Jeff Sakamoto joined UC Santa Barbara’s College of Engineering faculty in 2024 with joint appointments in the Mechanical Engineering and Materials Departments. He has 25 years of experience studying and translating electrochemical materials into energy storage technologies. Prior to joining the UCSB faculty,
Brian Cunningham is the Program Manager for the Batteries R&D sub-program within the Department of Energy’s Vehicle Technologies Office. Brian has worked with the Battery Program since 2009. Brian serves as the co-chair of the United States Advanced Battery Consortium’s Management Committee,
Since March 2021, Petr Novák has been establishing a research group in the field of battery characterization and understanding of degradation as a senior professor at the Institute of Energy and Process Systems Engineering at TU Braunschweig. Petr Novák was a lecturer
Shoichi Matsuda is a Team Leader at the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan. His research focuses on the development of advanced materials and the analysis of the degradation mechanism in next generation energy storage devices, such as lithium air batteries
Dr. Chisu Kim Dr. Chisu Kim is the director of Center of Excellence in Transportation Electrification and Energy Storage (CETEES) at Hydro-Québec, where she is leading the research projects to develop next generation lithium solid-state batteries. Prior to joining Hydro-Québec, she developed lithium-ion
Dr. Bang received his Ph. D. degree in Materials Science and Engineering from University of California Irvine in 2008. He is now working as a director of open innovation of LG Energy Solution, where he joined in 2016. Prior to joining LG
Xiaobo Ji is a “Shenghua” Professor at Central South University, China and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry since 2014. His current research is specializing in the research & development of critical materials for energy storage systems including lithium-ion
Dr. Jun Liu is the Washington Research Foundation Innovation Chair in Clean Energy, Campbell Chair Professor of Materials Science & Engineering, Professor of Chemical Engineering, and a Battelle Fellow at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). He also serves as the Director
Steven Visco is the Chief Executive Officer, CTO, and founder of PolyPlus Battery Company in Berkeley, California, as well as a Guest Scientist in the Materials Science Division at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Steven J. Visco currently holds 103 U.S. patents, more than 200 international patents
