Work Package 3
Yvonne Chart
Yvonne is a PhD student at the University of Oxford working on developing stable Li metal anodes for use in Li-S batteries. She graduated from Northwestern University in the US in 2019, where her thesis focused on composite fuel electrodes for solid oxide fuel cells. She has also worked on Si anodes for Li-ion batteries as part of an internship in 2018 with the NanoGraf Corporation.
Work Package 1
Kofi Coke
Kofi is a PhD student at the Electrochemical Innovation Lab in UCL working on developing electrodes and characterising degradation - based mainly around Work Package 1. He earned his Chemistry MChem at the University of Warwick in 2020, where he developed an insatiable appetite for the study of energy, electrochemistry, and materials.
Work Package 4
Josh Cruddos
Josh is a PhD student based in Electrochemical Innovation Lab at UCL working on the development of anode-free Li-S batteries as part of work package 4. Josh graduated with a Masters in Chemistry (MChem) with research in industry from the University of Liverpool in 2019. During his degree he completed an industrial placement at Innospec Ltd. working on performance chemicals.
Work Package 5
Brandon Frost
Brandon is a PhD student based at UCL in the Electrochemical Innovation Lab working on "Electrochemical atomic force microscopy of Li-S batteries" as part of the LiSTAR project. He graduated with a Masters in Chemistry (MChem) from the University of Leeds in 2020. His masters project was based on synthesising gold nanorods which could be applied as viral inhibitors against HIV and Ebola. He took a year out to establish the field he wanted to research for his PhD. This is when he discovered UCL, the EIL and the battery projects they had on offer.
Work Package 1
Esther Gray
Esther is a PhD student based in the 2DMD group at the University of Cambridge working on batteries with lithiated molybdenum disulphide as cathode for Li-S batteries. Esther graduated with a master’s in chemistry (MChem) with a year of industry experience from the University of Bradford in 2022. During her degree she worked in the energy technologies department at CRODA, now part of Cargill.
Work Package 1,2
Ji Hu
Ji Hu is a Phd student based at UCL- Electrochemical Innovation Lab (EIL) working on Composite cathode material synthesis and Solid electrolyte development to improve performance of Li-S battery as Part of Work package 1&2. After completing his Bachelor degree in Material engineering at the Monash University in Melbourne in 2013, he worked for a battery company in China for 4 years. In 2019, He joined EIL at UCL to start his Phd degree.
Work Package 1
Jinglin Jiang
Jinglin is a PhD student based at Imperial College London working on polysulphides trapping of cathode as part of Work Package 1. He obtained his Master of Research degree in nanomaterials at Imperial College London in 2019 and completed his undergraduate studies at Sun Yat-sen University (China) in 2018.
Work Package 1,2
Michael Johnson
Michael is a PhD student based in the Electrochemical Innovation Lab at UCL working on lithium polysulfide solution characterisation as part of Work Package 1 and 2. He graduated with a Masters in Chemistry (MChem) at the University of Liverpool in 2019. Here he was introduced to the field of material discovery, synthesising new cathode materials and solid-state electrolytes for lithium-metal batteries.
Work Package 2
Work Package 4
Magdalena Muhr
Magdalena is a PhD student based at the University of Nottingham, working for the NAMI Group and collaborating with her industrial partner Lubrizol. Her current research interests lie in improving of Lithium-Sulfur batteries by developing additives and redox mediators using experimental and computational methods. Magdalena completed her Bachelor's (Chemistry) and Master's programme (Chemistry and Chemical Engineering) at the Johannes Kepler University Linz in Austria, where she graduated with distinction in 2019.
Lizzy Olisa
Lizzy is a PhD student at Imperial College London, working on lithium-sulfur batteries, using modelling and experimental methods. Lizzy graduated with a Master’s in Mechanical Engineering (MEng) from University of Sussex in 2019. As part of her final year MEng project, she was part of an Electric Formula Student team who built an electric car, which included designing and building a Li-ion battery pack.
Work Package 1,2
Work Package 1
Georgia Rowe
Georgia is a PhD student at the University of Birmingham working with Professor Neil Champness and Dr Graham Newton (University of Nottingham). She graduated with an MChem degree from the University of Lincoln in 2020 after spending her Master’s year at the Lubrizol Corporation.
Georgia's project is to investigate separators for Li-S batteries within Work Package 1 and 2.
Matthew Tudball
Matt is a PhD student at UCL working on WP1. After graduating from the University of York and a year at Nanyang Technological University working on spray deposition of thin film solar panels; he now uses his spray deposition skills to improve the rate capability and sulfur loading of LiS batteries.
Work Package 1
Work Package 1
Samantha Southern
Sam is a PhD student based across Imperial College London and UCL working on electrospinning carbon fibres for high performance structural Li-S batteries. She obtained her Materials Science MEng at the University of Oxford in 2018.
Han Zang
Han is a PhD student at University of Cambridge working with Professor Manish Chhowalla. She completed her Master's degree in Microelectronics from Nanjing University in China. Han's project is to suppress Li dendrites for Li metal anode.