Date: Tuesday, February 6, 2018
Time: 11:00 AM
Talk Title: Molecular Foundry/ALS Joint Seminar: Enabling High Energy Long Life Rechargeable Batteries by Advanced Materials Diagnosis and Operando Characterization
Location: Building 66 Auditorium
Biography:
Dr. Shirley Meng received her Ph.D. in Advance Materials for Micro & Nano Systems from the Singapore-MIT Alliance in 2005, after which she worked as a postdoc research fellow and became a research scientist at MIT. Shirley currently holds the Zable Endowed Chair Professor in Energy Technologies and is Professor of NanoEngineering and Materials Science, University of California San Diego (UCSD) where she is the founding Director of Sustainable Power and Energy Center. Shirley received the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award in 2011, UCSD Chancellor’s Interdisciplinary Collaboratories Award in 2013, Science Award in Electrochemistry by BASF and Volkswagen in 2014 and Frontier of Innovation Award in 2014. Her research group – Laboratory for Energy Storage and Conversion (LESC) – focuses on functional nano and micro-scale materials for energy storage and conversion. The more recent programs include the design, synthesis, processing, and operando characterization of energy storage materials in advanced rechargeable batteries; new intercalation materials for sodium ion batteries; and advanced flow batteries for grids large scale storage. Shirley is the author and co-author of more than 140 peer-reviewed journal articles, 1 book chapter and 4 patents. She serves on the executive committee for battery division at the Electrochemical Society and she is the technical Editor for Journal of Power Sources.
