Sossina M. Haile is Professor of Materials Science and of Chemical
Engineering at the California Institute of Technology. She earned her
Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology in 1992. As part of her doctoral studies, Haile spent a
year as a Fulbright Fellow at the Max Plank Institute for Solid State
Research, Stuttgart, Germany. She then held a postdoctoral appointment
at this same institution as a Humboldt Fellow. Before assuming her present
position at Caltech in 1996, Haile was a member of the faculty at the
University of Washington. Her research broadly encompasses solid state
ionic materials and devices, with particular focus on fuel cells. She
has established a new class of fuel cells based on solid acid electrolytes,
and demonstrated record power densities for solid oxide fuel cells. Haile
has published over 100 papers and holds several patents on these and
related topics, and she has been an invited speaker at numerous national
and international conferences. In 1992 Haile was awarded a National Young
Investigator Award from the National Science Foudation. Her other major
awards include the 1997 Robert L. Hardy Award of the Minerals, Metals
and Materials Society (TMS), the 2000 Robert L. Coble Award of the American
Ceramic Society and the 2001 J. Bruce Wagner, Jr. Young Investigator
Award of the Electrochemical Society. Haile served as a principal editor
for the Journal of Materials Research (1997-2001), and is presently a
member of the National Materials Advisory Board, a committee serving
the National Academies of Sciences and of Engineering.
Sossina M. Haile is Professor of Materials Science and of Chemical
Engineering at the California Institute of Technology. She earned her
Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology in 1992. As part of her doctoral studies, Haile spent a
year as a Fulbright Fellow at the Max Plank Institute for Solid State
Research, Stuttgart, Germany. She then held a postdoctoral appointment
at this same institution as a Humboldt Fellow. Before assuming her present
position at Caltech in 1996, Haile was a member of the faculty at the
University of Washington. Her research broadly encompasses solid state
ionic materials and devices, with particular focus on fuel cells. She
has established a new class of fuel cells based on solid acid electrolytes,
and demonstrated record power densities for solid oxide fuel cells. Haile
has published over 100 papers and holds several patents on these and
related topics, and she has been an invited speaker at numerous national
and international conferences. In 1992 Haile was awarded a National Young
Investigator Award from the National Science Foudation. Her other major
awards include the 1997 Robert L. Hardy Award of the Minerals, Metals
and Materials Society (TMS), the 2000 Robert L. Coble Award of the American
Ceramic Society and the 2001 J. Bruce Wagner, Jr. Young Investigator
Award of the Electrochemical Society. Haile served as a principal editor
for the Journal of Materials Research (1997-2001), and is presently a
member of the National Materials Advisory Board, a committee serving
the National Academies of Sciences and of Engineering.