Lecture by Dr. Frances Houle

Biography

Frances Houle is a Senior Scientist, Deputy Director of the Liquid Sunlight Alliance Energy Innovation Hub and Thrust Lead in the Center for High Precision Patterning Science Energy Frontier Research Center. Her scientific interests are in the areas of coupled reaction-transport processes in solar energy conversion systems and their components, and chemical modification of polymer, nanoparticle, semiconductor, and metal interfaces, surfaces and films using novel experimental and computational techniques. She received the BA from the University of California at Irvine and the PhD from the California Institute of Technology, both in chemistry. Prior to joining LBNL, most of her career was in IBM’s Research Division.

She has received numerous awards including a 2022 R&D100 Award, the 2009 American Vacuum Society John A. Thornton Memorial Award and Lecture, the 1999 American Institute of Chemical Engineers Northern California Section Research Project of the Year, and the 1998 IBM Environmental Affairs Excellence Award. She is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and Fellow of the AVS, and member of the American Chemical Society, the Electrochemical Society and the Materials Research Society. She has been active in professional service, and is currently member of several scientific advisory boards. She has over 180 publications and 28 issued US patents, and is co-author of the open-access stochastic reaction-diffusion simulation code Kinetiscope.