Robin Hayes
Dr. Robin Hayes is a program manager who has worked with the Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs) management team since August 2011. Dr. Hayes previously served with the EFRC management team for two years under an AAAS Energy, Environment, Agriculture and Natural Resources Science and Technology Policy Fellowship. Dr. Hayes received a B.S. in Chemistry and Mathematics from Linfield College in McMinnville, OR in 1999. She completed a Ph.D. in 2004 at the University of California, Los Angeles in Physical Chemistry under Professor Emily Carter. While there, Dr. Hayes was a member of the Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) on “Virtual Testing and Design of Materials: A Multiscale Approach,” where she worked on linking first principles methods with finite element and continuum models to understand crystalline materials failure.
Before embarking on her AAAS Fellowship, Dr. Hayes was a postdoctoral researcher at New York University working with Professor Mark Tuckerman on self-assembly at organic-inorganic interfaces, methane dehydrogenation on bi-metallic nanoparticle catalysts, and proton transport in perfluorosulfonic acid fuel cell membranes using first principles methods. Dr. Hayes has co-authored 9 peer-reviewed papers and made nearly 30 presentations, including 9 invited talks, and served as a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellow.
Contact Information
Robin Hayes, PhD
AAAS Fellow
Office of Basic Energy Sciences
U.S. Department of Energy
SC.22 Germantown Building
1000 Independence Avenue, SW
Washington, DC 20585-1290
Phone: (301) 903-9659
Fax: (301) 903-6594
robin.hayes@science.doe.gov