This symposium invites contributions on the broad topic of battery diversification as the cornerstone to achieve sustainable energy storage and enable the growing demands of our future electrified world. This includes beyond Li-ion research on other alkali- and multivalent-ion storage, dual and hybrid systems, solid state, metal-air, Li-S or anode-less batteries and their advanced fabrication methods. Related topics are cuttingedge operando characterisation techniques, advanced applications (e.g. structural or health-monitoring systems), tools to understand SEI formation and evolution, multiscale modelling, sustainability analysis (e.g. recyclability, LCA, circularity and future policy) and 'whole system' optimisation approaches (e.g. high throughput screening and data science for materials discovery).
- Beyond Li-ion
- Operando Characterisation
- Advanced applications
- Understanding the SEI
- Advanced fabrication methods
- Multiscale modelling
- Sustainability, recyclability, LCA and circularity
- 'Whole system' optimisation approaches
Philipp Adelhelm is a physical chemist and works at the interface between the research disciplines of materials science and electrochemistry. His current main interest is research on sustainable batteries.
After studying materials science at the University of Stuttgart, he moved to the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam (Department of Prof. Antionetti / Smarsly, 2005-2007) for his doctoral project. This was followed by a 2-year postdoctoral stay at the University of Utrecht (Prof. de Jongh) and then a position as a junior research group leader at the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Justus Liebig University in Giessen (Prof. Janek, 2009-2015). From 2015-2019 he was a professor at the Institute for Technical Chemistry and Environmental Chemistry at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena.
He has been a professor at the Institute for Chemistry at Humboldt-University since 2019 and heads a joint research group on operando battery analysis at the Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin (HZB).
Heather is a Royal Society University Research Fellow in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London.
She obtained her PhD in 2017 from Imperial College developing covalent modification strategies on carbon nanomaterials. She was a postdoctoral research associate at Queen Mary University of London and Imperial College, where her research interests shifted to investigating charge storage mechanisms in sodium-ion battery anodes, and later a Faraday Institution Research Fellow, working on the development of engineered carbon hosts for sulfur cathodes in lithium-sulfur batteries.
Heather was awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship in 2023, allowing her to establish an independent research team exploring sustainable materials for structural energy storage.
Dr. Fellinger is Head of the Division 3.6 Electrochemical Energy Materials at the German Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM). He is a nanostructure and molecular scientist by training (diploma at University of Kassel, DE), who received his PhD in colloid chemistry (with summa cum laude) at the University of Potsdam/DE under the direct supervision of Prof. Markus Antonietti in 2011. After a short postdoctoral stays at the Tokyo Institute of Technology (Prof. Ichiro Yamanaka) he was a research group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam-Golm (2012-2017). In 2016/17 he was an awarded Researcher-in-Residence at Chalmers Institute of Technology in Gothenburg (Prof. Anders Palmqvist), followed by one term as W2-substitute professor for inorganic chemistry at the University of Applied Science Zittau/Görlitz. Afterwards until 2020 he joined Prof. Hubert Gasteiger´s Chair for Technical Electrochemistry (Technical University Munich) with a fuel cell project. In 2020 Dr. Fellinger´s group joined the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM) in Berlin. Dr. Fellinger received the Donald-Ulrich Award 2017 of the International Sol-Gel Society and the Ernst-Haage Award for Chemistry of the Max-Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion. His research interests are the synthetic chemistry of novel materials and their usage in energy-related applications with a focus on different carbon-based materials like nitrogen-doped carbons, M-N-C catalysts or hard carbon anodes. He has published ~60 articles in peer-reviewed journals (>6000 citations, H-index: 41).
Dr. Gustav Graeber is the principal investigator of the Graeber Lab for Energy Research (GER) at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in the Department of Chemistry. He earned his B.Sc. degree in Mechanical Engineering from TU Berlin; his M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from RWTH Aachen University; and his PhD from ETH Zurich. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa) from 2019-2021 and a postdoctoral researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 2021-2023. He joined Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in March 2023 as the principal investigator of GER. His research interests range from thermodynamics, to functional materials and electrochemistry with the goal to increase performance of energy conversion processes.
Professor Emma Kendrick, CChem FIMMM FRSC FIMMM - Chair of Energy Materials, School of Metallurgy and Materials, University of Birmingham.
Prof Kendrick’s career to date has included industrial and academic roles leading to her current role as Chair of Energy Materials, where in addition to group lead of the energy materials group (EMG), she is co-director of the Centre for Energy Storage (BCES) and part of Birmingham Energy institute (BEI) and Birmingham Centre for Strategic Elements and Critical Materials (BCSECM). The EMG investigates sustainability in novel battery technologies from materials, manufacturing, performance and parameterisation, and recycling. Her recent work has led to a 2021 joint UoB - Imperial College London (ICL) spin out company, based around the methods of experimental parameterisation of applied multi-physics cell models, called About:Energy, for which she is founder and director.
Prior to UoB, she spent two years as Reader in WMG, University of Warwick. Before academia, she led innovations in the battery industry, latterly as Chief Technologist in Energy Storage at SHARP Laboratories of Europe Ltd (SLE) and prior to that for two lithium-ion battery SMEs, Fife Batteries Ltd and Surion Energy Ltd.
She is fellow of the Royal Society of chemistry (RSC) and Institute of Metals, Mining and Materials (IoM3). Recently, she has been recognised through several awards; 2021 Faraday Institution (FI) Researcher Development Champion, RSC 2021 Environment, Sustainability and Energy Division Mid-Career Award, and the 2019 Hothersall Memorial Award for outstanding services to Metal Finishing.
Prof Kendrick holds a PhD from Keele University, obtained as part of a postgraduate transfer partnership (PTP) scheme with CERAM Research, a MSc in new materials from the University of Aberdeen and a BSc in chemistry from the University of Manchester.
Ozlem Sel joined “Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)” as a principle investigator in 2011, and currently working at the “Solid-State Chemistry and Energy Lab (CSE)” at College de France, Paris. Her research interests include piezoelectric sensors employed in junction with electrochemical analysis, for a real-time monitoring of the interfacial processes occurring in energy storage devices.
She has obtained her Ph.D. degree in materials chemistry at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, in Germany (2007), on the synthesis, characterization and applications of hierarchically porous metal oxides, under the supervision of Prof. Markus Antonietti. Following her Ph.D. degree, she moved to France, joined the group of Prof. Clement Sanchez (LCMCP, Sorbonne University-UPMC, 2007-2009) as a post-doctoral researcher, focusing on the nanostructured hybrid materials and their characterization for energy conversion devices. In the period of 2010-2011, she was at the UC-Davis (group of Prof. Alexandra Navrotsky), USA within a framework of Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs) program. Prior joining the CSE lab at the Collège de France, she has worked at “Laboratory of Interfaces and Electrochemical Systems, CNRS” and obtained her research habilitation at the Sorbonne University, Paris.
Through these years, she has developed an expertise in nanostructured energy materials and electrochemistry, as well as operando methods for surface and interface characterization. She is particularly interested in EQCM and its coupling with EIS, and has been actively working on, already more than 15 years.