FANNY BARDÉ

Dr Fanny Bardé holds a PhD Material Science degree from Picardie Jules Verne University in Amiens (France).  After university, she worked for Duracell in Boston USA where she researched the development of Ni-Zn batteries. Prior to founding SOLiTHOR in February 2022, Dr Bardé managed the Solid-State Battery Progamme at imec where she oversaw large commercially funded projects and coordinated SOLiDIFY, a complex, 14 partner European H2020-LC-BAT1 public funded project, securing €7.8M of funding. For 14 years, Dr Bardé was Technical Manager for R&D – Advanced Technology at Toyota Motor Europe (TME) working on future battery technology for xEVs (PHEV, HEV, BEV). Her research focussed on novel multivalent and all solid-state batteries systems or designing new catalysts and electrolytes for rechargeable Li-Air batteries.