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 National Laboratory and the Director of the Energy Storage Research Alliance (ESRA), an innovation hub funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science. She is the principal investigator of the research group – Laboratory for Energy Storage and Conversion (LESC), established in 2009 at UC San Diego. From 2017 to 2022, she held the Zable Chair Professor in Energy Technologies and founded the Sustainable Power and Energy Center (SPEC) in 2016. Dr. Meng’s accolades include the ACS Research Excellence in Electrochemistry Award (2024), ECS Battery Division Research Award (2023), C3E Technology and Innovation Award (2022), Faraday Medal (2020), IBA Research Award (2019), and NSF CAREER Award (2011). She is an elected Fellow of the Electrochemical Society (FECS), Materials Research Society (FMRS), and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). With over 320 peer-reviewed articles, two book chapters, and eight patents, her research has profoundly impacted energy storage science. Dr. Meng earned her Ph.D. in Advanced Materials for Micro & Nano Systems from the Singapore-MIT Alliance in 2005 and her B.S. in Materials Science (First-Class Honors) from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, in 2000.
Professor Shirley Meng
Professor at the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago
