Hikari Sakaebe recieved her BSc from Faculty of Engineering, Kyoto University in 1989 M. Sc. in 1991 and Dr. Eng. in 1996 from Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University Joining Osaka National Research Institute (present AIST) as a researcher in 1991 Chief Senior

Hong Li is currently a full professor in Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research interest is high energy density lithium ion batteries, solid lithium batteries and failure analysis. He has published over 280 papers in peer-reviewed journals with over 16000

Jürgen Janek has a chair for Physical Chemistry at Justus Liebig University in Giessen (JLU). Germany, is director of the JLU Center for Materials Research and Scientific Director of the BELLA lab at KIT, Karlsruhe. He was visiting professor at Seoul National

Shinichi Komaba is a Professor of Applied Chemistry at Tokyo University of Science and a Project Professor at Kyoto University.. After obtaining his Ph.D. from Waseda University, Komaba joined Iwate University in 1998. From 2003 to 2004, he also worked at Institut

Gerbrand Ceder is the Samsung Distinguished Professor of Engineering at UC Berkeley. His research interests lie in computational and experimental materials design for clean energy technology and in AI/ML approaches to materials design and synthesis. He has published over 500 scientific papers

Jim Greenberger is the Executive Director of NAATBatt International, a not-for-profit trade association of advanced battery manufacturers and their supply chain partners doing business in North America and around the world. Mr. Greenberger co-founded NAATBatt in 2007 as part of a national

Dr. Jie Xiao is currently a Boeing Martin Professor at the University of Washing. She also holds a joint appointment with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) as a Battelle Fellow. Dr. Xiao has been leading research in both fundamental and applied research in energy

Dr. Chunsheng Wang is a Robert Franklin and Frances Riggs Wright Distinguished Chair Professor in the Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Maryland. He is an associate editor of ACS Applied Energy Materials and UMD Director of The UMD-ARL Center for