Issy completed her MChem from the University of Oxford in 2021, and is now doing a PhD in Metallurgy & Materials at the University of Birmingham on the CATMAT project.
She is working on the sustainability of batteries from a materials angle, and is interested particularly in supply chain resilience, climate adaptation and making the best use out of the minerals mined possible.
She is also the managing editor of the battery and climate newsletter Intercalation Station. Issy is passionate about climate justice and wants to use batteries as a vehicle to improve global equality.