Neutron Scattering and Battery Research (Virtual)

Speaker Bios

	Dr. Y. Shirley Meng is a Professor at the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago. She serves as the Chief Scientist of the Argonne Collaborative Center for Energy Storage Science ACCESS Argonne National Laboratory. Dr. Meng is the principal investigator of the research group - Laboratory for Energy Storage and Conversion (LESC), that was established at University of California San Diego since 2009. She held the Zable Chair Professor in Energy Technologies at University of California San Diego (UCSD) from 2017-2022. Dr. Meng received several prestigious awards, including the C3E technology and innovation award (2022), the Faraday Medal of Royal Chemistry Society (2020), International Battery Association IBA Research Award (2019), Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists Finalist (2018), American Chemical Society ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces Young Investigator Award (2018), C.W. Tobias Young Investigator Award of the Electrochemical Society (2016) and NSF CAREER Award (2011). Dr. Meng is elected Fellow of Electrochemical Society (FECS), Fellow of Materials Research Society (FMRS) and Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).She is the author and co-author of more than 280 peer-reviewed journal articles, two book chapters and six issued patents. She is the Editor-in-Chief for Materials Research Society MRS Energy & Sustainability. Dr. Meng received her Ph.D. in Advance Materials for Micro & Nano Systems from the Singapore-MIT Alliancein 2005. She received her bachelor’s degree in Materials Science with first class honor from Nanyang Technological University of Singapore in 2000.
	Dr. Jue Liu is currently a beamline scientist at SNS’s NOMAD instrument (https://neutrons.ornl.gov/nomad). He received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Stony Brook University in 2015. He then moved to ORNL and did a postdoc at SNS before moving to the current position. His research interests focus on crystallography, solid state chemistry, and developing neutron scattering techniques for studying energy storage and catalytic materials. He has over 10 years’ experiences in using X-ray and neutron scattering to study various energy storage/conversion materials and has published over 100 articles in related areas.
	Kimberly See is an Assistant Professor of Chemistry in the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at Caltech. She was born and raised in Colorado and received her B.S. in Chemistry from the Colorado School of Mines. Kim pursued her PhD in Chemistry at the University of California, Santa Barbara where she worked with Profs. Ram Seshadri and Galen Stucky. Kim was awarded the St. Elmo Brady Future Faculty Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and worked with Prof. Andrew Gewirth in the Department of Chemistry. Now, her group at Caltech studies new chemistry for next-generation energy storage with a focus on Earth abundant, inexpensive materials. She focuses on the electrochemistry associated with multivalent and multielectron processes. Some of her recent awards include the Beckman Young Investigator Award, VW/BASF Science Award Electrochemistry, Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering, Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, Sloan Research Fellowship, and Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award.
	David Kwabi is an assistant professor in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He earned his undergraduate and graduate degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Princeton University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, respectively, and was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University. His group designs and studies electrochemical devices for applications in energy storage and environmental remediation.