John Russell, Ph.D.

• Congressional Fellowship, Nuclear Security Working Group, US Senate, 2018
• AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellowship, National Science Foundation, 2016-2017
• AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellowship, US Department of Energy, 2015-2016
• Editor's Choice Manuscript (top 5%), Chemical Physics Letters 2012
• National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship 2007-2009

Dr. John Russell is the University of Idaho (U of I) Associate Director for the Center for Advanced Energy Studies (CAES), a member of the U of I Office of Research and Economic Development (ORED), and holds a joint appointment with Idaho National Laboratory (INL). He works to build collaborations between university faculty and national laboratory researchers in his role at CAES, a State-National Laboratory consortium consisting of INL, Boise State University, Idaho State University, and U of I. Prior to joining U of I in 2018, he served in policy fellowship roles at US Congress, US Department of Energy, and National Science Foundation. His academic preparation includes graduate and postdoctoral research at Argonne National Laboratory, a doctorate in chemistry from University of Illinois at Chicago, and a bachelors with majors in chemistry and English literature from Washington University in St. Louis. Dr. Russell is a US Army veteran and served as a chemical officer in the 10th Mountain Division.

• NSF "Conference: EPSCoR Workshop: Intelligent Manufacturing for Extreme Environments", Award #2328585, Co-PI, 2023-2024
• NSF “REU Site: Advanced Manufacturing for a Sustainable Energy Future”, Award #2051090, Senior Personnel, 2021-2024
• INL Joint Appointment: CAES Associate Director, 2018-present

• Helland, B.; Lauzon, C.; Russell, J.; William, M.; Lyster, P.; Gregurick, S. Joint Agency Assessment of the Responses to the Request for Information (RFI) on “Science Drivers Requiring Capable Exascale High Performance Computing”; National Institutes of Health, US Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20220120043051/https://nsf.gov/cise/nsci/NIH-DOE-NSF_Joint_Assessment.Exascale_RFI_02-13-17.pdf.
• Jaber‐Ansari, L.; Puntambekar, K. P.; Kim, S.; Aykol, M.; Luo, L.; Wu, J.; Myers, B. D.; Iddir, H.; Russell, J. T.; Saldaña, S. J.; Kumar, R.; Thackeray, M. M.; Curtiss, L. A.; Dravid, V. P.; Wolverton, C.; Hersam, M. C. Suppressing Manganese Dissolution from Lithium Manganese Oxide Spinel Cathodes with Single‐Layer Graphene. Advanced Energy Materials 2015, 5 (17), 1500646. https://doi.org/10.1002/aenm.201500646.
• Iddir, H.; Key, B.; Dogan, F.; Russell, J. T.; Long, B. R.; Bareño, J.; Croy, J. R.; Benedek, R. Pristine-State Structure of Lithium-Ion-Battery Cathode Material Li 1.2 Mn 0.4 Co 0.4 O 2 Derived from NMR Bond Pathway Analysis. J. Mater. Chem. A 2015, 3 (21), 11471–11477. https://doi.org/10.1039/C5TA01510C.
• Dogan, F.; Long, B. R.; Croy, J. R.; Gallagher, K. G.; Iddir, H.; Russell, J. T.; Balasubramanian, M.; Key, B. Re-Entrant Lithium Local Environments and Defect Driven Electrochemistry of Li- and Mn-Rich Li-Ion Battery Cathodes. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 137 (6), 2328–2335. https://doi.org/10.1021/ja511299y.
• Russell, J.; Zapol, P.; Král, P.; Curtiss, L. A. Methane Bond Activation by Pt and Pd Subnanometer Clusters Supported on Graphene and Carbon Nanotubes. Chemical Physics Letters 2012, 536, 9–13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cplett.2012.03.080.
• Russell, J. The Chemical Corps in Action: Meeting the Challenges of the Contemporary Operational Environment. Army Chemical Review 2006, PB 3-06-1, 13–16. https://www.dvidshub.net/publication/issues/12466