Experience

Moses Lake Industries

• United States
• Semiconductors
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Senior Technology Manager - Battery

  • Sep 2021 - Present

  -Lead the MLI Battery R&D and associated cross-functional team -Lead and grow a Battery application team-Create and manage a Battery lab-Support Battery sale efforts and technology transfer from R&D to production

• Battery Materials Technical Manager

  • May 2020 - Sep 2021

  Manage the MLI battery materials project:-Coordinate and guide internal production of novel battery materials-Manage external/internal testing of the novel battery materials-Manage external technical collaborations with Universities and Consortiums



University of Maryland

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Faculty (Assistant Research Scientist)

  • Mar 2017 - May 2022

  Infrastructure development for thin film synthesis and characterization. Characterize the dynamics of batteries degradation (all-solid-state batteries or with liquid electrolyte) and optimization of their performance through ALD. Industrial Project management. Infrastructure development for thin film synthesis and characterization. Characterize the dynamics of batteries degradation (all-solid-state batteries or with liquid electrolyte) and optimization of their performance through ALD. Industrial Project management.



University of Maryland/ALS-LBNL

• Maryland/Berkeley

• Chemist Post-Doctoral Associate

  • Sep 2015 - Mar 2017

  Devised and employed in situ Ambient Pressure-XPS set-up to investigate mechanisms of surface phenomena in energy storage systems. Manage cross-functional team. Devised and employed in situ Ambient Pressure-XPS set-up to investigate mechanisms of surface phenomena in energy storage systems. Manage cross-functional team.



Berkeley Lab

• United States
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Chemist Postdoctoral fellow

  • Nov 2012 - Sep 2015

  Developed novel in situ and ex situ spectroscopy and imaging methodologies such as in situ fluorescence, Raman and X-ray absorption (XAS) to perform diagnostics studies of surface films at the electrode/electrolyte interfaces in lithium ion battery systems at a nanoscale (silicon, graphite, state-of-the-art high-voltage cathode). Designed and conducted benchmark studies to identify battery failure mechanism and appropriate remedies related to transition metal dissolution and silicon interfacial instability. Electrolyte formulation. Show less



Institut des materiaux Jean Rouxel (IMN)

• Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France

• PhD student

  • 2009 - 2012

  Developed new electrolyte for proton conducting fuel cell combining an experimental and theoretical approach. Tailored conductivities and stability properties of BaInxTiyMzO2.6+s by appropriate substitution (M = Ln, Zr, Sc) with characterization by TGA, XRD, EIS and SEM. Identified on best candidate BaIn0.6Ti0.2Yb0.2O2.6-s(OH)2s oxygen and proton diffusion pathways by long or short range characterization techniques (NMR, IR, XRD, electron and neutron diffraction, QENS). Developed new electrolyte for proton conducting fuel cell combining an experimental and theoretical approach. Tailored conductivities and stability properties of BaInxTiyMzO2.6+s by appropriate substitution (M = Ln, Zr, Sc) with characterization by TGA, XRD, EIS and SEM. Identified on best candidate BaIn0.6Ti0.2Yb0.2O2.6-s(OH)2s oxygen and proton diffusion pathways by long or short range characterization techniques (NMR, IR, XRD, electron and neutron diffraction, QENS).



Paul Scherrer Institut PSI

• Switzerland
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Intern

  • Feb 2008 - Jul 2008

  La2CoO4.25 and RbaCo2O5.5 magnetic properties investigation by using µSR technique with R = Y, Tb, Dy, Ho. Synthesis, oxidation and characterization of single crystal (TricS). La2CoO4.25 and RbaCo2O5.5 magnetic properties investigation by using µSR technique with R = Y, Tb, Dy, Ho. Synthesis, oxidation and characterization of single crystal (TricS).



ANSTO

• Australia
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• intern

  • Apr 2007 - Aug 2007

  Sodium arrangement in NaxMO2 crystallizing in P2 structure type (0.6



University of rennes

• Rennes Area, France

• Intern

  • May 2006 - Jul 2006

  Study of oxygen vacancy in the Brownmillerite system. Synthesis, growth and characterization (X-ray and neutron diffraction LLB (5C2)) of high-quality single crystals (CaFeO2.5, SrFeO2.5) Study of oxygen vacancy in the Brownmillerite system. Synthesis, growth and characterization (X-ray and neutron diffraction LLB (5C2)) of high-quality single crystals (CaFeO2.5, SrFeO2.5)



Saint-Gobain

• France
• Wholesale Building Materials
• 700 & Above Employee

• Intern

  • 2005 - 2005

  Hazardous waste management. Hazardous waste management.