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).
Y. Shirley Meng
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/
Xueliang (Andy) Sun
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.
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 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.
Miaofang Chi
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.