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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
Professor Dame Clare Grey FRS
Position - Geoffrey-Moorhouse-Gibson and Royal Society Professor of Chemistry University of Cambridge
Clare P. Grey, FRS, DBE is the Geoffrey-Moorhouse-Gibson and Royal Society Professor of Chemistry at Cambridge University. After receiving a BA and D. Phil. from Oxford University, she was a post-doctoral researcher at Nijmegen and at DuPont ... Read more
Invited speakers
Graeme Cruickshank
Position - Chief Technology & Innovation Officer, CPI
Graeme is CPI’s Chief Technology and Innovation Officer, responsible for supporting the development of the Technology and Innovation (T&I) culture within CPI and ensuring the integration of CPI’s full innovation capability as part of the ... Read more
Dr James Dawson
Position - NU Academic Track Fellow (NUAcT), Newcastle University
James A. Dawson is a Reader and Newcastle University Academic Track Fellow in Energy Materials in the School of Natural and Environmental Sciences. His research utilises state-of-the-art computational techniques to investigate ion transport and ... Read more
Mr Stewart Dickson
Position - Co-Founder and CEO, Weardale Lithium
Mr. Stewart Dickson is Co-Founder and CEO of Weardale Lithium. Weardale Lithium was the first company to extract lithium from geothermal brines in County Durham, UK. He is also an investor and consults to a range of natural resources companies ... Read more
Dr Keri Goodwin
Position - Chief Technologist, CPI
Keri Goodwin is a Chief Technologist at CPI and has over 15 years of materials chemistry research experience. She received an MChem and PhD from the University of Edinburgh before beginning her career at CPI in 2009. During this time she has ... Read more
Professor Dame Clare Grey FRS
Position - Co-founder and Chief Scientist, Nyobolt
Clare P. Grey, FRS, DBE is the Geoffrey-Moorhouse-Gibson and Royal Society Professor of Chemistry at Cambridge University. After receiving a BA and D. Phil. from Oxford University, she was a post-doctoral researcher at Nijmegen and at DuPont ... Read more
Dr Tom Heenan
Position - Co-founder and CEO, Gaussion
Dr Tom Heenan is the CEO and co-founder of Gaussion, a London-based start-up that develops magnetic systems to improve battery performance. He is the lead inventor of MagLiB technology, and a Faraday Entrepreneurial ... Read more
Professor Alissa Kendall
Position - Chair, Energy Graduate Group, University Of California, Davis
Alissa Kendall is a Professor at University of California Davis in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Chair of the Energy Graduate Group. Her research applies and advances the methods and perspectives of Industrial ... Read more
Dr Simon Lambert
Position - Deputy Director For Electrification, Newcastle University
Dr Simon Lambert is the Deputy Director for Electrification and a Senior Lecturer at Newcastle University (UK). He has over 16 years experience researching power electronics, machines and drives, Energy systems integration, battery management ... Read more
Dr Seb Leaper
Position - Co-founder and CEO, Watercycle Technologies
Seb co-founded Watercycle during his PhD in Nanoscience at the University of Manchester. He was endorsed by Sandisk Co-founder Dr Eli Harari, receiving a £50,000 grant which enabled him to found the company. He holds an MEng in Materials ... Read more
Dr Monica Marinescu
Position - Co-Founder, Ionetic
Monica Marinescu is Associate Professor (Reader) in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Imperial College London, where she works at the interface between science and engineering. She has worked in the field of electrochemical energy ... Read more
Dr Christian Marston
Position - President & COO, Altilium
Dr Christian Marston is President, COO and co-founder of UK-based clean technology group Altilium. Christian previously spent 13 years at global trading and investment company Sumitomo Corporation, where he managed several businesses units, ... Read more
Dr Kieran O’Regan
Position - Co-founder And COO, About:Energy
Kieran O’Regan is the co-founder and COO of About:Energy, a leading battery data and software company he started in 2022 together with Gavin White. Their shared mission is to accelerate the transition to electrification byquipping companies ... Read more
Professor Gregory Offer
Position - Professor, Imperial College London
Gregory Offer is Professor in Electrochemical Engineering, Imperial College London and leads the Electrochemical Science & Engineering Group in Mechanical Engineering. Greg’s research is at the interface between the science and engineering ... Read more
Professor Louis Piper
Position - Professor of Battery Innovation, WMG, University of Warwick
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 ... Read more
Professor Sudipta Roy
Position - Professor Chemical And Process Engineering, University of Strathclyde
Professor Roy is an expert in electrochemical engineering. Her vision is that industrial scale applications can resolve real-life problems through previously untested sustainable technological solutions. Her research work reflects this ... Read more
Professor Paul Shearing
Position - Professor, Oxford University
Paul Shearing is Professor of Sustainable Energy Engineering at the Department of Engineering Science and Director of the ZERO Institute at Oxford University. He holds the Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Battery Technologies. His ... Read more
Emma Sutcliffe
Position - Director, EV FireSafe
An operational firefighter, EV charging and electrification specialist, Emma Sutcliffe’s unique combination of interests led her to establish EV FireSafe, the only global database of verified electric vehicle battery fires. Funded by the ... Read more
Professor Magdalena Titirici
Position - Chair In Sustainable Energy Materials, Imperial College London
Magda Titirici has a BSc from University of Bucharest, a PhD from University of Dortmund and a Habilitation from the Max-Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces. In 2013 Magda moved to the UK to take a reader followed by a professorship at ... Read more
Cameron Tonkin
Position - Chief Operating Officer, Green Lithium Refining Limited
Cameron started his career in outback Australia undertaking land and water use research for industrial expansion. Over a 25 year career he has predominately worked in the field of major infrastructure and development projects across renewable ... Read more
Mrs Helen Waters
Position - Head Of Ev Batteries, EMR
With the roll out of electric vehicles (EV) set to soar over the coming decade, it is incredibly important that the UK safeguards the lithium, cobalt, nickel and other valuable materials used to build these vehicles. Helen Waters, Head of EV ... Read more
Invited chairs
Dr Phoebe Allan
Position - Associate Professor in Materials Chemistry, University of Birmingham
Dr Phoebe Allan is a Associate Professor in the School of Chemistry. Her research focuses on materials chemistry for energy storage. The goal of her research is to understand the links between the structure of a material, and its ... Read more
Professor Elizabeth Gibson
Position - Professor Of Energy Materials, Newcastle University
Libby is a Professor of Energy Materials at Newcastle University. Research in her group focuses on developing materials and devices for sustainable power, fuel and feedstocks. This involves materials development, device assembly and ... Read more
Professor Colin Herron CBE
Position - Professor, Newcastle University
Professor Colin Herron CBE, PhD has worked in the automotive industry or associated with the industry for 50 years including 16 years in Engineering at Nissan. Currently head of the Faraday Institution Office North East (FINE) and the North ... Read more
Dr Pooja Kumari
Position - Research Fellow, University of Warwick
Dr Pooja Kumari hold a PhD degree in all solid-state Li-ion batteries from the Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur, India. Pooja developed her interest in understanding electrochemical reaction mechanism of battery electrode ... Read more
Dr James Le Houx
Position - Faraday ISIS Emerging Leader Batery Fellow, ISIS Neuton and Muon Source / Faraday Institution
Dr James Le Houx is the Faraday Institution/ ISIS Neutron and Muon Source Emerging Leader Fellow based at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, STFC. He leads battery research across the UK national facilities: ISIS, the Diamond Light Source and ... Read more
Dr Ioan-Bogdan Magdau
Position - Lecturer In Computational and Data-driven Chemistry, Newcastle University
Dr. Ioan-Bogdan Magdău joined Newcastle University as a Lecturer in Computational and Data-driven Chemistry in April 2023. His expertise spans computational science, condensed matter physics, theoretical chemistry, and molecular modelling. Dr. ... Read more
Prof. Mohamed Mamlouk
Position - Professor of Electrochemical Engineering, Newcastle University
Professor Mohamed Mamlouk, is the chair of Electrochemical Engineering at Newcastle University with +20 years experience in modelling, fabrication and testing of Electrochemical energy storage and conversion technologies. He currently leads ... Read more
Dr Wojciech Mrozik
Position - Faraday Institution Senior Research Fellow, Newcastle University
Dr Wojciech Mrozik is a Faraday Institution Senior Research Fellow at Newcastle University. He is an expert in the risk assessment and identification of hazards associated with electrochemical storage systems (mainly lithium-ion batteries). ... Read more
Dr Yang Xu
Position - Associate Professor In Energy Storage, UCL
Dr Yang Xu is an Associate Professor in Energy Storage in the Department of Chemistry at University College London (UCL). He received his PhD at the University of Science and Technology of China, carried out postdoctoral research at Boston ... Read more
Selected speakers
Dr Heather Au
Position - Royal Society University Research Fellow, Imperial College London
Heather is a Royal Society University Research Fellow in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London. She obtained her PhD in 2017 from Imperial developing covalent modification strategies on carbon nanomaterials. She was ... Read more
Dr Danial Auger
Position - Professor of Electrification, Modelling and Control, Cranfield University
Daniel Auger studied at Cambridge, receiving an MEng in Electrical and Information Sciences and a PhD in Control Engineering. He worked as a senior engineer at BAE Systems, then as a senior consultant at MathWorks. He joined Cranfield ... Read more
Dr Hrishit Banerjee
Position - Lecturer (Assistant Professor), University of Dundee
Dr. Hrishit Banerjee is a theoretical condensed matter physicist and has been working as a Lecturer in Physics at the University of Dundee since January 2024. He completed his PhD (August 2012-June 2018) at the S N Bose National Centre for ... Read more
Dr Mark Blyth
Position - Senior Research Associate, University of Bristol
Dr Mark Blyth is a senior postdoctoral researcher at the University of Bristol. Mark's current research investigates the roles of temperature and charge gradients on lithium-ion batteries, with a focus on BMS applications. He specialises in ... Read more
Prof Jawwad A. Darr
Position - Group Lead, UCL
Prof Jawwad A. Darr received his Phd in 1995 at Imperial College in synthetic metal-organic chemistry and undertook further postdoctoral research at Nottingham University in supercritical fluids. He worked at the IRC in biomedical materials ... Read more
Dr Buddha Deka Boruah
Position - Lecturer, UCL
Dr. Buddha Deka Boruah is an Assistant Professor at the Institute for Materials Discovery, University College London (UCL), UK. He completed his B.Sc. in Physics at Cotton College, Assam, India, and his M.Sc. in Physics at the Indian Institute ... Read more
Miss Piera Di Prima
Position - PhD Student, Politecnico Di Torino
Piera Di Prima obtained her Master degree in Chemical Engineering from Politecnico di Torino in 2020. Her thesis involved CFD simulations of phase change material heat exchanger designed for integration with an air-water heat pump system. She ... Read more
Chris Evans
Position - Senior Technical Director, Arcadis
“Chris has significant knowledge of building services in an industrial context. Providing strategic and feasibility advice for a wealth of high-profile clients including Aston Martin, BMW, ACC and JLR. With the MEP costs for Gigafactories ... Read more
Dr Siddharth Gadkari
Position - Lecturer, University of Surrey
Dr. Siddharth Gadkari is a lecturer in the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at the University of Surrey. Previously, he served as a UKRI Industrial Innovation Fellow from 2018 to 2021, during which he conducted pioneering research ... Read more
Mr Andy Holwell
Position - Head Of Industrial Research, Carl Zeiss Microscopy Ltd
Andy Holwell directs the Business Sector Industrial Research at ZEISS Microscopy, encompassing the global materials industries for diverse markets from battery materials to concrete. He has gained twenty years’ international experience the ... Read more
Dr Gabriela Horwitz
Position - Project Leader, Faraday Degradation Project
Gabriela Horwitz obtained her PhD in Chemistry at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina in 2021. There, she studied the transport properties, stability, and nanostructure of electrolytes for advanced Li-ion and Li-air batteries. After that, ... Read more
Dr Chun Ann Huang
Position - Senior Lecturer, Imperial College London
Ann Huang is a Senior Lecturer in Energy Storage Materials at Imperial College London. She completed her undergraduate study in Materials Science and Engineering at Imperial College London (1st Class Honours) and DPhil in Materials Science at ... Read more
Mr Wensheng Huang
Position - Research Postgraduate, Imperial College London
Wensheng is a PhD student in the Electrochemical Science & Engineering Group within the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Imperial College London. He is conducting his research under the supervision of Dr. Huizhi Wang and Prof. ... Read more
Prof Lee Johnson
Position - Professor of Electrochemistry, University of Nottingham
Lee Johnson received his PhD in physical chemistry and electrochemistry at the University of Nottingham. He then joined the research group of Prof Sir P.G. Bruce FRS at the University of Oxford, where he studied the lithium-oxygen battery. In ... Read more
Dr Abhoy Karmakar
Position - Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Cambridge
Abhoy Karmakar received his BSc in Chemistry from St. Xavier's College, Kolkata, and his MSc in Chemistry from IIT Bombay. He completed his PhD in 2021 at the University of Alberta, focusing on solid-state NMR of halide perovskites for ... Read more
Mr Sreenivasan Kiritharan
Position - PhD Researcher, Lancaster University
Following a Bachelors in Chemistry at Queen Mary University of London, Sreenivasan pursued a Masters by Research programme under the supervision of Dr Hungyen Lin in School of Engineering at Lancaster University and Dr Richard Dawson at LiNa ... Read more
Dr Carmen M Lopez
Position - Senior Scientist, National Physical Laboratory
Dr Carmen M. López is a Senior Scientist in the Electrochemistry Group at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) with more than 25 years of professional experience including 13+ years in Lithium-based batteries and electrochemistry. She has ... Read more
Dr Adam Lovett
Position - Research Fellow, UCL
Adam is a Research Fellow in the department of Chemical Engineering at UCL, currently funded by the UKRI Faraday Battery Challenge project code named HISTORY. In addition, he is a visiting researcher to Henry Royce facilities based at the ... Read more
Mr Jeremy Lowen
Position - PhD Researcher, University of Birmingham
Jeremy Lowen is a PhD student under the supervision of Dr Josh Makepeace in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Birmingham. His research specialises in new solid electrolyte material development for all-solid-state batteries. ... Read more
Veronika Majherova
Position - PhD Researcher, WMG, University of Warwick
Veronika Majherova is a 2nd year Faraday PhD researcher at University of Warwick. Her interest lies in understanding the degradation mechanisms of lithium manganese iron phosphate cathode material through electrode optimization and ... Read more
Mr Michael Metzler
Position - PhD Student, University of Oxford
I received a BSc in Chemistry and Biochemistry from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and a MSc in Chemical Process Engineering from the University of Leeds. The University of Leeds awarded me the Chemical Process Engineering MSc Prize ... Read more
Dr Sam Niblett
Position - Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Cambridge
Sam Niblett is a Postdoctoral researcher in computational Chemistry in the Grey Group at Cambridge, and a Research Fellow of Clare Hall. He received his PhD degree from Cambridge under the supervision of Professor David Wales FRS, studying the ... Read more
Dr Andrey Poletayev
Position - Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Oxford
Andrey Poletayev is a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Oxford. He devotes his scientific career to contributing to a carbon-neutral society. To do so, he studies transport and electrochemical properties of battery and energy-technology ... Read more
Matilda Rhodes
Position - PhD Student, University of Edinbrugh
I am a 3rd year PhD student in the School of Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh, also funded by the Facility Development Scheme at ISIS Neutron and Muon Source. My work focuses on improving understanding of lithium ore materials, in ... Read more
Mr Bret Schumacher
Position - PhD Candidate, Columbia University
Bret Schumacher is a Ph.D. candidate in the Marbella and Steingart groups at Columbia University. His work is focused on using a suite of electrochemical and calorimetric techniques to probe the interplay between performance and safety in ... Read more
Dr Weixin Song
Position - Postdoc, University of Oxford
Dr. Weixin Song is a Faraday Institution Research Fellow at University of Oxford. Wexin’s research interests are using advanced TEM to study battery materials, particularly the layered metal oxides cathode materials. Weixin is also interested ... Read more
Isabella Stephens
Position - PhD Researcher, University of Birmingham
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 ... Read more
Dr Louise Turner
Position - VP Product Development, Ilika Technologies
Louise joined Ilika in 2012 as a scientist working on a range of thin film battery projects. Today as VP of Product Development, Louise is responsible for the delivery of Ilika’s Goliath and Stereax solid state battery roadmap. Her areas of ... Read more
Dr Xiaochu Wei
Position - Research Associate, Imperial College London
Dr Xiaochu Wei is a Postdoctoral Research Associate from Chemical Engineering Department at Imperial College London. Her research is focused on the development of new processes to recover critical metals/materials from multi-chemistry, end of ... Read more
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