Sarah Berlinger

Sarah Berlinger

Research Scientist: Energy Conversion Group
Chemist Research Scientist/Engineer
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Bio

Sarah A. Berlinger is a Research Scientist in the Energy Conversion Group. Her work broadly focuses on colloidal and interfacial phenomena in energy conversion devices, including fuel cells, and water and CO2 electrolyzers. These fundamental efforts to probe solid/liquid and solid/solid electrode interfaces inform applied device-level fabrication efforts. Previously, she was a postdoctoral researcher at UC Berkeley with Professor Joelle Frechette. Her work focused on understanding the structure of the electrical double layer in highly concentrated aqueous salt environments, primarily using surface forces measurements. She was a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow, also at UC Berkeley, where she got her PhD in Chemical Engineering. Under the supervision of Dr. Adam Weber and Professor Bryan McCloskey, her PhD work unraveled component interactions in fuel-cell catalyst-layer inks to understand the catalyst-layer microstructure formation process. She is passionate about mental health in sciences, student outreach, and mentorship.