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Keynote speakers
Professor Sir Stanley Whittingham
Position - Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Materials Science and Engineering, Binghamton University
Stan Whittingham is a Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Materials Science and Engineering at Binghamton University. Following his D Phil at Oxford University, he was a research associate in Materials S&E at Stanford University. This ... Read more
Professor Shirley Meng
Position - Professor at the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago
Dr. Y. Shirley Meng is The Liew Family Professor at the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago. She serves as the Chief Scientist of the Argonne Collaborative Center for Energy Storage Science (ACCESS) at Argonne ... Read more
Professor Paul Monks
Position - Chief Scientific Advisor, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ)
Professor Paul Monks CB is the Chief Scientific Adviser (CSA) for the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ). As CSA, he delivers independent and impartial science and engineering advice to Ministers and policy makers across the ... Read more
Robert Llewellyn
Position - Founder, Fully Charged
Robert Llewellyn is the Founder of the Fully Charged Show, a YouTube series in which he discusses the contemporary electric vehicle scene, the future of transport and renewable energy tech from solar panels to battery storage and alternative ... Read more
Dr Reza Younesi
Position - Co-Founder of Altris AB and Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry - Ångström Laboratory, Uppsala University
Reza Younesi is an Associate Professor at Uppsala University in Sweden, and Co-Founder of ALTRIS AB, Europe's sodium-ion battery developer - https://www.altris.se/. Reza worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Technical University of Denmark ... Read more
Invited speakers
Dr Gyen Ming Angel
Position - Director of Ventre Building, Prosemino
Dr Gyen Ming Angel is the Director of Venture Building at Prosemino, the first venture studio with its own chemistry labs built for climate tech. Prosemino co-founds and scales net-zero startups focused on electrochemical energy and materials ... Read more
Dr Thomas Bartlett
Position - Deputy Challenge Director, Faraday Battery Challenge, Innovate UK UKRI
Thomas joined Innovate UK in 2020 and is now the Deputy Challenge Director for the £610 million Faraday Battery Challenge (FBC), the UK government’s flagship battery innovation programme. The FBC is working to develop a resilient and globally ... Read more
Dr Jonathan Buston
Position - Principal Scientist, Health and Safety Executive (HSE)
Jonathan is a Chartered Chemist within the HazMat Team (which covers batteries, explosives and releases and reaction hazards of nasty chemicals) at the Health and Safety Executive’s Science Labs based in Buxton. Jonathan leads the work in the ... Read more
Dr Carmen Cavallo
Position - Senior Research Scientist, R&D, FAAM
Carmen Cavallo, PhD, is a Senior Research Scientist in R&D at FAAM, where she directs the Advanced Characterization Section. With nearly a decade of expertise in lithium-ion technology, Carmen is at the cutting edge of battery cell ... Read more
Dr Sam Cooper
Position - Reader in Artificial Intelligence for Materials Design in the Dyson School of Design Engineering, Imperial College London
Sam is a Reader in Artificial Intelligence for Materials Design in the Dyson School of Design Engineering and Imperial College London and leader of the Tools for Learning, Design, and Research (TLDR) group. His work is primarily focused on the ... Read more
Dr Hieu Duong
Position - Chief Manufacturing Officer, AM Batteries
Hieu Duong is the Chief Manufacturing Officer at AM Batteries. Duong is an interdisciplinary engineer with over 20 years of experience in technology development and industrialization. With a Ph.D. in Chemistry from UCLA, he advanced membrane ... Read more
Professor Martin Freer
Position - Chief Executive Officer, The Faraday Institution
Professor Martin Freer joined the Faraday Institution as CEO in September 2024. Professor Freer is a nuclear physicist. Between 2015 and 2024 he served as the Director of the Birmingham Energy Institute (BEI) at the University of Birmingham, ... Read more
Professor Nuria Garcia-Araez
Position - Professor in Chemistry, University of Southampton
Nuria Garcia-Araez obtained her first-class degree in Chemistry in 2002 at the University of Alicante (Spain), where she also got her Ph.D. (cum laude) in 2007 in the field of single-crystal electrochemistry under the supervision of Prof. Juan ... Read more
Professor Louise Horsfall
Position - Chair of Sustainable Biotechnology, University of Edinburgh
Professor Louise Horsfall, Chair of Sustainable Biotechnology at the University of Edinburgh, is interested in applying synthetic biology to improve the sustainability of biological processes and products. She was a founding member of the ... Read more
Dr Rob House
Position - Associate Professor of Materials, University of Oxford
Robert House is an Associate Professor in the Department of Materials, Fellow of ZERO Institute at Oxford and Non-Tutorial Fellow of Keble College. He holds a Research Fellowship with the Royal Academy of Engineering and affiliations with the ... Read more
Professor John Irvine
Position - School of Chemistry, University of St. Andrews
John Irvine is Professor of Chemistry at the University of St Andrews. He has established a significant international research profile investigating fundamental electrochemistry, solid-state chemistry and materials science, addressing critical ... Read more
Dr Alice Merryweather
Position - Founder and Applications Lead, Illumion
Dr. Alice Merryweather is the co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of illumion, a start-up dedicated to transforming battery research through advanced optical microscopy. During her PhD at the University of Cambridge, Alice developed a novel ... Read more
Dr Hadi Moztarzadeh
Position - Head of Technology Trends, Advanced Propulsion Centre (APC)
Dr Hadi Moztarzadeh is a technology innovation specialist, with over 20 years’ experience in both academia and industry. At the APC, he oversees a portfolio of insights and foresights and technology strategy as well as the Automotive Council ... Read more
Dr Evi Petavratzi
Position - Senior Mineral Commodity Geologist, British Geological Society (BGS)
Dr Evi Petavratzi is a Principal Mineral Commodity Specialist at the British Geological Survey (BGS), with over 15 years of working experience. Her work is in the field of critical raw materials and sustainable and responsible supply, both from ... Read more
Rebecca Schapira
Position - Deputy Director for Advanced Manufacturing, Department for Business and Trade (DBT)
Rebecca has led the work on the Industrial Strategy’s Advanced Manufacturing Sector Plan. In addition to taking a wide strategic view across the whole Manufacturing landscape, she is also the Department’s lead on Battery policy and Electronic ... Read more
Dr. Ulderico Ulissi
Position - Head of Overseas Tech & Startup Cooperation, CATL
Dr. Ulderico Ulissi heads oversea startup sourcing and technical due diligence for CATL. Before that, he worked in consulting and market research. He held technical roles at Nissan Motor, where he was the European technical lead for research in ... 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.
