Erik Schaltz received the MSc and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from the Department of Energy, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark, in 2005 and 2010, respectively. From 2009 to 2012, he has been an Assistant Professor and since 2012, he has been an Associate Professor. Both positions also at the Department of Energy, Aalborg University. At the Department, he is the leader of the research group in E-mobility and Drives and the vice leader of the Batteries research group. He is a guest and associate editor in several journals related to batteries and e-mobility and he is also a board member of the Danish Battery Society. His research interests include the usage of power electronics, electric machines, fuel cells, batteries, ultracapacitors, etc. as power train in various applications like electric vehicles, industrial machinery, and heavy-duty systems. In addition, he is also focused on battery state-estimation, management (electric and thermal), and modelling (electric, thermal, and lifetime) of battery cells and packs.
Peter Axmann is project manager for battery materials development and is deputy head of the department ECM (Accumulators Materials Research) at ZSW, Ulm (Germany). He received his PhD from the Georg-August-University of Göttingen. He joined ZSW 1998 working on the development of cathode materials for alkaline and lithium-ion batteries and on the understanding of aging phenomena in battery cells. He conducted several projects including the whole value chain from material development to the full cell.
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Daniel received his BSc in Inorganic Chemistry and Crystallography from the University of Southern Denmark in 2008, where he worked on crystalline molecular macrocycles for the storage of hydrogen.
His Master’s project in 2010 was a collaboration between SDU, with Eivind Skou as supervisor, and DTU Risø. The subject was the transport properties of lanthanum strontium manganates for use in Solid Oxide Fuel Cells. He received his PhD degree in 2014 on the subject of medium temperature fuel cells and electrolyzers from SDU. This project was part of the larger MEDLYS project, and the work was done in close collaboration with DTU Lyngby. Currently, he holds a postdoctoral position at SDU with Dorthe Ravnsbæk as supervisor, where he works on rechargeable magnesium and lithium batteries.
Dorthe B. Ravnsbæk obtained her PhD in nanotechnology at the Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center (iNANO), Aarhus University in 2011. Her PhD work focused on synthesis and structural characterization of novel metal hydrides for hydrogen storage. In 2012 she became a post-doctoral affiliate at Department of Material Science and Engineering at MIT in the group of Prof. Yet-Ming Chiang. Here she worked on developing and utilizing novel operando diffraction techniques to investigate the phase transformation mechanism in Li-ion cathode materials.
During the winter 2014 she was appointed Assistant Professor at Department of Physics, Chemistry and Pharmacy at University of Southern Denmark. The focus of her research group is development of electrode materials for novel types of batteries and gaining fundamental insights into relations between structure, composition and electrochemical performance.
Kevin Schimschar is responsible for the sales of stationary energy storage solutions at Robert Bosch GmbH.
After graduating in business administration and engineering (Dipl.-Wirtsch.-Ing. (FH)), he started his professional career in the field of photovoltaic products at ersol Thin Film GmbH in Erfurt, Thuringia. He was responsible in particular for the development of an international customer network for thin film modules as well as for the operative order processing.
After the acquisition by Robert Bosch GmbH in 2009, he established the international sales of new products and an extended offering for photovoltaic systems. In the course of this development he took over the responsibility for the worldwide sales of inverters and storage solutions.
Don Siegel is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science & Engineering, and Applied Physics at the University of Michigan. His research targets the development of energy storage materials and lightweight alloys for applications in the transportation sector.
Prior to joining UM, he was a Technical Expert at Ford Research and Advanced Engineering. Don has co-authored more than 60 publications, delivered approximately 70 invited lectures, and has been awarded several patents related to energy storage. He is a recipient of the NSF Career Award, the SAE Teetor Educational Award, and an NAE Gilbreth Lectureship.
Prof. Siegel has been active in providing input to the Department of Energy on issues related to energy storage, having served as co-Chair of the FreedomCAR Hydrogen Storage Technical Team, a Reviewer for the Hydrogen and Vehicle Technologies Program, and as a member of the Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR) Directorate.
A physicist by training, Prof. Siegel received a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. During the 2015-2016 academic year he is a VELUX Visiting Professor at DTU Energy.
