Systems and Simulation Engineer
Jörn Albers currently holds the position of Technical Leader Requirements and Standards for Johnson Controls Power Solutions EMEA. Jörn graduated in 1998 from the University of Heidelberg with a diploma in chemistry. In 2003, he received his doctorate from Karlsruhe Research Center (today part of KIT) and University of Heidelberg and commenced postdoctoral studies at the Karlsruhe Research Center, as well as at the Division of Chemical-Physical Processing for the Institute for Technical Chemistry until 2005. Since then, Jörn has worked for Johnson Controls Power Solutions EMEA in Advanced Battery Engineering, Advanced Lead-Acid Battery Applications, Requirement Engineering, and Industry Standards for Lead-Acid Batteries divisions.

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.”

Sales & Marketing, LIB and PV, SOLVAY
Thierry Baert, based in Brussels, joined Solvay in 1984 with an engineer degree. He has been involved in R&D and Technical support, related to different polymers as polyolefin and fluoropolymers including PVDF. He is in charge of Lithium Ion Batteries at Specialty Polymers for more than 8 years, successively in charge of the market development and Global marketing. Today in charge of sales and marketing of Lithium Ion batteries and Photovoltaic.

Professor, Institute for Technical Chemistry and Environmental Chemistry, Center for Energy and Environmental Chemistry (CEEC)
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. He is author/co-author of ca. 100 manuscripts.

CEO
Sven Bauer, managing director of the BMZ GmbH is a passionate battery expert who is focused on business with battery and charger technologies for over 20 years now. With the establishment of the BMZ Batterien-Montage-Zentrum GmbH in Karlstein, he has made his hobby to his profession. The company has progressed quickly and with very big success into one of the leading system suppliers in the battery branch in Europe. BMZ develops battery systems with housing, charging technology, communication and supplies, world-wide "just-in-time" with guarantee and desired legal registrations. For several years now, Sven Bauer has given interesting lectures on the subject of battery technologies at BMZ Battery and Developer Forums to power supply branches in Germany and Europe. In 2006 he successfully started to train BMZ customers in accumulator and charging techniques. He also gave lessons at the University of Applied Sciences in Aschaffenburg on the topic of “Modern Accumulators”. In the beginning of 2008 he established and founded the batteryuniversity.eu GmbH. The batteryuniversity.eu has the task of supporting designers and users of batteries and accumulators with broad professional information and individual services for their daily business. The main focus is on UN test procedures for lithium batteries in a laboratory and the organization of forums and training events. Further key points of batteryuniversity.eu are scientific analyses, consulting, product design, expert advice, as well as the provision of different test equipment and processes for battery manufacturers and users.

President and CEO
Donald Baxter is the CEO of Alabama Graphite Corp. and one of the premier graphite experts in world, having helped define three graphite deposits and having built one of only two producing graphite mines in North America. A graphite industry veteran, Mr. Baxter is the only CEO in the graphite development space with demonstrated graphite mining and processing experience. Mr. Baxter has successfully led three battery-ready graphite campaigns that are widely regarded as some of the premier battery-ready graphite programs in the industry. Mr. Baxter holds a degree in Mining Engineering from Queen’s University.

Manager, Minor Metals Research
Robert Baylis is Managing Director of Roskill, a London-based provider of research and consultancy services on minor metal, steel alloy, industrial mineral and carbon and chemical product markets. Robert joined Roskill in 2006, focusing initially on the cobalt market, and moved onto analysing the lithium market in 2008, since when he has further strengthened Roskill’s position as the leading source of insight on this nascent market. Robert also manages Roskill’s minor metals research and has worked on reports and projects across other battery raw materials, notably nickel, cobalt and graphite, as well as technology metals such as rare earths, scandium and tellurium. Robert has presented widely on various topics concerning mineral and metal supply, end-use developments and trends. Outside of the exciting world of mineral economics, Robert enjoys cycling and triathlon, and entertaining his twin boys.

Professor, Power Sources Group
François Béguin is Professor in Poznan University of Technology, where he leads a research group on energy storage systems (supercapacitors, hydrogen storage and lithium-ion batteries). He is especially interested by applications of carbon materials to these systems, and he develops new processes to control the porosity and surface functionality of carbons. In the case of supercapacitors, his recent activities are dedicated to asymmetric and hybrid capacitors and to environment friendly systems. In 2013, he edited a book entitled “Supercapacitors: materials, systems and applications”. From 2006 to 2012, he was appointed in the French Agency for Research (ANR) as director of programs on Fuel Cells and Energy Storage Systems. His works are cited in more than 14500 papers; his H index is 55.

Senior Partner, Automotive
Dr. Berhart is a Senior Partner at Roland Berger GmbH, based in Stuttgart Germany. As a member of its Global Automotive Competence Center, he is responsible for the Global Competence Cluster "Innovation & Technology". His focus lays mainly on business models and technologies around Automated Driving, Connectivity and CO2-reduction/eMobility incl new energy storage systems such as LithiumIon batteries and Fuel Cells. In his role, he is taking care of business development and delivery for the global firm when it comes to technology driven strategies and transactional advisory for Automotive OEMs, suppliers, engineering service providers and investors.

Director, Business Battery Development
Peter Blumrich is responsible for Sales and Business Development of TOSHIBA’s SCiB™ Battery Technology in Europe. He began his work for TOSHIBA in the Semiconductor Components Sales Division in 2000. Since 2008, he is engaged in promoting TOSHIBA’s Battery Technology to the Automotive and Industrial Market. Before joining TOSHIBA, he was with NEC and IBM in various roles of Sales and Business Development.

Individual Consultant
Dr. Klaus Brandt is now an independent consultant to the lithium battery industry. Before he worked for over 35 years in various technical and management positions at companies developing and manufacturing materials, cells and batteries for consumer, automotive and specialty applications. He was involved in the early commercialization of Li metal anode batteries, the development of Li-Ion consumer cells and the scale up Li-Ion technology to the kWh and MWh range. His employers included Moli Energy in Canada, Duracell in the USA, VARTA and Clariant in Germany.

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.

CEO & President
Doug Campbell is a small business veteran who specializes in new technology development and commercialization within the energy storage industry. Mr. Campbell co-founded Solid Power, Inc. in 2012 as a spin-out from the University of Colorado Boulder based on groundbreaking research in all solid-state rechargeable batteries. He has led the company’s efforts in transitioning from a University project into an industry-leading developer of high energy, safe and low-cost all solid-state rechargeable batteries targeted for a number of markets including automotive.

Assistant Professor, Jean Rouxel Institute of Materials
Dr. Olivier Crosnier is an assistant professor at the Institute of Materials Jean Rouxel and the University of Nantes. He has worked on most of the electrode materials (both positive and negative), for supercapacitors as well as Lithium and Sodium-ion batteries, from synthesis to materials characterization. He completed is PhD in 2001 and worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Waterloo (Canada) and ICMCB (Bordeaux, France). He joined the University of Nantes as a faculty member in 2007 His research focuses on new materials for aqueous electrochemical capacitors, with a special attention to device design. He co-authored more than 30 papers for the last ten years.

Advanced Programs Technologist
 

Director, Products and Sustainability
Alistair has worked at ILA for eight years, and is Director of Products and Sustainability. He currently manages a range of issues relating to the manufacture and recycling of lead batteries and is involved in the work of the Advanced Lead Acid Battery Consortium (ALABC). Alistair has obtained degrees from both the University of Oxford and the University of Edinburgh, and has lectured at both Washington State University, USA and the University of Chongqing, China.

Electrochemistry Junior Expert
Bruno DELOBEL graduated from Picardie Jules Verne University (Amiens). He obtained a Master’s degree from the European master, Materials for Energy Storage and Conversion (MESC), before receiving his Ph.D in Materials Sciences from Picardie Jules Verne University (Amiens) in 2010 at the “Laboratoire de Réactivité et Chimie des Solides” (LRCS). After his PhD, he directly joined Renault EV battery development group in 2010 and was in charge of Li-ion cell safety and electrochemical validations. He is currently Electrochemistry Junior Expert and working on advanced projects, as well as projects under development.

General Manager, R&D Center
Dr. Muriel Desaeger is currently acting as General Manager at the R&D center of Toyota Motor Europe. She is leading the Technology Trends Analysis Division. This division is navigating Toyota’s Research & Innovation and delivering European-originated solutions using EU networks, analysis & anticipation of trends. Scope on which the division is acting is energy, fuel, electrification, mobility & Societal changes. She has 21 year experience with Toyota and before acting in the current position she was General Manager of the Advanced Technology Divisions and the Material Engineering Division. In these positions, she developed several contacts with European part suppliers and Universities in order to enhance complementarities between European and Japanese know-how. She graduated as a Material Science Engineer of the University of Louvain-la-Neuve and got her PhD in the field of Composite Materials at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.

President
Dr. Daniel H. Doughty has been involved with battery R&D, testing and evaluation since 1992. During his 39 year career in science and technology, he worked at Sandia National Laboratories, SION Power Corp., and 3M Co. Dr. Doughty is President and founder of Battery Safety Consulting Inc., a company that provides expert and independent consulting services for a wide range of battery safety issues. He is the chair of the SAE Committee which is revising and updating the SAE J2464 Test Procedure, “Electric and Hybrid Electric Vehicle Rechargeable Energy Storage System (RESS) Safety and Abuse Testing”.

NRC Post-Doctoral Researcher
Boris Dyatkin is an NRC Post-Doctoral Researcher at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC, USA. His ongoing research efforts focus on novel ceramics, carbides, and carbon composites for armor and transportation applications. He received his PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from Drexel University in 2015 and completed his doctoral studies in the Nanomaterials Research Group of Professor Yury Gogotsi. Boris investigated the fundamental influence of carbon structure and surface chemistry on the energy and power densities of supercapacitors. During his PhD research, he completed a research stay at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory, where he developed dual-intercalation all-graphite microgrid batteries, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where he complemented his supercapacitor research with neutron scattering and MD simulations. Boris received his Bachelor of Science in Engineering degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 2009. He has authored over 20 publications on the use of carbon nanomaterials in energy storage and catalysis.

Director, Engineering Europe
Most recently, Mr. Fehrenbacher has focused on engineering support for automotive customers and new business development in Europe. Prior to joining A123 in October of 2010, Mr. Fehrenbacher 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.

Vice President, Battery Materials Research
Andreas Fischer studied chemistry at the Technische Universität, Darmstadt. After obtaining his PhD in the field of fuel cell research he joined BASF in 1997 as Research Manager Electrochemistry in the former Ammonia Laboratory. He transfered to BASF‘s business unit Inorganic Specialties as Global Product Manager in 2002. In 2005 he returned to research and became senior research manager with responsibility for BASF‘s research electrochemistry. Later he focused his work on research for new battery systems and materials and is since 2011 responsible as Vice President for Battery Materials Research. He was from 2007 to 2014 member (2011 – 2014 vice chairman) of the board of the division “Electrochemistry” of the German Chemical Society. Dr. Fischer is appointed member of the ProcessNet working group “Electrochemical Processes” since 2006 and member of the board of trustees of the DECHEMA Research Institute since 2012. Since 2014 he is member of the board of the Israel National Research Center for Electrochemical Propulsion and as of 2016 he is member of the advisory council “Batterieforschung Deutschland” of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). His research interests cover all aspects of electrochemistry and energy devices.

Manager of Machines, Equipment and Process Automation
Professor Dr.-Ing. Jürgen Fleischer, born 1961, studied mechanical engineering at the University Karlsruhe (TH) and afterwards he was a research associate at the at the Institute of Machine Tools and Industrial Engineering (Institut für Werkzeugmaschinen und Betriebstechnik) at University Karlsruhe (TH). After finishing his PhD in "computer aided process planning for flexibly automated sheet metal bending" 1989 the head of the ‘Handling and Assembly Systems’ group at the same institute. Between 1992 and 1999 he was in several leading positions at the DaimlerChrysler group most recently as President Product Unit Bogies at Adtranz with worldwide responsibility for train bogies. Afterwards he was in the capacity of President Regional and Commuter Trains responsible for the 'Regional Trains’ Business Unit of Bombardier Transportation in Berlin. Since February 1st 2003 he accepted the appointment as a professor as the head of the Institute of Production Science at the University Karlsruhe (TH). Since April 1st 2008 he took a sabbatical from the academic post in line with the interest of the state of Baden-Württemberg in promoting the exchange between industry and the universities as Chairman of the Executive Board of the international Machine Tool Group MAG Industrial Automation Systems. Since October 1st 2010 he finished the sabbatical and returned to Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) as Head of the Institute of Production Science as the Manager of Machines, Equipment and Process Automation group. From 2011 to 2014 he was Dean of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at KIT. Since 2014 he’s also Visiting Professor at the Tongji University in Shanghai, China.

Professor
Prof. Elzbieta Frackowiak (FRSC) works in the Institute of Chemistry and Technical Electrochemistry at the Poznan University of Technology, Poland. Her research field is energy storage/conversion with special emphasis on electrochemical capacitors, lithium-ion batteries, fuel cells and hydrogen electrosorption in carbon materials. She is particularly interested in electrode materials from activated carbons, carbon nanotubes, carbons enriched with heteroatoms (nitrogen, oxygen), graphene materials, conducting polymers and composites.
From 2009-2014, she served as Chair of the Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage Division in the International Society of Electrochemistry. At present, she is the Vice President of the Polish Academy of Sciences and also the editor of Carbon (Elsevier). She has authored more than 150 publications, has a significant number of patents, and 22 book chapters, and her work has received over 13 000 citations.

Director, IME Institute for Process Metallurgy and Metal Recycling
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bernd Friedrich studied nonferrous metallurgy at the RWTH Technical University of Aachen. From 1984 to 1987 he worked as an assistant professor at IME, RWTH Aachen. In 1988 he defended Ph.D. thesis titled “Electrolytic refining of recycling-tin using three dimensional-electrodes”. From 1988 to 1992 Dr. Friedrich worked as the head of R&D department and from 1992 to 1995 as a head of profit center “Hydride-technology and smarts materials” at GFE, Nürnberg, Germany. From 1995 to 1999 he was plant manager NiCd/NiMH at Varta Batterie AG in Hagen, Germany, and Ceska Lipa, Czech Republic. In 1999 professor Friedrich became the head of IME Process Metallurgy and Metal Recycling, chair and department of the RWTH Technical University of Aachen.

Senior Fellow
 

Senior Professor
Jüergen Garche is a Senior Professor at the University of Ulm, is CEO of the Fuel Cells and Battery Consulting Office Ulm (Germany) since 2004, and is Editor-in-Chief of the Encyclopedia of Electrochemical Power Sources. Prior to this position, he spent 1993 - 2004 as General Manager of the Electrochemical Energy Storage and Conversion Division of the Center of Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research (ZSW) Ulm. Jüergen has a PhD in Theoretical Electrochemistry (1970) and Applied Electrochemistry (1980) from TU Dresden, and has 300 publications to his name, as well as five books and ten patents. He is also a member of the editorial boards of three battery and fuel cell journals.

Managing Director
Torsten Gedenk graduaded in 2003 as an electrical engineer at the University of Applied Sciences in Mittweida, Germany. Since then he worked in the field of communication protocols based on CAN and CANopen and he took part in the specification of various CANopen profiles. In 2012 he and 2 others founded the company emtas GmbH in Merseburg, Germany. The company developes protocol stacks and tools for various communication protocols such as CANopen or EnergyBus. Since 2012 Torsten Gedenk is involved in the specification of EnergyBus and he has been lecturer at various EnergyBus trainings in Germany or abroad.

14V Dual Battery Systems Manager
Johannes Gehrmann is the responsible Technical Project Manager for a 14-voltage Dual Battery System. He has been developing low voltage components and battery systems at the Energy Storage System Department at AUDI AG for the past five years. Johannes Gehrmann holds a Diploma in Industrial Engineering of the Technical State University of Ilmenau and specializes in Computer engineering.

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.

Energy Storage Systems Specialist
Dr. Jens Groot received his Ph.D. from Chalmers University of Technology with the main focus of his research on Li-ion battery lifetime prediction and modeling. From 2003 until 2012 he has been a research engineer with Volvo Technology working in such areas as testing and modeling of energy storage components for heavy-duty HEVs. Since 2012 Dr. Groot has been a ESS specialist with the Volvo Group Trucks Technology Group where he is focusing on ageing analysis, cycle life modeling & evaluation of novel energy storage technologies.

Director, 48V Battery
Director, 48V Battery Dr. Sven Grundmann is Director for 48V Battery activities at Bosch Battery Systems. He is working in the field of automotive Li-ion batteries since over 7 years.

CEO
Christian Hanisch studied Process Engineering at TU Braunschweig (Germany) and has worked in the research project LithoRec and designed LithoRec II at the Institute for Particle Technology / TU Braunschweig on the topic of Recycling of Lithium Ion Batteries (LIB). He developed and patented new recycling processes and led the project to the realization of a pilot plant. Recognizing the highest interest of industrial partners in this topic he co-founded the spin-off Lion Engineering GmbH with fellow PhD students and Professor Arno Kwade in 2011. Beginning in 2016 Christian started to focus full-time on being CEO of Lion Engineering. Lion Engineering is working in the field of technical consulting, process development in LIB production and aims to start its own recycling operations within a short time.

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 2010-11 he joined the research department of Mercedes-Benz. 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.

Research Manager
 

Manager Prototyping
Dr. Huth obtained his diploma in Mechanical Engineering and Business Administration from the Technical University of Braunschweig in 2003 and his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the Leibniz University of Hannover in 2007, in the Research Group of Prof. Caro. From 2007 to 2009 he was a scientific member in the research group for high-temperature fuel cells at Volkswagen Group Research. In 2010 he joined the joint venture between Volkswagen and Varta Microbattery (VWVM). He is responsible for the prototyping and upscaling of recipes, coatings, and manufacturing processes for single-cell formats in hard-case and pouch-cell housings.

Energy Storage Technologist, Powertrain Systems
After completing his master studies in Physics, Árpád W. Imre joined the Doctoral School of Physics at the University of Debrecen (Hungary). In 2000, he received his Ph.D. degree in Solid State Physics. From 2000 to 2008, he worked as a scientific researcher at the University of Muenster (Germany) and investigated ion transport properties in solid mater. Afterwards, he joined the Corporate Sector Research of Robert Bosch Group (Stuttgart, Germany). He worked as the technical lead for the pre-development of battery systems for long range electric vehicles by 2020. Starting 2012, he joined Bosch Engineering GmbH (Abstatt, Germany), where he is responsible for requirements management and technology assessments for rechargeable energy storage systems.

Global Technical Headquarters, Automotive Battery Technical Department
 

Researcher, Battery Materials Research Laboratory, Kurashiki Research Center
Mr. Izawa was graduated in Applied Chemistry from Hiroshima University and joined Kuraray Co., Ltd. in 2008. After some year experiences on R&D of semiconductor materials, he has taken the current position and been in charge of developing a hard carbon in next generation.

Professor
 

System & Hybrid Integration Department Manager
Yejin Jin is head of system and hybrid integration department at Valeo where he leads the e-motor system engineering and the assessment of hybrid architecture relevancy. Prior to joining Valeo, he used to work in the battery industry at SK-Continental E-motion as researcher and program manager. He earned a Master degree from Ecole Polytechnique at Paris.

Professor, Electrical Engineering and Information Technology
Andreas Jossen studied electrical engineering at the University of Stuttgart. Within his PhD he was investigating energy storage systems for renewable energy systems. At the center for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research (ZSW) he was group leader and responsible for battery system technology. Since 2010 Prof. Dr.-Ing. Andreas Jossen holds a professorship at the Technical University of Munich 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 editor of the journal batteries.

Manager Vehicle Safety S-Class, MSA, AMG, E-Mobility, Mercedes-Benz Cars Development
Rainer Justen started his career in 1987 in the automotive development for Mercedes-Benz at Daimler AG. Several career milestones in the fields of vehicle safety, project management, safety concepts and active safety / driver assistance systems made him an expert on all relevant topics of automotive safety. In his current position he is responsible for the crash safety of Electric Vehicles. In 2015 he received the SAE Automotive Safety Award for his work on the Safety of Li-Ion Batteries in Electric Vehicles.

Specialist Application Engineering, Electronics Materials Solutions Division
Jörg Kaiser holds a Ph.D. in electrochemistry. Since 2008 he has worked in lithium ion cell and battery development in several positions at Li-Tec Battery and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. In 2016 he joined 3M as a specialist for lithium ion technology.

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.

Department of Chemistry,
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.

Manager, RD/EKI
Dr. Keller studied mechanical engineering at the Ruhr University Bochum and obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Essen in 1989. From 1989 to 1993 he worked as development engineer at Aerospace DASA in Munich. In 1993 he joined Daimler AG, working in Stuttgart and Ulm, and has been manager in the R&D department to the present.

Senior Manager, Energy Functions,
Michael Keller heads the Volkswagen Group development coordination for Charging infrastructure and battery topics. He has more than 15 years’ experience in the automotive industry at suppliers and OEMs. Before he came to Volkswagen in 2010 as head of “energy systems and functions development”, he was heading the traction battery technology and battery development at a Tier 1. Michael Keller obtained his electrical engineering degree in Karlsruhe and was awarded with the “Professor Ferdinand Porsche Preis” of the technical university in Vienna in 2009 for the first Li-Ion Hybrid Battery in a series produced car.

Head, Engineering and Propulsion
Dr.-Ing. Markus Klohr (45), studied electric power engineering at TU Darmstadt, followed by a doctoral thesis. Since 2003, Dr. Klohr has been with Bombardier Transportation, in their division propulsion & controls, from 2004, the development of energy storage and battery systems, and since 2016 he has been the head of engineering Primove Bus & Rail at Bombardier Primove GmbH.

Engineer, EPAH
 

Innovation Leader
 

Professor, Chemical Engineering, Materials Engineering, Mechanical Engineering
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.

EU-Projects and Energy Systems Analyses
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 (former Daimler-Ben) 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.

Technical Specialist Battery Technology
Patrik Larsson is a Technical Expert for Battery Technology at Volvo Cars Corporate Research and Development Centre in Gothenburg, Sweden. Patrik joined Volvo in 1992 and has more than 20 years of experience with batteries for vehicle electrification. His work is now mainly focused on dimensioning and optimal usage of lithium-ion batteries for PHEVs & EVs.

Technical Project Manager PHEV Battery A6/A8
Steve Lehnert is the responsible Technical Project Manager PHEV Battery A6/A8. He has been developing PHEV high voltage components and battery systems at the Energy Storage System Department at AUDI AG for the past eight years. Steve Lehnert holds a Diploma in Electrical Engineering of the Cooperative State University of Heidenheim.

Business Venturing, Battery Materials Division
Engineer in Electrochemistry with Ph.D. in Solid State Chemistry from Bordeaux University on Li-ion cathode materials. Joined Umicore Corporate R&D in 2002 as R&D Project Manager on battery materials. Moved to Rechargeable Battery Materials division in 2006, first as Product Development Manager then as Business Development Manager focusing on automotive and stationary storage programs. Now in charge of Business Venturing for Umicore Rechargeable Battery Materials division.

Certified Senior Industrial Analyst, Industrial Economics & Knowledge Center (IEK)
Mark Lu graduated from the Department of Business Administration in National Cheng-chi University, Taiwan, and continued to acquire an MBA from National Sun Yat-sen University. Since 2008, he has worked for the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) as an analyst in the Industrial Economics and Knowledge Center (IEK). As a certified industrial analyst of the biggest think-tank in Taiwan, he is responsible for research about the Taiwan battery-related industry, including material, cell, pack and related applications. From 2010 he has served as an executive secretary of the Taiwan Battery Association.

Technical Manager
Professional engineer with more than 20 years of experience in the metallurgical industry. During his career, he held several positions within the industry such as: R&D Advisor, R&D Project Manager, Consultant and Quality control metallurgist. He also acted as a promoter and Project Manager for Phostech Lithium Inc. in 2000 and 2001. Phostech Lithium now became today the Johnson Matthey Battery Material LFP plant in Québec, Canada. Mr. Magnan is the owner of many patents in the lithium rechargeable batteries field. He holds a master’s Degree in Materials Engineering from Laval University (2000). Until now, he has participated in the development and marketing of several new technologies during his career. He is co-author of patents from the University of Montreal, Hydro-Québec and the CNRS on lithium iron phosphate. These patents have been sub-licensed worldwide by LiFePO4 + C Licensing AG. LiFePO4+C Licensing represents the patent owners for this technology: Hydro-Québec (Montréal); Université de Montréal; and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS, Paris).

Business Development Manager, Battery for Europe, SOLVAY
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. His background is chemistry and 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.

GM Technical Fellow Global Battery Systems – 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.

Executive Vice President, SF-R&D
Dr. Mazumdar obtained his Master’s Degree in Applied Physics from IIT Kharagpur in 1979 and his Ph.D. from the Materials Science Centre at IIT Kharagpur in 1986. He joined Exide Industries Ltd in 1985 at R&D Centre, Kolkata and worked for 28 years on the development of advanced lead-acid batteries. Dr. Mazumdar currently works as Executive Vice President- SF-R&D in Mumbai (another Division of Exide Industries Ltd).

CEO
Stuart is the CEO of ArcActive, having co-founded the business in 2011. Prior to this, Stuart worked as General Partner in two Venture Capital companies, and was intimately involved in the development of numerous technology based businesses. Stuart has a degree in Civil Engineering, and an MBA.

Vice President
Anthony has spent his career in various aspects of the mining industry, including as a company director, advisor, founder and investor. Anthony has managed numerous mining investments at various stages of development, including exploration, development, production and turnaround situations, and across a broad range of commodities. He has served as a director of both public and private companies and has been seconded as interim CEO on multiple occasions. Prior to joining Pala, Anthony worked at Firebird Management, a specialist emerging market fund, where he focused on natural resource investments in Africa, Central Asia and the Former Soviet Union. Anthony has been active in the metals space related to electric vehicles, including investing in and trading cobalt as well as looking at other commodities such as lithium and graphite. Anthony previously worked at Renaissance Capital and Skadden, Arps in Moscow, where he focused on advisory and transactional work in metals& mining and oil & gas. Anthony has lived and worked in Africa and Russia, including a year as a Fulbright scholar, and has spent considerable time in Central Asia. Anthony holds a B.A. in Russian history from Brigham Young University, an M.A. in Russian and Central Asian Studies from the University of Washington, and a J.D. from the University of Washington. He holds an LLM in Corporate Finance from the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Program Manager
Boris Monahov is Program Manager of the Advanced Lead-Acid Battery Consortium (ALABC) – the largest international research organization focused on lead-acid batteries. The ALABC is a program of the International Lead Association (ILA) based in London. The Consortium has currently 70 member companies in 20 countries. Boris is setting up and managing the three years R&D programs of ALABC – usually a group of 15 or more projects focused on basic and applied science studies of advanced lead-acid (lead-carbon) batteries for automotive and energy storage systems. Boris Monahov holds a master’s degree in physics from the University of Sofia, and a PhD degree in electrochemistry from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, where he also had his post doc training and habilitation. His experience comprises 25 years of basic electrochemical research of lead-acid batteries (with the team of Prof. D. Pavlov as Associate Professor), followed by 6 years in the battery industry as Chief Electrochemist of Firefly Energy Inc., USA (development of lead-carbon foam batteries). Since 2010 he is Program manager of ALABC. He has published over 60 articles and 3 patents. Boris is an active members of the Electrochemical Society. In 2012 he was awarded by EPLS’s BEST magazine for outstanding technical contributions by an individual to the lead-acid battery industry. In 2014 he was awarded by the Gaston Plante medal of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences for fundamental contributions to the lead-acid battery science and technology.

Managing Director
Simon Moores is the managing director of Benchmark Mineral Intelligence, an independent price assessment company for lithium, graphite and cobalt for the lithium ion battery supply chain.
Simon has specialist knowledge in critical and strategic minerals and markets including graphite, lithium, cobalt, batteries, electric vehicles and China – a sector he has covered since 2006.
He has specialised in the lithium ion battery supply chain, especially the upstream sector from mine to battery cell manufacturing. Benchmark Mineral Intelligence has advised some of the world’s biggest actors in the lithium ion battery space from cell manufacturers, to electric vehicle producers to mining companies. In 2015, Simon and Benchmark advised Goldman Sachs on lithium and batteries in its Low Carbon Economy Report, and have worked with the likes of UBS, Deutsche Bank, CLSA, and Credit Suisse, on lithium ion battery supply chain roadshows. In addition, he launched subscription products, Benchmark Membership and Benchmark Data | Graphite and the events, Benchmark World Tour 2015 and Graphite Supply Chain 2016.

Senior Electrochemist, Supercapacitors
Vinod is an established electrochemist with several years of experience in the fabrication of batteries and supercapacitors. He has published many papers in peer reviewed journals and has filed numerous patents. He is the recipient of internationally well-known research awards such as the Alexander von Humboldt fellowship in Germany, the CNRS fellowship in France, and the NSERC fellowship in Canada. Before starting his industrial research career in electrochemistry, he was a researcher at UCSF. Vinod has significant expertise in material science, polymer chemistry, material synthesis, sol-gel chemistry, and electrochemistry. In recent years, his research has been focused mainly on supercapacitor development: particularly on increasing the energy density of supercapacitors.

Professor of Chemistry, Institute of Symbiotic Science & Technology
 

CEO
 

Managing Editor
Barbara O’Donovan has almost 10 years of experience in commodity news and price reporting. Barbara started working with Industrial Minerals in 2015 before taking over as Managing Editor in June 2016. She is responsible for publishing IM’s online, newsletter and magazine content from a global team of reporters. Prior to joining Industrial Minerals Barbara worked as editor of American Metal Market in New York and deputy editor of Metal Bulletin in London.
Most recently Barbara has been working across the Metal Bulletin Group’s suite of products (including Industrial Minerals, Metal Bulletin and American Metal Market) on internal processes and systems aimed at establishing the Group’s strong credentials as a global Price Reporting Agency through the assessment and audit of our pricing methodologies for adherence to the principles for price reporting set out by the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO). Barbara holds an M.A. in International Journalism and a B.A. in Economics and French.

Director
Mike O’Driscoll is Director and co-founder of IMFORMED Industrial Mineral Forums & Research, established in January 2015 with Ismene Clarke, focused on specific industrial minerals research and conferences. He has over 27 years experience in the international mining and minerals industry, specialising in industrial minerals and markets. Mike joined London-based Industrial Minerals (IM) magazine in 1987, was posted to New York as Associate American Editor 1988-90, before serving as IM Editor 1995-2012. He became Global Head of Research IM in 2012 before leaving in July 2014 to pursue a career as an independent expert in industrial minerals. Mike has researched, written, and devised editorial, event, and research report concepts on all aspects of the industrial minerals mine to market supply chain. He has visited a wide range of mineral supply and end user operations worldwide, meeting senior executives from all key sectors, and has regularly organised, chaired, and presented at many industry conferences. He was Associate Editor and contributing author to the 7th edition of Industrial Minerals & Rocks, published by the Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration (SME) in 2006; and was Chairman of the SME Short Course on Industrial Minerals Due Diligence, 1999, Denver. In 2011, he was recipient of the Hal Williams Hardinge Award, from the AIME, for services to the industry as Editor of IM. He holds a BSc in Geography & Geology, and an MSc in Mining Geology from the Camborne School of Mines and is a member of the SME, the Society of Petroleum Engineers, and the Association of Mining Analysts.

Senior Lecturer, Mechanical Engineering
Dr Gregory Offer works on the interface between the science and engineering of electrochemical devices, mostly focused on automotive applications. Having trained as an electrochemist before moving to engineering, his research portfolio focuses on understanding the limits of operation, degradation mechanisms and failure modes of batteries, supercapacitors and fuel cells in real world applications, and the impacts and consequences on system design, integration and control.

R & D of the UltraBatteryTM
Mr. Yusuke Ogino obtained a Bachelor of Engineering from the Iwate University, Japan, in 2008, and received a Master of Engineering from the Iwate University, Japan in 2010. He joined the Furukawa Battery in 2010. From 2010 to 2013, he engaged in R & D of the UltraBatteryTM for smart grid applications. From 2013 to present, he has commercialized the UltraBatteryTM, an integrated supercapacitor/lead-acid hybrid energy-storage device for micro-HEV.

Director, R&D and Applications
Miodrag Oljaca is R&D Director at Cabot Corporation. He is responsible for technology development and R&D for batteries, supercapacitors, fuel cells and other energy storage applications. Dr. Oljaca led the development and commercialization of novel conductive additives and active materials for Li-ion batteries for the past five years at Cabot. He received doctorate degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1998 and has 17 years of industrial experience working in battery technologies, energy storage and materials design. He has over 60 technical publications and numerous US and foreign patents.

Manager, Traction Battery Technology
Dr. Holger Opfer manages advanced battery technology at Volkswagen AG where he is in charge of the predevelopment of battery technology and development of battery modular concepts with a focus on management system, safety, and life. From 2008 to 2012 he was with Volkswagen Group Japan where he was working on systematic cell technology screening and benchmarking on cells technologies as well as on advanced automotive battery systems in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan.

Chief Battery Engineer for EV/HEV
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.

Scientific Officer, Joint Research Centre, Directorate for Energy, Transport & Climate
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 new project on battery energy storage testing for safe electrification of transport (BESTEST) at the Joint Research Centre.

Director Product Management
Pichler Peter studied electrical engineering at the Technical University of Graz. In 2002 he finished his Ph.D. with the title Doctor of Engineering Science at the University in Leoben. The subject of his dissertation was “Demand-based induction motor design for diverging electrical vehicle applications powered by Battery”. From 2002 to 04/2003, he was the head of the R&D Department at ATB Antriebstechnik (Austria) and responsible for serial developments on industrial induction machines and PM servomotors. Moreover, he was involved in specific investigations on materials and innovative motor designs for the electric machines, which are produced at ATB. From 05/2003 to 2005 he held several positions in Hybrid Electric Vehicle Development at MAGNA. From 2005 to 2015 he lead several Development and Industrialization Programs for Li-Ion Electrical Storage Systems. Since 05/2015 Peter Pichler is Director for Product Management at Samsung SDI Battery Systems GmbH.

Technical Specialist - Power Supply Systems
Stephen Pickering is the Electrical Power Systems Technical Specialist for Jaguar Land Rover. He joined Jaguar cars in 1991 and has since been responsible for all aspects of the power system ranging from hardware selection and test, software design and development, system simulation and whole system functional verification. He received an MSCR degree in Control Theory and Applications from Coventry University following the design and implementation of a whole vehicle electrical power management system and is presently engaged in researching and developing power systems which are appropriate to support the requirements of future, increasingly electrified, vehicles.

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.

Vehicle Development and Test Engineer, Continental; Team Member
My name is Purvaj Rajan and I'm an engineer by trade. In between my graduate studies, I had a stint with Toyota Racing to acquire knowledge on various aspects of NASCAR engines. Thereafter, having spent the last four years in the automotive industry as a test engineer, my experience transferred from the traditional vacuum braking systems towards more electronic safety systems such as driver assistance on passenger vehicles. On weekends, I volunteer as a helping hand on the University of Michigan electric Motorcycle Racing team, working with the mechanical engineering team.

Head of E-Mobility, ie³ Institute of Energy Systems, Energy Efficiency and Energy Economics
Dr. Jan Fritz Rettberg received a doctor’s degree in technology and innovation management at TU Dortmund University. Afterwards he joined the ie³ Institute of Energy Systems, Energy Efficiency and Energy Economics as executive of the Northrhine-Westphalian Competence Center for Infrastructure and Power Grids at TU Dortmund University. Besides other projects with a number of industrial partners he directs the main project of the Competence Center to establish a technology and testing platform for interoperable e-mobility, infrastructure and grids (TIE-IN). Dr. Rettberg coordinates the competence center’s different projects in the fields of transformation of the energy system and electric mobility. He is member of the scientific advisory council of the German Federal Association for eMobility. Furthermore he was responsible for the preparation of the Masterplan Energy Transition Dortmund and is now the representative of the L.E.D. Centre for Energy Transition Dortmund. He is coordinating the Smart City project of the City of Dortmund and its partners. Together with the Chamber of Commerce of Dortmund (IHK zu Dortmund) he develops regional approaches concerning energy transition and Industry 4.0.

Vice President, Engineering & Product Development EMEA
Dr. Christian Rosenkranz holds the position of Vice President Engineering at Johnson Controls Power Solutions EMEA based in Hannover, Germany since October 2014. Mr. Rosenkranz began his professional career with the company back in 1998 with former company, VARTA Automotive. In 2002, Johnson Controls took over the battery division of VARTA Automotive, forming the Johnson Controls-Saft joint venture in 2006 which concerned with the development, production and distribution of nickel metal hybrid and lithium-ion battery systems for hybrid- and electric vehicles. Since 2008, the joint venture has been the first company to manufacture lithium-ion batteries in series. Within this joint venture Mr. Rosenkranz was responsible for Global Sales of advanced battery. As member of the general management of the business unit “Hybrid and Recycling” he previously established and managed a battery system integration centre in Hannover to serve the European development projects in the field of hybrid and electric vehicle battery systems. In his industry career Mr. Rosenkranz has held several technical and commercial roles in the field of Research & Development, Project Management and Marketing. He has 16 years of industry experience. Mr. Rosenkranz has a PhD in chemistry with a dissertation in electrochemistry and has studied at the University of Hannover and London Imperial College.

Chief Technical Officer
Ken has over three decades of experience in the advanced battery and ultracapacitor markets and has been involved in all areas of research and development, product development and design, manufacturing, and commercialization. As chief technology officer, Ken leads the engineering, research and development teams at Ioxus. Prior to joining Ioxus, Ken was with Moli Energy in Canada, Ashurst Technologies in Ukraine, Arcotronics in Italy and LTC/GAIA in Germany. Ken co-founded Uncap LLC in California and LaCima Corporation in Vancouver, both ultracapacitor develop companies. Ken earned his Bachelor of Applied Science degree from the University of Waterloo.

Energy Storage Systems Research Engineer
Wasim Sarwar has recently joined Jaguar Land Rover as their Lead Engineer for Low Voltage Energy Storage Systems (LV-ESS). He recently completed his PhD at Imperial College London, where he focused upon the combination of supercapacitors and batteries for automotive applications. He earned his Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Manchester, and subsequently worked as a Research Engineer at Jaguar Land Rover, (JLR).

Professor and Chair, Electrical Engineering and Information Technology Department
Dirk Uwe Sauer currently holds the title of professor for electrochemical energy conversion and storage systems at the Institute for Power Electronics and Electrical Drives (ISEA) & Institute for Power Generation and Storage Systems (PGS) at E.ON ERC RWTH Aachen University as well as Principle Investigator at Helmholtz Institute Münster Ionics in Energy Storage. Originally, professor Sauer studied physics at University of Darmstadt, Germany, and upon graduating in 1994 became a scientist, project coordinator and head of group at Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE in Freiburg until 2003. While at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE, Professor Sauer headed the groups for storage systems, the interdisciplinary team for off-grid and remote power supply-systems, and was the managing director of the club for rural electrification. In 2003, he was appointed as junior professor at RWTH Aachen University, in 2009 he was appointed as professor, and in 2012 he was appointed as full professor for electrochemical energy conversion and storage systems at RWTH Aachen University. In 2010, he became a founding partner of P3 Energy & Storage, and in 2015 he became a founding partner of both BatterieIngenieure GmbH as well as eBusplan GmbH.

Board of Directors, University of Muenster MEET Battery Research Center
At the MEET Battery Research Center at Münster University (WWU) Falko Schappacher has been managing director since 2016. After attaining his doctorate degree (2008) in inorganic solid state chemistry, he gained many years of experience in different positions at the WWU and the MEET Battery Research Center. Since he started his position at the MEET Battery Research Center in 2009 he initiated and managed several public and industry funded projects. Falko Schappacher has been involved in more than 50 scientific publications and numerous conference presentations.

Department Manager, Certification Electrical Products, Projects & Innovations, Battery Storage Systems, TUV Rheinland; President, BATSO e.V.
Stephan Scheuer is head of the Certification Department Electrical Products with TÜV Rheinland. He has a university degree in Electrical Engineering and is looking back to built-up various product test activities and laboratories in Asia, America and Europe. In his position he is responsible for the state-of –art certification schemes for new innovated products and as Battery Expert he is member of several battery organizations and international standardization committees in DKE, CENELEC and ISO. As president of the Battery Safety Organization e.V. (BATSO) he is focusing on speed-up the battery safety standardization for energy storage systems in a faster and transparent matter for the efficient use in the industry and the protection of applicants and users.

Deputy and EU Affairs Manager
 

Global Product Manager
Jeremy Schrooten is a global product manager and development engineer at Pyrotek Inc. He is an expert at materials processing and has spent 15 years in process and product development roles related to various electrochemical systems. He currently is working with Pyrotek’s specialty graphite operation on optimizing the processing of graphite anode materials. He holds bachelor’s degrees in chemistry and ceramic engineering and received his doctorate in materials engineering from Iowa State University.

Energy Group Business Manager
Michael J. Sekedat joined Pyrotek in 2004, bringing 27 years of industrial finance, project management and business acquisition experience from Ford Motor Company and subsidiaries, and several small, privately owned companies. In 2008, Sekedat became the business manager of Pyrotek’s energy group, with a main focus on the company’s specialty graphite operation near Niagara Falls, New York, USA, and the graphite anode materials market for lithium-ion batteries. He was instrumental in the winning of an USD$11.3 million award from the U.S. Department of Energy and the related contractual and business relationship with ConocoPhillips (Phillips 66) to produce their patented anode material, CPreme. When Phillips 66 decided to exit the anode materials market in 2013, Sekedat negotiated the contract closeout and the acquisition of all of the CPreme anode technology and now manages all lithium-ion battery anode material business development activities.

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.

Director, Transportation R&D Europe
Olaf Sielemann is the Director Transportation of the R&D in Europe. He is since April 2014 responsible for the product engineering of all SLI products in Europe for EXIDE Technology. Before Olaf held several positions in the R&D for transportation and industrial batteries with more than 25 years’ experience. Olaf earned a Diploma in chemical engineering at the FH Münster (university of applied science).

Professor
Patrice Simon is Professor of Material Science at the Université Paul Sabatier. His research is focused on the characterization of nanostructured materials for electrochemical energy storage sources, including electrochemical capacitors and Li-ion batteries. He is director of the Alistore European Research Institute focused on Li-ion battery research and Deputy Director of the French network on Electrochemical Energy Storage (RS2E). He was granted with an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council in 2012 (Ionaces project) to develop research on microporous carbons for supercapacitor applications.

Director of Research & Development
Dr. Michael E. Spahr studied chemistry at the University of Stuttgart (D) and Cincinnati, OH (USA) and received a Ph.D. degree from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich (CH). His dissertation on new positive oxide electrode materials for lithium-ion batteries was performed in collaboration with the Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen (CH). In 1997 he joined IMERYS Graphite & Carbon (ex-TIMCAL Graphite & Carbon) as a R&D project leader in charge of the development of graphite materials for lithium batteries. From 1999 to 2006 he was head of the IMERYS Electrochemistry Lab being responsible for the R&D of graphite and carbon black for batteries, capacitors, and fuel cells. Since 2007 he has been Director of Research & Development at IMERYS Graphite & Carbon.

Safety Advisor Dangerous Goods
Sebastian Spies is Safety Advisor Dangerous Goods at the Center of Competence Dangerous Goods (CoC Dangerous Goods) of the Daimler AG. After studying chemistry at the Technical University of Karlsruhe and receiving his Master of Science Chemistry (diploma) in 2009, he changed to the University of Stuttgart writing his PhD thesis about “Multiple chemical primer extension reactions at the 5ʹ-terminus of an aminoterminal primer” at the Institute of Organic Chemistry from 2009 till 2015. In parallel he joined the worldwide transportation department of Daimler AG in December 2012. Since that time he worked at the Center of Competence Dangerous Goods in Stuttgart and his main working topics are the intermodal transport of lithium ion batteries at the Daimler AG and the supervision of the battery manufacturer and Daimler AG subsidiary Deutsche ACCUmotive GmbH & Co. KG. Furthermore, he actively participate different committees for the development and enhancement of lithium battery transportation regulations, e.g. the UN Informal Working Group Lithium Ion Batteries and Manual of Tests and Criteria, the UN ECOSOC Sub-Committee of Experts on the Transport of Dangerous Goods (TDG) and the UN Joint Meeting of the RID Committee of Experts and the ECE Working Party on the Transport of Dangerous Goods.

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.

General Manager QMT Alternative Powertrains
 

CSO  

11 years ago, I started my bachelor thesis on lithium ion battery (polymer electrolyte) and had never left this field ever since. During the period, I’ve received BS. in chemical engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2006), MS. from EU Erasmus Mundus Master Program (2010 MESC, Materials for Energy Storage and Conversion) and Ph.D. from Université de Picardie Jules Verne (2013 LRCS CNRS, France). During study and work, my research had covered major components of EV cells, including gel-type polymer electrolytes(BS), Si and Sn based anodes(MS), polyanionic cathodes(PhD), layered cathodes (CATL) and cell design (CATL). Since early 2014, I’ve become a member of ATL/CATL, leading multiple CE/EV projects (e.g., High Voltage LiCoO2 and NMC cathodes, EV pouch cell development…) and coordinating several research collaborations with universities/companies.

Deputy Head, Competence Center for Emerging Technologies
Dr. Axel Thielmann is Deputy Head of the Competence Center "Emerging 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).

General Manager, Isehara R&D Center, Advanced Battery Materials Division
1983: Graduated from the University of Tokyo 1985: Earned a master's degree in science from the University of Tokyo 1985: Entered Showa Denko K.K. 1986-88: Visiting Researcher in Institute for Polymers and Organic Solids, University of California Santa Barbara Current Position: General Manager of Isehara R&D Center, Advanced Battery Materials Division, Showa Denko K.K.

Manager Advanced Battery Technology
Dr. Matthias Ullrich manages advanced battery technology at Volkswagen AG where he is in charge of the predevelopment of battery technology and development of battery modular concepts with a focus on management system, safety, and life. From 1994 to 2000 he was with VARTA where he worked on lithium ion cells development and automotive battery systems.

Head, Materials for Energy Unit
 

Vice President, Rechargeable Battery Materials Business Unit
Kurt Vandeputte is UMICORE’s Rechargeable Battery Materials Business Unit Vice President. After obtaining his PhD in Chemistry at Ghent University (Belgium), he started his professional career in 1997 at Umicore. Till 2003 he held operational functions mainly focusing on product application and quality control. Since 2003 he has been actively involved in Product development, marketing, and sales of Umicore’s materials for Li-ion battery applications. Currently his main responsibilities are sourcing, marketing & sales, and commercialization of technology.

Supervisor Advanced Power Supply & Energy Management
Armin Warm received his diploma in power and electrical engineering from the University of Essen, Germany. He has been working for Ford since 2006 and has experience in fuel cell, battery electric vehicles and other electrified powertrain concepts as well as power supply systems. Today Mr. Warm works in the research center of Ford in Aachen, Germany in the “Advanced Power Supply & Energy Management” department. The main focus of this department is the development of solutions for future low-voltage power supply systems to be used in the global Ford organization. Mr. Warm also represents Ford in several battery-related working groups in Europe such as the “VDA working group for traction energy storage” or the “EUCAR working group for FC & xBEV”

Power Source Engineer.
Lawrence Weinstein (FlexEl, LLC) is a power source engineer. He earned an MS in Materials Science & Engineering from Rutgers University in 2008 and a BS in Engineering Physics in 2005. From 2008 to 2011, he worked on porous carbons for supercapacitors, metal-air batteries, and capacitive desalination at Y-Carbon, Inc. He has published a number of articles on market aspects of supercapacitor carbons and capacitive desalination based on his experience at Y-Carbon. He currently works at FlexEl, LLC developing custom batteries for large OEM customers. Much of his current work focuses on microbatteries.

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.

Head, Materials Research Accumulator (ECM)
Dr. Margret Wohlfahrt-Mehrens is Head of the Department Accumulators Materials Research at ZSW (Zentrum für Sonnenenergie- und Wasserstoff-Forschung, Baden-Württemberg) in Ulm, Germany. She has been working for more than 25 years in the field of materials and cell development for electrochemical energy storage systems. She studied chemistry at the University of Bonn and graduated (PhD) in 1989 from the University of Witten Herdecke. She joined ZSW in 1990, where she worked as project leader for various battery and supercapacitors related research and development projects. Since 1995 she is leading the Department of Accumulators Materials Research at ZSW. Since 2011 she is also PI of the Materials II research group at the Helmholtz Institute in Ulm.

Global Commercial Manager, 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.