Philipp Adelhelm is a materials scientist and received his education at the University of Stuttgart and the Max-Planck-Institute for Metals Research. After graduation in 2004, he joined the group of Prof. Markus Antonietti at the Max-Planck-Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam, Germany, and worked on the synthesis and characterization of carbon materials with tailored porosity. He received his PhD in physical chemistry in 2007 and continued his academic career as a post doc at the Debye Institute of Nanomaterials Science in Utrecht, The Netherlands, under supervision of Prof. Petra de Jongh and Prof. Krijn de Jong studying sodium and magnesium based hydrogen storage materials. During his stay as group leader at the Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Germany (Institute of Physical Chemistry, RG Prof. Juergen Janek) his research aimed at exploring the cell chemistry of sodium based battery systems with the focus on carbon materials, conversion reactions, sodium/air and low temperature sodium/sulfur systems. On 1st of April 2015, he was appointed professor at the Institute for technical chemistry and environmental chemistry (ITUC) at the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena. He is also part of the newly established Jena Center for Energy and Environmental Chemistry (CEEC) that was inaugurated in fall 2015. He is also member of the directorate of the Working group „Chemistry and Energy“ of the GDCh.

President
President of Total Battery Consulting, Inc. and founder of the Advanced Automotive Battery Conferences, Dr. Anderman has led the development and commercialization of high-power Ni-Cd and Li-Ion batteries and spent the last 17 years conducting assessments of energy-storage technologies for advanced vehicles, publishing xEV Insider Industry Reports and chairing the AABC. Dr. Anderman provides technological assessments to companies worldwide. His client list includes most major automakers, leading international battery developers and suppliers, financial institutions, and government agencies. His access to automakers and battery companies gives Dr. Anderman insight into the latest trends in the advanced-vehicle market.

Program Manager
Greg Archer is program manager at the European Federation for Transport & Environment (T&E), the principal environmental organization campaigning on sustainable transport at the EU level in Brussels. The NGO represents, and is supported by around 50 member organizations working to promote an environmentally sound approach to transport across Europe. Greg leads T&E’s campaigns to reduce the environmental impacts from cars, vans and trucks, currently focusing on CO2 and noise. He was formally Managing Director at a UK-based Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership, a public-private partnership focused on developing the market for low carbon vehicles and fuels. He has also established and directed other public and private sector organisations supporting the market for sustainable vehicles and fuels. Greg has spent his career in the environmental sector including working in academia, running a consultancy, managing major Government programmes and directing partnerships and environmental regulators and describes himself as a “pragmatic environmentalist.”

Global Applications Development Manager, Energy Materials,
 

Agent General
 

Stationary Storage Systems
J. Badeda was working as research associate for the Institute of power electronics and electrical drives (ISEA) from 2012 to 2017. During the last two years she headed the department of grid integration and storage systems analysis within the chair of Prof. Dirk Uwe Sauer. This research section is focusing on the possibility to integrate renewable energies in the future electricity grid through energy storage options. She has furthermore gained experiences with diverse testing of batteries in stationary and automotive applications. Since May 2017 Ms. Julia Badeda leads the business development for stationary storage systems within the BatterieIngenieure GmbH and will become managing director by the end of 2017.

 

Professor, Institute for Technical Chemistry and Environmental Chemistry
Andrea Balducci took his PhD in Materials Science in 2006 at the Paul Sabatier University of Toulouse, France. From 2009 till 2014, he was the scientific leader of the supercapacitors group at MEET Battery Research Center of the University of Münster. From January 2015 till May 2016, was working as senior scientist at the Helmholtz Institute Ulm (HIU). Since June 2016 is Professor for “Applied Electrochemistry” at the Institute for Technical Chemistry and Environmental Chemistry and at the Center for Energy and Environmental Chemistry Jena (CEEC Jena) of the Friedrich-Schiller University Jena. Prof. Balducci is working on the development of safe and high-performance supercapacitors and lithium-ion batteries. He is also interested on the development of new type of hybrid, high power devices.

Project Manager
 

General Manager
 

Managing Director
 

Line Manager, Post Mortem
Dr. Emilie Bekaert received her PhD in Materials science from the university Lille I (France). She is now research line manager of Post mortem at the CIC Energigune, Spain, with interests in rechargeable batteries and supercaps. Her research focused on different topics related to electrode materials for Li-ion batteries.

Director, Alternative Traction & Electrification, Commercial Vehicles - Product Development
Degree in mechanical engineer, experience in vehicle engineering on most of any on road vehicle types, starting from motorcycle dynamic as being part of World championship motorcycle speed racing in Honda Racing Corporation or through the publication of papers on Chattering mode. Moved to passenger car industry, in Fiat auto as responsible for virtual validation for the first series project done without using physical prototypes and later as vehicle technical responsible for the new engine family application. After a step in into the alternative fuel design with LPG and NG application, moved finally to electrification both in FCA, working also on Fiat 500 EV project, and later in CRF, the research Centre of Fiat group. In IVECO since 2011 as project responsible for the Daily Electric, since 2012 leading Innovation & Alternative Traction for Truck and Bus and CEO for the dedicated legal entity within the Iveco group to work on electrification: ALTRA. Within the time in IVECO working on many electrification prototype projects from Bus, light and medium and heavy truck or special application also such as defense vehicle or Agriculture equipment, but actively involved also on series project for Hybrid and Full electric and learning day by day from the first “electrified” proto done in Iveco: a series hybrid bus in 1989.

Founder
Based in New York, Chris has been an independent analyst since 2009 with a focus on Energy Metals including lithium, cobalt, graphite, nickel, and copper. His research provides strategic insights to institutional investors, banks and corporations and has a specific focus on how disruptive trends in energy, strategic metals, and technology create opportunities. Before shifting focus to analysis of these trends, Chris gained twelve years of capital markets experience on both the buy side and sell side. Chris holds a Master of Business Administration in finance with an international focus from Fordham University, and a Bachelor of Arts in international studies from The Virginia Military Institute.

Assistant Vice President
Robert Bienenfeld is assistant vice president, Environment and Energy Strategy for American Honda’s Product Regulatory Office. Bienenfeld is responsible for policy (legislative proposals and regulatory rule making) as it relates to the automobile and its impact on the environment. In addition, he is responsible for recommending long-term strategies to address greenhouse gas, energy security and air quality issues. Bienenfeld was responsible for Honda’s discussions with the White House that led to the historic 2012– 2016 and 2017–2025 Greenhouse Gas and Fuel Economy Regulations. Bienenfeld frequently represents American Honda at industry conferences such as Center for Automotive Research’s Management Briefing Seminars, SAE World Congress, National Academy of Sciences, and various other conferences. Prior to his current position, Mr. Bienenfeld was an Advisor to Honda’s Product Development Committee, and was responsible for Strategic Planning and Research. Other previous responsibilities include: Product Planning, New Business Development, and Alternative Fuel Vehicle Sales and Marketing. Key accomplishments include: the initial proposal for Honda’s “Safety for Everyone” strategy, Honda’s introduction of telematics, Honda’s investments in car sharing and vehicle refueling technologies. Bienenfeld led the launch of Honda’s first battery electric car, the 1997-9 EV PLUS, Honda’s first generation Civic natural-gas vehicle (1998), and the original Honda Insight (1999), the first hybrid vehicle sold in the U.S. Bienenfeld is a 30+ year Honda veteran. Bienenfeld was graduated from St. John’s College, Santa Fe, New Mexico and resides in Long Beach, California.

Deputy Head of Division, Center for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research
 

Director, Automotive
 

Scientist, Fraunhofer R&D Center Electromobility
Begüm Bozkaya received her B.Sc. degree in Chemistry from Middle East Technical University in Ankara in 2012. Afterwards, she studied in the “Advanced Materials Science” Master Program at Technical University of Munich, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and University of Augsburg. Her master´s thesis was based on the investigation of carbon additives on C/Si Anode Materials for Lithium Ion Batteries, which she conducted at SGL Carbon in Meitingen. Since October 2015 she is working as a PhD and a scientific researcher at Fraunhofer Institute for Silicate Research ISC, Fraunhofer R&D Center Electromobility in Würzburg. She investigates the effects of carbon additives on negative plates for Lead Acid Batteries.

Project Manager Battery, Engineering Center Ingolstadt
Dr. Andreas Braun is responsible for Battery Engineering at AVL Deutschland GmbH (product management for the German market). From 2014 he was Project Manager at AVL List GmbH in Graz, Austria. Before this he worked as consultant and researcher at Karlsruhe Institute for Technology.

Director Project Management, Advanced Applications, Exide Technologies and Jesús Valenciano, Manager R&D Lab
Mr. Luca Brisotto has joined Exide Technologies Product Development in 2001, after having studied Chemical Engineering at Polytechnic of Milan. He has since worked as Key Account/Application Engineer for several Car Manufacturers. In 2005, he started working on the development of the first generation EFB batteries for Stop&Start vehicles. Since 2008, he’s been following the development of a new generation of EFB batteries mainly focusing on improved charge acceptance properties and overall performances to match Car Manufacturers challenging requirements. Since 2012, he’s responsible for Exide OE Application Engineering team EU, and attends as expert/member to CENELEC and IEC technical committees.

Manager, Cluster Mechanical Engineering
 

Professor of Materials Science
Thierry Brousse is Professor of Materials Science at the University of Nantes. He received his PhD degree in 1991. After being a chemical engineer in a company, he joined the University of Nantes in 1994 and get a Full Professor position in 2005. He is a researcher at Institut des Matériaux Jean Rouxel (IMN). His research focuses on materials for electrochemical energy storage with particular emphasis on innovative and/or modified materials for electrochemical capacitors and related devices. He is Associate Editor for the Journal of The Electrochemical Society. He was appointed as an invited professor in different universities in South Korea, Australia, Taïwan and Japan. He also serves as advisor for different international organizations. He was president of the French National Research Agency committee on Energy Storage and Conversion for 4 years. He has mentored 23 PhD students. With his team, as well as international collaborators, he co-authored 7 books' chapters and more than 150 peer-reviewed journal publications. He has delivered more than 50 invited and keynote lectures at International meetings. He owns 5 patents in the field of electrochemistry. He is vice-dean of the University of Nantes in charge of Technology Transfer since 2013.

New Materials, Solid-State Batteries
 

CEO
 

Senior Analyst, SQM, Chile; Senior Advisor, Physical Sciences and Engineering Directorate, Argonne National Laboratory
 

Institute of Transportation Studies
Dr. Burke holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Applied Mathematics from Carnegie Institute of Technology, a M.A. degree in Aerospace Engineering and a Ph.D. in Aerospace and Mechanical Sciences from Princeton University. Since 1974, his career work has involved many aspects of electric and hybrid vehicle design, analysis, and testing. He was the head systems engineer on the U.S. Department of Energy–funded Hybrid Vehicle (HTV) project while working at the General Electric Research and Development Center in Schenectady, N.Y. While a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Union College in Schenectady, he continued his work on electric vehicle technology through consulting with the Argonne and Idaho National Engineering (INEL) Laboratories on various DOE electric vehicle and battery programs. Dr. Burke was employed from 1988-1994 at INEL as a principal program specialist in the electric and hybrid vehicle programs. Dr. Burke joined the Research Faculty of the Institute of Transportation Studies at UC Davis in July 1994. He has performed research on and taught graduate courses on advanced electric driveline technologies specializing on batteries, ultracapacitors, fuel cells, and hybrid vehicle design, control and simulation. Dr. Burke has authored over 100 reports and papers on electric and hybrid vehicles, batteries, and ultracapacitors.

Director, New Materials
 

Research Engineer, Advanced Vehicles
Richard "Barney" Carlson is the principal researcher at Idaho National Lab's Electric Vehicle Infrastructure lab.

Developer 48V Battery Systems
 

Quality and Environmental Manager
 

Managing Director
 

Project Manager
Dr. Mikaël Cugnet received his Master and PhD degrees in Control Engineering from the University of Bordeaux in France, in 2004 and 2008 respectively. PSA Peugeot Citroën funded his PhD entitled “Ageing integration to the management of an automotive lead-acid battery” under the guidance of Sylvie Grugeon, Prof. Stéphane Laruelle, and Prof. Jean-Marie Tarascon. From 2008 to 2010, he was a post-doc in the team of Dr. Bor Yann Liaw, at the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute, to work on characterizing and modeling Li-ion and Lead-acid batteries. Since 2010, Mikaël is a battery expert at CEA, the French Atomic and Alternative Energy Commission, managing many academic and industrial projects on different technologies (Pb-acid, Ni-MH, Li-ion, Na-ion, and Na-MCl2) mostly focused on battery modeling and diagnostic for transport applications. Mikaël has been the thesis advisor of 3 MSc and 5 PhD students. He has lectured on electrochemical storage at Ecole des Mines de Paris since 2010. He has been a member of the Electrochemical Society since 2008 and has attended more than 20 international conferences in the battery field. He currently holds 4 book chapters, 5 patents, and 16 articles. He also acts as an expert for the European Commission.

Business Development Director, ARMOR Films for Batteries
Thierry is Business Development Director at ARMOR where he leads product management, marketing, and sales, on a global basis for battery related activities. With a strong entrepreneurship mindset, he is expert in bringing cutting-edge technologies to the market. Prior to joining ARMOR, he launched a start-up in sensors for battery management systems. He also contributed to the mobile phones revolution. He lived for 6 years in ASIA. Thierry’s background is Electrical Engineering. He holds a Master of Science from the University College of London, and SUPELEC in France.

Battery Solution Manager
 

Products and Sustainability Director
 

Applications Engineer, Emerging Technologies
Stella Deheyran received a PhD in electrochemistry and is now an Applications engineer at JSR Micro NV.

Project Manager
 

Group Leader, Material Synthesis Group, Institute of Applied Materials – Energy Storage Systems (IAM-ESS)
 

Department of Materials Science and Engineering
 

Director Auto Battery Application International Automotive Battery Division
 

Managing Director Europe
Christoph Fehrenbacher is the Director of the European Application Engineering department at A123 Systems, where he focuses on new business development and engineering support for automotive customers. Prior to joining A123 in 2010, he spent 10 years at BEHR where he held several positions in advanced engineering and innovation management including 4 years as a project manager for Lithium-Ion system development. Earlier in his career, he worked in energy storage development at the German Aerospace Center. Mr. Fehrenbacher holds a degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Stuttgart.

Executive Director, Nanomaterials & Nano Mikrostructures
Maximilian Fichtner is a full professor (W3) for Solid State Chemistry at the Ulm University and head of Materials-I at the Helmholtz-Institute Ulm for Electrochemical Storage (HIU). Since 2015 he is also Executive Director of the institute. His current research interest is on novel principles for energy storage and the related materials in insertion and conversion-type battery systems. Recent work has focused on the new class of Li rich FCC materials, anionic shuttles, magnesium batteries, and organic electrode materials. He has published more than 250 research and conference papers and is (co-) author of 20 patent applications. His h index is 39.

Professor
 

Batteries Global Market Manager, Technical Polymers Business Unit
Thomas obtained his Ph.D. in 2004 in the field of Polymer Material Science and joined Arkema as research scientist. He then moved to Business Development positions and was appointed Asia Technical Polymers Business Development Director in 2014, based in Shanghai. He is now Batteries Global Market Manager for Technical Polymers.

HW Responsible 48 V Li-Ion Battery
Fabian Fogelberg has been working with batteries at Volvo Cars for three years. Starting with lead-acid battery diagnostics, to component owner for lead-acid batteries and now developing the hardware for Volvo Car’s first 48 V Li-Ion battery.

CEO
Juergen received his PhD with a work about theoretical electrochemistry from the Dresden University of Technology – DUT (Germany) in 1970 and the Dr. Habil. for research in applied electrochemistry by the same university in 1982. He worked from 1970 – 1990 as senior researcher for batteries and fuel cells at the DUT. From 1991 – 2004, he was head of the Electrochemical Energy Storage and Energy Conversion Division of the Center for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research in Ulm. After his pension, he founded the consulting office Fuel Cells and Batteries (FCBAT) in Ulm, where he is still active. He was visiting professor at the Shandong University (China), DICP of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Sapienza University Rome (Italy) and is currently senior professor at the Ulm University. He has more than 300 publications, 10 patents and is co-editor of 7 books and 2 journals.

Head of Laboratory
Michael Geppert is Head of Laboratory at the TÜV SÜD Battery Testing GmbH testing site in Garching, Germany. During university he co-founded the company LION Smart together with fellow students of the TU München and helped build up a start-up in the field of battery testing and engineering. At TÜV SÜD he has been involved in the planning and construction of the TÜV SÜD Battery Testing laboratory in Garching since the first day of this endeavour, 5 years ago. For three years he has been leading the laboratory as technical director.

Managing Director Research & Development
 

Senior Technology Analyst
 

Technology Analyst
At IDTechEx, Lorenzo’s activities revolve around energy storage for electric vehicles and consumer electronics. He focuses on lithium-ion, sodium-ion, lithium-sulphur, lithium-air, solid-state and supercapacitors. Lorenzo holds a PhD magna cum laude in Physical Chemistry from the University of Münster in Germany, which he carried out at the MEET Battery Research Centre and at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. During his doctoral studies, he focused on advanced anodes and electrolytes for post-lithium-ion batteries, as well as thermal sensors for Li-ion batteries. Prior to that, he obtained his MPhil in Micro- and Nanotechnology Enterprise from the University of Cambridge and his BSc in Industrial Chemistry from the University of Rome. He has worked on graphene-based materials at the Nokia Research Centre in Cambridge (UK) and has been a visiting scholar at the University of Aveiro in Portugal and at the Italian National Agency for New Technologies and Energy in Rome. With an h-index of 5, his extensive experience on energy storage has resulted in 7 peer-reviewed scientific articles, 5 of which as first author, and one book chapter. Lorenzo is also an alumnus of ELEEP, a US-EU network of ca. 100 experts in energy and environmental policy.

ESS Specialist – Cell Characterisation & Modelling, Electromobility Sub-systems
 

Director, Energy Storage
 

Partner, E-Mobility
 

Director EU Government Affairs
 

CSO
 

Group Research Electrochemistry, Mercedes-Benz Research & Development
Andreas Hintennach is 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 research department of Mercedes-Benz (Daimler AG). His present focus in the field of electrochemistry is fundamental research on next generation electrical energy storage and conversion materials and systems, sustainability and toxicology.

Manager, Dangerous Goods Standards
 

Staff Engineer, Global R&D Department., Advanced Battery & System Development Center, R&D Headquarters
Daisuke Hosaka is a Staff Engineer at the Advanced Battery & System Development Center of Hitachi Chemical Co., Ltd. He studied photochemistry of organometallic complexes and obtained a master’s degree in chemistry at Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2004. After graduation, he joined Hitachi chemical and engaged in the development of semiconductor related materials for 9 years. In 2013 he moved to the R&D department for lead acid batteries and has been researching water consumption of enhanced flooded batteries at Aachen University as a guest researcher for a joint research project since April 2016, taking advantage of his knowledge and experiences in various fields of chemistry.

Powertrain Systems Engineering, E-Mobility
After completing his master studies in physics, Imre joined the doctoral school of the University Debrecen, and then in 2000, he received a PhD degree in solid state physics. From 2000, he worked as a scientific co-worker at the University Muenster and investigated the ionic transport processes in oxide glasses and polymer electrolytes. In 2008, he joined the Corporate Sector Research of Robert Bosch Group. His scope of work firstly included the technical lead of the pre-development of energy storage systems considering their integrity in the drive train of the battery electric vehicles of second generation. Then, he coordinated the electro-thermal and mechanical design of a dual-cell battery within FP7 project SuperLIB. In 2012, he moved to Bosch Engineering, where he is presently responsible for Rechargeable Energy Storage (e.g. Li-Ion-, supercap-, LiC, fuel-cell-) technology assessment.

Industrial Technology Unit
Sachiya Inagaki, born in Tokyo, Japan, has worked with Yano Research Institute since August 2000, when he joined the CMEO (Chemical Materials and Electronics & Optics) department as market researcher. He has experience in a lot of industry fields such as Laser, Optical lens, some electronics devices, and so on. Also, he has worked on national related research projects and business matching between Japan and Korea. Sachiya has also conducted some consulting services such as setting up a business plan, and working out strategies to enter a market based on experienced market research. Recently, he has been focusing primarily on market research for LiB cells and four major LIB components (cathode, anode, electrolyte, and separator). He traveled to many different countries and regions around the world to conduct interviews with key persons in the industries and to carry out any other types of on-site surveys. He had held the position of general manager of Seoul branch office for three years and the position of general manager of the Industrial Technology Unit at the Yano headquarters in Tokyo, Japan. He obtained an MBA from Tsukuba University in 2007.

Senior Manager, Automotive Systems Division
Koji Ishiwa graduated from Tokyo Science University in 1982. He has 32 years of experience in battery technology, R&D of Ni-Cd, Ni-MH, and Lithium Ion batteries, and application engineering for the consumer and automotive markets. Mr. Ishiwa joined TOSHIBA in 2007, working as Senior Manager of Engineering Department, in charge of promotion of SCiB to Automotive OEMs and Tier-1.

Professor, Solid State Ionics & Electrochemistry
 

Professor, Electrical Engineering and Information Technology
Andreas Jossen studied electrical engineering at the University of Stuttgart. Within his phd he worked on battery aging for solar stand-alone systems at the same university. At the Center for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research (ZSW) in Ulm he was responsible for a group working in battery system technology. Since 2010 Andreas Jossen holds a full professorship at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and he is founder and head of the institute of Electrical Energy Storage Technology. His research activities are modeling, simulation and characterization of rechargeable batteries and fundamental and applied topics in battery systems, as battery topologies, state determination and control of battery systems. He is founding editor and editor in chief of the mdpi journal batteries and he has published 85 journal papers, 1 book and several book chapters.

Head of Research Group, Future Energy Systems & Lifestyle
Dr. Gerfried Jungmeier had been an energy researcher at Joanneum Research Forschungsgesellschaft mbH since 1993. He obtained a PhD in “Greenhouse Gas Balance of Bioenergy Systems” in 1999. He has worked as an operating agent of IEA HEV Task 30 “Environmental Effects of Electric Vehicles” and Task 33 “Battery Electric Buses”. His present positions include: i) research group leader “Future Energy Systems and Lifestyle” at JOANNEUM RESEARCH, ii) deputy director of “LIFE – Institute for Climate, Energy, and Society”, iii) lecturer at the Vienna University of Technology on “Ecological Resource Management”, and iv) lecturer at the Danube University Krems on “Carbon Footprint and Life Cycle Assessment”.

Technical Expert Battery & Energy Storage Technology, Advanced Power Supply & Energy Management
Dr. Karden is Technical Expert for Battery & Energy Storage Technology at Ford's Corporate Research and Advanced Engineering Centre in Aachen, Germany. Since he joined Ford, he was responsible for numerous projects in the fields of powertrain electrification, battery modeling and monitoring, and storage technology assessment, with a main focus on micro-hybridization in 14V systems.

Professor, Department of Chemistry, Technical University Dresden
Stefan Kaskel studied chemistry at Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen (Germany), and received his Ph.D. degree in 1997 from the same University in solid state chemistry, under the guidance of Prof. J. Strähle. As a Feodor-Lynen Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt foundation he worked with J. Corbett at Ames Laboratory, USA (1998-2000) on intermetallic compounds. He was a group leader at the Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung in Mülheim a.d. Ruhr (2000-2004) in the group of F. Schüth and after his habilitation at Ruhr University (Bochum) in 2004 in the area of heterogeneous catalysis, he became full professor for Inorganic Chemistry at Technical University Dresden. Since 2008 he is also business field leader at Fraunhofer IWS, Dresden in personal union.

Research Associate/Founder, Institute for Electrical Energy Storage Technology
Dr. Peter Keil is an expert in battery diagnostics. At the Technical University of Munich, he has been working in the field of electrical and thermal characterization of lithium-ion cells for more than 7 years. In his PhD thesis, he analyzed the degradation behavior of lithium-ion batteries in electric vehicles and presented ways to improve battery life. Currently, he is developing battery models and high precision measurement devices, which allow faster and more accurate battery life projections.

Head of Volkswagen Group R&D Coordination Battery & Charging, K-GEEH
Michael Keller is heading the Coordination of the Volkswagen Group development for Charging Infrastructure and has over 15 years of experience in the automotive industry. Before joining Volkswagen in 2010 as Senior Manager for the development of Energy Systems and Energy Functions, he was the responsible development manager for battery technologies and traction battery systems, amongst other topics, at the tier1 supplier Continental. Michael Keller received his Engineering degree in Electronics at Karlsruhe. In 2009 he was awarded the “Professor Ferdinand Porsche Preis” of the Technical University of Vienna for the “first automotive application of a lithium-ion hybrid battery”.

Consultant, GVI
 

Low-Voltage Cell Development Team Leader
 

President & CEO
Ajay is President and CEO of Li-Cycle™, an emerging lithium-ion battery recycling company. Li-Cycle™ has a patent-pending, validated, and scalable recycling solution for all spent lithium-ion batteries. Ajay gained deep technology and project development experience through progressive roles with Hatch's Industrial Clean Tech and Advisory practices. Hatch is a consulting and engineering firm with industry-leading experience in the design and implementation of projects globally. As a member of Hatch's Industrial Clean Tech practice, Ajay led projects across the lithium-ion battery value chain. His technical expertise spans the entire project lifecycle, from studies to construction and commissioning. Ajay subsequently joined Hatch's Advisory practice, where he led teams to deliver financial and technical reviews of multi-billion-dollar investment opportunities. Ajay originally graduated from the University of Toronto in Process Engineering with honours.

Battery Systems Consultant
Mr. Konecky brings over 20 years of xEV experience to his work, having worked on multiple complex designs for battery system development, charging system integration, and high-voltage powertrain integration. He is skilled in new product design and development, product testing, product safety, integration of multiple sub-systems for vehicles, new product launches and has expanded his skillset beyond batteries into power electronics. His experience in batteries includes multiple technologies (Li Ion, NiMH, UltraCapacitors, Lead-Acid).

Strategic R&D Manager, R&D
Qualifications: - University of Ljubljana (Slovenia), Faculty for electro-technical, graduated in 1980, - Master of electro technical sciences, University of Maribor(Slovenia), year 2005 2. Ocuppations and experiences : - 1980 - 1985 : ISKRA Telematika (Slovenia) - 1985 - till today : ETI Elektroelement d.d. Izlake (Slovenia) - Positions in ETI - 1985 - 1990 : research & development - 1990 - 1994 : product manager - 1994 - 2001 : R&D manager for electro technical products - 2001 - 2004 : strategic R&D manager - 2005 – 2006 : executive sales manager for non-European countries - 2006- currently : executive strategic R&D manager 3. REFERENCES : - Institutions in Slovenia: - President of technical committee of Slovenian Institute for Standardisation SIST EPR (Electrical Accessories), - Member of the board in ICEM-TC (Infrastructure centre for Energetic measurements), Maribor (Slovenia), - Member of Strategic Council for Technological policies at Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Slovenia, - Member of the board at Chamber of Commerce and Industry-Electric and electronic industry of Slovenia, - International Institutions: - Member of IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission ), sub-committee 23E (circuit breakers and similar equipment for household use) and member of working groups WG1, WG2, WG7 in IEC 23E, - Member of CENELEC (European Electrotechnical Commission), technical committee 23E, Papers presented internationally: - ICEFA2011 Maribor(International Conference for Electrical Fuses and their Applications) - ICEFA2015 Dresden

Research Scientist
Julia Kowal studied Electrical Engineering at RWTH Aachen University and received her PhD in Electrical Engineering in 2010 also from RWTH Aachen University. Since 2014, she is professor for Electrical Energy Storage Technology at TU Berlin. Her research interests are electrical, thermal and ageing modelling, lifetime prediction and state determination of lead-acid, lithium-ion and other battery technologies. The simulation models are mainly based on impedance spectroscopy.

Senior Application Manager, Sales Automotive/E-mobility
 

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Arno Kwade is head of the institute of Particle Technology at the Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany. He studied mechanical engineering from 1986 to 1992 at the Technische Universität Braunschweig and University of Waterloo. In 1996 he finished his PhD-thesis on “Autogenous Grinding in Stirred Media Mills”. From 1996 to 2005 he worked in industry as general manager and executive director before he started his career as full professor for particle technology.

Project Leader EDrive 2025
Dr. Lamm studied mechanical and chemical engineering at the Rhine-Westphalia Technical University (RWTH), Aachen. He obtained his PhD from the Jülich GmbH research center, and joined Daimler AG in1995. Since then he has worked in different positions as senior manager for “Fuel Cell Stack and System Technology”, “Energy Storages” (Hydrogen tank, High-Voltage-Batteries) and “Fuel Cell Drivetrain”. In April 2009 Dr. Lamm became member of the board of German ACCUmotive at Nabern, and has been responsible for the development of Li-Ion batteries (Hybrid, EV, Plug-in). In December 2010 Dr. Lamm took over a new department at Daimler AG: “Characterization of HV Battery Systems”. He is member of the AG2 in the National Platform Electro Mobility in Germany.

Jose Lazuen
Jose Lazuen is responsible for Roskill’s electric vehicle, battery and downstream supply chain market analysis. Roskill is a provider of research and consultancy services on battery and technology metals, steel alloys, industrial minerals and carbon and chemicals, and is now expanding into electric vehicle and battery market analysis. Jose joined Roskill in 2017 having previousely been involved in real estate and electric vehicle market analysis. Between 2016 and 2017, Jose worked for SATIF Partners, a venture capital firm focussed on electric vehicle technology and infrastructure investment. At SATIF, he undertook research and analysis of markets and start-ups. Jose has a Double Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) and Law (LL.B) from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. His dissertation was on electric vehicle brand equity in the in the automotive industry, and another project included an assessment of the vehicle parts industry.

Senior Vice President
Hartmann Leube, a native of Ludwigshafen, Germany, studied chemistry at the University of Freiburg and earned a PhD in Polymer Chemistry 1991. Until 1992, he worked on projects for new optical materials at Hoechst- Celanese in Summit/ NJ, USA. 1992, he joined BASF starting out in the central Polymer Research Laboratory. In the following years, he held various positions in research, plant operations, marketing and business management. Until 2015, he headed the European BASF business with organic acids and specialty intermediates. The course of these assignments brought him in contact with a manifold of operational, strategic and innovation related topics eg. in the Paper, Coatings, Automotive, Fuels and Lubes, Food and Chemical industry. Since 2016, Hartmann Leube heads the BASF research department for New Technologies that covers a variety of topics of Materials for Energy, Electronic and other applications.

Director, Energy Processes and Materials
Dr. Liu has been the Director of the Energy Processes and Materials Division at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's Energy and Environment Directorate since March 2013. In addition to his division director role, he currently serves as the Cross-Science Lead on the Joint Center for Energy Storage Research, a DOE Energy Innovation Hub in which PNNL is a partner. Dr. Liu has more than 350 peer reviewed publications, has received more than 55 U.S. patents. He was named a Distinguished Inventor of Battelle in 2007 and was selected as PNNL's 2012 Inventor of the Year. He holds a bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering from Hunan University, a master's degree in Ceramic Engineering from the University of Washington, and a doctorate in Materials Science and Engineering, also from the University of Washington.

Certified Senior Industrial Analyst, Industrial Economics & Knowledge Center (IEKC)
As a certified senior industrial analyst of the biggest think-tank in Taiwan, Mark is responsible for research about battery-related industries in Taiwan, from material, cell, pack and related applications. Not only handling the official government statistics about Taiwan’s battery industries, he also plays a role in providing consultations to both the Taiwan government and companies worldwide. In the past six years, his clients have included the top 100 Taiwan companies and global enterprises like GM, VW, Intel, China Steel Company, China Petroleum Company and Japanese material companies. From 2010, he served as the deputy secretary-general of the Taiwan Battery Association.

Principal Chemical Engineer
Dr. Wenquan Lu received his B.S. from Tsinghua University in 1995 and Ph. D from Illinois Institute of Technology in 2002. After working as postdoctoral at University of Virginia and Argonne National Laboratory, He joined Greatbatch to work on lithium primary batteries for implantable medical devices in 2006. Dr. Lu returned to Argonne as a staff scientist in 2008 and has been working on the lithium ion batteries for Electric Vehicle applications since then. His current focus is material characterization and energy storage system development.

Professor, Chemistry
 

Department of Chemical Engineering
Maria Lukatskaya, PhD, is a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University. She received her PhD in 2015 from Drexel University and B.Sc. in Materials Science and M.Sc. in Chemistry from Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia. Her research focus is in areas of new electrolyte and material development for electrochemical capacitors and batteries. She has published >30 papers in international journals and has received many international awards, including MRS Gold Graduate Student Award, American Ceramic Society Ceramographic Competition award and others.

Technical Manager
A metallurgical engineer with over 20 years of experience in the manufacturing and sustainable energy fields, Jean-François Magnan has occupied many positions in research and development, project management and metallurgy, participating in the development and commercialization of various new technologies. At the turn of the millennium, he was notably the promoter and project manager for Phostech Lithium Inc., which has today become the LFP cathode material plant for Johnson Matthey in Candiac, Quebec, Canada. Mr. Magnan holds several patents in the rechargeable lithium battery field. He is notably a co-author of patents for lithium iron phosphate (LFP) cathode materials used in rechargeable lithium accumulators, developed with Université de Montréal, Hydro-Québec and Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS, Paris). These patents have been sublicensed throughout the world by LiFePO4+C Licensing AG. Mr. Magnan holds a master’s degree in Materials Engineering from the Université Laval.

Business Development Manager Battery Europe
For Solvay Special Chem Global Business Unit, Thomas Mathivet is in charge of the technical and commercial development of the salts and additives for electrolytes for batteries in Europe. He has an engineer degree and a Ph. D. in organic chemistry from the university of Lille (France). He joined Rhodia in 1999 as research chemist, in the Paris Corporate R&D center. Since 2007, he has held various positions of business development manager for different market segments in chemical and automotive catalysis.

Technical Fellow Battery System & Manager Electrification Architecture
Roland Matthé is GM Technical Fellow for Battery Systems and Manager for electrification architecture. He is heading the battery system leadership team, developing the future strategy for automotive battery systems and documenting lessons learned from current battery systems. From 2007 to 2011 he had been leading the development of the VOLTec Lithium-Ion battery system for Opel Ampera and Chevrolet Volt at the GM Tech Center in Michigan, USA. Since 1997, he held various position in GM’s fuel cell team, leading system engineering group, fuel cell system component development and future fuel cell system architecture definition. After joining Adam Opel AG in 1989 he worked on electric vehicle development and battery integration for the Opel Impuls electric vehicles gaining experience with all types of automotive battery systems. Roland Matthé received the title “Diplom Ingenieur” (master’s) degree in electrical engineering from the Technical University of Darmstadt in 1989.

Market Analysis and Economics Manager
Luke McFadyen is the manager of market analysis at Syrah Resources. Prior to Syrah Resources, Luke worked at South32 as the Chief Economist and BHP as a commodity market analyst.  

CEO
 

Senior Technical Leader, Electrochemistry
Eberhard Meissner is working on batteries of all types for modern automotive systems, analyzing the micro-scale mechanisms behind the macro-scale effects in battery manufacturing and application and studying implications from advanced battery applications and duties. Eberhard Meissner has studied Physics and Economics and earned a PhD in Physics from University of Mainz, Germany. He had started his industrial career in 1985 with the R&D Center of VARTA Batterie AG. Before entering an expert role, he managed for 27 years various development teams on Lead-Acid and Lithium-Ion Batteries. Eberhard Meissner has published many technical papers and contributed to several battery textbooks. He has been presenting at international conferences for 30 years and is serving as Session Chairman and Member of Technical Advisory Boards. The Bulgarian Academy of Sciences awarded Eberhard Meissner with the 2014 Gaston Planté Medal for his contribution to the development of lead-acid battery science and technology.

Director of Research and Development, Lead-Acid Batteries
 

Battery Performance & Research Design Scientist, Energy Storage & Transportation
Mr. Christopher Michelbacher joined Idaho National Laboratory (INL) in early 2009 as part of the Energy Storage & Transportation Systems (ES & TS) Department and is currently on a Management & Operating (M&O) assignment within the Vehicle Technologies Office (VTO) at the Department of Energy’s (DOE) headquarters in Washington, DC. His roles include development and oversight of programs in the following research areas: 1) vehicle centric cybersecurity (connected & autonomous vehicles, Smart EVSE), 2) grid modernization (Smart EVSE, Vehicle-to-Vehicle, Vehicle-to-Grid), 3) energy storage systems testing and research (Lithium-ion advanced transportation battery systems research and benchmarking), 4) electric vehicle fast charging (350kW). Prior to his assignment at DOE Mr. Michelbacher supported the ES &TS Department in their state-of-the-art Battery Test Center (BTC) as a research engineer. Later he progressed to vehicle systems research followed by a return to battery research as a BTC Principal Investigator (PI). As PI, Christopher was responsible for all operations, analysis, and reporting of energy storage device testing within the BTC.

Program Manager
Boris Monahov is Program Manager of the Advanced Lead-Acid Battery Consortium (ALABC) – the largest international research organization focused on advanced lead-acid (and lead-carbon) batteries. The ALABC is a program of the International Lead Association (ILA) in London. The Consortium has over 70 members worldwide - lead producers, battery manufacturers, suppliers to the industry and research institutions. The Program usually comprises basic science research, technology development or battery demonstration projects. The project results are first used by the members of the Consortium, some are published and become available to the entire industry. Boris is responsible for planning, coordinating and information management. Boris Monahov has 37 years in lead batteries. He holds a master’s degree in solid state physics from the University of Sofia, Bulgaria, and a PhD degree in electrochemistry from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, where he had his post doc training and habilitation as Associate Professor. His experience comprises 25 years of basic electrochemical and battery research (lead-acid, the team of Prof. D. Pavlov), followed by 6 years in the industry as Chief Electrochemist of Firefly Energy Inc., USA, developing lead-carbon foam batteries. Since 2010 he is Program manager of the ALABC. He has published over 60 articles (over 500 citations), and 3 patents. Boris is an active member of the Electrochemical Society. In 2012, he was awarded by EPLS’s award for outstanding technical contributions by an individual to the lead-acid battery industry. In 2014, he received the Gaston Plante medal of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences for fundamental contributions to the lead-acid battery science and technology.

Lead Mechanical Engineer, Engineering
Dan Moomaw is the Lead Mechanical Engineer on Gridtential Energy’s technical team. He has been with the company for 6 years and holds multiple patents relating to the Silicon Joule technology. His primary focus at the company is developing the sealing and packaging methods for Gridtential’s unique bipolar battery. He is also leading the company’s automotive battery efforts. In May 2017, he joined the BCI Deep Cycle & EV Battery Committee. He obtained an MS degree in Mechanical Engineering from Santa Clara University in December 2011, where he graduated Summa Cum Laude. His thesis work was in the area of battery technology (2010-2011). Under the direction of Dr. Peter Borden, Dr. Hohyun Lee, and Dr. Thorsteinn Adalsteinsson, he helped to develop a novel thin-active-mass lead acid battery concept. He also holds a BS degree from Santa Clara University (2010) in Mechanical Engineering. His undergraduate work was focused on the field of robotics. For his senior thesis, he helped develop a mechatronic control system to maintain the rate of pitch and roll for an experimental autonomous small-waterplane area twin hull research vessel that performed shallow-water bathymetry. He is an automobile enthusiast and active in the SAE as well as manufacturer-specific car clubs.

Managing Director
 

Professor of Chemistry, Institute of Symbiotic Science & Technology
 

Head of Analytics & Environment
Sascha Nowak studied chemistry at the University of Münster and got his PhD in Analytical Chemistry. After his doctorate, he joined the working group of Prof. Winter at the MEET Battery Research Center in 2009 as a postdoctoral researcher where he established the analytical department. From 2010-12 he was the head of the competence areas Analytics and Recycling and since 2012 he holds a position as scientific staff at the MEET Battery Research Center at Münster University as the head of the division Analytics and Environment, which mainly focuses on electrolyte aging, transition metal migration and surface investigations, recycling and 2nd life as well as toxicological investigations.

Senior Researcher, Battery Materials and Processing Lab
Nobuhiro Ogihara was received the B. E. degrees in Chemistry from Tokyo University of Agriculture & Technology, 2000 and the Ph.D. in Electrochemistry (Adviser: Prof. Katsuhiko Naoi) Tokyo University of Agriculture & Technology, 2005. He was Assistant Professor at Department of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School, Tokyo University of Agriculture & Technology from June 2005 to May 2008. He is now Senior Researcher, Battery Materials and Processing Lab, Toyota Central R&D Lab, and Associate Professor at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology from October 2016. He has been involved in the field of electrochemistry of electricity storage devices for automotive applications. He was awarded Japan Electrochemical Society Paper Award (2006), Japan Battery Technology Committee Award (2016), Hot Presentation of International Conference on Advanced Capacitors (2016), Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing for Electrochimica Acta (2016), and Excellent Lecture Presentation Award in Spring Congress 2017 at Society of Automotive Engineers of Japan (2017).

Electrical Energy Storage System Expert
After he graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1989, Mr. Origuchi started his engineering carrier in the vehicle research laboratory of Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., where he was in charge of developing Nissan FEV presented in 1991. He continued to develop Altra EV and Tino HEV in Nissan taking a part of developing the world first Li-ion batteries for automotive applications until his resignation from Nissan at the end of 2000. Since 2002 he has been working for Renault in France always in charge of advanced battery development. He is now responsible for Renault’s EV battery development group.

Technical Director
Anne is a chartered metallurgical engineer from the Royal School of Mines, Imperial College London. She has over 25 years’ experience in the oil, gas and minerals industries. She began her career working for various large engineering companies as a metallurgist and later a project engineer in The Netherland and France. Anne is also a scientific associate of the Natural History Museum in London. Since 2003 she has been the driving force behind the development of nickel laterite heap leaching firstly with European Nickel at the Çaldağ project in Turkey and further projects in the Philippines. In November 2010 Anne left EN to co-found Alyssum Ventures Ltd (AVL) to further develop and commercialise nickel laterite heap leaching technology. Brazilian Nickel Ltd (BRN) was founded in May 2013, to specifically advance Brazilian nickel laterite heap leach projects including its flagship project the Piauí Nickel Project in NE Brazil. Anne is Technical Director of BRN and is an executive member of the AVL & BRN boards.

Founder and CTO
Dr. Park leads Enevate’s battery R&D efforts and is an expert in surface and bulk chemistries, novel battery manufacturing, materials screening and development, and chemistry. Ben has authored over 25 publications and holds a Ph.D. from University of California, Irvine, MSEE from Purdue University, and BSEE from Seoul National University.

Battery Technology Development Group Leader
Gwennaëlle Pascaly is engineer in materials science; she graduated from the engineering school of the University of Nantes. She started working for Renault in 2007 in the research division on Li-ion battery for EV before joining the battery development group to work on the different upstream battery projects. Then, she was in charge of the Li-ion cell development for ZOE ZE40. Since 2017, she has been leading the battery technology group, which is in charge of developing the batteries for the coming new EV/PHEV/HEV.

Scientific Officer, Joint Research Centre
After graduating from the University of Texas at Austin, Andreas Pfrang received his PhD in physics at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, in 2004. After providing microscopy services as team leader at Freudenberg Forschungsdienste in Weinheim, Germany, in 2007 he joined the European Commission's Joint Research Centre in Petten, Netherlands. There he performed fuel cell related research and was responsible for the microscopy services of the Institute for Energy and Transport until end of 2012. Since January 2013 he has contributed to a project on battery testing (BATTEST) at the Joint Research Centre.

Battery Survey Manager
Christophe has built up considerable expertise in the area of battery market. He joined AVICENNE 22 years ago and Spend 3 years in Japan making analysis on the Electronic, Mobile & Japanese battery market. Christophe gained large experience in marketing, strategy analysis, technology and financial studies for the battery and power management fields. He developed the Battery market analysis for AVICENNE which counts more than 200 customers worldwide. Christophe published several annual surveys like “The rechargeable battery market 2016-2025”. He is also the founder & chairman of Batteries congress in France since 1999. He is now Director of AVICENNE ENERGY.

Product Manager, Global Battery Management Team
2002 - 2008, Wenzel Prochazka studied Mechanical Engineering for Mechatronics at the University of Graz in Austria and the Institute of Applied Sciences in Rouen, France. During his PhD thesis at the University of Graz (2009 - 2013), he investigated ageing mechanisms of Lithium ion cells for PHEVs and EVs by means of experimental designs and electrochemical ageing modelling. Since 2004, he has been involved in modelling of energy systems at different enterprises and research centers (e.g. VA Tech Austria, ONERA France) and vehicle thermal management at AVL. In 2010 he joined AVL List’s Global Battery Competence Team as a junior expert for ageing of battery systems. In 2013 he switched to his current position as Product Manager for battery systems.

Process Engineer
 

Professor, Power Sources Group
Paula Ratajczak is Assistant Professor in the Institute of Chemistry and Technical Electrochemistry at Poznan University of Technology (Poland), where she is a member of Power Sources Group. She is especially interested in the development and testing of carbon-based supercapacitors by studying the charging mechanisms taking place in these systems and their degradation under high voltage operation. Her recent activities are also dedicated to the development of high energy hybrid capacitors.

Analyst
Caspar Rawles joined Benchmark in 2016 to cover cobalt and cathodes for the energy storage industry and has launched the company’s battery focused cobalt sulphate price estimate. Caspar begun his career working as an exploration geologist in West Africa primarily for Rio Tinto and subsequently moving on to the world of finance where he worked as a commodities broker in London gaining a deep understand of commodity markets from an economic standpoint.

Vice President, Engineering & Product Development EMEA
 

Senior Project Manager New Venture, Research and Development
Dr. Andreas Roters is a Senior Project Manager New Venture at the corporate Research and Development center of the SCHOTT AG, a company with 130 years of experience in producing specialty glass based solutions. There he is in charge of finding new product opportunities and since 2010 he is responsible for the projects to develop materials for advanced Lithium batteries. He studied physics at the universities of Mainz and Saarbruecken and took his PhD at the Max Plank Institute of Polymer Research in Mainz and the RIKEN in Tokyo. He has about twenty years of industrial experience in different positions starting from surface analytics and process development to R&D management at a display glass production site and team leader for a product design group.

Senior Engineer and Chief Technologist
 

Battery Systems Engineer
Dr Wasim Sarwar is a Senior Battery Systems Engineer at Williams Advanced Engineering, where he is responsible for the design and development of a range of high performance battery systems, which include OEM hypercars, multiple high-profile motorsport batteries, and novel aircraft. He is also active in the plant design and commissioning of a new UK-based battery manufacturing facility. He gained his PhD in Electrochemical Engineering from Imperial College London, and formerly worked for Jaguar Land Rover.

Senior Research Analyst, Advanced Industries - Automotive & Assembly
Stephanie is Senior Research Analyst with McKinsey & Company in Munich. She is a member of the Advanced Industries Team with a focus on Automotive & Machinery. She has comprehensive experience in electric vehicles, especially with respect to industry drivers and dynamics as well as consumer trends. Previously, she worked with Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft International Business Development Department in Munich as a student and while preparing her diploma thesis until 2011, then became an intern at VDMA (Mechanical Engineering Industry Association) Representative Office in Beijing, China. In 2012, she trained at EAC - Euro Asia Consulting PartG in Munich, then Business Development Coordinator Automotive and Life Sciences at Hogan Lovells International LLP in Munich.

Senior Research and Development Engineer, Energy
Dr. Schrooten is a Senior Research and Development Engineer at Pyrotek Inc. with more than 15 years of experience in developing new material processing techniques for various fuel cells and battery chemistries. He is the technical lead for Pyrotek’s battery-grade graphite development activities and manages Pyrotek’s battery materials research and development laboratory. He holds two Bachelors of Science degrees, one in chemistry and one in ceramic engineering, and a PhD in materials engineering all from Iowa State University.

Research Scientist, Center for Applied Electrochemistry
Jochen Settelein received his Master of Science in nanostructure technology in 2012, focusing on surface and semiconductor physics. From 2013 on, he has been a PhD student at the University of Wuerzburg in cooperation with the Fraunhofer ISC and was working on the topic “Additives in lead-acid batteries and their influence on the physical and electrochemical properties of the active material”. Since 2016, he is team leader for lead-acid battery research and development at Fraunhofer ISC. His group works on fundamental studies about the mechanism and effects of the battery active material, and also helps the lead-acid battery suppliers, as well as manufacturers and OEMs to understand and improve their products.

Head of Market Research
 

Professor
 

Team Leader Research Li-Ion Cell and Battery
Thomas Soczka-Guth studied Chemistry at the University of Cologne from 1987 to 1992. From 1992 to 1996 he worked on novel hetero-atomic, aromatic optic and electric active substances and received his Dr. rer. nat. in 1996 from the University of Mainz. 1996 he joined Hoechst AG in Frankfurt. In Frankfurt he was active in the field of membrane-electrode assemblies for fuel cells with a focus on the proton conductive membranes. In August 2000 he changes to the Daimler AG, where he held different positions in the battery and fuel cell area. Since 2016 his main interest is the overall optimization of the battery vehicle integration with a focus on energy density, costs and safety.

EMEAI Marketing Manager, Dow Performance Silicones
Dr. Konstantin Sobolev joined The Dow Chemical Company in 2005, where he progressed through marketing and new business development roles for automotive, oil & gas, lighting and electronics. Sobolev currently leads strategic and operational marketing for Advanced Assembly Solutions in EMEA.

President
Dirk Spiers is the founder and CEO of Spiers New Technologies. He is a pioneer and leader in the repair, remanufacturing and refurbishment of advanced battery packs as well as the manufacturing of Energy Storage Systems (ESS) with new or second life battery modules and cells. His experience in reman, battery, solar and wind technologies puts him at the forefront of developing programs to manage the life cycle battery packs and using battery storage systems with renewable energy sources. He has developed and established Advanced Battery Pack programs with some of the leading EV OEM’s. Spiers New Technologies specializes in the manufacturing, refurbishment and repair of high voltage powertrain systems and Energy Storage Systems. Their state-of-the-art, energy neutral, battery center is based in Oklahoma City where they work on the battery packs of all the leading OEM’s. SNT is in the process of opening up facilities in Europe and China in Q1 2018.

President
Dr. Spotnitz is a leading developer of mathematical models that simulate battery operation. Dr. Spotnitz, who previously held several senior technical positions in materials and battery development, founded Battery Design in 1999 to provide consulting and develop custom software for battery developers and users. He is a well-known speaker on various aspects of battery engineering.

Manager, Development and Product Management
 

Instrumental Chemistry Specialists, Institute for Applied Materials, Energy Storage Systems
Dr. Sven Steinmueller is an instrumental chemistry expert working since about 10 years in the field of energy storage materials. After finishing his studies of Physics at the University of Giessen he gained there a PhD in Physical Chemistry investigating the Carbon Monoxide Oxidation at the Interface of a Direct Barrier Discharge and a thin Layer of Yttria-stabilized Zirconia. Specialized in interphase and surface science he focused afterwards on electrochemical processes at interphases of materials in different states of matter. Especially the battery relevant liquid/solid interphase was a topic of recurring investigations. From 2014 to 2015 he was head of research and development at WaveTech GmbH, a small technology company that produces electronical devices used during battery charging. Besides the responsibility for the product introduction and product testing procedures in North America he was in charge of the technical support for international sales and marketing within the company. Since 2016 he is employed at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology working as a Postdoc in the Institute for Applied Materials-Energy Storage Systems. Here he is a specialist for instrumental chemistry and energy storage systems. One part of his actual work is related to instrumental chemistry of surface attached polymers. The other part is related on projects for the improvement of different existing types of batteries and material science related topics for new electrode preparations.

CSO, Chemistry
Dr. Dee Strand is CSO at Wildcat Discovery Technologies, a materials discovery company focused on battery materials and other clean energy applications. Dr. Strand has over twenty years of experience in materials research, development, and commercialization, primarily in the areas of energy storage and electronic applications. Prior to joining Wildcat in 2013, Dr. Strand served as a Research Fellow at Dow Chemical, where she was the technical lead in Dow Energy Materials, as well as the Principal Investigator on external research programs with universities and national labs on battery materials.

CEO
Bob Sullivan is the CEO of iQ Power Licensing AG, located in Zug Switzerland and Chemnitz, Germany. He has been with iQ Power Group as CEO since 2007. In 2009, Bob was responsible for restructuring iQ Power and is responsible for the development of the newest generation of the iQ Power technology. Bob moved to Germany in 1990 and has worked in the automotive supplier industry for over 20 years as Managing Director of automotive supplier companies. Bob is a German citizen and has a BA from Duke University and a Masters of International Business Studies from the University of South Carolina at Columbia.

Director of Engineering, Drivetrain
Rob Sweney is a Silicon Valley-based entrepreneur and engineer who has led EV battery development programs at Volkswagen, Atieva/Lucid Motors and several smaller startups over the past 10 years. In 2012, Rob joined Alta Motors as the first full-time employee, leading battery pack and systems engineering. Alta began producing the RedShift electric motorcycle in late 2016, featuring the highest energy density of any battery pack in the automotive industry and becoming the first EV to offer performance on par with the most competitive gas bikes in its class. Rob is currently Director of Advanced Powertrain for Alta Motors, working on further advances of battery, motor and power electronics to enable more superior EV products for Alta. He is passionate about advancing the state of the art in core EV technologies, and firmly believes that this focus will create electric vehicles that are fun, exciting, and “better” than gas without compromise. Rob holds an Engineering degree from Harvey Mudd College, and races (gas) cars in his spare time.

R&D
Mr. Koshin Takemoto obtained a Bachelor of Engineering from the Nagasaki University, Japan, in 2013, and received a Master of Engineering from the Nagasaki University, Japan in 2015. He joined the Furukawa Battery in 2015. From 2015 to present, he has commercialized the UltraBatteryTM, an integrated supercapacitor/lead-acid hybrid energy-storage device for micro-HEV.

COO
 

Deputy Head, Competence Center for Emerging Technologies
Dr. Axel Thielmann is Deputy Head of the Competence Center "Emerging Technologies" and Head of the Business Unit “Industrial Technologies” at the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research (Fraunhofer ISI). His research areas focus on scientific, technological developments in emerging technologies such as nanotechnology, advanced materials, production technologies with focus on energy technologies. He performs analyses on their technical, market potentials, socio-economic and environmental impacts and dynamics, regulatory frame conditions and implications for strategic planning and technology policy. He represents the Fraunhofer ISI in the Fraunhofer Battery Alliance, he is Member of the Working Group on Batteries in the National Platform Electric Mobility (NPE), and permanent guest in the advisory board of the “Batterieforum Deutschland”. Since 2010, Dr. Thielmann is coordinating and conducting a Roadmapping and Monitoring process on Lithium-Ion Batteries for electric mobility and stationary energy storage on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).

Vice President, Engineering
Dr. James Trevey, VP Engineering at Forge Nano Inc., is a world expert in all-solid-state lithium-ion batteries with a Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering focused in Materials Science and Electrochemistry from the University of Colorado-Boulder. He built the foundation for the Electrochemical Engineering Laboratory at the University of Colorado-Boulder and led a DARPA project through to the successful start-up of Solid Power LLC, in cooperation with Dr. Se-Hee Lee and Dr. Conrad Stoldt. After 3 years working as a scientist in electrochemistry Dr. Trevey decided to pursue a start-up, Forge Nano (formerly PneumatiCoat Technologies LLC), and has since grown it as one of three founders in 2014 to 21 full time employees and 6 part time employees currently, with an outlook for more by the end of 2017. Dr. Trevey has authored 15 peer-reviewed publications, numerous patents, and has participated in over a dozen government grants.

Assistant Professor, College of Engineering & Applied Sciences
Professor Trimboli’s research focuses on development of control strategies for the management of high-capacity battery systems such as found in electric vehicles. He is currently UCCS principal investigator (PI) of a multi-year program with the Office of Naval Research (ONR) headed by Utah State University where he leads a team investigating the application of model-predictive control to improve the performance and extend the lifetime of lithium ion battery cells. He is also co-PI of an on-going battery modeling and control project with a major automotive company.

Managing Director
 

Supervisor, Products R&D Department, R&D Headquarters
Satoru Tsumeda received a master’s degree in 2003 from Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Yamaguchi University. He has worked in Nippon Chemi-Con Corporation since 2003. He has been engaged in exploring the degradation mechanism of electrochemical(EC) capacitors, developing new materials for new EC capacitors and also the commercialization of new EC capacitors in the basic research center (2003 - 2016) and the products R&D department (2016 - present). He has authored over 20 patents.

Director, Applied Electrochemistry
 

Advisor Dir. C Climate Strategy, Governance and Emissions of Non-Trading Sectors
Stefaan Vergote is Advisor in DG CLIMA since April 2017. Previously, he was Head of unit for Economic analysis and Financial Instruments Unit in DG ENER since March 2014. From 2010 to 2014, he was Head of Unit A4 in DG CLIMA, responsible for development of strategic options for the EU's international and domestic climate action. His team was in charge of the 2050 Low Carbon Roadmap, and the 2030 framework for climate and energy policies. Previously, as Deputy Head of Unit on 'Energy and Environment' in DG Environment, he led a team coordinating the preparation and economic analysis of the 2020 Energy and Climate Package, which implemented the EU's independent commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 20% by 2020, including the review of the EU Emission trading System, The Effort Sharing Decision and Directive on Renewable Energy. Mr. Vergote has a diploma of civil electrotechnical-mechanical engineer at the Catholic University of Leuven (KULeuven) and holds a Postgraduate Degree in Environmental Management and Technology (KULeuven). Prior to joining the Commission, Stefaan Vergote was, from 1990 to 1992 a Scientific researcher at the Engineering Department at the Catholic University of Leuven, followed, from 1994 to 1997, by a position of Scientific consultant at IWT (Flemish Institute for Science and Technology) in charge of the evaluation of industrial R&D projects and a Scientific researcher at VITO (Flemish Institute for Technological research).

Professor & Director, University of Maryland Energy Research Center; William L. Crentz Centennial Chair, Energy Research
 

Chief Marketing Officer
Dr. John T. Warner, DM, PMP is an experienced sales, product management and strategic marketing executive with more than 25 years in the automotive and battery industries. As Chief Sales & Marketing Officer for Ener1/EnerDel, Dr. Warner has global responsibility for both sales and marketing activities. In his previous roles, Dr Warner served as Vice President of Sales & Marketing for XALT Energy; Director of Sales & Marketing for Magna Steyr Battery Systems NA; Director of Product Management for Boston-Power and held multiple management roles over his 13 years at General Motors. He received his Doctor of Management, Organizational Leadership degree from the University of Phoenix, and his MBA, International Business and Leadership Studies and BA in Industrial Management from Baker College. Dr. Warner also serves as the President-Elect for the international trade group NAATBatt International, as the Chair for the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) Battery Size Standardization Committee and co-Chair for the NAATBatt Bus Battery Safety committee. In 2015 Dr Warner published his book, “The Handbook of Lithium-Ion Battery Pack Design”.

Professor, Engineering
 

Systems Applications Engineering Manager
Stefan Werkstetter received his electrical engineering degree in 2006. From 1999 to 2008 he worked in the telecommunications sector. In 2008 he started working as an extern for BMW´s E/E development department on vehicle evaluation and boardnet pre-development, covering 12V and 48V applications, as well as full-hybrid vehicles. In October 2012, Stefan Werkstetter joined Maxwell Technologies in Germany as applications engineer, responsible for the support of ultracapacitor-based automotive application developments in Europe. In January 2016 he was transferred to Maxwell´s US headquarters in San Diego, California. His current role is Applications Engineering Manager.

Product Safety HV Battery
After different project experience (body in white) in Germany and abroad as well as cost analysis in the purchase department, Juergen Wilhelmy started 2010 in the Audi light department. He launched as the project manager two new technologies in the car: Matrix LED headlights in the A8 and Laser headlights in the R8 sports car. Since two year he is responsible for the product safety of HV battery systems at Audi including the aspects of functional safety.

Chair, Applied Material Science for Energy Conversion and Storage, MEET Battery, Research Center, Institute of Physical Chemistry
Martin Winter is the scientific director of the MEET Battery Research Center at Muenster University. MEET stands for Münster Electrochemical Energy Technology and the director of the Helmholtz Institute Muenster (HI MS) “Ionics in Energy Storage.” Prof. Winter has been the spokesperson of the Innovation Alliance LIB 2015 of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. Today he is an associate of the National Platform E-Mobility (NPE) and he is the head of the research council of the Battery Forum Germany. For his scientific achievements Martin Winter has been awarded amongst others with the Battery Technology Award of the Electrochemical Society and the Research Award as well as the Technology Award of the International Battery Materials Association and as Fellow of The Electrochemical Society.

Research Associate, Chair for Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage Systems
Jonathan Wirth is a research scientist at the Chair for Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage Systems (ESS) at the Institute for Power Electronics and Electrical Drives (ISEA), RWTH Aachen University. In the section Modeling, Analytics and Lifetime Prediction, he has been working on lead-acid batteries since 2013. His main research topics include the dynamic charge acceptance and water loss of automotive lead-acid batteries in real-world conditions

Professor
Dr. Wood has been a Professor in the Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zürich) since 2011, where she holds the chair in Materials and Device Engineering. She received her MSc and PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Distinguished Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering
Dr. Wu is currently a distinguished professor is the department of chemical engineering at the National Taiwan University. Dr. Wu recieced his bachelors of Chemical Engineering from the National Taiwan University in 1980 and his PhD in Chemical Engineering at Penn State University in 1987. His research focuses on three major areas, including electrochemical energy storage materials and devices, such as supercapacitors and Li-ion batteries; development of advanced in-situ/in-operando analytic methodologies based on synchrotron facilities in charactering energy materials and devices; nano-materials synthesis and applications.

Global Commercial Manager for New Product and Technology Development
As Global Commercial Manager for New Products and Technology Development at FMC Corporation, Marina Yakovleva’s role is to implement FMC’s new strategic inventions through industry and academia collaborations to enable high energy density storage devices. Marina started her carrier in battery components industry in 1995 and today her expertise in technology and market covers lithium battery supply chain from lithium extractions to future energy storage devices. Marina has inventions in lithium-ion battery materials widely used commercially, including the Ti/Mg tailored cathode technology that has become the industry standard and is used in a vast majority of consumer electronics devices. Marina is member-at-large of the ECS Battery Division and member of the advisory board for the EU HELIS consortium.

General Manager, TD HiTech Energy, Inc.; President, EnergyBus e.V.
Dr. Yang currently is Vice Chairman of TD HiTech Energy Inc. The company is a spin-off company from Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), Taiwan. He obtained his PhD in Chemistry at University of Louvain, Belgium in 1997. Dr. Yang has worked in ITRI from 1997 to 2008. He has been the Deputy Director of the Energy Storage Materials and Technology Division. Dr. Yang has over 20 years of experience in EV battery developing, specializing in Li-ion battery. He has been a project manager for Li-ion battery development in LEV and HEV application as well as the LEV promotion project in Taiwan, those projects were supported by Taiwan government. He has more than 120 publications, 15 patents and over 60 conferences presentations in the field of Li-ion battery technology and EV applications. Beside the research experience, Dr. Yang also involve in standardization of battery safety and communication protocol in charging system of LEV (E-bike, E-scooter) product. He currently is vice president of BATSO e.V., and president of EnergyBus e.V., in Germany.

Research Fellow, School of Chemistry
 

Head of the Battery Calorimeter Center Thermophysics and Thermodynamics Group
Dr. Ziebert earned his Diploma degree and his PhD in Physics from the Saarland University Saarbruecken, Germany. In 2002 he joined the Research Center Karlsruhe (now Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)). He has more than 15 years of international R&D experience in thin film technology, modelling and thermal characterisation of materials for energy systems and more than 50 peer-reviewed articles. Since 2011 his research is focused on electrochemical and thermal characterization of Li-ion cells. He has been project leader in 5 projects related to electrochemical energy storage and from 2011-2013 he was the manager of the EERA Joint Programme on Energy Storage. Currently Dr. Ziebert is the Head of the KIT Battery Calorimeter Center.

Founder