Gregory Hackett is a Research Engineer within the Research and Innovation Center, Strategic Systems Analysis and Engineering directorate at the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), U.S. Department of Energy, located in Morgantown, WV.  Dr. Hackett has been an employee at NETL since 2014, leading system-level analysis of energy technologies, with a focus on techno-economic analysis of carbon conversion, point source carbon capture for power applications, and solid-state electrochemical cell technologies.  He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from West Virginia University in 2004, 2006, and 2009, respectively.  Thesis topics involved direct carbon fuel cells and solid-state electrochemical cell performance degradation analysis. Dr. Hackett has several published manuscripts in the field of solid-state electrochemistry in peer-reviewed journals such as Solid State Ionics, Electrochemical Society Transactions, Journal of Power Sources, and Metallurgical and Materials Transactions E.