Speaker

Dr. Zheng Chen is an Associate Professor in the Department of NanoEngineering, and Program of Chemical Engineering, and the Materials Science and Engineering at UC San Diego.  His research group has been focusing on sustainable materials and energy storage devices, including high energy cathodes, silicon/Li anodes, batteries for extreme environments, solid-state batteries, next-generation battery recycling and future manufacturing processes. Dr. Chen has received the 2023 ECS Battery Division Early Career Award, NASA’s 2018 Early Career Faculty Award, the LG Chem Global Battery Innovation Contest (BIC) Award in 2018, and ACF PRF New Investigator Award in 2018. He has been selected as a Scialog Fellow in Advanced Energy Storage by Research Corporation and as a participant of 2022 Germany- America and 2019 China-America Frontiers of Engineering Symposium (CAFOE) by National Academy of Engineering.

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