Dr. Yang Shao-Horn is W.M. Keck Professor of Energy in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Department of Materials Science and Engineering and the Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT. Her research is centered on using chemical physics concepts to control kinetics, dynamics and

Doron Aurbach is a professor in the Department of Chemistry at Bar-Ilan University in Israel, where he founded and currently leads the Electrochemistry Group. Under his supervision, 50 PhD and 70 MSc students received their degrees. Aurbach’s team researches the electrochemistry of

Hong Li is currently a full professor in Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research interest is high energy density lithium ion batteries, solid lithium batteries and failure analysis. He has published over 280 papers in peer-reviewed journals with over 16000

Dr.  Meng is a professor of molecular engineering at the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering. She also serves as the chief scientist of the Argonne Collaborative Center for Energy Storage Science (ACCESS) Argonne National Laboratory. Her work pioneers in discovering and designing better

Dominique Guyomard is Director of Research at CNRS and the head of the “Electrochemical Energy Storage and Transformation Team” (EEST) at the Institut des Materiaux Jean Rouxel at Nantes. This team of about 50 scientists and 20 staff researchers gathers activities on

Professor Linda Nazar received her B.Sc. in Chemistry from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, her Ph.D in Chemistry from the University of Toronto, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Exxon Research Labs in Annandale, N.J. She joined the

Robert Kostecki is a Senior Scientist and Division Director of the Energy Storage and Distributed Resources (ESDR) Division in the Energy Technologies Area in Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He is responsible for ESDR scientific, programmatic and strategic leadership in the areas of energy

While doing his doctoral studies at Caltech, William Chueh showed that heat from the sun can turn cerium oxide—a relatively cheap material—into an effective catalyst for splitting water to yield hydrogen that can be used to make fuel. Most other hydrogen extraction

Dr. Won-Sub Yoon is a professor in the Department of Energy Science at Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU). He received his Ph.D. in materials science and engineering from Yonsei University, Korea. He worked at Brookhaven National Laboratory in USA as a principal investigator and Kookmin

Yoshiharu Uchimoto is a professor in the Department of Interdisciplinary Environment, Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, a position he has since 2007. He received his Doctor of Engineering degree in 1991 from Kyoto University. In 1993,