Professor Louis Piper

Louis Piper is Professor of Battery Innovation and heads the Battery Materials and Cells group at WMG.  He co-leads the Faraday Institution Degradation and FutureCat Phase II projects that focus on developing next generation cathode chemistries and understanding how to improve capacity retention in state-of-art Ni-rich and phosphate cells.  He has published almost 200 publications and has various projects with industry partners and government agencies.  Louis completed his PhD in surface Physics at Warwick University (2006) before moving to the USA.  He was an Associate Research Professor for Boston University and  beamline contact scientist at the NSLS (X1B beamline) at Brookhaven National Laboratory (2006-2010).  He was then Physics faculty at State University of New York, Binghamton (Assistant Professor to Full Professor, 2010-2020) and Director the Material Science & Engineering program.  He joined WMG in Nov 2020.