Conference Speakers
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Keynote speakers
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 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 Paul Monks
Position - Chief Scientific Advisor, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ)
Invited speakers
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
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 Thomas Bartlett
Position - Deputy Challenge Director, Faraday Battery Challenge, Innovate UK UKRI
Dr Evi Petavratzi
Position - Senior Mineral Commodity Geologist, British Geological Society (BGS)
Rebecca Schapira
Position - Deputy Director for Advanced Manufacturing, Department for Business and Trade (DBT)
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.
