Dr. Dong Ding is a distinguished staff engineer/scientist at Idaho National Laboratory, leading the electrochemical processing and electrocatalysis (EPEC) team consisting of >20 researchers. 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, secretary/treasurer for High-Temperature Energy, Materials, and Processes (H-TEMP) Division of the Electrochemical Society (ECS).

He was the recipient for several prestigious awards including the Lab Director Exceptional Scientific Achievement Award, and the Asian American Most Promising Engineer. 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 140 peer-reviewed publications and a book chapter. He also holds >30 patents and patent applications. Dr. Ding's current research interests relate to INL's two mission initiatives: advanced design and manufacturing (ADM) and integrated energy systems (IES), including high temperature water electrolysis, natural gas upgrading, advanced manufacturing of solid oxide cells/stacks, CO 2 capture and conversion, ammonia electrosynthesis, fuel cells, and electrocatalysis.