Dr. Kelsey Hatzell is an associate professor at Princeton University, with appointments in the Andlinger Center for Energy and Environment and the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Her research focuses on energy storage, using non-equilibrium X-ray techniques to probe materials for energy and separations applications.

Dr. Hatzell earned her B.S./B.A. in Engineering and Economics from Swarthmore College, her M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Pennsylvania State University, and her Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Drexel University here in Philadelphia, where she was an NSF Graduate Research Fellow. She then completed a postdoc as an ITRI-Rosenfeld Postdoctoral Fellow at Berkeley National Lab. 

As a faculty member, she has received a wide range of honors, including the ORAU Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Award, NSF CAREER Award, ECS Toyota Young Investigator Award, MRS Nelson "Buck" Robinson Award, Sloan Research Fellowship in Chemistry, NASA Early Career Award, ONR Young Investigator Award, and the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, among others