Advanced Automotive Battery Conference, AABC Europe 2012. Speakers

President of Advanced Automotive Batteries and founder of Total Battery Consulting, Inc., Dr. Anderman has led the development and commercialization of high-power Ni-Cd batteries, Li-Ion batteries, and ultracapacitors and spent the last ten years conducting assessments of energy-storage technologies for advanced vehicles, publishing Advanced Automotive Battery Industry Reports and chairing the AABC.

Greg Archer is program manager at the European Federation for Transport & Environment (T&E), the principal environmental organization campaigning on sustainable transport at the EU level in Brussels. The NGO represents, and is supported by around 50 member organizations working to promote an environmentally sound approach to transport across Europe. Greg leads T&E’s campaigns to reduce the environmental impacts from cars, vans and trucks, currently focusing on CO₂ and noise. He was formally Managing Director at a UK-based Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership, a public-private partnership focused on developing the market for low carbon vehicles and fuels. He has also established and directed other public and private sector organisations supporting the market for sustainable vehicles and fuels. Greg has spent his career in the environmental sector including working in academia, running a consultancy, managing major Government programmes and directing partnerships and environmental regulators and describes himself as a “pragmatic environmentalist.”

Dr. Aumayer conducted his studies of chemistry at the University Erlangen-Nürnberg where he earned a PhD in Physical chemistry. He joined the department of battery development at Robert Bosch in 1978 and after several projects, became head of advanced battery development. He was Key account manager for customer Volkswagen with worldwide responsibility for several divisions and was responsible for energy storage in hybrid development. Dr. Aumayer then became Head of central department for Governmental and Political Relations with the coordination function for E-mobility. Since July 2011 Dr. Aumayer has become an independent consultant. Among his other contracts works as a contractor for the Bosch Group.

Andrea Balducci earned his PhD in Materials Science in 2006 at the Paul Sabatier University of Toulouse, France. Since October 2009, he is the scientific leader of the supercapacitors group at MEET Battery Research Center of the University of Münster. He is working on the development of safe and high performance supercapacitors and lithium-ion batteries. He is also interested in the development of new types of lithium-ion capacitors.

François Béguin is Professor at Orléans University (France) and Poznan University of Technology (Poland). His research activities are devoted to chemical and electrochemical applications of carbon materials, with a special attention to the development of nano-carbons with controlled porosity and surface functionality for applications to energy conversion/storage and environment protection. The main topics investigated in his research group are lithium batteries, supercapacitors, electrochemical hydrogen storage, and reversible electrosorption of contaminants. In the French Agency for Research (ANR), he is the Director of a national programme on Energy Storage and Hydrogen and Fuel Cells.

Mårten Behm works as a researcher and teacher at the School of Chemical Science and Engineering at KTH – Royal Institute of Technology, where he also earned his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in 1992 and 1998, respectively. He began working with batteries during a postdoctoral session at The University of St Andrews in Scotland 1998–2000. He now focuses his work on experimental characterization and modelling of Li-ion batteries using a combined electrochemistry and chemical engineering-based approach. He is currently the co-advisor of five Ph.D. Students in this field.

Alexey Belyakov, CEO and owner of Elitech LLC, has 30 years of experience in R&D and manufacturing of Electrochemical Power Sources, expert in Electrochemical Power Sources of Department of Science of Russia. In the 1990s Alexey Belyakov with a team of co-authors discovered and patented a new electrochemical system for capacitors: "Carbon/MeOx". He published 37 articles on electrochemical capacitors mainly, and obtained 26 patents on Electrochemical Power Sources. The main activity of his company aims to nanosystems in hybrid power sources and serial manufacturing of the 1st generation supercapacitors.

Ph Blanchard received his PhD in Electrochemistry in 1984 (Research area for PhD: corrosion of construction steel in sea water). Mr. Blanchard joined Saft in 1985. He has taken the following positions: Research engineer in the area of Ni-Cd batteries, Research Group Leader for Ni-MH batteries,Cell Engineering Manager for industrial li-ion cells. He has been the program manager for several USABC and European programs. He joined the JV with Johnson Controls in 2006 with HEV cell design responsibility. Since 2011 and the termination of the JV, he still keeps the same responsibility within the SAFT Automotive Battery Group.

Thierry Brousse is a full Professor of materials science at the University of Nantes. He received his PhD in 1991 from the University of Caen. After a few years as analytical chemistry engineer in the nuclear industry, he joined the University of Nantes in 1994 taking a position of Full Professor in 2005 when he became Director of Materials Science and Engineering lab (LGMPA, Polytech Nantes). He is now researcher at the Institut des Matériaux Jean Rouxel (IMN). His research work is focused on materials for electrochemical energy storage with particular emphasis on alternative materials for negative electrode in Li-ion batteries and innovative and/or modified inorganic materials for electrochemical capacitors.

Jerome Chauveau is Development Manager for Arkema and is responsible for KYNAR® development of the Battery and the E&E applications. He graduated in Mechanical Engineering from the University Institute of Technology of Le Mans, with a specialization in composite material. Mr. Chauveau joined ARKEMA in 1997. His experience has been in Technical polymer division and covers tube, cable, and filament extrusion & co-extrusion technology and the worldwide technical support to customers of ARKEMA for these specialities. Five years ago Mr. Chauveau became manager of KYNAR® development (Products and Markets) for Energy applications.

Dr. Chiba joined the Ministry of International Trade and Industry in 1999. In 2002, he joined Japan Carlit Co., Ltd., and engaged in research in the field of electrolytes for EDLC. In 2008, Dr. Chiba received the Technology Award from the Electrochemical Society of Japan in the section of electrolytes for EDLC. He earned a PhD in engineering from the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology in 2011 and in 2012 became a Guest Associate Professor at the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology.

Michael Everett has been with Maxwell Technologies since 2002 the Chief Technical Officer since December, 2005 responsible for new energy storage technology development. During his time at the company Mike has introduced numerous products including the advancement of the ultracapacitor commercial technology into products that are in widespread demand today. In addition to his CTO responsibilities Mike is the head of the Technical Pre-Sales group at Maxwell interfacing directly with customers ranging from small non-public entities to large automotive OEMs, providing technical background, support and collaboration to enhance the utilization of the ultracapacitor technology.

Georg Fauser is a research engineer with the Energy Storage Systems department at Fraunhofer-Institut für Keramische Technologien und Systeme IKTS in Dresden, Germany. Within the scope of his activities as PhD candidate he focuses on developing non-destructive test methods and measurement algorithms for analysing Li ion batteries. He received his Dipl.-Ing. in mechatronics from the Technische Universität Dresden in 2010.

Toshihiko Furukawa has an electrical engineering degree from Tokai University, Japan. His technical background includes over twenty years of experience in power electronics and high frequency amplifier development/design. Currently, he is focusing on DLCAP technical support and business development for the entire US market.

Dr. Dennis Gamrad studied Mechanical Engineering, majoring in Mechatronics; his PhD studies were in the field of Engineering Science, majoring in Automation. The title of his doctoral thesis was Modeling, Simulation, and Realization of Cognitive Technical Systems. Until 2010, Mr. Gamrad worked as scientific assistant to the Chair of Dynamics and Control at the University of Duisburg-Essen. From 2010 to the present, he has been project manager at Creavis, the strategic research and development unit of Evonik Industries AG.

John German is a Program Director for the International Council for Clean Transportation, with primarily responsibility for technology innovation and U.S. policy development. Mr. German spent 8 years in Powertrain Engineering at Chrysler working on fuel economy issues, followed by 13 years doing research and writing regulations for EPA’s Office of Mobile Sources and 11 years as Manager of Environmental and Energy Analyses for American Honda Motor Company. Mr. German has published a variety of technical papers and a book on hybrid gasoline-electric vehicles published by SAE. He was the first recipient of the Barry D. McNutt award, presented annually by SAE for Excellence in Automotive Policy Analysis.

After earning his Degree in Precision and Micro Engineering at the University of Applied Sciences Munich, Mr. Gilch joined Siemens Munich in 1985—Corporate Technology R&D—as Project Manager for Capacitive Sensors and Torque Sensors for Automotive and industrial use. In 1999, he moved to Siemens VDO Automotive, in the Powertrain Sensor Division, Advanced Development as Project Manager and Team Leader for High Pressure Sensor 2000 bar, Turbo Speed Sensor and Oil Condition Sensor. In 2006, Mr. Gilch joinged Continental Automotive GmbH, in the Powertrain Electronics & Drivetrain Innovation Center, where he managed a key customer project for Supercap Energy Storage for Traction and Power Net Stabilisation, gathering Supercap know-how. In 2008, he became responsible System Project Manager for the serial development of a power net stabilization system for PSA e-HDI (e-booster) within the business unit HEV. Since 2011 he is Manager of Power Net Electronics 12V-48V.

Since March 2011, Dr. Gouérec has lead the Energy Project and business development at Serma Technologies,France. Serma Technologies is hosted by INES, French National Institute for Solar Energy. He is in charge of the development of a portfolio of activities and expertise (tests, qualification, F.A., post-mortem, audits…) in the area of alternative energies -photovoltaic and batteries. He had previous founded and managed GP Materials, a company that aims to commercialize a new class of Pt-free catalyst for low temperature fuel cells and metal-air batteries. Dr. Gouérec obtained his Ph.D. from the University Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris, in Materials Science, and held several positions as researcher and project manager for companies involved in the development of fuel cells and ultracapacitors.

Henrik Hahn received his diploma in Process Engineering from the University of Hannover, Germany in 1993. After obtaining a Ph.D. in Applied Mechanics from the University of Essen, Germany he started his industrial career within the Evonik group in the area of inorganic specialty materials. After assuming different management responsibilities in the field of process and product development he became Managing Director of Evonik Litarion GmbH in 2007. Under the roof of Evonik Litarion the Evonik group bundles research, development and production of chemical cell components for large format lithium-ion cells for automotive and industrial applications. This includes the ceramic SEPARION® separator and the LITARION® high energy and high power electrodes. Henrik Hahn serves on national and international panels on e-mobility and advanced energy storage.

Dr. Ina Hahndorf earned her PhD in Chemistry from FU Berlin. Her post-doctorate work was focused on Interstellar Chemistry under the advisory of Nobel Laureate Y.T. Lee, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. She has been a project group leader of “Combinatorial Chemistry”at the Institut für Angewandte Chemie Adlershof, Berlin, Germany and Global Development Coordinator at ATOTECH, Taiwan. Currently she is head of R&D at Younicos AG, Berlin, Germany.

Chad Hall is founder and a vice president of sales at Ioxus, Inc., focusing on European sales. Previously, he spent 14 years with Custom Electronics, Inc. His extensive mechanical engineering and business experience helped establish Ioxus from funding to factory to launch. Chad is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). Additionally, he was involved in several high-voltage, high-reliability capacitor projects at national labs, playing key roles in each project’s success.

Christoph Hartnig is currently working as Global Marketing Manager 'New Battery Products' at Rockwood Lithium. He is responsible for product development, up-scaling and introduction at customers including the project management for internal and external R&D projects with partners from industry and academia. Further tasks are technical customer support with focus on the battery industry in Asia. Previously, Christoph worked as head of the 'electrochemical characterization' laboratory at BASF Fuel Cell in Frankfurt, Germany and as head of the department for 'electrochemical processes and modelling' at the Center for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research, Ulm, Germany. He received his PhD from the University in Ulm, Germany.

Detlef Hoffmann received his Diploma in Physics from the University of Düsseldorf (High Power Microwaves) in 1984 and started as a Project Manager “Sensor Systems for Production” in the Research and Development of Siemens Corporate Technology. In 1992 he became the Head of the Overvoltage and Electromagnetic Compatibility Laboratory at Siemens Networks. Starting in 1996, he was the responsible Division Manager for the Electromagnetic Compatibilty and Safety Laboratory Group at Siemens and later Nokia Siemens, Munich. Since 2007 Detlef is Team-Leader E-Mobility Services at SGS Germany GmbH.

Dr. Christof Horn is director of the P3 group, a company that offers consulting services and engineering solutions in the automotive, aviation, and telecommunication industries with ca. 1500 employees worldwide. He has been working now for 12 years for the major German automotive OEMs and their international suppliers on strategic, organizational and process issues. His focus is on E/E systems from R&D to after sales, facing many challenges from innovative systems such as driver assistance or electric vehicles.

Born: Osaka, Japan, October 15, 1968
Education: BA, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, 1992
Career:
1992-2003; advanced tech. center, Yuasa Corporation, Osaka
2003-2009; manager Yuasa battery Inc, PA, USA
2009-2012; manager GS Yuasa International, Kyoto
 

Dr. Karden is Technical Expert for Battery & Energy Storage Technology at Ford's Corporate Research and Advanced Engineering Centre in Aachen, Germany. Since he joined Ford, he was responsible for numerous projects in the fields of powertrain electrification, battery modeling and monitoring, and storage technology assessment, with a main focus on micro-hybridization in 14V systems.

As a Senior Consultant with the Nomura Research Institute, Tomohide Kazama specializes in new generation vehicles (electric, hybrid, fuel cell vehicles), secondary batteries for big applications, and fuel cells. He holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Waseda University.

Jeff Kessen is the Director of Automotive Marketing at A123 Systems where he focuses on global business development and strategic marketing. Prior to joining A123 in 2009, he spent 11 years in a division of Bosch where he held leadership positions in program management, sales and marketing for powertrain software engineering. Earlier in his career, Jeff worked in chassis development at General Motors. He holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from GMI Engineering and Management Institute and an MBA from the University of Michigan.

After postdoctoral years at the Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio and at the Fritz Haber Institut der Max Planck Gesellschaft in Berlin, Dr. Kötz joined the ABB Corporate Research Centre in Baden, Switzerland in 1982. Since 1989 he has been leading the capacitor and interface analysis group of the Electrochemistry Laboratory at Paul Scherrer Insitut (PSI) in Switzerland. Throughout his career his research continued to aim at the characterization of the solid electrolyte interphase, the understanding of electro-active materials and the extrapolation of electrochemical processes to application.

Anthony Kongats is CEO and Founder of CAP-XX Ltd. Established in 1997, and listed on the London AIM stock Exchange in 2006, the company develops, manufactures and sells high power and thin prismatic supercapacitors. Mr. Kongats has been in the electronics component industry since 1991. Before that he worked for McKinsey & Co. Inc. He holds a B.Eng (Hons), B.Sc, and MBA.

Dr. Jenny Kremser joined the Automotive Simulation Center Stuttgart in January 2011 as a project manager and research scientist. She is in charge of the project cluster Vehicle Physics dealing with the simulation of the thermal behavior of hybrid and pure electric vehicles. Within the scope of the project “Development and Validation of a Thermal Simulation Model for Li-Ion Batteries in HEVs/PEVs”, Mrs. Kremser is responsible for management tasks and simulations at the High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS). Her educational background is in applied mathematics. Mrs. Kremser took her doctoral degree in modeling and simulating liquid-vapor flows at the University of Stuttgart in 2010.

Werner G. Kuhr is the Strategic Technical Counsel for eSionic Corp. Previously, he was the Founder and Vice President of Research, ZettaCore, where he managed intellectual property development and guided the research in areas including molecular adhesion, molecular charge storage and the development of new materials for energy storage. Previously, he was a Professor of Chemistry and Neuroscience at the University of California, Riverside, where he was the recipient of a number of awards including a Presidential Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation. Dr. Kuhr has taught extensively at undergraduate and graduate levels, including providing technical short courses at scientific conferences and meetings. He has published over 100 scientific papers, has over eighty-five U.S. and international patents and has delivered more than 100 invited lectures across the world. He has served on a number of supervisory Boards, including the UCR Microfabrication Facility, the UCR Genomics Institute, the Society of Electroanalytical Chemistry, and he currently serves on the Board of Advisors for the College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences at the University of California, Riverside.

After 6 years in the railway industry as test and project engineer, and 3 years experience in the space industry specialised in magnetic bearings as a project engineer, Bertrand Largy spent ten years in Renault's Electric Vehicle Development department. Today he is the manager of the Electrotechnic Engineering Department of the Vehicle Engineering Division, and is in charge of electric energy generation, storage and management.

Arnulf Latz obtained his PhD in Theoretical physics at the Technical University of Munich. After extended research periods at the Institute for Physical Sciences and Technology in College Park (USA), the University of Mainz and the Technical University of Chemnitz, he became research scientist at the Fraunhofer Institute of Industrial Mathematics (ITWM) in Kaiserslautern. Since 2004 he is heading the group Complex Fluids in the department of Flow and Material Simulation at the ITWM. His main research interests are constitutive modeling of complex rheological fluids and modeling of transport and thermodynamic properties of electrochemical systems. Arnulf Latz is author of over 70 scientific papers.

Michael Liedtke joined Maxwell in January 2006, assuming primary responsibility for establishing and maintaining strategic relationships with major original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to promote ultracapacitor-based solutions for industrial and transportation applications. Previously, he spent eight years as director of marketing and transportation design management for BMW’s California-based BMW Group DesignworksUSA. Before that, he held a series of auto, truck and bus design and project management positions with Daimler’s Mercedes Benz division in Stuttgart, Germany. He also spent more than four years in the aerospace industry with Boeing. He holds a Master of Science degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Karlsruhe in Germany, right down the street from Mainz!

Dr. Lipka heads the Electrochemical Power Sources Group at the University of Kentucky Center for Applied Energy Research. He is also the Associate Director of the Kentucky-Argonne National Battery Manufacturing Research and Development Center in Lexington, KY. He has over 25 years of experience in the development of electrochemical power sources and is well-versed in the development of power sources, including primary and secondary batteries, fuel cells, and electrochemical capacitors.

Dr. Ludwig studied Mathematics and Chemistry at the University of Tübingen, Germany.
During his Ph.D. thesis he developed software algorithms for the modeling and simulation of electrochemical systems. In 2007 he joined BMW and worked as technical project leader for battery management functions for the BMW Active Hybrid 7, 5 and 3 series.
After one year as component lead engineer for PHEV battery packs, Dr. Ludwig became team manager of the battery management function development, validation and calibration for all HV batteries.

Yurii has over 20 year experience of research in the field of ultracapacitors. Previous activities and cooperation also included Academy of Sciences of Ukraine,Technical University of Ukraine,YUNK-Bureau Ltd., SuperfaradAG, Ener1 Group, and APowerCap Technologies. Yurii published over 70 scientific papers and was a co-inventor of over 20 patents. He has Master degree in Chemistry from Moscow M.V. Lomonosov State University, PhD in Inorganic Chemistry from the Academy of Science of Ukraine, and DSc in Physical Chemistry from Russian Academy of Science. Yurii is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, UK.

Roland Matthé had been leading the development of the VOLTec Lithium-Ion battery system for Opel Ampera and Chevrolet Volt at the GM Tech Center in Michigan, USA, from 2007 to 2011. Since 1997, within GM’s fuel cell team, he led the system engineering group, then the fuel cell system component development and the future fuel cell system architecture activity.
After joining Adam Opel AG in 1989 until 1996 he worked on electric vehicle development and battery integration for the Opel Impuls electric vehicle.
He represented GM Europe in the EUCAR (European Council of Automotive Research) battery group. Roland Matthé received a “Diplom Ingenieur” (master’s) degree in electrical engineering from the Technical University of Darmstadt in 1989.

Markus Meiler studied Environmental Engineering and graduated in 2005 with a focus in energy engineering. He started his career in 2005 at Daimler AG in the field of fuel cell stack development. At that time he invented a design of experiments method to speed up empirical fuel cell modeling tremendously. In 2008 Mr. Meiler became a manager for lithium ion battery simulation. He and his team developed electrical and thermal models for HEV an EV applications. As an expert in battery aging and failure prediction Mr Meiler took over responsibility for Daimler’s EV cell development in February 2010. Mr. Markus Meiler has been Head of Product Safety at Deutsche ACCUmotive GmbH & Co. KG in Kirchheim u. Teck/Nabern, Germany since June 2010, were he is responsible for mechanical, electrical, chemical und thermal safety of ACCUmotive’s lithium ion batteries.

Michael Meinert graduated in electrical engineering, Electrical Railway Systems, from Dresden University of Technology, Germany in 1995 and received his doctorate in electrical engineering from Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany in 2007. His employment experience included the Siemens AG, Erlangen since 1995 in the field of Rolling Stock and Railway Power Supply as well as the Darmstadt University of Technology from 2001 to 2004. He is currently the Head of the R&D-group for energy storage units/systems as well as overhead contact line free systems at the Siemens AG, Infrastructure & Cities Sector. His special experience include railway systems, High Temperature Superconductivity and innovative energy systems.

Eberhard Meissner has studied Physics and Economics and earned a PhD degree in Physics from the University of Mainz. He joined the VARTA Group (now Johnson Controls Power Solutions) in 1985 and has lead various development teams for Advanced Engineering of Lead-Acid and Li-Ion Batteries.
He was responsible for Battery System Development for many years and is serving today as Director of Advanced Battery Engineering, with emphasis on design, material, simulation and applications of starter batteries.

Dr. Miller is President of JME, Inc., a consulting firm specializing in ultracapacitor development, testing, and application. John is a well-known expert in ultracapacitor technology with 25 years of experience in the industry. In the past five years, prior to joining the AABC team, he has chaired the Advanced Capacitor World Summit.

Yuji Minamibori earned his Bachelor’s degree in 2007 from the University of Shiga Prefecture. Since 2007, he has been part of the R&D Center of Showa Denko Packaging. His research activities are focused on the development of Aluminum Laminated Film.

Dr. Christian Mohrdieck has been a Director of Fuel Cell & Battery Drive Development at the Daimler AG Group Research and Mercedes-Benz Cars Development Division since 2008. After studies of physics in Germany and France, Dr. Mohrdieck joined Daimler-Benz Research in 1989. In 1995 he became head of the Executive Office of the Member of the Board responsible for Research and Technology in Stuttgart. From 1999 on Dr. Mohrdieck has been a Senior Manager Fuel Cell Systems with DaimlerChrysler Corporation in the USA. Back in Germany, he became a Director of Structural Materials at DaimlerChrysler AG and afterwards in 2003 Director of Alternative Energy- and Drive Systems. In 2005 Dr. Mohrdieck assumed the responsibility for Fuel Cell Drive System Development. Since 2006 he has the additional responsibility for Li-Ion battery development at Daimler AG.

Dr. Naoi is a professor of chemistry at the Institute of Symbiotic Science & Technology at Tokyo University of Agriculture & Technology (TAT). He also serves as a CTO of K&W Inc., a TAT venture company dealing with "Energy Solutions for the Future." With a Ph.D. from Waseda University, Tokyo, his research interests are advanced supercapacitors, future nanobatteries, and energy, environmental, and materials science.

Stuart Norman studied chemistry at the University of Oxford, gaining a Masters degree and then a PhD in Physical Chemistry, looking at the effect of magnetic fields on chemical reactions. Since starting work at E.ON’s Technology Centre in 2006, he has worked on a wide variety of topics, including: power station flue-gas cleaning; assessment of the quality of coal and biomass; coal and gas-plant engineering assessments; and hydrogen and fuel cells, before starting R&D work into the greenhouse-gas emissions associated with electric vehicles. Having enjoyed the work on EVs, Stuart then moved into a new role in 2010 managing a portfolio of E.ON’s R&D projects in the area of energy storage, cutting across both stationary storage and electric vehicles, looking at the technologies which could help E.ON provide cleaner and better energy solutions to their customers across the world.

Peter H.L. Notten was born in The Netherlands in 1952, was educated in analytical chemistry and joined Philips Research from 1975 to 2010. While working at these laboratories on the electrochemistry of etching of III-V semiconductors he received his PhD from the Eindhoven University of Technology in 1989. Since then his activities have been focusing on the research of hydride-forming (electrode) materials for application in rechargeable NiMH batteries, switchable optical mirrors, gas phase storage and Lithium-based rechargeable battery systems. Since 2000 he has been appointed as (part-time) professor at the Eindhoven University of Technology where he is heading the group Energy Materials and Devices. His main interest includes the development of (i) advanced battery and hydrogen storage materials, (ii) new battery technologies, (iii) modeling of rechargeable battery systems and (iv) the development of new Battery Management Systems (BMS). He has published as (co)author about 175 scientific papers and contributions to scientific books and owns many patents.

After he graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1989, Mr. Origuchi started his engineering carrier in the vehicle research laboratory of Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., where he was in charge of developing Nissan FEV presented in 1991. He continued to develop Altra EV and Tino HEV in Nissan taking a part of developing the world first Li-ion batteries for automotive applications until his resignation from Nissan at the end of 2000. Since 2002 he has been working for Renault in France always in charge of advanced battery development. He is now responsible for Renault’s EV battery development group.

Dr. Perner worked for Varta Microbatteries for many years and has excellent knowledge of cells and chemistry. He joined BMW 3 years ago and was responsible for the 60Ah cell from SBL for the Mega City Vehicle (MCV). Six months ago, he became team leader for the "component lead engineers" (the technical project leaders) and the complete pack validation of all HV batteries. Dr. Perner possesses deep know-how in cell and pack development for PHEV and EV.

Dr. Phillips received his Ph.D. in Electrochemistry from the University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, England. He is the Chief Technology Officer for PowerGenix where over the last 10 years he has led engineering and technology development teams making rechargeable Ni-Zn chemistry viable for a wide range of applications including transportation, industrial, and defense. He has introduced into high volume production and brought to market Ni-Zn batteries ranging from consumer AAAs to 80 Ah prismatics for military vehicles. He has also been instrumental in developing materials and manufacturing processes that take advantage of low cost supply chains in Asia. Prior to his tenure at PowerGenix, he worked at Apple Computer and had responsibility for $350M of laptop components including batteries, input devices, screens, and other electronic components. Dr. Phillips holds over 45 patents with an additional 40 patents pending and is considered the world’s leading authority on Ni-Zn battery chemistry.

Dr. Peter Pichler has held several positions in Hybrid Electric Vehicle Development at MAGNA. Since 2005, he has lead several development and industrialization programs for Li-Ion electrical storage systems before becoming responsible for MAGNA’s battery-pack technologies.

Christophe has built up considerable expertise in the area of battery market. He joined AVICENNE 18 years ago and Spend 3 years in Japan making analysis on the Electronic, Mobile & Japanese battery market. Christophe gained large experience in marketing, strategy analysis, technology and financial studies for the battery and power management fields.
He developed the Battery market analysis for AVICENNE which counts more than 170 customers worldwide. Christophe published several annual surveys like “The rechargeable battery market 2011-2020”. He is also the founder & chairman of Batteries congress in France since 1999. He is now Director of AVICENNE ENERGY.

Dr. Reitzle studied chemistry at the University of Ulm, Germany, with a focus on energy management and electrochemistry. He obtained his PhD in the area of “electrochemical metal deposition onto semiconductors” in the group of Prof. Dr. Kolb at the institute of electrochemistry at the University of Ulm. In September 2003 he joined Robert Bosch GmbH as an engineer for the development of electrochemical machining processes in the Corporate Research department. After this he became project manager for “corrosion processes in bio-fuels”. Since January 2009 he is working for SB LiMotive Germany GmbH as senior validation engineer and is technically responsible for the topic “platform validation”.

Mr. Sakabe joined Hitachi Ltd., Hitachi Research Laboratory in 2006. After working for development of battery control ASIC for lithium-ion battery system and lead battery system, he became involved in the R&D of lithium-ion battery systems for automotive, power grid, and hybrid train system.

Megan B. Sassin earned her Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of California, Irvine in 2007. Dr. Sassin joined the Advanced Electrochemical Materials section of the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C. as an NRC postdoctoral fellow in 2008, working with Dr. Jeffrey W. Long, and was subsequently hired as a staff scientist in 2010. In 2012, Dr. Sassin received the Rising Star award from the Women Chemists Committee of the American Chemical Society for her work on new multifunctional electrode structures that enhance the performance of electrochemical capacitors, specifically those that use safe, low-cost aqueous electrolytes. Her present research interests are centered on optimizing the 3D electrode architecture concept for next-generation electrochemical energy-storage devices.

Dr. Dirk-Uwe Sauer is Professor of "Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage Systems" in the Faculty for Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at RWTH Aachen University. Prior to his professorship, he was head of the storage systems group and of off-grip and rural electrification at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE in Freiburg, Germany. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Ulm on the topic of Optimization of the usage of lead-acid batteries in photovoltaic hybrid systems, with special emphasis on battery ageing.

Patrice Simon is Professor of Material Science at the Université Paul Sabatier. His research is focused on the characterization of nanostructured materials for electrochemical energy storage sources, including electrochemical capacitors and Li-ion batteries.
He was elected as Junior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France in September 2007 and awarded the Tajima Prize by the International Society of Electrochemistry in 2009. In 2012, Patrice Simon obtained an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council (Ionaces project) to work on microporous carbons for supercapacitor applications.

Dr. Spotnitz is a leading developer of mathematical models that simulate battery operation. Dr. Spotnitz, who previously held several senior technical positions in materials and battery development, founded Battery Design in 1999 to provide consulting and develop custom software for battery developers and users. He is a well-known speaker on various aspects of battery engineering.

Kenji Tamamitsu is a chief of research center at Nippon Chemi-Con Corporation, a visiting professor of capacitor technology course at Tokyo university of agriculture and technology, and chair person of the committee of capacitor technology within the electrochemical society of Japan. He had been mainly studying boundary technologies between an electrolyte and electrode of aluminum electrolytic capacitor and EDLC. Currently, he leads the research center corps of Nippon Chemi-Con, focusing on the research field of capacitor materials.

In 2007 Dr. Thele received a doctor's degree in Electrical Engineering at Aachen University (RWTH). Since he joined AUDI in 2007, he was responsible for several projects in the field of low-voltage power supply systems in mid- and upper-class vehicles. In 2009 he became Technical Coordinator for the development of the vehicle’s Electrical Energy Management.

Dr. Ullrich manages advanced battery technology at Volkswagen AG where he is in charge of the predevelopment of battery technology and development of battery modular concepts with a focus on management system, safety, and life. From 1994 to 2000 he was with VARTA where he worked on lithium ion cells development and automotive battery systems.

Tom Van Bellinghen joined Umicore in 2009 as the Marketing & Sales Director, taking care of Umicore´s Rechargeable Battery Materials business. Working out of the Umicore HQ in Brussels, he divides his time between Belgium and Asia helping to position Umicore as an even stronger player in active battery materials. Previously, Tom was a business Development Manager at Intel, and the Country Manger Benelux for Flir Systems. Tom Van Bellinghen holds a Master of Science degree in Electromechanical Engineering from the Catholic University of Leuven and obtained a degree in Business Administration from the Leuven Graduate School for Business Studies.

Anton Varakin was born in Saratov, Russia, in 1979. In 2002 he received his Master degree at the Saratov State University and in 2005 - his Ph.D. degree in chemistry at the Saratov State Technical University (SSTU). From 2005 he worked as Assistant Lecturer and Lecturer at SSTU in the field of power and energy control systems for electric and hybrid vehicles with ultracapacitors. From 2007 to 2010 Anton Varakin held position of Chief Designer of Hybrid and Electric Buses at JSC TROLZA. Currently he is Head of Engineering Department, CJSC ELTON.

Markus Robert Vogt studied chemistry at University of Ulm/Germany and holds a PhD in Surface Chemistry and Electrochemistry. In 1998 he joined Degussa in Germany. After a delegation to Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), New Mexico, USA for Fuel Cell project he returned to Germany in 2000 for different positions at Degussa (later dmc², OMG and Umicore) in Fuel Cells. In 2006, Markus joined BASF Future Business GmbH as the project leader for BASFs' fuel cell activities. In 2009, Markus joined BASF SE and got responsibility for business development in the newly established battery materials team.

Dr. Whitacre received his PhD (1999) from the Department of Materials Science & Engineering at the University of Michigan. He was a post- doctoral scholar at the California Institute of Technology from 1999 to 2000 and subsequently became a member of the technical staff at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA. His work there was focused on synthesizing, characterizing, and implementing materials for electrochemical devices such as batteries and fuel cells. In 2007, Dr. Whitacre became a Professor at Carnegie Mellon, with a joint appointment in materials science & Engineering and Engineering & Public Policy departments. He currently researches materials for energy technologies while also considering the policy implications involved with selecting and implementing the next generation of renewable energy technologies. His work is focused on Techno-economic analysis of Li-ion battery packs, grid level energy storage systems, and alternative materials systems for energy storage. He is also Founder and Chief Technical Officer of Aquion Energy, a Pittsburgh-area start-up focused on developing and manufacturing low cost stationary energy storage technologies.

Dr. Wiedemann studied Mechatronics at the University of Aalen, Germany and the University of Teesside, GB. During his Ph.D. thesis at the University of Ulm, he investigated ageing mechanisms for NiMH cells for HEVs. Since 2003, he has been involved in battery management systems and works with electrochemical storage systems. After working in research and development departments at Daimler AG and Robert Bosch GmbH, he joined AVL List GmbH as Product Manager for Battery Systems in 2009.

Prof. Tomasz Wierzbicki is the Director of the Impact and Crashworthiness Lab at MIT. He is the author of over 200 papers published in major international journals. Professor Wierzbicki spent over three years working in the BMW R&D Department in Munich and Volvo AB in Gothenburg. He organized a number of large industry-orientated programs at MIT with the support of over 50 major steel, automotive, aluminum and aerospace industries. Professor Wierzbicki has established his lab as a leading researcher center in the area of dynamic plasticity, structural failure, crashworthiness, ultralight material and more recently fracture. He served as a consultant to BMW, Daimler, FIAT, Honda, Ford, PSA, P&W, Siemens, and VW.

Prof. Winter's main research interests are in applied electrochemistry, materials electrochemistry and inorganic chemistry and technology. He is the past president of the International Battery Materials Association (IBA), Past Chair of the Division of Electrochemical Energy Storage and Conversion of International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE), and Technical  Editor of the Journal of The Electrochemical Society (ECS). Currently, he is the spokesperson of the LIB2015 Innovation Alliance of the BMBF (Germany Ministry of Education and Research) and a member of the German National Platform E-Mobility (NPE).

Ralph Wise is the CTO and Vice President of Business and Technology Development at Novolyte Technologies, leading strategic business growth through market strategy planning and development. He has experience identifying and commercializing new energy storage materials technologies, managing external collaborations and structuring and managing Novolyte’s energy storage materials IP portfolio. He has held positions over the last 20 years in the lithium ion battery industry as a research chemist and scientist, process engineer, product manager, commercial marketing director and as director of technology and strategy. He holds an Executive MBA and a BS in Chemistry with Highest Honors from RIT (Rochester Institute of Technology).

Dr. Anthony Wong is currently V.P. of Business Development & V.P. of EV Engineering at ATL, head-quartered in Hong Kong. ATL, a leading lithium-ion pouch/polymer battery manufacturer, is a subsidiary of TDK. Dr. Wong has helped serving international name-brand OEMs, and growing ATL from a start-up to a-billion dollar battery enterprise. He has been in the battery industry for more than 25 years and has served with the UL Standard Committee, the CTIA CATL Committee, the IEEE Battery Standards, and “Sensor” magazine Advisory Board member. Dr. Wong travels extensively in Asia, USA and Europe developing key customers, building global alliances, positioning and formulating strategy for the company. Prior joining ATL/TDK, Dr. Wong was at Energizer and Gould Electronics with senior management capacities including competitive intelligence, sales and marketing, research and development, and launching new business divisions. He received his Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve University.