APS Colloquium

• When:  Tuesday, February 25, 2025 @ 3:00 p.m.
• Where: APS Building 402, Auditorium
• Title: Global race for a better battery

Dr. Y. Shirley Meng is a Professor at the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago, Chief Scientist of the Argonne Collaborative Center for Energy Storage Science, and director of Energy Storage Research Alliance, an innovation hub funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science.

She is the principal investigator of the research group Laboratory for Energy Storage and Conversion, established at University of California San Diego. She founded the Sustainable Power and Energy Center. Dr. Meng received several prestigious awards, including ACS Research Excellence in Electrochemistry, ECS Battery Division Research Award, the C3E technology and innovation award, the Faraday Medal of Royal Chemistry Society, International Battery Association IBA Research Award, Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists Finalist, C.W. Tobias Young Investigator Award of the Electrochemical Society and NSF CAREER Award. Dr. Meng is elected Fellow of Electrochemical Society, Fellow of Materials Research Society and Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science. She is the author and co-author of more than 320 peer-reviewed journal articles, two book chapters and twelve issued patents. Dr. Meng received her Ph.D. in Advance Materials for Micro & Nano Systems from the Singapore-MIT Alliance in 2005.

View the slide for an abstract of the talk. Please contact Ross J. Harder if you would like to meet with the speaker before or after the talk.

Off-site visitors, please contact Jessie Skwarek (630-252-7994) to arrange for a gate pass.

Suggestions for speakers and feedback should be directed to Esen E. Alp, Olaf J. Borkiewicz (Chair), Diego M. Casa, Louis Emery, Dillon D. Fong, Ross J. Harder, Martin Holt, Byeongdu Lee, Ann Marie March, Jessica L. McChesney (past chair), Karolina Michalska, and Venkat Srinivasan.