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Keynote speakers
Professor Sir Peter Bruce FRS
Position - Chief Scientist of the Faraday Institution and Wolfson Professor of Materials at the University of Oxford
Professor Sir Peter Bruce FRS is a founder and Chief Scientist of the Faraday Institution. He is also leading the research project on solid state batteries and a member of the senior leadership team of the solid-state battery commercialisation ... Read more
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
Invited chairs
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
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
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
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 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
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.
