Get ready for the event

Use the quick links below to prepare for your involvement in the Faraday Institution Early Career Researcher Conference and Training Event 2024.  

The 2022 event website is still available to view.

Tuesday 24th and Wednesday 25th March 2026
The Slate Conference Centre, University of Warwick

Archive

James Robinson a Lecturer in Advanced Propulsion based at the Advanced Propulsion Lab. He is interested in the development of high-energy propulsion systems and diagnostic techniques to improve the lifetime of electrochemical devices and is the Project Lead for the UK’s national lithium sulfur research programme, LiSTAR, which includes 9 other universities and over 60 researchers. His work particularly focusses the development of solutions, including Li-S batteries, which will find use on hard to decarbonise areas of transport including heavy vehicles and aerospace applications and on system critical measurements using an application inspired approach, to ensure developments translate to a full device or system scale and maximise the potential real world impact of the research. ...

Rhodri Jervis is an Associate Professor in Chemical Engineering working in the Electrochemical Innovation Lab, specialising in the characterisation of energy conversion and storage materials and devices using advanced X-ray techniques. He graduated from Balliol College, Oxford in Chemistry in 2008 and after a short time working for a medical research spinout in his home town of Swansea obtained his PhD in fuel cell catalysis from University College London in 2015. After a post-doctoral research position in redox flow batteries he took up a position as lecturer in Chemical Engineering in UCL in 2018. He is currently the Project Lead for the Faraday Institution project on Li ion Battery Degradation....

Jennifer joined the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Sheffield in 2023 as a Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow. She completed her PhD at University College London in 2021 working on fuel cell characterisation. After several years working on battery technologies, first through an EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellowship studying zinc-air batteries, followed by a Project Lead role on the Faraday Institution's LiSTAR project, Jennifer joined the department of Materials Science and Engineering to focus on hydrogen research. Jennifer's research interests surround the complex relationship between materials morphology, performance and degradation in electrochemical devices. Her fellowship will use 4D imaging methods, including X-ray and neutron CT, to study morphology evolution in electrolysers and will translate the...

Ian joined the Faraday Institution after six years in central government where he worked on designing and implementing innovation programmes in the energy sector. He was responsible for the government’s energy innovation programme in the Department of Energy and Climate Change and continued in the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy as Head of Disruptive Energy Technologies and Green Finance Innovation. Ian is an engineer who graduated from University of Cambridge with an M.Eng. in Manufacturing Engineering in 1993 and is now an experienced technical manager who has worked with small, medium and large corporates, academia and government. His early career was spent working on Gas Turbine engines with the Ministry of Defence before moving to project management at QinetiQ...

Dr Nicola Courtier is a Faraday Institution Research Fellow in the Department of Engineering Science at the University of Oxford. Having obtained an MMath from Oxford in 2014, Nicola moved to the University of Southampton to study for a PhD in Mathematical Sciences, supported by the CDT in New and Sustainable Photovoltaics. She was subsequently awarded an EPSRC Doctoral Prize to continue her research on charge transport models of perovskite solar cells. Nicola developed her interest in lithium-ion batteries when she joined the Faraday Institution’s Nextrode project to study the manufacture of lithium-ion battery electrodes. She is currently working on the optimisation and analysis of battery models with Prof. David Howey as part of the Multi-scale Modelling project....

Skip to content