Matthew Suss

Horev Fellow, Leaders in Science and Technology Program, supported by Taub Foundation

Education

• Ph.D. Stanford University, 2013
• M.Sc. Stanford University, 2009
• B.Eng. McGill University, 2007

Research Interests

• Electrochemical systems for energy and water applications;
• Capacitive water desalination;
• Flow batteries for large scale energy storage;
• Electroosmotic micropumps;
• Fluidic and species transport in porous electrode structures;
• Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy;
• Rapid prototyping of energy and water devices

Guest Appointments

• Postdoctoral Associate, MIT, 2013-2014
• Lawrence Scholar, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 2010-2013

Public Professional Activities

• Delegate member of the European Federation of Chemical Engineering (EFCE), Working Party on Electrochemical Engineering, one of two delegates representing Israel (2015-present)
• Chair of the International Working Group on Capacitive Deionization (2015-present)
• Team Leader at the Israel National Research Center for Electrochemical Propulsion (2014-present)
• Leader in Energy Science at the Grand Technion Energy Program (2014 present)
• Co-chair of the 2015 Capacitive Deionization & Electrosorption conference in Saarbrucken, Germany

Honors and Awards

• Alon Fellowship - Israel's Council for Higher Education (2015-2018)
• Horev Fellowship - Leaders in Science & Technology Program, Technion (2014-2016)
• Excellence in Publication Award - Physical & Life Sciences Division at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (2012 & 2013)
• Lawrence Scholar Award - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (2010-2013)
• National Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) PGS D PhD scholarship (2009-2012)
• Fonds québécois de la Recherche sur la Nature et les Technologies (FQRNT) PhD scholarship (declined, 2009)
• Fonds québécois de la Recherche sur la Nature et les Technologies (FQRNT) Masters' scholarship (2007-2009)