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Biography

Dr Yi Cui is the Director of the Precourt Institute for Energy, Co-director of the StorageX Initiative, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Photon Science at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory at Stanford University. He earned his bachelor’s degree in Chemistry in 1998 from the University of Science & Technology of China and his PhD from Harvard University in 2002. Dr Cui was a Miller Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley from 2002 to 2005 before joining the Stanford faculty. He has founded four companies to commercialize technologies from his lab: Amprius Inc., 4C Air Inc., EEnotech Inc., and EnerVenue Inc.

A preeminent researcher of Nanotechnologies for better batteries and other sustainability technologies, Dr Cui has published more than five hundred publications and is one of the world’s most-cited scientists. He is an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Materials Research Society, and the Royal Society of Chemistry. He is an Executive Editor of Nano Letters and Co-director of the Battery 500 Consortium. He has received various prominent awards such as Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award in 2021, Materials Research Society Medal in 2020, and Blavatnik National Laureate in 2017.