Keynote speakers
Invited speakers
Eleanor Bayton
Power Systems Engineer, Prismatic Limited
Tony Harper
Director, Faraday Battery Challenge
Dr Hollie Patten
Cell Commodity Manager, Jaguar Land Rover
Isobel Sheldon OBE
Chief Strategy Officer and Board Member at Britishvolt - Reducing battery manufacturing carbon intensity
Dr Tal Sholklapper
CEO and co-founder of Voltaiq Inc.
Principal Investigators
Prof. Paul Anderson
Principal Investigator - ReLiB - Recycing and Reuse, University of Birmingham
Prof. Nigel Browning
Principal Investigator - Imaging Dynamic Electrochemical Interfaces, University of Liverpool
Prof. Peter Bruce
Principal Investigator - SOLBAT - Solid State Batteries, University of Oxford
Prof. Serena Cussen
Principal Investigator - FutureCat - Next Generation Cathode Materials, University of Sheffield
Dr Sian Dutton
Principal Investigator - Optical Microscopies Characterisation Project, University of Cambridge
Prof. Patrick Grant
Principal Investigator - Nextrode - Electrode Manufacturing, University of Oxford
Prof. Clare Grey
Principal Investigator - Battery Degradation Project, University of Cambridge
Prof. John Irvine
Principal Investigator - NEXGENNA - Sodium Ion Batteries, University of St. Andrews
Prof. Saiful Islam
Principal Investigator - CATMAT - Next Generation Cathode Materials, University of Bath
Prof. Greg Offer
Principal Investigator - Multi-scale Modelling Project, Imperial College London
Prof. Paul Shearing
Principal Investigator - LiSTAR - Lithium Sulfur Batteries and SafeBatt – Battery Safety, University College London
Prof. Rob Weatherup
Principal Investigator - Probing Buried Interfaces in Working Batteries, University of Oxford
Session Chairs
Dr Phoebe Allan
COI, ReLiB, University of Birmingham
Dr Peter Baker
Instrument Scientist, ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Dr Qiong Cai
COI, LiSTAR, University of Surrey
Session: ECR – ATOMIC SCALE INSIGHTS
Dr Joanna Clark
Head of Product Development, Battery Materials at Johnson Matthey
Prof. Colin Herron CBE
Managing Director, Zero Carbon Futures, and Faraday Institution North East.
Session: KEYNOTE: ROBERT LLEWELLYN
Prof. David Howey
Associate Professor of Engineering Science, University of Oxford
Dr Rhodri Jervis
Project Leader, Degradation Project, UCL
Prof. Emma Kendrick
Chair of Energy Materials, Metallurgy and Materials, University of Birmingham
Fran Long
Education and Training Lead, Faraday Institution
Rob Miller
Head of Electrical and Battery Systems, Williams Advanced Engineering
Prof. Mauro Pasta
Associate Professor of Materials, University of Oxford
Prof. Louis Piper
Professor, Electrochemical Materials, International Automotive Research Centre, University of Warwick
Session: KEYNOTE: PROF. STAN WHITTINGHAM
Dr James Robinson
University College London Project Leader, LiSTAR Chair, Faraday Institution Early Career Researcher Committee
Session: EARLY CAREER RESEARCHER DAY OPEN AND CLOSE
Dr Julia Rowe
Group Sustainability Manager, Johnson Matthey
Dr Sai Shivareddy
CEO, Nyobolt
Prof. Pam Thomas
CEO, Faraday Institution
Session: OPENING AND CLOSING OF THE CONFERENCE
Prof. Magdalena Titirici
Chair in Sustainable Energy Materials, Imperial College London
Dr Darren Walsh
COI, LiSTAR, University of Nottingham
Session: ECR – ELECTROLYTES AND INTERFACES
Faraday Institution speakers at the main conference
Dr Edward Brightman
Principal Investigator for the project on low-cost graphite polysulfide single liquid flow batteries for emerging economies
Dr Peter Bugryniec
Faraday Institution Research Fellow, SafeBatt, University of Sheffield - Gaussian-process based inference of electrolyte decomposition reaction networks in Li-ion battery failure
Dr Jacqueline Edge
Project Leader, Multi-scale Modelling, Imperial College London - Battery sustainability: a complex problem needing holistic solutions
Dr Mona Faraji Niri
Faraday Institution Research Fellow, Nextrode, WMG - Machine learning and artificial intelligence for optimised Li-ion battery manufacturing
Prof. Nuria Garcia-Araez
COI, Degradation Project, University of Southampton - Understanding gas evolution from batteries via operando measurements
Dr Dominika Gastol
Faraday Institution Research Fellow, ReLiB, University of Birmingham - Reclamation and remanufacturing of electrodes from Li-ion batteries
Dr Alastair Hales
TOPBAT Industry Sprint, Bristol - Smart cell design: modelling to capture the importance of design for strong thermal management
Dr Thomas Heenan
Entreprenurial Fellow, UCL - Magneto-electrochemistry for batteries applications
Dr Chun (Ann) Huang
COI, Nextrode, King's College London - Novel processing technique for making solid-state batteries
Prof. Lee Johnson
COI, LiSTAR, University of Nottingham - Molecular additives for the lithium-sulfur battery
Prof. Peter Kruger
Industry Fellow, University of Sussex - Non-invasive current density imaging of batteries
Dr Christoph Schnedermann
Faraday Institution Research Fellow, Characterisation (Cambridge) and Degradation projects, University of Cambridge - Operando optical tracking of single-particle ion dynamics in batteries
Dr Robert Sommerville
Faraday Institution Research Fellow, ReLiB, University of Birmingham - Separation approaches for lithium ion battery recycling
Dr Yige Sun
Faraday Institution Research Fellow, Nextrode, University of Oxford - Lithium-ion battery electrodes and its morphology characterization via plasma FIB, EDX, and SIMS
Faraday Institution speakers at the ECR day
Joshua Bocarsly
Faraday Institution Research Fellow, CATMAT, University of Cambridge - Understanding novel cathode materials using magnetic measurements
Session: ECR – ATOMIC SCALE INSIGHTS
Mark Buckwell
Faraday Institution Research Fellow, SafeBatt, University College London - Safety profiling of lithium ion batteries for mission-critical applications
Yue Chen
Faraday Institution Research Fellow, NEXGENNA, Lancaster University - Reconstructing 3D SEI nano-puzzle - mosaic or multilayer? Visualizing the spatial distribution of organic/inorganic components in SEI via operando 3D shear force modulation AFM
Session: ECR – ELECTROLYTES AND INTERFACES
Abby Haworth
Faraday Institution Research Fellow, FutureCat, Lancaster University - Understanding the local structure of protective alumina coatings for cathodes and the coating-cathode interface
Session: ECR – ATOMIC SCALE INSIGHTS
Julian Holland
PhD Researcher, Multi-scale Modelling, University of Southampton - Towards realistic models of battery materials: Quantum mechanical simulations of an entire graphite nanoparticle and its lithium intercalation
Session: ECR – ATOMIC SCALE INSIGHTS
Toby Kirk
Faraday Institution Research Fellow, University of Oxford, Multi-scale Modelling Project
Nivedita Kulkarni
Faraday Institution Research Fellow, LiSTAR, University College London - Image-based modelling of Li-S battery electrodes
Dorota Matras
Faraday Institution Research Fellow, CATMAT, Diamond Light Source - X-ray chemical imaging for characterisation of batteries - from electrode to device level
Philip Maughan
Faraday Institution Research Fellow, NEXGENNA, University of St Andrews - Development of high energy density low cost Li/Ni/Co free sodium layered oxides as positive electrodes for Na-ion batteries
Session: ECR – ATOMIC SCALE INSIGHTS
Svetlana Menkin
Faraday Institution Research Fellow, NEXGENNA, University of Cambridge - Interface evolution and metal plating in ultra-concentrated NaPF6 electrolytes
Session: ECR – ELECTROLYTES AND INTERFACES
Alice Merryweather
PhD Researcher, Degradation Project and Characterisation, University of Cambridge - Operando monitoring of single-particle kinetic state-of-charge heterogeneities and cracking in high-rate Li-ion anodes
Sudarshan Narayanan
Faraday Institution Research Fellow, SOLBAT, University of Oxford - Current density mediated evolution of Li metal - solid electrolyte interfaces
Session: ECR – ELECTROLYTES AND INTERFACES
Gabriel Pérez-Garcia
Faraday Institution Research Fellow, FutureCat, ISIS Neutron and Muon Source (STFC) - Investigating the SEI with in-operando small angle neutron scattering and neutron reflectometry
Stephen Price
Industry Fellow (with University of Sheffield), Finden - Identifying and quantifying structural heterogeneities across multiple length scales using X-ray diffraction computed tomography
Andrew Wang
PhD Researcher, Multi-scale Modelling, University of Oxford - Potentiometric MRI of superconcentrated lithium-ion electrolytes
Session: ECR – ELECTROLYTES AND INTERFACES
David Weiqun Li
Faraday Institution Research Fellow, Degradation Project and Characterisation, University of Liverpool - Improved fracture toughness and cycling performance of silicon anode by chromium doping
OTHER SESSIONS
Stephen Gifford
Chief Economist, Faraday Institution
Dr Gareth Hartley
Business Intelligence Manager, Faraday Institution
Dr Muthu Krishna
Advanced Battery Research Engineer, Jaguar Land Rover
Session: CAREER CAFÉ
Jayne Little
CEO, Skills4
Simon Price
CEO, Exawatt
Session: CAREER CAFÉ
Dr Billy Wu
Co-Investigator, Multi-scale Modelling Project, Imperial College London
