Kelsey Hatzell

Dr. Hatzell is an associate professor at Princeton University in the Andlinger Center for Energy and Environment and the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Hatzell’s group primarily works on energy storage and is particularly interested in using non-equilibrium X-ray techniques to probe materials for energy and separation applications. 

Dr. Hatzell earned her Ph.D. in Material Science and Engineering at Drexel University, her M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Pennsylvania State University, and her B.S./B.A. in Engineering/Economics from Swarthmore College. Hatzell’s research group works on understanding phenomena at the solid-liquid, solid-gas, and solid-solid interfaces broadly work in energy storage and conversion. 

Hatzell was an ITRI-Rosenfeld Postdoctoral Fellow at Berkeley Lab and an NSF Graduate Research Fellow. She received the Arthur Nowick Award from Materials Research and the Silver Graduate Student Award in the Materials Research Society. Hatzell is the recipient of several awards including the ORAU Powe Junior Faculty Award (2017), NSF CAREER Award (2019), ECS Toyota Young Investigator Award (2019), finalist for the BASF/Volkswagen Science in Electrochemistry Award (2019), the Nelson “Buck” Robinson award from MRS (2019), Sloan Fellowship in Chemistry (2020), and POLiS Award of Excellence for Female Researchers (2021), NASA Early Career Award (2022), ONR Young Investigator Award (2023), Camille-Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award (2024), and the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (2025).