Xiaoyu Dai
Work Package 1,2,3
Xiaoyu began LiSTAR phase 2 as a Faraday Institution Research Fellow based at University College London working on LiS electrode microstructure characterization and modelling. She previously graduated with an MSc in Materials Science and Engineering from the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL, Switzerland) and went on to gain a PhD in Energy at the same university with a focus on numerical characterization and engineering of transport in morphologically complex heterogeneous media. We would like to thank Xiaoyu for her contribution to the project.
Sam Fitch
Work Package 4
Samuel is a Faraday Institution Research fellow based at the University of Southampton working on electrolyte developments and electrochemistry as part of Work package 2. He graduated with an MSc Chemistry by Research in 2016 and he is in progress to complete his PhD at the University of Southampton in 2020, evaluating metal nitrides as suitable negative electrode materials for lithium and sodium ion batteries.
Project Lead
Jen Hack
Jen was Project Lead on the LiSTAR project, based at UCL. Prior to joining the LiSTAR team, she held an EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellowship at UCL Chemical Engineering, investigating zinc-air battery anode shape-change and failure. Jen received an MChem from Durham University in 2015 and her PhD in fuel cells from UCL in 2021. Her research interests focused on the use of X-ray and neutron imaging techniques for studying performance and degradation of electrochemical devices, as well as engineering electrode designs with enhanced properties to extend device lifetime and mitigate failure.
Zhuangnan Li
Work Package 1
Zhuangnan was a Faraday Institution Research Fellow based at the University of Cambridge working on cathode development as part of Work Package 1. After completing his MEng in material science at the University of Manchester, he gained a PhD in chemistry from University College London in 2020, investigating graphene-based materials for electrochemical energy storage.
We would like to thank all LiSTAR Phase 1 Research Fellows for their invaluable research and contributions to the first phase of the LiSTAR project which ran from 1st October 2019 to 31st March 2023. Phase 2 commenced on 1st April 2023 and will run to 31st March 2025.
Ismail Sami
Work Package 1
Ismail is a Faraday Institution Research Fellow based at the University of Cambridge. He completed his MPhys in Theoretical Physics at the University of Manchester, with a year abroad at the University of California, Berkeley. After graduating with a MRes in Engineering at the University of Cambridge, he continued on to gain a PhD in developing layered materials for energy storage.
Ye Wang
Work Package 1
Ye Wang was a Faraday Institution Research Fellow based at University of Cambridge working on Work Package 1. She obtained her BEng from Xiamen University, China in 2015 in materials science and engineering. After that, she went to the Institute of Supramolecular Science and Engineering (Strasbourg, France) for her Master (2017) and PhD study (2021) investigating chemical functionalization of 2D materials.