Speakers
Keynote Speakers
Josh Buettner-Garrett
Solid Power, Louisville, USA
"Practical Considerations for Solid-State Battery Development for EV Applications"
Kelsey Hatzell
Princeton University, USA
"Synchrotron characterization of all solid state batteries"
Akitoshi Hayashi
Osaka Prefecture University, Japan
"Ductile solid electrolytes for all-solid-state batteries"
Y. Shirley Meng
University of California, San Diego, USA
"New Anode Strategies for All Solid State Batteries - Interface and Mechanical Stabilities"
Invited Speakers
Miaofang Chi
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
"Microscopic Insights into Interfaces Involving Solid Electrolytes"
Serena Corr
The University of Sheffield, UK
"In situ muon spin relaxation for probing ion diffusion in lithium batteries"
Stephen J. Harris
Lawrence Berkeley Lab, USA
"A General Approach to Preventing Dendrite Penetration into Solid Electrolytes"
Tim Holme
QuantumScape, San Jose, USA
"Solid-state, lithium-metal anode battery development at QuantumScape"
Yoon Seok Jung
Yonsei University, South Korea
"Development of Halide Solid Electrolytes for Ni-Rich Layered Oxide Cathodes for All-Solid-State Batteries"
Christian Masquelier
Université de Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens, France
"Polymorphism in the Na-Ion conductor Na3PS4"
Benjamin Morgan
University of Bath, UK
"Disentangling Lithium Stoichiometry and Framework Stoichiometry Effects in Li6+xPS5+xI1-x Argyrodite Solid Electrolytes — Insights from Molecular Dynamics Simulations"
Linda F. Nazar
University of Waterloo, Canada
"Tuning Structure, Ion Conductivity and Interface Stability in New Halide Solid State Electrolytes for Solid State Batteries"
Xueliang (Andy) Sun
University of Western Ontario, Canada
"Halide-based Solid State Electrolytes: Synthesis, Stability and Electrode"
Short Biographies
Kelsey Hatzell
Princeton University, USA
Dr. Hatzell is an assistant professor at Princeton university in the Andlinger Center for Energy and Environment and department of Mechanical and aerospace engineering. Hatzell’s group primarily work on energy storage and is particularly interested at using non-equilibrium x-ray techniques to probe batteries during operando experimentation.
Dr. Hatzell earned her Ph.D. in Material Science and Engineering at Drexel University, her M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Pennsylvania State University, and her B.S./B.A. in Engineering/Economics from Swarthmore College. Hatzell’s research group works on understanding phenomena at solid|liquid and solid|solid interfaces and works broadly i9n energy storage and conversion. Hatzell is the recipient of several awards including the ORAU Powe Junior Faculty Award (2017), NSF CAREER Award (2019), ECS Toyota Young Investigator Award (2019), finalist for the BASF/Volkswagen Science in Electrochemistry Award (2019), the Ralph “Buck” Robinson award from MRS (2019), Sloan Fellowship in Chemistry (2020), and POLiS Award of Excellence for Female Researchers (2021).
University of California, San Diego, USA
Dr. Y. Shirley Meng received her Ph.D. in Advance Materials for Micro & Nano Systems from the Singapore-MIT Alliance in 2005, after which she worked as a postdoc research fellow and became a research scientist at MIT. Shirley currently holds the Zable Chair Professor in Energy Technologies and professor in Materials Science & NanoEngineering at University of California San Diego (UCSD). Dr. Meng is the principal investigator of the research group - Laboratory for Energy Storage and Conversion (LESC). She is the founding Director of Sustainable Power and Energy Center (SPEC) (2005-2020). In 2020, she is named as the inaugural director of Institute for Materials Discovery and Design (IMDD). Dr. Meng received several prestigious awards, including Michael Faraday Medal of Royal Chemical Society (2020), International Battery Association Battery IBA Research Award (2019), Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists Finalist (2018&2019), American Chemical Society ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces Young Investigator Award (2018), IUMRS-Singapore Young Scientist Research Award (2017), C.W. Tobias Young Investigator Award of the Electrochemical Society (2016) and NSF CAREER Award (2011). Dr. Meng is an elected Fellow of Electrochemical Society (FECS) and Fellow of Materials Research Society (FMRS). She is the author and co-author of more than 230 peer-reviewed journal articles, two book chapters and five issued patents. she is the Editor-in-Chief for MRS Energy & Sustainability. Shirley is the co-founder of Unigrid LLC.
Research Website: LESC http://smeng.ucsd.edu/
University of Western Ontario, Canada
Prof. Xueliang (Andy) Sun is a Full Professor and a senior Canada Research Chair (Tier I) at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. Dr. Sun is a Fellow of Royal Society of Canada and Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering. Dr. Sun received his Ph.D degree in Materials Chemistry at the University of Manchester, UK, in 1999. Dr. Sun’s research is focused on advanced materials for energy conversion and storage including Li batteries and fuel cells. Dr. Sun was named as one of "Highly Cited Researchers" in 2018-2020. Dr. Sun is an author and co-author of over 540 refereed-journals (e.g. Nature Energy, Nature Communications, Advanced Materials, J. Am. Chem. Soc., Angew. Chem., Nano Letter, Energy & Environmental Science) with citations of over 36,000 times and H-index of 97. He edited 4 books and published 18 book chapters as well as filed 24 patents. Dr. Sun received various awards such as Award for Research Excellence in Materials Chemistry Winner from Canada Chemistry Society (2018) and University Hellmuch Prize for Achievement in Research (2019). Dr. Sun is a vice Chairman of the International Academy of Electrochemical Energy Science (IAOEES). He also serves as an Editor-in-Chief of “Electrochemical Energy Review” under Spring-Nature.
Yonsei University, South Korea
Yoon Seok Jung is an Associate Professor of Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Yonsei University, South Korea. He received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Chemical Engineering from Seoul National University, having trained as an electrochemist and materials scientist, and conducted postdoctoral research at University of Colorado Boulder, the University of Texas at Austin, and NREL (2008-2011). Before joining Yonsei University in 2020, he was an Associate Professor at UNIST (2011–2018) and Hanyang University (2018-2020). He served as a Guest Editor of Energy Storage Materials and is also an Editorial Board Member of Batteries & Supercaps and Scientific Reports. He published more than 80 papers and registered 23 patents. His research interests cover solid electrolytes and electrodes for rechargeable batteries, especially all-solid-state batteries.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Miaofang Chi is a senior staff scientist at the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences (CNMS) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Her research is focused on understanding interfacial ion transport and charge transfer behavior in energy and quantum materials, by advancing and applying novel electron microscopy techniques. She received her Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from University of California, Davis in 2008, and joined ORNL as a staff scientist in the same year. She was awarded the Burton Metal by the Microscopy Society of America (2016), the Heinrich Award from the Microanalysis Society (2019) and was named to the Clarivate’s 2018 and 2020 list of Highly Cited Researchers.
Lawrence Berkeley Lab, USA
Steve Harris received a BS degree in chemistry from UCLA and a PhD in physical chemistry from Harvard University. After a Miller Post-Doctoral Fellowship at UC Berkeley, he began his career at the General Motors Research Labs. Apart from a stint at the Ford Scientific Research Labs, Steve worked at GM until 2011, when he was awarded a Miller Visiting Professorship in the UC Berkeley Chemistry Department. Since then, he has worked in the Materials Science and Energy Storage Divisions at Lawrence Berkeley Lab. During that time, he has been a Visiting Scholar in the Materials Science and Engineering Department at Stanford, has consulted for battery companies, private equity companies, and venture capital companies. He is also on the advisory boards of several battery startups.
Steve’s work has ranged widely, and it includes studies of combustion chemistry, the kinetics and thermodynamics for growth of CVD films, aerosol dynamics modeling, fatigue failure in gears, and fracture mechanics in cast aluminum. When he returned to GM from Ford, he started work on Li-ion batteries, focusing on how the presence of heterogeneities and flaws affects ion transport, durability, and energy density. He is presently looking at the mechanics and electrochemistry at Li metal interfaces for solid state batteries, and he has proposed a general solution to the dendrite penetration problem.
Université de Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens, France
Christian Masquelier joined Université de Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens, France, as a Full Professor of Chemistry. He has been working for 30 years on the crystal chemistry of sodium ion conductors and positive electrode materials for Li-ion and Na-ion batteries, in particular on operando X-ray or neutron diffraction of phosphate-based positive electrodes. He is the co-author of ~160 publications and 15 international patents in this field. He is presently Co-Director of the ALISTORE European Research Institute, head of MESC+ “Materials for Energy Storage and Conversion”, an ERAMUS MUNDUS European Joint Master Degree and Coordinator of the European Marie Curie PhD-COFUND project DESTINY.
QuantumScape, San Jose, USA
Tim Holme got his BS in Physics and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University. After co-founding QuantumScape in 2010, he has served as the CTO where he learns alongside a world-class team dedicated to the mission of making advanced batteries that enable long-range, high-performance, mass-market electric vehicles.
The University of Sheffield, UK
Serena Corr is Chair of Functional Nanomaterials at the Departments of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Sheffield. Recipient of the RSC Journal of Materials Chemistry lectureship in 2017, her research focuses on the design, synthesis and characterization of functional nanomaterials in particular for applications in energy storage and the environment, with an emphasis on understanding their intimate structure-property interplay. She leads multiple multi-institutional, interdisciplinary research activities, including the UK Faraday Institution project on Next Generation Cathodes for Li-ion batteries (FutureCat). She is deeply committed to early career researcher mentoring, the promotion of women in science and engineering and public outreach activities, sitting on the Faraday Institution Diversity Panel, EPSRC’s Advanced Materials Working Group and RSC’s Equity in Publishing group. She is associate editor of IOP Progress in Energy, editorial board member of J. Mater. Chem. A, Nanoscale, and Chemistry of Materials and sits on multiple beamtime access panels in the UK and EU.
University of Waterloo, Canada
Prof. Linda Nazar received her B.Sc. in Chemistry from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, her Ph.D in Chemistry from the University of Toronto, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Exxon Research Labs in Annandale, N.J. She joined the faculty at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada where she is a Chemistry professor, Senior Canada Research Chair in Solid State Energy Materials and Distinguished Research Professor. Nazar is known for her research on electrochemical energy storage with topics that span Li-ion batteries, “beyond Li-ion”, and solid state electrolytes/batteries. She has co-authored ~ 260 publications garnering over 58,000 citations. She is on the Web of Science’s Highly Cited Researcher Lists from 2014-2020, and a Fellow of the Royal Society (London).
Nazar is an Officer of the Order of Canada, and the recipient of several international awards including the MRS Medal, the Battery Research Award from the Electrochemical Society, the August-Wilhem von Hofman Lectureship (Germany Chemical Society), the International Battery Association award and the International Automotive Lithium Battery award. She has been a member of the Joint Centre for Energy Storage Research (USA) since 2013. She has spent sabbaticals at UCLA; the Jean Rouxel Institute of Materials and the CNRS in France; she was a Moore Distinguished Scholar at the California Institute of Technology and is now a Visiting Liebig Professor at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen, Germany.
Osaka Prefecture University, Japan
Akitoshi Hayashi is a professor of Department of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka Prefecture University in Japan. He received his Ph.D., M.S. and B.S. in Materials Science from Osaka Prefecture University. His research focuses on the development of lithium and sodium ion-conducting solid electrolytes and their application to all-solid-state rechargeable batteries. He is the author and co-author of more than 300 peer-reviewed journal articles. He received several awards from ceramic, chemistry, and electrochemistry fields including Young Scientist Award from the International Solid State Ionics Society (2005), Woldemar A.Weyl International Glass Science Award from the International Commission on Glass (2007), The Committee of Battery Technology Award from the Committee of Battery Technology of the Electrochemical Society of Japan (2007), the Young Scientists' Prize of the Commendation for Science and Technology from MEXT (2010), The Richard M. Fulrath Award (2017), the CerSJ Award for Advancements in Ceramic Science and Technology (2006) and Academic Achievement in Ceramic Science and Technology (2018) from the Ceramic Society of Japan, and the CSJ Award for Creative Work from the Chemical Society of Japan (2021).
Solid Power, Louisville, USA
Josh Buettner-Garrett has spent the last 13 years developing lithium-based batteries and their underlying materials. Today he is the CTO at Solid Power, a role that he has held since 2013 when he helped transition the company’s original technology out of the University of Colorado. Since that time, Solid Power has progressed from a small material developer to a leading producer of both solid electrolyte materials and solid-state cells with strategic partners including BMW and Ford. Prior to joining Solid Power, Josh led the Energy Storage group at ADA Technologies which focused on lithium batteries and ultracapacitors for niche applications.
University of Bath, UK
Benjamin Morgan is a Royal Society University Research Fellow and Reader at the University of Bath, UK. Benjamin received his MChem in Chemistry and PhD in Computational Chemistry from the University of Oxford, and conducted postdoctoral research at Trinity College Dublin, the University of Oxford, and the Stephenson Institute for Renewable Energy, University of Liverpool, before moving to Bath to take up his Royal Society URF. Benjamin's research uses theory and computer simulation to understand structure–composition–property relationships in functional materials, with a particular emphasis on understanding the factors controlling ionic transport in solid electrolytes.