Catalyst Cooperative has spent the last year or so developing educational materials for early career energy researchers, with generous support from the Sloan Foundation.
This summer we are organizing a 2-day energy data lab from August 11-12 at Georgia Tech. It will be a mix of tutorials, time for attendees to apply new skills to their own work, and networking opportunities. We hope this will provide participants with some new skills and help them find people to collaborate with in their research careers.
We are intentionally holding it immediately before the Macro-Energy Systems (MES) Workshop from August 13-14 so that attendees can go to both - all lab attendees are welcome to participate as audience members even if they are not accepted as presenters.
The lab is primarily for people who:
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are graduate students or postdocs looking to use energy data in their research
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feel nervous about coding, or are running into technical roadblocks in their work
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feel underrepresented in energy research
We have space for up to 20 attendees.
Breakfast, lunch, and dinner will be provided to all participants. Additionally, Catalyst Cooperative has funding to cover the food, travel, and lodging expenses for up to 15 attendees as a travel grant.
We’ll be accepting applications through 2026-04-03 EDT and will email those accepted by the end of 2026-04-24 EDT. Note that the abstract submission deadline for the MES Workshop is 2026-03-01. Applicants do not need to present at MES to be eligible for the data lab.
We would love for you to send this opportunity to your students, or forward to colleagues, particularly anyone with students who are underrepresented in energy research.
For more information, see our blog post. If you have any questions about the lab or the application, feel free to respond here, or contact us at data-lab@catalyst.coop.