Douglas I. Kushner is a Research scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory working in the Energy Conversion Group. His current work focuses on studying structure-property-function relationships of next-generation ion-conducting polymers as well as providing technical expertise and developing new hardware and software controls for materials characterization. Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher, also at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, working on redox flow batteries and fuel cells. Douglas received his Ph.D. from Penn State University under the guidance of Michael A. Hickner, where he studied polymer dynamics under confinement.