Speaker Biographies

Dr. Asadi joined the Chemical Engineering Department at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) as Assistant Professor in 2017. Asadi completed his PhD in Mechanical Engineering at UIC and received his Master of Science Degree in Chemical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology. He spent seven years of working experience in the oil and gas industry before joining UIC. He has authored and co-authored 25 peer-reviewed publications in journals such as Science, Nature, Advanced Materials, Advanced Energy Materials, ACS Nano, and Nature Communications, and has 13 US patents and four patent applications. He has more than 5000 citations (h-index 20) in the area of advanced functional materials, catalysis science, electrochemical energy storage, and energy conversion systems.

Sue Babinec is the Program Lead – Stationary Storage at Argonne National Lab where she is tasked to establish a sustainable growth strategy towards stationary storage for grid applications. Babinec previously served six years in Washington DC as senior commercialization advisor at the Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) where she co-managed the energy storage portfolio for both transportation and grid. Prior to ARPA-E she led several research groups focused on design and scale-up of Li-ion technologies as a technical director for A123 Systems, Inc. at its Ann Arbor Michigan, site. Babinec spent the first two decades of her career in Midland at The Dow Chemical Corp., where she was the Senior Electrochemist, a member of the Corporate VC group, was awarded the Inventor of the Year Award, and was the company’s first woman Corporate Fellow. She was also co-inventor of a low-cost display technology that was spun out as the venture-funded start-up, holds more than 45 patents, and has authored or coauthored dozens of journal articles and book chapters.

I started my P3 career in February 2008 in Germany. Since August 2021 I am located in Detroit and running our Strategy and Technology Business in the USA. I have 10+ years of experiences in the automotive and commercial vehicle business with execution of projects in Europe, the USA and China. My competencies focusing on strategic advisory, efficiency programs, technical due diligence and program management.

Mr. Buettner-Garrett specializes in transitioning laboratory-scale battery advances into prototype products and pilot-scale manufacturing. As Solid Power’s CTO, he is responsible for developing future market-leading products based on the company’s solid-state battery technology platform. Prior to his role at Solid Power, Mr. Buettner-Garrett led the Energy Storage team at ADA Technologies where he oversaw the development of advanced batteries and pilot-scale manufacturing for primarily DOD applications. Josh did his graduate studies at Colorado State University where he developed high-capacity nickel and fluorine-based cathodes.

Cheng-Chieh Chao is the VP of Cathode at QuantumScape. Over the last decade, he’s worked on many areas of solid-state battery development and currently leads teams focused on materials innovation and characterization. Cheng-Chieh is a Stanford alumnus with a PhD in Mechanical Engineering (‘11) and MS degrees in Management Science & Engineering (‘09) and Mechanical Engineering (‘07). He also earned a BS in Mechanical Engineering from National Taiwan University (‘03).

Dr. Halle Cheeseman has been working in the battery business for 35 years. From the growth of Alkaline in Europe in the 1980’s, to the emergence of Lithium Ion in the 1990s, to the avalanche of interest in all Electrochemical storage systems that has dominated the first two decades of this century. After senior leadership positions in the battery industry, Dr. Cheeseman is now a Program Director for the Advanced Research Program Agency for the US Department of Energy (ARPA-E) and is based in Washington DC.Dr. Halle Cheeseman has a BSc with honors and a PhD in Chemistry & Materials Science from the University of Nottingham.

Dr. Fu Chen received B.Sc degree in Chemistry from Nanjing University, China in 2001 and obtained Ph.D degree Chemistry under the supervision of Prof. Roderick Wasylishen from The University of Alberta, Canada in 2009. After completed postdoc research at Leiden University, The Netherlands in 2011 and at The Ames Laboratory, US in 2012, Dr. Fu Chen worked as an assistant research scientist at The University of Iowa. Dr. Fu Chen is currently working as the Director of NMR facility at The University of Maryland, College Park from 2016.

Shmuel De-Leon, Founder and CEO of Shmuel De-Leon Energy Ltd., is a leading international expert in the business of energy storage. Prior to founding the company, for over 21 years, Shmuel held various positions as an energy storage, electronic engineering, and quality control team manager. Shmuel holds a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from Tel Aviv University, and an M.B.A. in Quality Control and Reliability Engineering from the Technion Institute in Haifa, as well as an Electronic Technician's diploma.

Mickael Dollé is a Full Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the Université de Montréal. He earned his Ph.D. from Université Picardie Jules Verne (Amiens – France) in 2002. Prior to joining Université de Montréal in 2014, he was a CNRS researcher in France after being postdoctoral fellows at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Max Planck Institute of Stuttgart. He is the recipient of the American Ceramic Society Global Star Award. His research focuses on materials chemistry, energy storage, and manufacturing. His ongoing projects focus on solid state batteries (ceramic and polymer), dry electrode processing and battery recycling.

Bruce Dunn is the Nippon Sheet Glass Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at UCLA. His research interests concern the synthesis of inorganic and organic/inorganic materials, and the characterization of their electrical, optical, biological and electrochemical properties. His recent work on electrochemical energy storage includes three-dimensional batteries and pseudocapacitive materials. Among the honors he has received are a Fulbright research fellowship, the Orton Lectureship from the American Ceramic Society, named to the Web of Science list of Highly Cited Researchers, and awards from the Department of Energy for outstanding research in materials science.

After the engineering school, Asmae El Mejdoubi did her PhD in electrical engineering from 2012 to 2015. She continued her research on the SoC and the SoH diagnosis and prognosis models for Lithium-ion batteries and supercapacitors, to join TIAMAT in September 2018. Since 2020, Dr. El Mejdoubi is leading the product department, improving and optimizing the TIAMAT sodium-ion products to solve customers' problems and create customer delight.

Dr. Zhenxing Feng is an Associate Professor in the School of Chemical, Biological, and Environmental Engineering at Oregon State University, USA. After completing his PhD in Materials Science and Engineering at Northwestern University, USA, Dr. Feng worked as a postdoctoral scholar at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR) of Argonne National Laboratory. In 2016, Dr. Feng moved to Oregon State University to start his independent career. Dr. Feng received the Office of Navy Research (ONR) Summer Fellowship, Scialog Advanced Energy Storage Award, and was named as the highly cited researcher by Clarivate in 2022. Dr. Feng is interested in finding design principles of various materials for energy harvesting, conversion, and storage applications.

Kevin L. Gering, PhD (INL) PhD Chem. Eng., University Oklahoma - 1989 (electrolyte theory). Kevin has been involved in battery testing and R&D for nearly 20 years while at INL. Dr. Gering is an established expert in the field of state-of-the-art molecular-based electrolyte models for electrochemical systems (Advanced Electrolyte Model, AEM), and has developed novel performance and lifecycle (aging) models for lithium-ion battery systems covering mechanistic aspects of kinetic limitations and performance loss over battery life (CellSage). AEM generates more than 100 property metrics with each simulation, giving genomic-level information for electrolyte characterization. CellSage simulations perform mechanism-wise analyses of battery aging while accounting for multiple concurrent stress factors that can change over the timeline. Kevin is well qualified to speak on issues of electrolyte transport, characterization, screening, and optimization for lithium-ion systems, wherein particular areas of expertise are highly concentrated electrolytes and low-temperature battery performance. During AEM development, Kevin has achieved milestones in formulating mathematics and new modeling techniques that capture properties that were previously very difficult to model over wide ranges of temperature and salt concentration, such as colligative permittivity, conductivity, diffusivity, viscosity, surface tension, ion desolvation energy and kinetics, double-layer composition and properties, comprehensive ion speciation, osmotic pressure, preferential ion solvation, and many others. Kevin is currently contributing to the DOE program eXtreme Fast Charge Cell Evaluation of Lithium-ion Batteries (XCEL), and is involved in integrating CellSage architecture and outcomes within a machine learning (ML) program under DOE-VTO. Dr. Gering has a diverse background in modeling complex systems, where other previous work covered developing a methane hydrates marine basin model, a dynamic passive aeration compost model, blast wave calculations, transport model for pulsed catalytic reactors, and others. He actively collaborates within DOE labs, universities, and the private sector, and is an advocate of domestic intellectual property, having several patents issued and pending, and under license. AEM and CellSage tools have seen increased licensing, speaking to the growing impact of INL to meet industrial needs.

Dr. Tobias Glossmann is a Principal Engineer at Mercedes-Benz R&D North America and works on battery research from material level to vehicle integration for more than 20 years. He is engaged in community education as an officer of the Detroit section of the Electrochemical Society. His current research interests include Li-metal batteries and interfaces in batteries and electrochemical sensors.

Dr. Steve Greenbaum is CUNY Distinguished Professor of Physics at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center, and a Fellow of the American Physical Society. Dr. Greenbaum earned his Ph.D. in Physics from Brown University. He was an NRC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Semiconductor Branch of the US Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C., a Fulbright Scholar at the Weizmann Institute of Science, and a NASA/NRC Senior Research Fellow at the Jet Propulsion Lab, where he was a member of the team that designed the lithium ion batteries for the successful Mars Rover missions. He has held Visiting Professor positions at many universities and was selected as one of eleven Jefferson Science Fellows at the U.S. State Department in 2014-15. Dr. Greenbaum's main research interest is magnetic resonance studies of materials for electrochemical energy storage and conversion. He has co-authored over 330 peer-reviewed publications, and directly supervised 30 Ph.D. students plus numerous undergraduate researchers. His mentoring has received national recognition through the White House OSTP (PAESMEM Award, 2002).

Ivana Hasa is Associate Professor of Electrochemical Materials in WMG at the University of Warwick. She is a chemist by background with extensive experience on electrochemical energy storage systems. Her research activities are directed toward the understanding of the processes governing the chemistry of the next generation's sustainable battery technologies. Design of technically relevant materials and the understanding of their structure-property correlation and electrochemical behavior are the core of her research interest. Her work is inherently interdisciplinary, tackling challenges at the interface of chemistry, materials science, and electrochemistry. At the Energy Innovation Centre in WMG, she is also working toward the development and scale up of new battery chemistries from concept to full proven cell prototypes.

As founder of Ion Storage Systems, Dr. Hitz led development of the groundbreaking multilayer garnet structure at the heart of ION’s battery. Greg now sets the vision for the company’s technology growth, oversees intellectual property and data science efforts, and leads technology roadmapping. He has fostered a culture focused on excellence, integrity, and rapid learning cycles across all activities.Greg has built a world-class team dedicated to delivering no-compromise customer solutions with highly scalable manufacturing. His leadership has also been key in developing new company capabilities and cultivating them into high-performance core competencies. He holds a PhD in Materials Science & Engineering and a bachelor’s in Chemical Engineering from the University of Maryland.

Dr. Manas Likhit Holekevi Chandrappa is a Materials Researcher at the Materials Informatics (MI) team at the Nissan Advanced Technical Research Center – Silicon Valley (NATC-SV) and specializes in development and investigation of energy storage materials through atomistic simulation and machine learning tools. Manas earned his Ph.D. in Nanoengineering from University of California San Diego (UCSD), with a research focus on understanding structure-diffusion relationships in photovoltaic and battery materials using ab initio calculations and machine learning potentials (MLPs). His earlier research focused on halide ion migration in perovskites. Subsequently, his focus shifted towards investigating the stability of interfaces in Li and Li-S solid-state batteries (SSBs). He also contributed to determining the structure of the novel healable S-I cathode which was published in the Nature journal. In his current role, he continues to leverage his expertise and aid with development of next generation battery materials for Nissan's EVs.

Dr. Nathan B. Johnson completed his Doctorate in Chemical Engineering under Dr. Paul Albertus at University of Maryland, College Park in Spring 2023, and his Postdoc at Sandia National Laboratories under Dr. Loraine Torres-Castro and Dr. Alex M. Bates in January 2025. Since then, he has worked as a Senior Member of Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories in the Power Sources R&D organization. For the last 7 years, he has worked on safety, reliability, and diagnostics for a wide variety of primary and rechargeable battery chemistries from the materials-scale up to the pack-level. His primary focus is developing a predictive battery safety testing method through coupling materials-scale tests with numerical modeling.

Dr. Raimund Koerver is the VP of Business Development at Factorial Energy, where he leads strategic partnerships, fundraising, and go-to-market strategy for solid-state battery technology in the automotive and aviation industries. Before joining Factorial, Raimund was a specialist in solid-state batteries at BMW’s Battery Cell Competence Center in Munich, where he contributed to advancing next-generation battery cell development for future electric vehicles. With over a decade of experience in next-generation battery technology, Raimund holds a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from Justus-Liebig University in Giessen, specializing in sulfide solid-state batteries in the lab of Prof. Jürgen Janek. His research and technical contributions have resulted in multiple patents in advanced battery technology.

Dr. Sophie Lee is a Managing Consultant at Exponent, where they consult on a wide range of products related to electrochemistry and energy storage technologies, with a focus on quality, performance and safety of lithium-ion batteries. Dr. Lee completed a PhD in Chemical Engineering at Drexel University with research focused on interfacial phenomena in Sodium and Lithium-Ion batteries, and worked as a research engineer developing flow batteries for grid scale energy storage applications.

Dr. Guosheng Li is presently a Senior Scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). He earned his BS degree from Tsing Hua University in 1996 and subsequently achieved both his MS and PhD degrees in Physical Chemistry from KyungHee University. Following this, he completed his postdoctoral training at the University of Southern California (USC) before joining PNNL in 2007. Dr. Li has a wide-ranging knowledge base spanning Electrochemistry, Materials Science, Catalysis, and Spectroscopic Characterization. His current role involves leading various battery research and development programs at PNNL, with support from the Department of Energy. His research is primarily centered on materials development, battery design, and validation for grid energy storage applications. Of particular interest are the development and understanding of advanced electrolytes, synthesis of cathode materials, elucidating reaction mechanisms for cathodes, and addressing various interfacial challenges encountered in rechargeable batteries. He has fostered robust collaborations with industry partners, focusing on grid battery scale-up and module testing to enhance comprehension of battery reliability and degradation in large battery modules under more realistic grid service conditions. His contributions to the field are reflected in the publication of over 80 research papers in various prestigious journals, and he holds 7 US patents with numerous US patent applications.

As a Research Engineer at Ford Motor Company, Owen Lu has spent the past five years conducting research on solid-state batteries. His primary research interests lie in Si-dominant anodes and solid electrolytes, which encompass both solid polymer and inorganic sulfide types. In addition to his work on solid-state batteries, Owen has over a decade of experience in fuel cells and electrochemistry. He holds a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Penn State University and has co-authored over 40 publications and co-invented more than 15 patents.

Arumugam Manthiram is the George T. and Gladys H. Abell Endowed Chair of Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin (UT-Austin). He served as the Director of Texas Materials Institute at UT-Austin during 2011 – 2022. After receiving his Ph.D. in chemistry from Indian Institute of Technology Madras in 1981 and working as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oxford and at UT-Austin, he became a faculty member in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at UT-Austin in 1991. He has authored more than 1,000 journal articles with 128,000 citations and an h-index of 175. He has mentored 300 students and postdoctoral researchers, including the graduation of 76 Ph.D. students. Dr. Manthiram is a recipient of the Battery Division Research Award and Technology Award, the Henry B. Linford Award for Distinguished Teaching, and the John B. Goodenough Award from the Electrochemical Society, and the International Battery Materials Association Research Award and Yeager Award. He delivered the 2019 Chemistry Nobel Prize Lecture in Stockholm on behalf of Professor John Goodenough.

Professor Y. Shirley Meng received her Ph.D. in Advance Materials for Micro & Nano Systems from the Singapore-MIT Alliance in 2005, after which she worked as a postdoc research fellow and became a research scientist at MIT. Shirley currently holds the Zable Endowed Chair Professor in Energy Technologies and is Professor of NanoEngineering and Materials Science, University of California San Diego (UCSD). She is the founding Director of the Sustainable Power and Energy Center (2015-2020) and was named as inaugural director of the Institute of Materials Discovery and Design. Professor Meng received the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award in 2011, UCSD Chancellor’s Interdisciplinary Collaboratories Award in 2013, C.W. Tobias Young Investigator Award of the Electrochemical Society (2016), International Coalition for Energy Storage and Innovation (ICESI) Inaugural Young Career Award (2018), American Chemical Society ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces Young Investigator Award (2018), a Finalist for the Blavatnik National Award (2018), International Battery Associations Research Award (2019) and Royal Chemical Society Faraday’s Medal (2020). She is the author and co-author of more than 225 peer-reviewed journal articles, 2 book chapter and 5 issued patents. Professor Meng serves on the executive committee for battery division at the Electrochemical Society and she is the Editor-in-Chief for MRS Energy & Sustainability. She is an elected fellow of the Electrochemical Society (FECS) and fellow of the Materials Research Society (FMRS).

David Mitlin is a Cockrell Endowed Professor at the Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin. Prior to that, he was a Professor and General Electric Chair at Clarkson University, and an Assistant, Associate, and full Professor at the University of Alberta, Alberta Canada. Dr. Mitlin is an ISI Highly Cited Researcher (top 0.1% by impact in field), having published about one hundred and seventy-five journal articles on various aspects of energy storage materials, metallurgy, and corrosion. He also holds twelve granted U.S. patents and fifteen more pending full applications, with all of them licensed currently or in the past.

Dr. R. Mohtadi is a Senior Principal Scientist at the materials research department at Toyota Research Institute of North America TRINA and has been in the decarbonization R&D field for over two decades. She has been spearheading and leading research for the creation, design and demonstration of materials for chemical and electrochemical energy storage technologies, including the research of novel battery electrolyte chemistries for liquid and solid-state batteries, and has contributed important advancements in these areas. She has published influential research and has been awarded over 30 patents. Notable recognitions include receiving the R&D100 award (2011) and being named in “40 under 40” by the Automotive and Crain’s news (2014). She was recognized and showed cased in the “We Run on Brain Power” initiative by the State Governor in 2015 as a face of cutting edge innovation in the State of Michigan, USA.

Dhevathi Rajan R Kannan is a Research Scientist in the Electrochemical Safety Research Institute (ESRI) at UL Research Institutes (ULRI). Dr. Kannan has more than six years of experience in battery research on battery cell testing and battery safety.

Mike has significant energy storage materials value chain understanding with an emphasis on lithium-ion batteries and systems with 13 years of market knowledge and relationships. Successful program leadership experience with significant business growth in ventures and existing businesses with a proven track record leading mergers and acquisition teams to enter the lithium-ion battery materials market. He joined AVICENNE in May of 2016 as a Senior Advisor. Since joining the AVICENNE team, Mike has been leading the US AVICENNE activity working with many clients holding strategy workshops, validation of growth opportunities, helping clients establish their growth plans in energy storage, and establishing M&A targets/diligence. Before joining AVICENNE, Mike had a very long career with DuPont, his most recent role was the Global Marketing Director – Energy Storage Venture where he developed significant understanding and insights for the energy storage materials market, device manufacturing, and systems while leading global marketing and customer interface efforts to establish programs to enter the $20B energy storage materials market. Executed strategic and market planning for opportunity evaluation, research, choices, and M&A activity for entry into rapidly growing new market. He has a degree in Chemistry from the University of Delaware and is a member of the Society of Automotive Engineers and Electrochemical Society.

Nuria graduated in Chemistry from the University of Barcelona. After this, she pursued her PhD studies in hydrogen storage materials at the University of Glasgow. She started her work on batteries after joining the research group of Sir Prof Bruce where after a year, she took up the role of Team leader of the Sodium-ion battery team. Nuria started her independent career at Lancaster University in 2017 and her research group and lab moved to Imperial College London in 2022. Her research group consists of a multidisciplinary team of students and postdocs with an interest in the Physics and Chemistry of Materials for Energy Storage, primarily in the area of sustainable rechargeable batteries and supercapacitors.

Adrian Tylim is responsible for driving USA and America’s market at Blue Solutions, a Bolloré company. He has broad experience with renewable energy technologies as an engineer, designer, project, and business developer. He was part of NASA’s space station solar power module team, worked on various California wind energy projects, and was responsible for business development for a leading German solar engineering firm. As a sustainability champion, he designed a solution to eliminate landfills and economically produce renewable energy from waste. He earned an MS in Energy Systems Engineering from the University of Arizona and a BS in Applied Physics from California State University.

Masanobu Uchimura is a Senior Manager at Nissan Advanced Technology Center Silicon Valley and a researcher specializing in nanomaterials and electrochemistry. He is engaged in battery system design utilizing telematics data, and materials research related to batteries and CO2 reduction using materials informatics.

Gabriel Veith is a Distinguished Staff Scientist within the Chemical Sciences Division at ORNL. His research focuses on the development of new materials and processes related to energy storage/conversion applications as well as fundamental studies of liquid-solid and solid-solid interfaces. Particular areas of focus include sodium ion battery chemistry, using neutrons to probe reactive interfaces, physical vapor deposition processes to coat vacuum stable materials, and solid state batteries. He has 294 published papers, 16 patents, 8 patents submitted, and two R&D 100 awards. He is also the honorary scientific advisor for the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department (Burglary Division).

Steven Visco is the Chief Executive Officer, CTO, and founder of PolyPlus Battery Company in Berkeley, California, as well as a Guest Scientist in the Materials Science Division at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Steven J. Visco currently holds 127 U.S. patents, more than 200 international patents and has authored over 80 journal articles, as well as books, monographs and other publications. Dr. Visco graduated with a B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Massachusetts in 1977 and received his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from Brown University in 1982. Dr. Visco then joined the staff at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory as a Principal Investigator in the Materials Sciences Division in 1984 where his research interests have included advanced batteries and fuel cells. Steven Visco co-founded PolyPlus Battery Company in 1991. In 2013 Dr. Visco was selected by the City of Berkeley for a “Visionary Award” for his work in next generation batteries. Steve also serves on the Technical Advisory the CIC Energigune Institute in Miñano, Spain and was awarded the 2011 International Battery Association Award for “Outstanding Contributions to the Development of Lithium-Air and Lithium-Water Batteries.” PolyPlus Battery Company was selected by TIME magazine for its 50 Best Inventions of 2011 Issue, and was selected for a Gold Edison Award in 2012. In May 2015 Dr. Visco was elected a Fellow of the Electrochemical Society.

Craig currently serves as the General Manager of Cambridge EnerTech with primary responsibilities for scientific conference organization and program development within energy market sectors with conferences based in the United States, Asia, Australia and Europe. Prior to that and since 2014, Craig served as Executive Director of Conferences for Cambridge Enertech. Previously to joining CII and forming Cambridge EnerTech, Craig was the Founder and President of the Knowledge Foundation, a scientific conference and publishing company until it was acquired by CII in 2014. Additionally, Craig was a Director at IBC USA (now Informa), and has previous experience in conference development, publishing and technical marketing.

Kevin Wujcik serves as the Chief Technology Officer at Blue Current, leading the development of the company's fully dry solid-state battery utilizing silicon-active materials. Before joining Blue Current, Kevin worked on the research team at Ford Motor Company, concentrating on battery materials and fuel cell systems research and development. His contributions include being named in over 12 peer-reviewed scientific publications and 9 patents. Kevin earned his PhD in Chemical Engineering from UC Berkeley, with a thesis centered around lithium-sulfur batteries containing solid polymer electrolytes. Additionally, he holds a BS degree in Chemical Engineering from Drexel University, where he contributed to the advancement of novel fuel cell electrode microstructures.

Professor Hui (Claire) Xiong is a Professor in the Micron School of Materials Science and Engineering at Boise State University. Dr. Xiong received her BE degree in Applied Chemistry and her MS degree in Solid State Chemistry from East China University of Science and Technology. She received her PhD in Electroanalytical Chemistry from the University of Pittsburgh in 2007. Between 2008 and 2012, she conducted postdoctoral work at Harvard University and Argonne National Laboratory where her research involved electrochemical characterization of micro-fabricated cathode materials for micro-solid oxide fuel cells and the development of novel nanostructured electrode materials for Li-ion and Na-ion batteries. She joined Boise State University in 2012. Dr. Xiong received the NSF CAREER Award in 2015, is the Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Fellow of the American Ceramic Society, a Scialog Fellow, and the Fellow of the Center for Advanced Energy Studies. Dr. Xiong’s research focuses on design and development of nanoarchitectured and defect-driven electrode materials for Li-ion and Na-ion batteries and beyond, ion irradiation effects on electroceramics, mechanistic insights on electrolyte degradation, and in situ and operando characterizations of energy materials.

Dr. Eongyu Yi is Director of Battery Technology at Ampcera, where he leads the development of advanced sulfide-based solid-state batteries. He holds a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan and completed postdoctoral research at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where his work earned an R&D 100 Award. Dr. Yi has authored over 40 peer-reviewed publications and holds multiple patents in solid electrolyte and battery interface technologies. At Ampcera, he drives innovations in electrolyte design, interface engineering, and high-loading electrode architectures, advancing fast-charging, all-climate battery systems for defense, EV, and aerospace applications.