Dr. Julie N. Renner started as an assistant professor at Case Western Reserve University in August 2016 and was appointed as Climo Assistant Professor in 2018. Her group has multiple projects developing biomolecular platforms to control solid-liquid interfaces and thin film assemblies. Her work has been recently recognized by an Electrochemical Society Toyota Young Investigator Fellowship and a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award.
Prior to becoming a professor, Dr. Renner worked in a broad range of research areas. She spent four years conducting industrial research at Proton OnSite (now Nel Hydrogen), a world-leader in hydrogen generation via proton exchange membrane electrolysis. Her work was initially sponsored by a Small Business Postdoctoral Research Diversity Fellowship supported by the NSF under a grant to the American Society for Engineering Education. While there, she led projects in advanced electrode design and manufacturing and emerging electrochemical technologies.
Prior to her work in industry, she completed her thesis as an NSF Graduate Research Fellow at the Purdue School of Chemical Engineering, where she specialized in designing, creating, and characterizing novel polypeptide materials for cartilage tissue repair. As an undergraduate, she studied chemical engineering at the University of North Dakota, and obtained an Environmental Production Agency Greater Research Opportunities Fellowship.