Jeffrey Lopez

Jeffrey Lopez is an Assistant Professor of Chemical & Biological Engineering at Northwestern University. His research is focused on using fundamental chemical engineering principles to study energy storage devices and design solutions to enable accelerated adoption of sustainable energy technologies.
Prior to joining the Northwestern faculty, Jeffrey was an Intelligence Community Postdoctoral Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a NSF Graduate Research Fellow at Stanford University where he completed his PhD in Chemical Engineering. Jeffrey received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Nebraska – Lincoln. Jeffrey is an expert in the study of charge transport processes and reactions at electrochemical interfaces to inform the design of new materials for energy storage applications. He is a pioneer in the area of polymer coatings to stabilize the Li metal electrodeposition and has worked extensively on the development of advanced electrolytes for various lithium based electrode materials and is an expert on Li metal SEI. Recently, his group is working to discover new electrolytes for high energy density battery chemistries, to develop new materials and processes for more sustainable and circular battery manufacturing, and to leverage automated experimentation and high throughput analysis to accelerate the process of materials discovery and development.
Jeffrey has received multiple awards for his research including the ECS Toyota Young Investigator Fellowship in 2025, NSF CAREER Award in 2024, ACS Henkel Award for Outstanding Graduate Research in Polymer Science and Engineering in 2020, the 2019 Metrohm Young Chemist Award, the ACS Eastman Chemical Student Award in Applied Polymer Science in 2018, and the AIChE Excellence in Graduate Polymer Research Award 1st Prize in 2016. He was also selected as a Scialog Fellow for the Automating Chemical Laboratories series. Jeffrey recently completed a Searle Teaching Fellowship at Northwestern, a program to foster teaching excellence among early career faculty, during the’23-’24 academic year.