Esther Takeuchi, PhD
Dr. Esther S. Takeuchi is a SUNY Distinguished Professor and the William and Jane
Knapp Chair in Energy and the Environment at Stony Brook University. She holds a
joint appointment at Brookhaven National Laboratory as Chief Scientist and Chair of
the Interdisciplinary Science Department.
Previously, she was employed at Greatbatch, Inc., and instrumental in the development of the lithium/silver vanadium oxide battery power sourcing life-saving implantable cardiac defibrillators. Dr. Takeuchi has more than 150 patents, is a member of National Academy of Engineering, the National Inventors Hall of Fame, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Charter Member of the National Academy of Innovation. She received the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the E. V Murphree and Astellas Awards from the ACS and ECS Edward G. Acheson Award. She is a Fellow of the ECS, the AIMBE, and the AAAS.
She has received the European Inventor Award, the Sigma Xi Walston Chubb Innovation Award, an honorary Doctorate from Notre Dame University, and the National Academy of Sciences Chemical Sciences Award.