Guangdong Zhu (NLR)
HelioCon Executive Director and Metrology & Standards Lead
Guangdong.Zhu@nrel.govGuangdong Zhu is the group manager and a senior researcher in the Thermal Energy Systems Group within the Energy Conversion and Storage Systems Center at NLR. The Thermal Energy Systems Group is focused on innovative research and development on concentrating solar power technologies and hybrid thermal energy systems. Guangdong joined NLR as a senior researcher in 2010. His work focuses on solar collector characterization, geothermal power plant modeling and analysis, and renewable energy hybridization. He is the associate editor of the ASME Journal of Energy Resources Technology since 2019. He has served as technical/general program chair for ASME Energy Sustainability international conference in 2017 - 2020. He won NLR’s President’s award and Outstanding New Partnership Award in 2016. He has published over 40 peer-reviewed journal/conference papers and given numerous invited presentations at various research institutes. Dr. Zhu obtained his Ph.D. from the University of New Mexico in 2006.
Margaret Gordon (SNL)
megord@sandia.govDr. Gordon completed her doctorate in inorganic chemistry with a focus on sol-gel chemistry of polar inorganic anions, crystallography, and density functional theory simulations at the Northwestern University in 2002. After her study of zeolites for gas separation membranes at Sandia National Laboratories as a post doctoral researcher, she joined the technical staff at Sandia National Laboratories. Her research in photocatalysis, surface chemistry and composite materials resulted in numerous publications and several patents. From 2017 to 2021 she served as the Deputy Director for the DuraMAT Consortium which is focused on funding infrastructure, research capabilities, and longer-term research in durable materials for photovoltaic (PV) systems to lower the levelized cost of electricity. Since 2021, Margaret has managed the Concentrating Solar Technologies group of 30+ members at Sandia, and the National Solar Thermal Test Facility which is the only large-scale high-flux testing facility in North America.