3^rd International Conference on Battery and Fuel Cell Technology September 10-11, 2018 London, UK

John B. Goodenough is a Professor of Materials Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. After returning from World War II, he received a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Chicago in 1952, was a Group Leader of The MIT Lincoln Laboratory from 1952-1976 where he helped to develop the magnetic memory element of the first RAM of the digital computer and engaged in fundamental studies of transition-metal oxides. From 1976-1986, he was Professor and Head of the Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory of the University of Oxford, England, where he developed the cathodes that have enabled the Li-ion battery, and since 1986 he has held the Virginia H. Cockrell Centennial Chair of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin where he has continued development of the rechargeable battery, catalytic electrodes for the solid oxide fuel cell, and the use of high pressure to study the transition from localized to itinerant d electrons in transition-metal oxides.

Development of the rechargeable battery, catalytic electrodes for the solid oxide fuel cell

Katsutoshi Ono, born in 1937 in Tokyo. He received his B. Eng. Degree from Kyoto University, Japan, in 1961 and the degree of Dr. Sci. from Faculté des Sciences, Université de Paris in 1967. He was researcher at Ecole des Mines de Paris, 1965-1967. He was Professor of Materials Science, Kyoto University, 1982-1997 and a Professor of Energy Science & Technology, Kyoto University, 1997-2001. He is currently Professor Emeritus.

Batteries & Fuel Cells

Professor Jennifer Wen established and currently leads WARWICK FIRE, a multidisciplinary research laboratory for both fundamental and applied research related to fire and explosions as well as accidental releases of hazardous materials. As Principal Investigator, Jennifer holds over £2M live grants to support a wide range of research activities, which include thermal runaway, fire and explosion safety of lithium ion batteries. Wen has published over 250 journal and conference papers on these topics. She has a solid network of funders/collaborators including major international companies, SMEs and government organisations plus 30+ university research groups. She is a member/steering committee members of several professional committees and professional organisations such as the UK Explosion Liaison Group, International Association of Fire Safety Science (IAFSS) and the Scientific/Organising Committees/Session Chairs of several international conferences. Of particular relevance to Battery Tech 2018, Wen heads a European project developing electrothermal models for LIB thermal runaway and fires as well as a new project to start soon on “In situ stress analysis of lithium-ion battery cell”.

Safety of lithium ion batteries

Dominique Guyomard is Director of Research at French CNRS, President of the International Battery Association (IBA), and the head of the “Electrochemical Energy Storage and Transformation Department” (EEST) he has founded at the Institut des Materiaux Jean Rouxel at Nantes (France), about 50 scientists including 20 staff members. His team gathers activities on rechargeable batteries, on supercapacitors, on high temperature fuels cells and electrolysers, and on advanced spectroscopies and spectra simulations. His main purpose is to bridge the gap between academic research and industrial developments in the field of energy storage, with innovative and comprehensive research on industrial key issues, focusing on multi-techniques characterization of bulk and interface aging mechanisms. His expertise deals with solid state electrochemistry, material science and surface science, applied to the fields of Li-ion, Li metal polymer, Li-S and Na batteries, in collaboration with several industrial companies. He has served the IBA board for 10 years and is member at large of the ECS Battery Division Executive Committee. Recently, he received the 2007 IBA Research Award, the 2008 French Academy of Science Award for Science transfer to Industry, the 2010 ECS Battery Division Research Award, and the 2016 ECS Battery Division Technology Award. He is co-inventor of 33 patents and co-author of more than 330 articles including 235 peer-reviewed papers.

Electrochemical Energy Storage

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), a German Center of Excellence in Battery Research, with approx. 120 employees. Since 2015 he is also Executive Director of the institute. His current research interest is on novel principles for electrochemical energy storage and the related materials in insertion and conversion-type battery systems. Recent work has focused on the new class of Li rich materials with rocksalt structure, 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 40.

Electrochemical energy storage and organic electrode materials.

Pr. Nouredine FENINECHE has obtained his PhD Thesis in Mechanical Engineering and Materials from the University of Technology of Compiègne (UTC), France. His scientific production more than 120 papers in international reviews journals (refereed Journals), 110 international conferences reviewed and proceedings and 30 international conferences with personal invitation. His main Research activities and expertise are focused on: Metal hydrides for hydrogen storage using Ab initio calculations and ball milling elaboration. Elaboration and modelling of Nanomaterials for IT-SOFC Fuel Cells. Magnetic thin films obtained by R.F. Sputtering (PVD) and electrodeposition for magnetic Sensors and actuators. DMS materials for spintronic applications, Amorphous and Nanocrystalline coatings intended for magnetic shielding using HVOF and cold spraying, Magnetic materials processed by Selective laser Melting SLM.

Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Storgae

Dr. Peter D. Lund is Professor in Advanced Energy Systems at Aalto University, Finland. He has close to 40 years experience in energy technologies and innovations, including fuel cells. He has had visiting positions at Hubei University (Wuhan), Technical University of Dresden (Germany), Southeast University (Nanjing). Dr. Lund is active in senior roles with European Union initiatives in energy: he chaired the Advisory Group Energy of European Commission 2002-06, chairs the Energy Steering Panel of European Academies Science Advisory Council (EASAC), member of Euro-CASE and European University Association’s energy platforms. He has served in advisory role for many energy programs worldwide and businesses, incl. IEA. He is member of the Swedish Engineering Academy in Finland. Dr. Lund is Editor for Interdisciplinary Reviews: Energy and Environment and Editor-Europe of Energy Research (Wiley). He has given numerous invited talks and published 500+ research papers. He has been internationally awarded, lastly with the Jinling Award in 2016.

Energy technologies and innovations including fuel cells

Muhammad Afzal obtained his M.Sc in Applied Physics from KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden in 2013 and is continuing PhD in Energy Technology from KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden since June, 2014. After M.Sc at KTH University, he was appointed as Research Engineer and Project Manager for EC FP7 TriSOFC (2012-08-01 to 2015-07-31), STEM and Swedish Research Council (VR) projects. Today he is an emerging well known scientist in Solid Oxide Fuel Cell and Electrolyte-layer Free Fuel Cell (EFFC) and Manager for Advanced Fuel Cell and Solar Cell Group at KTH under the leadership of Professor Bin Zhu. Initially working on conventional SOFC using perovskite and composite materials, his current work focuses on Semiconductor-Ionic materials (Three in One) for the development of EFFC technology and fuel to electricity conversion technology for power generation working at low temperatures (300-600 °C). He is an international referee for International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, J. Phys Chem B & C, J. Scanning, Electrochimica Acta, Advaced Energy Materials, Journal of Power Sources, Recent Patents on Nanotechnolgy, etc. He is Editorial Board Member of several International Journals. He is Board Member of PhD Chapter and Member of The Education Committee at KTH university, Stockholm, Sweden. He has published more than 20 papers in refereed international journals and more than 10 contributions in conferences. He is also an author of few book chapters. He has won many awards.

Solid Oxide Fuel Cell and Electrolyte-layer Free Fuel Cell (EFFC)

Professor Nicholas A. Vovos has more than 35 years of experience in the field of academia and research, specifically in the areas of electrical and computer engineering. He has been a member of the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Patras University since 1981 and he was Head of the department in the time period 2003-2007 and deputy Head in period 2001-2003. He is the Director of Power Systems Laboratory that was established in 1974. He has directed more than 20 research projects funded by industry and EU. He is a Professor at Patras University Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering (Greece). He is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal “International Journal of Automation and Power Engineering (IJAPE). He is a Life senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE) the International Council on Large Electric Systems (CIGRE) and is active in a number of working groups. He is Councilor of World Certification Institute (WCI) and Associate Fellow of World Certification Institute (WCI). He was Visiting Professor at the Southern Illinois University (United States). He has served as Session Chair for many international conferences, as well as the International Association of Science and Technology for Development (IASTED). He is the author of seven books and he has more than 100 publications. He holds the M.Sc. degree in Electrical Power Systems from University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (U.K.) and a Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Patras (Greece).

Electrical and computer engineering

Md. Abdullah-Al-Mamun, is currently the Assistant Professor, Dept. of Civil and Archi. Engineering, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman, Sep 2012 to Present. He completed his PhD, Civil & Environmental Engineering, National University of Singapore, Nov 2010 and B.Sc in Civil Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology, Dhaka, Jul 2005. His research interest includes Bio-energy and biofuels (Microbial Fuel Cell , Microbial electrolysis cell, Microbial Electrochemical system for desalination, OsMFC, Complex organics to biofuels).

Microbial Fuel Cells