The Ralph O’Connor Sustainable Energy Institute (ROSEI) is hosting its fourth in-person summit on January 14 from 9 AM – 5:30 PM. Like 2025’s iteration, the event will take place on the Homewood campus in Hodson Hall and the Glass Pavilion, with free lunch for attendees and speakers being served. The ROSEI Summit provides a technical sharing of all sustainable energy and related research being conducted at Johns Hopkins University. It will be an overview of ROSEI activities and technical sessions organized around the active topics of our scholars. The Summit provides a unique means to understand the breadth and depth of JHU research in sustainable energy as well as develop collaborations and new networks for future research. Areas of focus for breakout sessions at this year's Summit will include critical minerals, data centers, wind energy, policy and advocacy, insights into diversifying energy funding, and much more. There will also be a poster competition that is open to all postdoctoral researchers and graduate students doing energy-related research at Hopkins. The registration period for both the Summit and the poster competition closed on January 7.

Time	Event	Location
9:00am – 10:00am	Check-in  (morning reception)	Lobby to Hodson 110
10:00am – 10:45am	Directors Welcome  State of ROSEI and ROSEI Research (Director Ben Schafer), Education (Associate Director Susanna Thon), Policy and Translation (Deputy Director Ben Link)	Hodson 110
	Break and Discussion
11:00am – noon	Faculty Spotlight  Constanza Abuin Magdalena Klemun Grace Panetti Moderator: Yury Dvorkin	Hodson 110
Noon – 1:30pm	Lunch	Glass Pavilion
12:30pm – 1:30pm	ROSEI Research Poster Session  Research updates from ROSEI graduate students and postdocs Participants listed here (best poster awards to be presented at 4:30pm)	Glass Pavilion
	Selected Breakout Meetings for ROSEI Efforts All invited/encouraged to attend any breakout of their choosing
1:30pm – 2:20pm	Critical Materials Breakout Facilitators: Chao Wang, Sara Thoi	Hodson 213
or	Data Centers Breakout Facilitators: Abe Silverman, Yury Dvorkin, Ján Drgoňa	Hodson 303
or	Energy Education Breakout Facilitators: Susanna Thon, Ben Schafer	Hodson 311
2:30pm – 3:20pm	Nuclear Energy Breakout Facilitators: Tim Rupert, Mitra Taheri, Susanna Thon	Hodson 213
or	Wind Energy Breakout  Facilitators: Julie Lundquist, Dennice Gayme	Hodson 303
or	Policy and Advocacy Breakout Facilitators: Dan Kammen, Abe Silverman	Hodson 311
3:30pm –  4:20pm	Insights in Diversifying Energy Funding  Working with foundations, developing translation  Moderator: Ben Link	Hodson 110
4:30pm - 4:45pm	ROSEI Awards  (Best poster awards and more)	Glass Pavilion
4:45pm – 5:30pm	Closing reception  Celebrate ROSEI and the upcoming Spring semester	Glass Pavilion

Poster Submissions

• Omotayo Adenugba, Anand Pandian "Before the Transition: Oil Cleanup, Responsibility, and Sustainable Energy Futures"
• Nathan Agarwal, Julie Lundquist "Up and Out: Navigating atmospheric stability in the Perdigão valley for wind energy applications"
• Damir Akchurin, Fidence Cyizere Rukundo, Ben Schafer "Torsional-Flexural Response of Intermediately Stiffened Lipped Channels Cold-Formed from 100 ksi (690 MPa) Steel"
• Stephen Ampleman, Dennice Gayme "From Cut-In to Rated: Multi-Region Floating Offshore Wind Farm Control for Secondary Frequency Regulation"
• Natalie Armstrong, Roni Neff, Natalie Exum "Understanding the Direct and Indirect Public Health Impacts of Data Centers"
• Ellen Berry, James B. Spicer "Exploration of Molten Salt Simulant-Graphite Interfaces Using Laser Based Ultrasonic Techniques"
• Yi Cao, Victor Wu, Paulette Clancy "Atomic-to-Device Simulation Framework: Machine Learning-Accelerated Dopant Migration Modeling for 2D Electronics"
• Yago del Barrio Álvarez, Ben Hobbs "How Effective Can Green Procurement for Large C&I Loads Be? A Market and Game-Theoretic Perspective"
• Sai Dinesh Devineni, Alina Hasan, Anthony Kearsley "Real-Time Energy Market Intelligence & Anomaly Detection System for the Texas ERCOT Grid"
• Hongang Du, Ruggero Rossi "Zero-gap microbial electrolysis cells for efficient hydrogen production from real liquid waste streams"
• Nathan Houchens, Yuki Osumi, Sara Thoi "Stabilizing Lithium Metal Batteries with Gel Metal-Organic Frameworks"
• Fei Hu, Yuting Luo "Unveiling key parameters of promising alloyable metals affecting Li deposition in Li battery"
• Ziting Huang, Scot Miller, Ben Hobbs "Tracking Recent Methane Emissions from China using Satellite Data"
• Serene Kamal, Susanna Thon "Silicon Nitride Metasurfaces for Optical Enhancement"
• Saroj Khanal, Boyu Yao, Marisel Villafañe-Delgado, Yury Dvorkin "The ICARUS-PJM Dataset: An Infrastructure-Centric, Open Dataset for Capacity Expansion, Resource Adequacy, and Data Center Integration"
• Danbee Kim, Ruggero Rossi "Toward Electrochemically Robust Scale-Up of Microbial Electrolysis Cells: Insights from Reference Electrode Stability and Placement"
• Dianna Kitt, Shilva Shrestha "Advancing waste derived platform chemical production using bottom-up microbiome engineering approaches"
• Jacob Lombardo, Hoon Jeong Lee, Jill Cleveland, Susanna Thon "Solar-Powered Carbon Capture and Release Using a Photoelectrochemical Cell"
• Anmol Mathur, Yayuan Liu "Electrochemical Direct Air Capture By Local Alkalinity Generation at Three-Dimensional Interfaces"
• Sasikumar Mayarambakam, Howard Katz "Side-Chain and Counter-Anion Engineering of Poly(vinyl pyridinium) Polymers for Ionic Thermoelectric Energy Harvesting"
• Brady Mediavilla, Zihao Rei Gao, Rebekka Klausen, Michael Tsapatsis "Depolymerization of Silicones by Heterogenous Catalysis"
• Daniel Moreno Jimenez, Ruggero Rossi "Engineering Microbial Electrochemical Reactors for Power Generation in the Ocean"
• Mujaheed Nuhu, Shilva Shrestha "Support Material-Mediated Microbial Production of Medium Chain Carboxylic Acids"
• Arleth Ortiz Villa, Sara Thoi "Pore Choices: Balancing Porosity and Surface Area in Zirconium Metal–Organic Frameworks for Li–S Batteries"
• Xi Peng, Ben Schafer "Collapse analysis of Full-scale tower with measured imperfections under load combination"
• Başak Rakıcı, Yury Dvorkin, Dennice Gayme "Probabilistic AEP Estimation Using Joint Wind Speed–Direction Distributions and Seasonal Variability"
• Bhathiya Rathnayake, Sijia Geng "Droop-Based Grid-Forming Control with Disturbance Suppression and Over-Current Limiting"
• Eshagh Safarzadeh Ravajiri, Ben Hobbs "Self-Supervised Learning for Battery Scheduling under Nonlinear Degradation"
• Hunter Saylor, Serene Kamal, Sasha Wi, Susanna Thon "Exfoliation and Characterization of Thin-Film Ferroelectric, CuInP2S6"
• Tomás Tapia, Enrique Mallada, Yury Dvorkin "Learning Reachability of Energy Storage Arbitrage"
• Valeria Vasquez-Barros, Julie Lundquist "Assessing the prevalence of atmospheric stability decoupling using barge data in WFIP-3"
• Xi Xi, Dan Kammen "Reducing Power System Costs through Grid-Connected Green Hydrogen: Evidence from Kenya"
• Jiatong Xu, Phoebe Williams, Sara Thoi "Zirconium Metal-Organic Cages as a Cathode Additive for High Performance Li-S Batteries"
• Kai Yang, Daniel Moreno Jimenez, Ruggero Rossi "Sustainable Marine Power Source: Ocean Microbial Fuel Cell"
• Boyu Yao, Yury Dvorkin "When the Supply Chain Shapes Long-Term Grid Planning"
• Nakyeong Yun, Ruggero Rossi "Utilizing machine learning to enhance electrochemical CO2 capture from wastewater sector"
• Pietro Zanotta, Ján Drgoňa "Multi-Agent Differentiable Predictive Control for Zero-Shot PDE Scalability"
• Yijun Zhang, Susanna Thon "Patterned Colloidal Quantum Dot Films for Spectrally-Optimized Multi-Junction Solar Cells"
• Yishu Zhang, Dennice Gayme, Charles Meneveau "A Large Eddy Simulation Study of Turbine Pitch Motion Effects on Fully Developed Floating Wind Farm Boundary Layers"
• Honghui Zheng, Ján Drgoňa, Yury Dvorkin "Accelerating Underground Pumped Hydro Energy Storage Scheduling with Decision-Focused Learning"
• Zhiyi Zhou, Yury Dvorkin "Unlocking Transmission Flexibility under Uncertainty: Getting Dynamic Line Ratings into Electricity Markets"

The 2026 ARPA-E Innovation Summit is set to happen from April 7-9 in San Diego, CA. The Ralph O'Connor Sustainable Energy Institute (ROSEI) and the Whiting School of Engineering (WSE) have served as partners at the previous three Summits. Check this page at a later date for more information. Please click here if you would like to read more about the 2025 ARPA-E Innovation Summit.

The Ralph O'Connor Sustainable Energy Institute (ROSEI) will celebrate Earth Day and the institute's five year birthday with a luncheon and celebration on April 22. Check this page at a later date for more information. Please click here if you would like to read more about the 2025 ROSEI Earth Day Celebration.