Principal Investigator
& WORK PACKAGE 2 LEAD
PROF. Paul Shearing
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 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.
project lead
& WORK PACKAGE 5 LEAD
dr Julia Weaving
Julia has experience in batteries in a collaborative, industrial research environment as well as academia. She has worked extensively in lithium metal and lithium-ion technologies and is experienced in product development and prototyping. Julia has been technical lead on multi-disciplined projects developing battery technologies for electric vehicles and consumer electronics, working extensively with academic and industrial research groups to develop safer systems by investigating and understanding the root causes of cell failure under different abuse scenarios and implementing stringent cell screening methods. She has also worked on Li-ion battery recycling, from feasibility to pilot scale development as well as on sodium metal and sodium ion battery technologies.
Work package 1 lead
dr Rhodri jervis
Rhodri is an academic 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.
Work package 3 lead
prof. paul christensen
Paul Christensen is Professor of Pure and Applied Electrochemistry at Newcastle, 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.
