Grant Johnson Email Address

Scientist 4, Team Lead Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland Washington is a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) government research laboratory. The Laboratory focuses on research and development related to waste management, environmental restoration, global environmental change, energy and national security.

Dr. Grant E. Johnson is a Chemist and Interim Group Lead for Chemical Physics and Analysis in the Physical Sciences Division at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). He leads the Separation Science program which is focused on developing a fundamental understanding of structure-function relationships to support the design and synthesis of tailored materials for improved separations. He is also a member of the Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR) battery innovation hub and has interests in developing organometallics and clusters as molecular qubits. Grant received his B.S. degree in Chemistry in 2002 from the University of Delaware where he studied ion solvation in supercritical fluids under Professor Robert H. Wood. He was employed as an analytical chemist with the United States Army at the Edgewood Chemical Biological Center in Maryland, from 2002 to 2004. He received his Ph.D. in Chemistry in 2009 from the Pennsylvania State University where he studied the reactivity of clusters under Professor A.W. Castleman, Jr. Grant was awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Central Europe Summer Research Institute fellowship in 2006 to study cluster reactivity using theoretical calculations with Professor Vlasta Bonacic-Koutecky at the Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany. He also received a Department of Energy (DOE) fellowship to attend the 2006 meeting of Nobel Laureates in Chemistry in Lindau, Germany. Grant was awarded the inaugural Linus Pauling Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship at PNNL from 2010 to 2012 where he studied ion-surface interactions for energy applications under Professor Julia Laskin. In 2015, Grant was awarded the Ronald L. Brodzinski Award for Early Career Exceptional Achievement at PNNL.