Julia Amici obtained her PhD in Material Sciences and Engineering from Politecnico di Torino, Italy in 2013. She conducted her Post Doc in the Electrochemistry Group at Politecnico di Torino DISAT, on post Li-ion technologies, in particular Li-Air and Li-Sulfur (Li-S) batteries. She participated to different European and national projects on Li-Air, Li-S and Li-ion systems, preparing, testing and optimizing electrode materials and various electrolytes. She is currently Associate Professor at Politecnico di Torino and her research activities are focused on synthesis and characterization of highly efficient composite polymer electrolytes for Li-ion, Li-air and Li-S batteries. She is the P.I. for Politecnico di Torino in the EU funded projects SUBLIME (H2020) and ADVAGEN (Horizon Europe), both on all solid-state Li-ion batteries. She is actively participating in Battery2030+ initiative (co-author of the Roadmap: “Inventing the Batteries of the Future, Research Needs and Future Actions”) and has been selected as an expert in WG1:” New and Emerging Battery Technologies” of ETIP EBA Batteries Europe Platform. She is author of above 60 publications in international peer-reviewed journals, on materials, Li-ion, Li-Air and Li-S systems and 2 international patents.

Dr. Simon Clark is a Senior Research Scientist at SINTEF in Trondheim, Norway. His work explores the interface between battery cells and the digital world with a focus on physics-based simulations, linked data, and the semantic web. He earned his Dr. rer. nat. degree in Computational Electrochemistry from Ulm University in cooperation with the German Aerospace Center (DLR).

Robert Dominko is a research professor at the National Institute of Chemistry and a professor at the University of Ljubljana. He is head of the Battery Group at the National Institute of Chemistry and deputy director of the ALISTORE-ERI network. He received his PhD in materials science from the University of Ljubljana in 2002. Since his PhD, his research interests have been in the field of materials science and electrochemical systems for energy storage, mainly focussing on advanced battery systems. He was the coordinator of two large-scale EU projects dealing with the development of Li-S batteries. His current research interests focus on different types of multivalent batteries and the implementation of smart functions in battery cells. He is closely associated with the Battery 2030+ initiative and with Batteries Europe, where he is one of the co-leaders of the working group preparing a strategy for the education level. He is involved in the MESC Master programme (https://mesc-plus.eu/) and in the PhD school DESTINY (https://www.destiny-phd.eu/). He has published more than 200 review papers and is co-author of 15 patents. He is a member of the Slovenian Academy of Engineering Sciences.

Dr. Camélia Matei Ghimbeu is a Research Director at Material Science Institute in Mulhouse (IS2M), CNRS, France. She received in 2007 her PhD from University of Metz, France and TU Delft, The Netherlands and her Habilitation in 2015 from University of Haute Alsace, France. She was awarded in 2017 the CNRS Bronze Medal, in 2018 the Award “Solid-State Chemistry Division” (French Chemistry Society) and in 2019 the award Guy Ourisson (Gutenberg Cercle), for her research works devoted to the design of carbon-based materials with controlled characteristics for energy storage (batteries / supercapacitors) and environmental applications. Author of 125 articles and about 170 communications, she is leading the “Carbon and Hybrid Materials” group at IS2M since 2016, she is member of French network of Electrochemical Storage of Energy (RS2E) and member of National Committee for Scientific Research (CoNRS), section 15 (chemistry of materials, nanomaterials and processes).

Patrik Johansson is Full Professor in Physics at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, and holds a Distinguished Professor grant from the Swedish Research Council (48.5 MSEK, 10 years). At Chalmers he leads a group of ca. 12 PhD students and postdocs, as well as being co-director of ALISTORE-ERI – one of Europe’s largest industry-academia networks within the field of modern batteries – and the director of the Graphene Flagship, one of the EC’s largest R&I initiatives hitherto. He continuous aims at combining understanding of new materials at the molecular scale, often via ab initio/DFT computational methods and IR/Raman spectroscopy, with battery concept development and real battery performance – with a special interest in all kinds of electrolytes. Most notably, his team won the BASF Open Innovation Contest on Energy Storage in 2015 for his new ideas on Al-battery technology (€100,000) and in 2020 he was awarded “l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques, Grade d’Officier” by the French Ministry of Education. He has published over 230 papers and started the software company Compular together with former PhD students.

Alexandre Ponrouch received his Ph.D. in 2010 from the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS-EMT, Canada) working on electrodeposition of metals, alloys, and oxides nanotubes and nanowires for application in fuel cells and supercapacitors. He is currently staff researcher at Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC, Spain). His research is mainly focused on fundamental electrochemistry applied to the development of new electrolytes, interfaces, and interphases for post Li batteries, including Na-ion, Ca, and Mg.

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Mgada Titirici has a BSc from University of Bucharest where she studied chemistry. Magda did her PhD at the University of Dortmund followed by a Postdoc and Habilitation at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces near Berlin. She moved to the UK in 2013 and was first a Reader and after a Professor at Queen Mary University of London. She moved to Imperial in 2019 as a Chair in Sustainable Energy Materials. Magda’s research is on the synthesis and application of sustainable materials in batteries and electrocatalytic processes. She published over 350 papers in this area. Magda is on the list of highly cited researchers by Clarivate since 2018. Her research has been recognised by numerous awards from Royal Society, Royal Society of Chemistry, Institute of Materials and Mines and others.