Dr. Whittingham is a SUNY distinguished professor of chemistry and materials science and engineering at Binghamton and the 2019 Chemistry Nobel Laureate. He received his BA and D Phil degrees in chemistry from Oxford University, where he is an honorary Fellow of New College. He has been active in Li-batteries since 1971 when he won the Young Author Award of the Electrochemical Society for his work on beta-alumina. In 1972, he joined Exxon and discovered the role of intercalation in battery reactions, which resulted in the first commercial lithium rechargeable batteries that were built by Exxon Enterprises. In 1988 he returned to academia at SUNY Binghamton to initiate a program in materials chemistry. In 2018 he was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering and received the Turnbull Award from MRS. He is a Fellow of the Materials Research Society

Yi Cui is the Director of Precourt Institute for Energy and a Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Stanford University. His training include B.S. in Chemistry in 1998 at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Ph.D in 2002 at Harvard University, Miller Postdoctoral Fellow at University of California, Berkeley. In 2005 he joined in Stanford faculty. He has published ~510 research papers and has an H-index of 207 (Google). In 2014, he was ranked NO.1 in Materials Science by Thomson Reuters as “The World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds”. He is a Fellow of AAAS, Materials Research Society, Electrochemical Society and Royal Society of Chemistry. He is an Executive Editor of Nano Letters. He is a Co-Director of the Bay Area Photovoltaics Consortium, a Co-Director of Battery 500 Consortium and Co-Director of Stanford StorageX Initiative. His selected awards include: DOE Lawrence Award (2020), MRS Medal (2020), Blavatnik National Laureate (2017). He has founded four companies to commercialize technologies from his group: Amprius Inc., 4C Air Inc., EEnotech Inc. and EnerVenue Inc.

Dr. Winter has been researching in the field of electrochemical energy storage and conversion for 25 years. He focuses on the development of new materials, components and cell designs for batteries and supercapacitors, in particular lithium-ion batteries. Martin Winter currently holds a professorship for Applied Materials Science for Electrochemical Energy Storage and Conversion at the Institute of Physical Chemistry at Münster University, Germany. The full professorship developed from an endowed professorship funded by the companies Volkswagen, Evonik Industries and Rockwood Lithium from 2008 to 2012. Furthermore, Martin Winter is the scientific head of the MEET Battery Research Center at Münster University. MEET stands for Münster Electrochemical Energy Technology. It combines outstanding equipment with an international team of about 140 scientists, engineers and technicians working on the research and development of innovative electrochemical energy storage devices. Since January 2015 he is also director of the newly established Helmholtz Institute Münster (HI MS) “Ionics in Energy Storage”.

Yang Shao-Horn is W.M. Keck Professor of Energy in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Department of Materials Science and Engineering and the Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT. Her research is centered on using chemical physics concepts to control kinetics, dynamics and transport in electrochemical processes towards making zero-carbon energy, chemicals and medicine. Prof. Shao-Horn is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors

Dr. Khalil Amine is an Argonne Distinguished Fellow and the leader of the Advanced Battery Technology team at Argonne National Laboratory, where he is responsible for directing the research and development of advanced materials and battery systems for HEV, PHEV, EV, satellite, military and medical applications. Dr. Amine currently serves a committee member of the U.S. National Research Consul at the US Academy of Sciences on battery related technologies. He is an adjunct distinguished professor at Stanford University and he also hold a joint appointment as professor at the university of Chicago.  Among his many awards, Dr. Amine is the 2019 reception  of the prestigious Global Energy Prize. He is also a 2003 recipient of Scientific America’s Top Worldwide 50 Researcher Award, a 2008 University of Chicago distinguished performance award, a 2009 recipient of the US Federal Laboratory Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer, 2013 DOE Vehicle technologies office award and is the six-time recipient of the R&D 100 Award, which is considered as the Oscar of technology and innovation. In addition, he was awarded the ECS battery technology award and ECS battery research award, Elsevier international battery technology award, the international coalition on energy storage and innovation award and the international battery association award. Dr. Amine holds 212 patents and patent applications and has over 642 publications with a google h-index of 131. From 2008-2020, Dr. Amine was the most cited scientist in the world in the field of battery technology. He served as the Executive director and Vice president of IMLB.  He is also the chair of the international automotive lithium battery association, ECS fellow, Fellow of the Hong Kong Institute of advanced studies, Fellow of the international association of advanced materials and associate editor of the journal of Nano-Energy. Recently he was elected as member of the national academy of inventors. 

Dr. Jones Alami, 50 years old, is a Professor in surface and nano-technology, the holder of the sustainable energy chair, ENSUS, and the head of the Materials Science, Energy and Nanoengineering (MSN) Department at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P), since December 2016. He has a Doctorate in plasma physics (2003) and a PhD in thin film physics (2005) from the University of Linkoping in Sweden. After a year and a half as a Post doc at Aachen University in Germany, he joined industry as a Research Manager and an Innovation Manager at large German and Swiss system manufacturers, respectively. I 2011 he founded and managed a surface and nanotechnology R&D company. During this time, he also occupied the position of Adjunct Professor at the prestigious Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Science. Dr. Alami has more than 70 peer-reviewed publications with over 3700 citations and an H-index of 25. He has over 20 patents and patent applications to his name and is often invited to give keynotes at international venues.