EHatzell\u003C\/a\u003E currently leads the industrial decarbonization and clean catalysis initiative at SEI and holds joint appointments in the George W. Woodruff \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/me.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Mechanical Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E and the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/chbe.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E. Most recently, she led the Materials for Carbon-Neutral Fuel Production track at this year\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/energymaterials\u0022\u003EEnergy Materials Day\u003C\/a\u003E, which attracted over 400 participants from academia and industry.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Associate Professor Marta Hatzell has been appointed interim deputy director of the Georgia Tech Strategic Energy Institute (SEI)."}],"uid":"36413","created_gmt":"2025-01-09 21:08:08","changed_gmt":"2025-01-09 23:05:36","author":"pdevarajan3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2024-12-01T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2024-12-01T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"675989":{"id":"675989","type":"image","title":"Marta Hatzell","body":"\u003Cp\u003EPortrait of Marta Hatzell\u003C\/p\u003E","created":"1736463348","gmt_created":"2025-01-09 22:55:48","changed":"1736463756","gmt_changed":"2025-01-09 23:02:36","alt":"Portrait of Marta Hatzell","file":{"fid":"259680","name":"Marta_Hatzell_2024.jpeg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/01\/09\/Marta_Hatzell_2024.jpeg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/01\/09\/Marta_Hatzell_2024.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":248036,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2025\/01\/09\/Marta_Hatzell_2024.jpeg?itok=wc5LC5iZ"}}},"media_ids":["675989"],"groups":[{"id":"367481","name":"SEI Energy"}],"categories":[{"id":"144","name":"Energy"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"186858","name":"go-sei"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39531","name":"Energy and Sustainable Infrastructure"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:priya.devarajan@research.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EPriya Devarajan\u003C\/a\u003E || SEI Communications Program Manager\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["priya.devarajan@research.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}