Shannon W. Boettcher

Shannon W. Boettcher (born 1981) is an American chemist and chemical engineer, and professor. He is the Theodore Vermeulen Professor in the Departments of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Chemistry at UC Berkeley and was previously in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Oregon. His research is at the intersection of materials science and electrochemistry, with a focus on fundamental aspects of energy conversion and storage. He has been named a DuPont Young Professor, a Cottrell Scholar, a Sloan Fellow, and a Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar. An ISI highly cited researcher (top 0.1% over past decade), in 2019, he founded the Oregon Center for Electrochemistry and, in 2020, launched the nation's first targeted graduate program in electrochemical technology. In 2021, he was named a Blavatnik National Award Finalist and in 2023 the Blavatnik National Award Laureate.