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 attended the University of Nebraska – Lincoln where he received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering. He then moved to Stanford University to pursue graduate studies in Chemical Engineering and was awarded a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and a NDSEG Fellowship to fund his work, which focused on molecular design of new self-healing polymers and elastomers with novel mechanical properties for improving the stability of lithium ion batteries. After completing his Ph.D., Jeffrey moved to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as an Intelligence Community Postdoctoral Fellow where he studied fundamental mechanisms of electrochemical instability and ion transport in polymer electrolyte materials. Jeffrey has received multiple awards for his research including the 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. Jeffrey was involved with the Stanford Polymer Collective as President from 2013-2016 supporting the polymer research community on Stanford’s campus, and has worked with various programs at Stanford and MIT to promote improved access to higher education among students from underrepresented minority groups.