Oxford Battery Modelling Symposium

OBMS 2024 Speakers

Mark Verbrugge began his career at General Motors Research Labs in 1986 after earning his PhD in Chemical Engineering from UC Berkeley. He later received an MBA from MIT as a Sloan Fellow. At GM, Mark held various leadership roles in advanced technology and research of materials, processes, energy storage, and manufacturing. He has published and patented work in electrochemistry, batteries, fuel cells, sensors, coatings, and semiconductors. He is a Fellow of the Electrochemical Society and member of the National Academy of Engineering. After retiring from GM in 2023, he advises battery companies.

Gregory Plett received a B.Eng. in computer systems-engineering from Carleton University (1990), M.S.E.E. (1992) and Ph.D. (1998) in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. He joined the University of Colorado (UCCS) in 1998, and is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Prof. Plett has taught courses at Stanford University, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, and UCCS; has published in Wiley, Elsevier, IEEE, and the Electrochemical Society (and in conferences) and is a senior member of the IEEE. His research is focused on research in control systems as applied to the management and control of high-capacity battery systems, such as found in hybrid and electric vehicles.

Katsuyo Thornton is the L.H. and E.F. Van Vlack Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her research focuses on computational studies of the evolution of microstructures and compositions during synthesis, processing, and application of materials such those for batteries and fuel cells. She is a Fellow of ASM and is a recipient of a number of awards, including the TMS Julia and Johannes Weertman Educator Award and the TMS Brimacombe Medal. She is also the founder of the Summer School for Integrated Computational Materials Education, which was established in 2011 and continues to date.

Adam Z. Weber received his PhD from UC Berkeley in Chemical Engineering under John Newman, and is a Senior Scientist and Leader of the Energy-Conversion Group at LBNL, co-Director of the DOE funded Million Mile Fuel Cell Truck Consortium and Chief Technology Officer of the Alliance for Renewable Clean Hydrogen Energy Systems (ARCHES). His current research and activities involve understanding and optimizing fuel-cell and electrolyzer performance and lifetime using advanced modeling and diagnostics, understanding flow batteries for grid-scale energy storage, and analysis of solar-fuel generators and CO2 reduction to value added products. He is a fellow of the Electrochemical Society.

Anja Bielefeld leads a junior research group at the Center for Materials Research at Justus-Liebig University Giessen (JLU), Germany. Her group works on experimental and application-oriented modeling of electrochemical systems, trying to bridge the gap between theoretical and experimental aspects. A particular emphasis is put on microstructure effects in solid-state batteries. Anja has a background in physics from TU Braunschweig, and spent part of her master’s studies at the University of Oslo. She completed her Ph.D. at JLU specializing in solid-state battery composite cathodes and gained expertise in automotive battery research and concept development at Volkswagen AG.

Helge Stein specializes in developing experimental and computer-aided techniques to expedite the discovery and scaling-up of novel materials for catalysis and batteries. His approach uses robotic systems for data collection, algorithms and machine learning for planning and evaluation, and semantically searchable data management to establish a decentralized Material Acceleration Platform spanning material discovery to production. Stein pursued a physics degree at the University of Göttingen from 2008-2013 before earning his doctorate summa cum laude in mechanical engineering focusing on high-throughput methods at the Ruhr University Bochum in 2017. He subsequently conducted research at Caltech until accepting a tenure track professorship in applied electrochemistry at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in 2020. In 2023, he was appointed Digital Catalysis Professor at TUM.

Wolfgang Bessler received his diploma in chemistry (2000) and a PhD degree in physical chemistry (2003) from Heidelberg University, Germany. Since 2012 he is full professor at Offenburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany, where he is director of the Institute of Sustainable Energy Systems. Research stays led him to Stanford University, Caltech, CEA Grenoble, and the University of Hawaii. Wolfgang’s research activities focus on the simulation of lithium-ion batteries and fuel cells using multiphysics models, including chemical degradation mechanisms. More recently he has been working on physics-informed equivalent circuit models for state of health diagnosis and prediction, and neural equivalent circuit models.

Edwin Knobbe coordinates electrochemical simulation technical activity within BMWs Battery Cell Competence Centre, including managing a publicly funded project assessing batteries during thermal events. The BCCC provides infrastructure to research all aspects of battery cells, from materials to target formats, enabling BMW to work with suppliers as an equal partner. Knobbe studied aerospace engineering and received his PhD in thermodynamics from Delft University. He worked on diesel aftertreatment and petrol injection systems before joining BMW in 2013, where he transitioned from internal combustion to batteries, spearheading battery management systems and cell simulations.

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