Speakers
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Keynote Speakers
- Peter G. Bruce (University of Oxford, UK)
- Hong Li (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China)
- Linda F. Nazar (University of Waterloo, Canada)
- Brandon Wood (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA)
Invited Speakers
- Holger Althues (Fraunhofer IWS, Dresden, Germany)
- Koichiro Aotani (Nissan Motor Co. Ltd., Japan)
- Raphaële Clément (University of California Santa Barbara, USA)
- Christoph Hartnig (AMG Lithium GmbH, Frankfurt, Germany)
- Matthew McDowell (Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA)
- Daniel Rettenwander (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway)
- Jennifer Rupp (Technical University Munich, Germany)
- Ulderico Ulissi (Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. (CATL), China)
- Nella Vargas-Barbosa (University of Bayreuth, Germany)
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- Peter Bruce
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Professor Sir Peter Bruce, FRS, FRSE, MAE, IoM is the Wolfson Professor of Materials at the University of Oxford and Chief Scientist of the Faraday Institution. From 2018 to 2023 he served as the Physical Secretary and Vice-President of the Royal Society (the UK’s national academy of sciences). Peter’s research interests embrace materials chemistry and electrochemistry, with a particular emphasis on energy storage, especially lithium and sodium batteries. Recent efforts have focused on revealing the fundamental mechanisms occurring in solid-state batteries, understanding anomalous oxygen redox in high capacity Li-ion cathodes, and the challenges of the lithium-air battery. His research has been recognised with a number of awards and fellowships, including from the Royal Society, the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Electrochemical Society and the German Chemical Society. He has been named as a Highly Cited Researcher by Thomson Reuters/Clarivate every year since 2015. In the 2022 Queen’s Birthday Honours List, Peter received a knighthood for his services to science and innovation.
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- Hong Li
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Title: Efforts from semi-solid to all solid lithium batteries via in situ solidification technologies
Hong Li is a professor in Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He has studied materials for lithium batteries since 1993. His main research interests are key materials and battery technologies of high energy density lithium batteries, solid-state lithium batteries, battery failure analysis and fundamental solid state ionic problems and new devices, etc. He has published over 570 papers in peer-reviewed journals with over 60000 times citation and the H-factor is 130. He has filed over 200 patents and 120 patents have been granted. He is a board member in International Meeting of Lithium batteries and International Society of Solid State Ionics.
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- Linda Nazar
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Title: Soft superionic Li-metal oxychloride conductors for all solid state Li and Na batteries.
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- Brandon Wood
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Title: Insights into performance and durability of garnet solid electrolytes from multiscale simulations
Dr. Brandon Wood is Director of the Laboratory for Energy Applications for the Future (LEAF) and Associate Program Lead for Hydrogen & Computational Energy Materials at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in the United States. His primary research interests lie in the application of ab initio and mesoscale simulation techniques to materials for energy storage, conversion, and delivery. A central theme is the use of high-performance computing to understand complex interfaces in solids. He leads crosscutting modeling and simulation activities within multiple U.S. Department of Energy efforts, including within the U.S.-Germany Solid-state Battery Research Collaboration (DEUS) and three different multi-lab consortia focused on technology challenges for hydrogen energy. He also leads the LLNL Degradation Science Strategic Initiative, focused on corrosion and failure of functional and structural materials.
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- Holger Althues
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Holger Althues studied chemical engineering and received his doctoral degree in inorganic chemistry at the University of Technology Dresden in 2007. Since then he is working at the Fraunhofer Institute for Material and Beam Technology in Dresden, Germany. 2008 he became a team manager for the chemical surface technology group and his team was transferred into a division with 3 sub-groups in 2015. In his position as division manager he administrates various projects in the area of film deposition techniques, electrode processing and energy storage applications. His main research topics are materials and surface technologies for high energy secondary batteries. A recent focus is on material and electrode development for lithium sulfur and solid state battery cells.
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- Koichiro Aotani
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Title: Challenges of All Solid State Battery for EV Application
Koichiro Aotani is a deputy general manager of Advanced materials and processing laboratory, Nissan Research Center with eighteen years of experience working for electrochemical devises such as Fuel cell and lithium-ion secondary battery for automotive use. Koichiro Aotani specializes in material chemistry and battery modeling technology and now in charge of system and safety design of All-Solid State Battery (ASSB) for automotive use since 2019.
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- Raphaële Clément
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Title: Chloride Electrolytes : A
Raphaële Clément is an Assistant Professor in the Materials Department at the University of California Santa Barbara since 2018. She received her Ph.D. in Chemistry in 2016 from the University of Cambridge, working under the supervision of Prof. Clare Grey. She then joined the group of Prof. Gerbrand Ceder as a postdoc at the University of California Berkeley. At UCSB, the Clément group is interested in establishing materials design rules, and in optimizing materials processing approaches to advance electrochemical energy storage. The group’s expertise lies in the development and deployment of magnetic resonance techniques (experimental and computational) for the study of battery materials and beyond, with a strong emphasis on operando tools. She received an NSF CAREER award in 2022, the Materials Today Rising Star Award in 2023, as well as the ISE Prize in Electrochemical Materials Science from the International Society of Electrochemistry. She is a Topical Editor for ACS Energy Letters.
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- Christoph Hartnig
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Christoph is heading the R&D and business development activities at AMG Lithium, relying on a strong background of two decades of cooperation with international customers and leading multi-national teams. His key responsibilities are market intelligence and customer interactions to close the loop from market requirements to R&D activities and finally to product deployment. His track record moves along the renewable energy value chain in the fields of Lithium ion batteries, fuel cells, hydrogen, and photovoltaics. He contributes with a strong professional network in both academia and industry to the successful development of next generation battery products within AMG Lithium. Prior to AMG Lithium Christoph worked in business development, marketing, and R&D positions at Rockwood Lithium, Heraeus and BASF.
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- Matthew McDowell
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Matthew McDowell is Associate Professor and Carter N. Paden, Jr. Distinguished Chair for Innovation in Materials Science and Metals Processing at Georgia Tech, with appointments in the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering and the School of Materials Science and Engineering. His research is focused on understanding and engineering materials for energy storage. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 2013 and was a postdoc at Caltech from 2013 until 2015. He is the Co-Director of the Georgia Tech Advanced Battery Center and an Associate Editor of ACS Nano. McDowell has received numerous awards, including the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), Sloan Fellowship, the ECS Battery Division Early Career Award, and Georgia Tech’s Outstanding Achievement in Early Career Research award. For more information, see https://mtmcdowell.gatech.edu.
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- Daniel Rettenwander
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Daniel Rettenwander is a Full Professor at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway. He leads the Battery Materials Team at NTNU and also serves as the Director of the Christian Doppler Laboratory for Solid-state Batteries. His research spans from the development of novel materials, scaling of solid-state batteries to the design of devices for probing solid-state batteries during operation, utilizing both custom-designed, in-house equipment, as well as large-scale user facilities (e.g., ESRF in France and DESY in Germany).
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- Jennifer Rupp
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Professor Jennifer L.M. Rupp FRSC is the professor for Electrochemical Materials at TU Munich researching materials for next energy conversion and storage and until recently was affiliated as faculty to MIT, she is also Co-Founder and CSO of Qkera GmbH a battery material producer. Prior she earned her PhD degree at ETH Zurich Switzerland and was affiliated as a visiting and senior scientist at MIT (2012-2011) and the National Institute of Materials Science (NIMS) in Tsukuba, Japan (2011). She was a non-tenure track Assistant Professor at ETH Zurich (2012-2016). In 2017, she joined as faculty MIT, where she was promoted from Assistant to Associate Professor the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (MIT) till 2023.
She has published more than 130 papers, holds more 25 patents, and being a frequent speaker in the public such as a panel member of the World Economic Forum, enjoys discussing material tech trends on the theme of energy with the public, economists and policy makers. Rupp also enjoys engaging with companies all around the world through both consultancy and collaborations focused on material processing, business, and electrochemical device & product engineering (e.g. battery, sustainable fuel processing, sensing, electronic companies). Recently she Co-Founded the battery material manufacture company Qkera to translate green and cost-effective battery solid manufacture to energy storage products as a platformntechnology and serves as the chief strategy officer (CSO). Her battery material company Qkera is this year’s winner of the international 2024 Falling Walls competition in the category start-ups.
Through her career she has won numerous awards and received honors from academies and industry including 2024 Fullrath Award for excellence in ceramic material design for batteries and fuel cells by the American Ceramic Society and since of 2024 a member of the National Academy Leopoldina and a Max Planck Fellow and 2024-2026 Vice President of the International Solid State Ionics Society. Since 2024 she is the Vice President of the International Solid State Ionics Society, since 2021 she is an elected member of the Royal Chemical Society, received the 2018 Merck Displaying Future Awards for novel energy conversion devices, the 2017 BASF and Volkswagen Science Award for her battery research, 2018 Merck Award, and many others. In 2019, she founded the LILA Mentorship program for Minorities in Engineering and Sciences.
- Ulderico Ulissi
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Dr. Ulderico Ulissi manages Technology Assessment and Research Strategy at 21C Lab, the research arm of CATL. Before that, he worked in consulting and market research. He held technical roles as at Nissan Motor, where he was the European technical lead for research in energy storage technologies, and as a Senior Scientist at OXIS Energy Ltd., where he managed the design of a pre-A-sample cell for customer delivery. He was awarded his doctorate in chemistry in 2017 from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, and he holds both a BSc and an MSc in industrial chemistry from Sapienza, University of Rome. He has authored 19 scientific publications, 5 patents, and 1 book on energy storage technologies.
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- Nella Vargas-Barbosa
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2010: B.Sc. Chemistry, University of Puerto Rico
2015: Ph.D. Chemistry, Penn State University
2015-2020: Research stays (Postdoc) at Marburg University and MPI for Solid-State Research
2020-2023: Helmholtz Junior Research Group Leader at FZJ/IEK-12 (Helmholtz Institute Münster)
Since 08.2024: Chair for Electrochemistry at Bayreuth University and Bayerisches Zentrum für Batterietechnik (BayBatt)
