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Join us in 2025
Did you enjoy our 2024 conference? Missed it but wish you had been there? Save the dates for our Faraday Institution Conference 2025 at University of Warwick, Tuesday 9 – Thursday 11 September 2025.
Raise your profile
We invite organisations with an interest in electrochemical energy storage research to support the conference by becoming a sponsor and exhibiting. We aim to share our 2025 sponsorship opportunities in January.
Gain new insights
This year’s conference focused on ‘The Battery Breakthrough: From Research, to Scale-up, to Manufacturing’. We are looking forward to sharing the theme for 2025 in January – keep your eyes peeled!
The Faraday Institution is the UK’s independent institute for electrochemical energy storage research, skills development, market analysis, and early-stage commercialisation. It brings together research scientists and industry partners on commercially valuable projects to reduce battery cost, weight, and volume; improve performance and reliability; and develop whole-life strategies including recycling and reuse.
2024 Keynote speakers
Professor Kristin Persson
Position - Daniel M. Tellep Distinguished Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley
Kristin Persson is the Daniel M. Tellep Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Berkeley and the Director of the Molecular Foundry, a user facility at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. She is also the Director and founder of the ... Read more
Professor Shinichi Komaba
Position - Professor of Applied Chemistry at Tokyo University of Science
Shinichi Komaba is a Professor in the Department of Applied Chemistry at the Tokyo University of Science, Japan. He received his Ph.D. degree from Waseda University, Japan, in 1998 and then was a research associate at Iwate University, Japan, ... Read more
Ms Lina Emilsson
Position - Chief Operating Officer, Nidec Energy
A qualified and experienced Chemical Engineer and senior leader. Experienced from start-ups and industrialisation of cell manufacturing from Northvolt and Britishvolt. I thrive leading early-stage companies, major programmes and building high ... Read more
The Faraday Battery Challenge
Bringing bold and transformational change
The UK Government has entrusted the Faraday Institution as a key partner for the Faraday Battery Challenge to bring forward bold and transformational change in mission-inspired energy storage research. Funded through Innovate UK, the Faraday Institution serves as the UK’s flagship battery research programme to build and manage focused, substantial and impactful research projects in areas of fundamental science and engineering that have significant commercial relevance and potential.
