Dr. Dong Ding is a directorate fellow in the directorate of Energy and Environmental Science & Technology, and the senior advisor for the Hydrogen and Electrochemistry program at Idaho National Laboratory. He is a principal investigator for multi-projects including direct funded and LDRD. Dr. Ding is a technical lead and steering committee member for two hydrogen related consortia: HydroGEN of Energy Materials Network (EMN) and H2NEW under the U.S. DOE-Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)-Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technology Office. Dr. Ding is an executive committee member, and secretary/treasurer for High-Temperature Energy, Materials, and Processes (H-TEMP) Division of the Electrochemical Society (ECS). He served as an editorial advisory board member for Journal of Power Sources Advances, a guest editor for Frontier in Materials, Frontier in Chemistry, Journal of Physics: Energy and Journal of Materials Research. He received several prestigious awards including the Finalist of Platts Global Energy in the category of Rising Star Individual (2025), the Lab Inventor of Year (2025), EES&T Mentor Award (2024), the Lab Director Exceptional Scientific Achievement Award (2022), the EES&T Leadership Award (2021), the Asian American Most Promising Engineering of the Year (AAEOY, 2020), and Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) far West Awards in the category of Outstanding Technology Development (2019). Dr. Ding holds joint/affiliated faculty positions at University of Utah, University of South Carolina, New Mexico State University, and University of Idaho. Prior to joining INL, he was Sr. Materials Engineer at the solid oxide fuel cell industry. Dr. Ding received his doctorate in material science at the University of Science & Technology of China (USTC), where he also earned a bachelor’s in materials chemistry. Dr. Ding co-authored over 160 peer-reviewed publications and a book chapter. He also holds 17 US patents and 23 patent applications. Dr. Ding’s current research interests relate to INL’s mission initiatives: integrated energy systems (IES) and advanced design and manufacturing (ADM) as well as emerging initiative: chemical molecules and science (CMS), including high temperature water electrolysis, natural gas upgrading, CO2 capture and conversion, ammonia electrosynthesis, advanced manufacturing of solid oxide cells/stacks, fuel cells, and electrocatalysis. Dr. Ding is a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

high temperature water electrolysis, natural gas upgrading, CO2 capture and conversion, ammonia electrosynthesis, advanced manufacturing of solid oxide cells/stacks, fuel cells, and electrocatalysis.