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
Jürgen Janek has a chair for Physical Chemistry at Justus Liebig University in Giessen (JLU). Germany, is director of the JLU Center for Materials Research and Scientific Director of the BELLA lab at KIT, Karlsruhe. He was visiting professor at Seoul National
Shinichi Komaba is a Professor of Applied Chemistry at Tokyo University of Science and a Project Professor at Kyoto University.. After obtaining his Ph.D. from Waseda University, Komaba joined Iwate University in 1998. From 2003 to 2004, he also worked at Institut
Gerbrand Ceder is the Samsung Distinguished Professor of Engineering at UC Berkeley. His research interests lie in computational and experimental materials design for clean energy technology and in AI/ML approaches to materials design and synthesis. He has published over 500 scientific papers
Jim Greenberger is the Executive Director of NAATBatt International, a not-for-profit trade association of advanced battery manufacturers and their supply chain partners doing business in North America and around the world. Mr. Greenberger co-founded NAATBatt in 2007 as part of a national
Dr. Jie Xiao is currently a Battelle Fellow and leads Battery Materials & System Group at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). She is also a PNNL-University of Washington distinguished faculty fellow. Dr. Xiao’s research spans from fundamental research, battery materials scaleup and
Dr. Chunsheng Wang is a Robert Franklin and Frances Riggs Wright Distinguished Chair Professor in the Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Maryland. He is an associate editor of ACS Applied Energy Materials and UMD Director of The UMD-ARL Center for
Arumugam Manthiram is currently the George T. and Gladys H. Abell Endowed Chair of Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin (UT-Austin). He was the Director of the Texas Materials Institute and the Materials Science and Engineering Program at UT-Austin for
Yuri Nakayama is a principal researcher at Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd. working on the new business creation as well as R&D of the next-generation batteries. He used to be a distinguished researcher and project manager at Sony Corporation. 22+ years R&D experience
