Dr. Khalil Amine is an Argonne Distinguished Fellow and the leader of the Advanced Battery Technology team at Argonne National Laboratory, where he is responsible for directing the research and development of advanced materials and battery systems for HEV, PHEV, EV, grid, satellite, military and medical applications. Dr. Amine is also the Deputy Director of the US/China clean energy research center and serves as a Fellow of the US National Academy of inventors and committee member of the U.S. National Research Consul at US Academy of Sciences on battery related technologies. He is an adjunct professor at Stanford University, and hold a joint appointment as Professor at the university of Chicago and Fellow of Northwestern Argonne Institute of science and Engineering. Among his many awards, Dr. Amine is 2019 recipient of the global energy prize, a 2003 recipient of Scientific America’s Top Worldwide 50 Researcher Award, a 2009 recipient of the US Federal Laboratory Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer, 2013 DOE Vehicle technologies office award and is the six-time recipient of the R&D 100 Award. In addition, he was awarded the ECS battery technology and battery research awards and the international battery association award. Dr. Amine holds over 207 patents and patent applications and has 647 publications with google h-index of 133. From 1998-2019, Dr. Amine was one of the most cited scientist in the world in the field of battery technology. He serves as the executive director and Vice president of IMLB. He is also the chairmen of the international automotive lithium battery association, ECS fellow, Fellow of the international association of advanced materials, and associate editor of the journal of Nano-Energy.