the university of sheffield
dr solomon brown
Dr Solomon Brown is a Senior Lecturer, Royal Academy of Engineering Industrial Fellow and the Director of EPSRC’s CDT in Energy Storage and its Applications. He leads Energy Systems research at the University of Sheffield and has considerable expertise in using mathematical modelling, process analysis and optimisation to study clean energy processes and energy storage.
newcastle university
PrOF. paul christensen
Professor of Pure and Applied Electrochemistry at Newcastle (New), 35 years’ experience in electrochemistry and electrocatalysis. Google H-index of 51. Over 170 papers in international journals including a Nature paper “Recycling lithium-ion batteries from electric vehicles”. Worked with Nissan Battery Plant/Envision AESC since 2011 advising on all aspect of LiBs. Advising all UK FRS directly and via National Fire Chiefs Council, and advising all Australian and New Zealand FRS. Special Advisor to London, Tyne and Wear and Northumberland Fire and Rescue Services.
university of cambridge
PROF. clare grey
Clare Grey, FRS (CG) is the Geoffrey Moorhouse Gibson Professor of Materials Chemistry at Cambridge (CAM). Her research interests include the use of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and diffraction to study structure/dynamics in materials for energy storage and conversion; she has pioneered the development of in situ NMR metrologies for batteries and supercapacitors. Awards in 2019 include the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) John B Goodenough Award, the IoM3 Charles Hatchett Award, and the British Crystallographic Association Prize Lecture. She is a foreign member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an ISMAR and an ECS Fellow. She is the director of the EPSRC Centre for Advanced Materials for Integrated Energy Systems (2016 - present). She heads the Faraday Institution (FI) Degradation Fast Start project and is a member of the FI Expert Panel.
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON
dr rhodri jervis
Rhodri is an Associate Professor in the Electrochemical Innovation Lab (EIL ) at UCL, specialising in the understanding of energy materials and devices via advanced X-ray techniques. He graduated from Balliol College, Oxford in Chemistry in 2008 and after a short time working for a medical research spinout in his home town of Swansea obtained his PhD in fuel cell catalysis from University College London in 2015. After a post-doctoral research position in redox flow batteries, he took up a position as lecturer in Chemical Engineering in UCL in 2018. He is currently the project lead for the Faraday Institution fast-start on Li ion battery degradation and WP1 leader on SafeBatt. His research interests span a variety of electrochemical technologies with a focus on the use of synchrotron techniques.
university of warwick
dr Simon jones
Dr Simon Jones is a Principal Engineer, focussed on Battery Safety with a particular interest in thermal runaway and propagation events in lithium ion battery packs. Simon has 30 years of industrial experience in high temperature materials and destructive testing in the construction, oil and gas, automotive and aerospace industries. This has included leadership roles in technical marketing, new product development and the launch of commercially successful products with associated patents.
Specific areas of work currently include: (1) investigation of modes of failure in cylindrical cells and deterministic trigger methods to ensure high quality data for design decision making, (2) design features and material selection to mitigate the rate and consequences of thermal runway, ideally limiting the event to a single cell and (3) management of the WMG Battery Safety Center providing an abuse test service to WMG and industrial partners.
university of warwick
dr melanie loveridge
Dr Melanie Loveridge is Reader in Electrochemical Materials at WMG. With over 12 years of experience within Li-ion battery research, she has spent equal amounts of time in academic research and as a characterisation specialist for a spin-out company from Imperial College. Her research areas focus on materials discovery and characterisation techniques, but also understanding mechanisms of degradation and battery forensics. Dr Loveridge is a lead inventor on several world patent families around electrode materials, compositions and structures, with > 30 publications in Q1 journals. Since returning to academia, she has won > £ 3 M in research grants from EPSRC calls, Energy Superstore Early Career Research award, The Faraday Institution and H2020’s Graphene Flagship. She sits on many advisory panels and committees for academia and industry and regularly engages with many outreach activities, including the British Science Festival, Radio 4’s Today Program and Costing the Earth, with several media articles published, e.g. The Telegraph. From 2020 Dr Loveridge has been an associate editor for Frontiers in Chemical Engineering and the Special Topics section in MDPI Coatings.
university of warwick
Prof. James Marco
Prof. James Marco is a Professor of Battery Systems at WMG, University of Warwick and is Head of the WMG Energy Directorate. His Broad research interests are focussed on the challenge of scaling-up individual battery cells to complete energy storage systems, including the use of novel sensing methods, data-driven and experimental techniques to enhance battery safety, extend battery life and optimise performance. James manages the Energy Innovation Centre (EIC) within WMG. The EIC is a national research laboratory for battery technology developed through a £70m investment and contains unique equipment for material discovery, manufacturing, characterisation, and safety. James has published over 230 articles and successfully supervised 20 doctoral students. His research portfolio includes programmes funded by the Faraday Institution, EPSRC, Innovate UK and H2020.
King’s college London
DR FrancEsco Restuccia
Dr Francesco Restuccia is a Senior Lecturer at King’s College London Department of Engineering, where he leads the Heat and Fire Lab. His multidisciplinary research covers bio-energy, combustion, fire science, and heat transfer. He has a growing research profile in lithium-ion battery heat transfer research, focusing on aspects including thermal runaway, fire propagation, and improving overall thermal performance of batteries. He is a motivated educator, teaching a variety of General Engineering courses, as well as regularly involved in science outreach to promote multidisciplinary approaches to engineering problems.
UNIVERSITY Of Oxford
PROF. paul shearing
Paul Shearing is Professor of Sustainable Energy Engineering at the Department of Engineering Science and the Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Battery Technologies. As ZERO Director, Professor Shearing will help to shape ZERO’s ethos, strategy, networks, research and teaching programmes.
Previously, Paul was Professor of Chemical Engineering at University College London. His research interests cover a broad range of electrochemical engineering themes with a particular interest in the characterisation and understanding of materials for batteries, fuel cells and other energy applications. He was a founding investigator of The Faraday Institution, the UK’s independent institute for electrochemical energy storage research where he leads the LiSTAR and Safebatt research programmes. He is a major user of synchrotron and neutron facilities, and founded the UK STFC Global Challenge network in Batteries and Electrochemical Devices.
