About Me

Tanner graduated from Western Washington University in 2022, with a B.S. in Plastics and Composites Engineering, and a minor in Materials Science. His undergraduate research spanned multiple disciplines and projects. Notably, his computational chemistry research focused on evaluating the viability of three novel covalent organic frameworks for triplet fission photovoltaic device applications. For his capstone research, he characterized high-performance thermoplastic pre-impregnated composite materials and studied crystallization and melting kinetics, thermo-viscoelastic behavior, and other material properties. The data produced during this work will be used by the project sponsor, Convergent Manufacturing Technologies, to develop a full set of constitutive material models to implement into their process simulation software products.

 

Tanner is now enrolled in the Oregon Center for Electrochemistry Graduate Internship Program, at the University of Oregon. There, he is gaining theoretical electrochemistry knowledge and hands on experience performing electrochemical evaluation experiments and building electrochemical devices. Tanner is excited to jump into a successful career addressing difficult challenges in clean energy and material development and production.

 

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