Chris was born in Esher, England and was raised by his mother, Audrey, in Malvern Wells surrounded by the quintessential English countryside, a place he would continue to enjoy throughout his life. At the age of thirteen Chris enrolled at RGS Worcester

Prof. Feng Pan, National 1000-plan Professor, Founding Dean ofSchool of Advanced Materials，Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School, Director of National Center of Electric Vehicle PowerBattery and Materials for International Research, got B.S. from Dept. Chemistry, Peking University in1985 and PhD from Dept. of

 M. Stanley Whittingham is a leader in the development of new synthetic approaches and new materials. He was a research vice provost at University from 1994 until 2000. Additionally, he was the Research Foundation of the State University of New York’s Vice-Chair. Furthermore,

Andreas was a chemist and medical doctor. He received his PhD in electrochemistry from the ETH Zurich and Paul Scherrer Institute (Switzerland) in 2010. After a postdoc stay at MIT in the field of lithium-air and catalysis 2010-11 he joined the group

Eric D. Wachsman is Director of the Maryland Energy Innovation Institute at the University of Maryland (UMD) and Crentz Centennial Chair in Energy Research, with appointments as Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and the Department of

Dr. Martin Winter has been researching in the field of electrochemical energy storage and conversion for 25 years. He focuses on the development of new materials, components and cell designs for batteries and supercapacitors, in particular lithium-ion batteries. Martin Winter currently holds a

Jeff Dahn is recognized as one of the pioneering developers of the lithium-ion battery that is now used worldwide in laptop computers and cell-phones. Dahn’s recent work has concentrated extending the lifetime of lithium-ion batteries so they last decades. He is the

Mr. Duong currently manages the Advanced Battery Materials Research (BMR) Program and the Battery500 Consortium at the Vehicle Technologies Office (VTO). The BMR program conducts battery research with a strong emphasis on developing, modeling and conducting diagnostics for new materials. These materials

Professor Uosaki is Principal Fellow of Center for Research and Development Strategy (CRDS), Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Emeritus Fellow of National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), and Professor Emeritus of Hokkaido University. He is also Program Director (PD) of Green

Dr. Kearns has served as Director of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory since 2017. Argonne is a growing multidisciplinary science and engineering research center with a $1.2 billion diversified research portfolio and more than 3,300 employees, 8,000 facility users,