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Linda Nazar

University Professor, O.C., F.R.S. Fellow of the Royal Society (Canada) Fellow of the Royal Society (U.K.)

Professor Linda Nazar is a faculty member of the Department of Chemistry at the University of À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ, and is cross appointed to the Department of Chemical Engineering Prof. Nazar, holder of aÌýÌýin Solid State Materials since 2004, has focused her research on developing new materials for energy storage and conversion for the past 15 years. She has published over 250 papers, review articles, and patents in the field which were cited over 53000 times. She was awarded theÌýÌýin 2015.

Office: QNC 4609

Tel: (519) 888-4637

·¡³¾²¹¾±±ô:Ìýlfnazar@uwaterloo.ca

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Hengning Chen

Postdoctoral Fellow

Office: QNC 3613

·¡³¾²¹¾±±ô:Ìýhengning.chen@uwaterloo.ca

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Research Areas:

  • Discovery and design of electrolyte materials for batteries using ab initio simulations and machine learning techniques
  • Computational investigation of defects, interfaces, kinetics, and thermodynamics in battery materials

Mengyang Cui

Postdoctoral Fellow

Office: ESC 132

Email: cmengyang@uwaterloo.ca

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Research Areas:

  • Solid-state NMR on energy storage materials
  • Ion dynamics and conduction mechanism studies on Li-ion and Na-ion electrolytes

Awards:

  • Oral presentation award at MOOT 33 NMR conference (2022)
  • Travel award at Rocky Mountain Conference (2022)

Baltej Singh Gill

Postdoctoral Fellow

Office: QNC 3612

·¡³¾²¹¾±±ô:Ìýbgill@uwaterloo.ca

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Research Areas:

  • Ab-initio modelling of electronic structure, thermodynamics and kinetic behaviour of materials and interfaces in batteries.
  • Structure-properties relationship in solid ion conductors.
  • New materials discovery using high-throughput computation and machine learning methods.

Insang You

Postdoctoral Fellow

Office: QNC 3612

·¡³¾²¹¾±±ô:Ìýiyou@uwaterloo.ca

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Projects:

  • Development of high-voltage solid state electrolytes and demonstration of all-solid-state-batteries.
  • Revealing the mechanism of superionic conductors.

Cameron Dean

PhD Student

Office: QNC 3612

·¡³¾²¹¾±±ô:Ìýcldean@uwaterloo.ca

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Research areas:

  • Ab initio computation for thermodynamic and kinetic properties of solid electrolyte and electrode materials
  • Design of high-performance interfaces within batteries using nanoscale simulation
  • Multi-scale modelling of battery failure mechanisms (void formation, dendrite growth, cracking, etc.)

Awards:

  • 2023 - À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ Institute of Nanotechnology (WIN) Fellowship

Karthikeyen Natarajan Pugazhendhi

PhD Student, Chemical Engineering

Office: ESC 132

Email: knataraj@uwaterloo.ca

Research Area: Cathode and solid electrolyte materials for Lithium-Sulfur Batteries.

Previous Experience: For my undergraduate thesis, my research focused on "Supercritical Fluid Assisted Synthesis of Metal Selenide/TiO2 Nanocomposites for Photocatalytic Hydrogen Production," and was published in ACS Applied Nano Materials.

Lanting Qian

PhD Student, Chemical Engineering

Office: QNC 3613

·¡³¾²¹¾±±ô:Ìýltqian@uwaterloo.ca

Project: Synthesis of Halide Solid Electrolyte for All Solid-State Batteries

Awards:

  • W.S. Rickert Graduate Student Fellowship in Science (2025)
  • University of À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ International Experience Award (2025)
  • Canada Graduate Scholarship - Michael Smith Foreign Study Award (2025)
  • Tim Collings Graduate Research Scholarship (2024)
  • Engineering Excellence Award (2023)
  • NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship (NSERC-CGS-D) (2022-2025)
  • President’s Graduate Scholarship (2022-2025)
  • Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) (2022)
  • Dr. M. Chandrashekar Memorial Award in Sustainable Energy (2022)
  • À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ Institute of Nanotechnology (WIN) Fellowship (2022)
  • Faculty of Engineering Domestic Doctoral Student Award (2021)ÌýÌý
  • Engineering Dean’s Entrance Award (2021)

Jackson Schuler

PhD Student

Office: QNC 3616

·¡³¾²¹¾±±ô:Ìýjschuler@uwaterloo.ca

Research area: Sodium solid-state batteries with NASICON solid electrolytes

Awards:

  • 2023 - University of À¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ International Experience Award
  • 2023 - Douglas T. Wright International Co-op Award

Office: QNC 3612

·¡³¾²¹¾±±ô:Ìývk23sing@uwaterloo.ca

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Research Areas:ÌýAnode architecture design for Li and Na SSBs, hetero-ionic interfaces and ion transfer across boundaries between two different ionic conductors.

Awards:

  • Mitacs Globalink Research Award (2023)
  • David Johnston Award (2023)

Zhuo Yu

PhD Student

Office: ESC 131

Tel: (519) 888-4567, ext.37334

·¡³¾²¹¾±±ô:Ìýz328yu@uwaterloo.c

Research project: All-Solid-State Lithium-Sulfur Batteries

Awards:ÌýÀ¶Ý®ÊÓÆµ Institute of Nanotechnology (WIN) Fellowship (2022)

Collaborators

We work with the following research organizations:

Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR)

DOE Energy Innovation Hub - Batteries and Energy Storage

BASF

The Research Network, Electrochemistry and Batteries

Alumni

Previous members of our group include:

Dr. Yue Yu

Former Postdoc
Now Associate Professor atÌýChangchun Institute of Applied Chemistry/University of Science and Technology of China

Dr. Chang Li

Former Postdoc
Now Postdoc at University of California, Berkeley

Dr. Laidong Zhou

Former Postdoc
Now Research Scientist at University of Oxford, UK

Shiqi Xu

Former PhD

Se Young Kim

Former PhD

Kavish KaupÌý

Former PhD

C. Y. Kwok

Former PhD
Now PDF at Oakridge National Lab

Shiqi XuÌý

Former PhD

Dr. Shahrzad Hosseini Vajargah

Former Postdoc

Dr. Chun Xia

Former Postdoc

Dr. Zhizhen Zhang

Former Postdoc
Now Professor at Sun Yat-Sen University, China

Dr. Erika Ramos

Former PhD student
Now postdocs at Lawrence Livermore Labs, USA

Parvin Adeli

Former grad. student
Now Technical Specialist - Batteries at Nickel Institute, Canada

Dr. Kern Ho Park

Former Postdoc
Now Research Engineer at Korea Electronics Technology Institute, Korea

Dr. Chan Sun Park

Former Postdoc
Now Scientist in LG, Korea

Dr. Xiaoqi Sun

Former Ph.D. student
Now Professor at Northeastern University, China

Dr. Quan Pang

Former Ph.D. student
Now Professor at Peking Univeristy, China

Dr. Xiao Liang

Former Postdoc
Now Professor at Hunan University, China

Dr. Fabien Lalere

Former Postdoc

Dr. Patrick Bonnick

Former Postdoc
Now battery research scientist at Ann Arbor, USA

Dr. Guang He

Former Postdoc
Now Professor at Tianjin University of Technology, China

Dr. Dipan Kundu

Former Postdoc
Now SNSF Ambzione Group Leader at ETH Zurich Laboratory for Multifunctional Materials, Switzerland

Yverick Rangom

Former M.Sc. Student
Now Ph.D. student at University of Queen's Land, Australia

Agnieszka Starobrat

Former visiting graduate student

Dr. Elahe Talaie Pashiri

Former Ph.D. student
Now at Nano One Materials Corp., Canada

He Huang

Former M.Sc. student

Russel Fernandes

Former M.Sc. student

Dr. Robert Black

Former Ph.D. student
Now Research Manager at Ioxus Inc., USA

Dr. Guerman Popov

Former Laboratory Manager

Sarah McCaugherty

Former undergraduate student
Now Ph. D. studant at University of Saskatchewan, Canada

Christine Lawler

Former undergraduate student

Franz Dinkelacker

Former graduate student
Now back to Technische Universiteit Munchen, Germany

Dr. Brian Adams

Former Ph.D. student
Now Postdoc at PNNL, USA

Dr. Mohammadhosein Safari

Former Postdoc
Now Professor at Hasselt University, Belgium

Dr. Victor Duffort

Former Postdoc
Now CR at CNRS, France

Diane Houtarde

Former M.Sc. student
Now Research Engineer, France

Dr. Jaka Sunarso

Former Banting Postdoctoral Fellow

Connor Hart

Former M.Sc. student
Now at Helix BioPharma Corp., Canada

Dr. Marine Cuisinier

Former Postdoc
Now Scientist at Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute, Qatar

Dr. Claudio Radtke

Former Visiting Professor
Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil

Dr. Ekaterina Pomerantseva

Former Postdoc
Now Assistant Professor, Drexel University, USA

Dr. David Ji

Former Ph.D. student
Now Assistant Professor, Oregon State University, USA

Dr. Si Hyoung Oh

Former Ph.D. student
Now at Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Korea

Dr. Jin-Hyon Lee

Former Postdoc
Now Principal Research Scientist at Samsung, Korea

Dr. Tae Eun Yim

Former Postdoc
Now Research Scientist at Korean Electronics Technology Institute (KETI), Korea

Dr. T. Ramesh

Former Postdoc
Now Assistant Professor, IIT Bombay, India

Dr. Prakash Badi

Former Postdoc
Now Research Scientist, National Aerospace Laboratory (NAL), Bangalore, India

Dr. Kyu Tae Lee

Former Postdoc
Now Assistant Professor at Seoul National Univeristy, Korea

Dr. Rajesh Tripathi

Former Ph.D. student
Now at Dupont R&D, Wilmington, Delaware, USA

Dr. Brian Ellis

Former Ph.D. student
Now Scientist at Chalk River Laboratories, Canada

Kaitlin Town

Former M.Sc. student
Now Ph. D. student at University of Ottawa, Canada

Pierre-Etienne Cabelguen

Former M.Sc. student
Now carrying out a Ph.D. at CEA, Grenoble, France