Dr. Joey D. Ocon

A proud Mindanaoan, Dr. Joey D. Ocon is a tenured Assistant Professor and a University Scientist II at the University of the Philippines Diliman, where he teaches courses on chemical and energy engineering. He is currently the principal investigator of multiple research projects on the development of energy storage technologies. In addition to teaching and research, he is also

a technical consultant for several private companies. He has received multiple awards including Germany’s BMBF Green Talents Award (2015), NAST’s Outstanding Young Scientist Award (2015), PIChE’s Outstanding Chemical Engineer Award (2017). He represented his country at the 2015 Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Lindau, Germany and the 2017 STS Forum in Kyoto, Japan.

As an ASEAN S&T Fellow, Dr. Ocon will work with Philippine Council for Industry, Energy, and Emerging Technology Research and Development (DOST-PCIEERD) to update the R&D roadmaps and harmonise its R&D portfolio on renewable energy, energy storage, and other alternative energy technologies. He is particularly interested in developing a multi-disciplinary research program on rural electrification in off-grid areas.

Dr. Ocon has BSc (2008) and MSc (2011) in Chemical Engineering degrees from the University of the Philippines Diliman and a PhD in Environmental Science and Engineering (2015) degree from the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea. He also completed the Leaders in Innovation Fellowship under the Newton Agham Programme of the British Royal Academy of Engineering and DOST. Dr. Ocon was a visiting scientist at the Off-Grid Systems Group of the Reiner Lemoine Institute, Germany (2016), and a visiting professor at the University of California Merced (2017) and Monash University Malaysia (2018).