Speakers
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Keynote Speakers (confirmed)
Yoon Seok Jung
Yonsei University, South Korea
"Materials Chemistry Spaces for Halide Superionic Conductors for All-Solid-State Batteries"Shirley Meng
University of Chicago and Argonne National Lab, USA
"Understanding the Interphasial Phenomena in All-Solid-State Batteries"Arnulf Latz
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR), Germany
"Impact of structures and Interfaces on performance of solid state batteries: A simulation perspective"Jeff Sakamoto
University of Michigan
"Mechano-electrochemical Phenomena and Anode-free Manufacturing of Solid-state Batteries"Invited Speakers (confirmed)
Claire Villevieille
"Multiscale operando investigation of sulfide based solid electrolyte"Florencia Marchini (Umicore)
"Solid-state batteries at Umicore"Bernhard Roling
"Characterization of Solid Electrolytes and All-Solid-State Batteries under Active Pressure Control"Rüdiger Daub
"Understanding the interplay of material selection, product design and manufacturing process as the key for scalable production of high-energy ASSB electrodes"Anja Bielefeld
"Microstructure of Composite Cathodes for All-Solid-State Batteries: Origins, Influences and Consequences"Ainara Aguadero
"Insights into the role of interfaces chemistry to improve the performance of metal anode solid-state batteries"Philipp Adelhelm
"Electrode reactions with large volume expansion in solid-state batteries"Sabrina Zellmer
"Technical, economic and ecological evaluation of production processes for Solid-State-Batteries"Gunther Brunklaus
"Beyond PEO with Hybrid Concepts: Caprolactone Oligomers as Key Strategy Towards Higher Energy Densities""A solid state lithium-metal anode battery development at QuantumScape"
Short Biographies
Arnulf Latz
University of Ulm, Germany
Arnulf Latz is professor for Electrochemical Multiphysics Modeling at the University of Ulm, head of department for Computational Electrochemistry at the Institute for Engineering Thermodynamics (German Aerospace Center in Stuttgart) with nearly 40 PhD and postdoctoral researcher. He is principal investigator for Electrochemical Multiphysics Modeling at the Helmholtz Institute Ulm for Electrochemical Energy storage and member of the board of directors of the Helmholtz Institute Ulm. Arnulf Latz is also principal investigator in the cluster of excellence POLIS for the investigation of post lithium storage devices at the University of Ulm und the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. He studied Physics at the Ludwigs-Maximilians University Munich and received his Ph.D. degree in Theoretical Physics from the Technical University Munich in 1991. After 10 years in academic research in USA and Germany, he entered the field of applied research and was from 2002-2012 head of the group “Complex Fluids” at the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics (ITWM) in Kaiserslautern, before joining German Aerospace center and University of Ulm in 2012 as full professor for Electrochemical Multiphysics Modelling. His main research interests are modeling and simulation of electrochemical storage and conversion technologies from the nanometer to the cell scale with a focus on rigorous, theory based non-equilibrium thermodynamics approaches and microstructure resolved simulations. The software BEST (Battery and electrochemistry simulation tools), which has been developed in his group at the Fraunhofer ITWM and is now being further developed in a cooperation between the German Aerospace center and the Fraunhofer ITWM was the first software being able to perform coupled transport and electrochemical reaction simulation in 3 D resolved tomography based microstructures.
Y. Shirley Meng
University of Chicago and Argonne National Lab, USA
[Biography coming soon]
Jeff Sakamoto
University of Michigan, USA
Professor Jeff Sakamoto has 25 years of experience studying and translating ceramic materials for electrochemical materials into energy technologies for terrestrial and space applications. He was a senior researcher at the Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory (2000-2007) where he helped develop Li ion batteries for the 2003 Mars rovers, a Professor at Michigan State University (2007-2014), and has been a Professor at the University of Michigan since 2014. His group synthesizes ceramic electrolytes, studies the coupling of mechanics and electrochemical phenomena, and develops manufacturing processes for solid state batteries. He received two Major Space Act Awards from the NASA Inventions and Contributions Board, is the primary contributor on 34 patents and received the Teacher-Scholar (2013), and Withrow Excellence in Teaching (2009) Awards at Michigan State University. He also founded Zakuro, Inc., a solid-state battery startup in 2020.
Yoon Seok Jung
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 (2008) 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). He was an Associate Professor at UNIST (2011–2018) and Hanyang University (2018-2020). His research interests cover solid electrolytes and electrodes for rechargeable batteries, especially all-solid-state batteries. He published 45 papers regarding solid-state batteries. He served as a Guest Editor of Energy Storage Materials and is also an Editorial Board Member of Batteries & Supercaps and Scientific Reports.
Claire Villevieille
LEPMI laboratory, Grenoble, France
Claire Villevieille is currently CNRS research director (i.e. Full Prof ) at the LEPMI laboratory in Grenoble, France. Her research is dedicated to the investigation of complex reaction mechanisms of battery systems such as Li-ion batteries and post Li-ion batteries by means of various operando techniques. Her research involves both, in-house devices as well as large facilities in France ERSF (Grenoble) and ILL (Grenoble). Her primary interests include solid state synthesis, electrochemical properties, and bulk–surface relationship of the various electrode/electrolyte materials.
Florencia Marchini
Umicore Belgium
Florencia Marchini is currently a R&D Project Manager at Umicore Belgium working in the development of material solutions for all-solid state battery applications.
She obtained her PhD in Chemistry in 2018 at the Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires in the group of Ernesto J. Calvo. She then joined Collège de France in the group of Jean-Marie Tarascon as a postdoctoral researcher in solid-state batteries. Her areas of expertise are electrochemistry, surfaces science and materials chemistry and her scientific work includes electrochemical recovery of lithium salts from aqueous solutions, Li/O2 batteries and all solid-state batteries.
Bernhard Roling
Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany
Bernhard Roling is professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Marburg. His research focuses on fundamental processes in electrochemical systems, in particular on ion correlations and ion transport in solid electrolytes and highly concentrated liquid electrolytes, on transport and charge transfer processes across electrochemical interfaces and interphases, as well as on electrochemical processes in composite electrodes. Apart from electrochemical techniques, his group uses FIB/SEM, Raman microscopy and TOF-SIMS and works on the development of in-operando AFM-based tech-niques for the nanoscale electrochemical characterization of mixed conducting materials and composite electrodes.
Rüdiger Daub
Technical University of Munich, Germany
Rüdiger Daub studied Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at KIT in Karlsruhe and graduated in 2007. He then worked as a research associate at the Institute for Machine Tools and Industrial Management (iwb) of the Technical University of Munich, and received his doctoral degree in 2012 for his thesis on laser beam welding. Between 2012 and 2021 Rüdiger Daub was employed at the BMW GROUP in Munich. Starting as a technology development specialist for lithium-ion batteries, he was responsible for planning, building up, and ramping up a prototype production plant at the Battery Cell Competence Center. His last position at BMW was head of technology development and prototype production of lithium-ion battery electrodes. In 2021, Rüdiger Daub was appointed by the Technical University of Munich as a full professor for the chair of Production Technology and Energy Storage Systems and since then has headed the institute "iwb” in Garching and the Fraunhofer Institute for Casting, Composite and Processing Technology (IGCV) in Augsburg.
Anja Bielefeld
Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany
Anja Bielefeld is a junior group leader for modeling electrochemical systems at the Center for Materials Research of the Justus-Liebig University Gießen. She is particularly interested in microstructure effects and their influence on battery cell properties. Her group approaches these with simulations of reduced complexity that are inspired, fed and supported by experiments.
Anja recently obtained her PhD degree from the Justus-Liebig University on models for solid-state battery composite cathodes. During her PhD studies she worked at Volkswagen AG in battery research and later in concept development where she gained wide insight in (solid-state) battery technology in the automotive context.
She received her B.Sc. and M.Sc. in physics from the Technical University Braunschweig and spent part of her master studies at the University of Oslo.
Ainara Aguadero
Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid, Spain
Ainara is a Tenured Scientist at the Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid, CSIC and Visiting Ass. Prof. in Energy Materials in the Department of Materials, Imperial College London. Her research focuses on the quantitative analysis and optimisation of ion and electron dynamics in complex oxides, bulk surfaces and interfaces. She uses a combination of structural, chemical and electrochemical analysis including surface-sensitive techniques and operando characterisation to develop the next generation of solid-state energy storage and conversion devices.
Philipp Adelhelm
Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany
Philipp Adelhelm is professor for physical chemistry and works at the interface between materials science and electrochemistry. After studying materials science at the University of Stuttgart, he moved to the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam (Department of Prof. Antionetti / Smarsly, 2005-2007) for his doctoral project. This was followed by a 2-year postdoctoral stay at the University of Utrecht (Prof. de Jongh) and then a position as a junior research group leader at the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Justus Liebig University in Giessen (Prof. Janek, 2009-2015). From 2015-2019 he was a professor at the Institute for Technical Chemistry and Environmental Chemistry at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena.
He has been a professor at the Institute for Chemistry at Humboldt-University Berlin since 2019 and heads a joint research group on operando battery analysis at the Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin (HZB).
Sabrina Zellmer
Fraunhofer Institute for Surface Engineering and Thin Films IST, Braunschweig, Germany
Sabrina Zellmer studied mechanical engineering at the TU Braunschweig, where she proceeded her studies in the field of nanomaterials as a research associate at the Institute for Particle Technology. In 2014 she was assigned as the team leader of the research group “Particle Functionalization”. Within this field, she completed her doctoral studies, which she combined with the fulfillment of numerous industrial and research projects as well as a host of scientific publications. During her work at the Institute for Particle Technology, she broadened her scientific expertise by working in the Battery LabFactory Braunschweig (BLB), becoming the head of the research field "Future Materials" and afterwards, the leader of the junior research group "Solid-State Battery Materials and Electrodes”. Due to her extensive expertise and encouragement, she was selected for the steering committee dedicated to Battery Process Engineering within the BLB, with the special focus on solid-state batteries. Since January 2019 Sabrina Zellmer is Head of Department Process and Production Engineering for Sustainable Energy Storage Systems at the Fraunhofer Institute for Surface Engineering and Thin Films IST. In 2020, Sabrina Zellmer defended her doctoral thesis entitled "Small molecule stabilization and spray drying of metal oxide nanoparticles” at TU Braunschweig.
Gunther Brunklaus
Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Germany
PD Dr. Gunther Brunklaus is head of the division “Electrolytes” at the Helmholtz-Institute Münster (IEK- 12) of the Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Germany. The division focuses on design and optimization of advanced electrolytes, particularly polymers, as well as development of analytical methods for the characterization of batteries. In addition, the group evolves NMR/MRI-based techniques for operandoanalysis of energy storage technologies, particularly emphasizing mechanistic aspects of irreversible capacity losses. PD Dr. Brunklaus has more than 18 years of experience in scientific research, thereof 9 years in the field of batteries, and is author/co-author of more than 100 scientific publications and inventor of 4 patent applications.
Yuki Katoh
QuantumScape, San Jose, USAYuki Katoh is a Director at QuantumScape in San Jose, US. He received a PhD in Engineering from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2014. He joined Toyota Motor Corporation in 2008 and Toyota Motor Europe in 2015. In 2019, Katoh moved to QuantumScape. He has researched about solid electrolyte and its application to solid-state batteries throughout his career.
