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

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ECR Conference & Training Event

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

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January 22, 2026

Dr Phoebe Allan is an Associate Professor in the School of Chemistry at the University of Birmingham (UoB). Her research focuses on materials chemistry for sustainable energy applications, including development of sustainable battery chemistries, recycling of lithium-ion batteries and remediation of nuclear waste. She completed a PhD with Professor Russell Morris FRS at the University of St Andrews in 2012, where she worked on the storage of medical gases using metal-organic frameworks. She was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in the group of Professor Clare Grey FRS from 2012 – 2013, then held a Junior Research Fellow at Gonville and Caius College, and an Oppenheimer Fellowship from the School of Physical Sciences, University of Cambridge from 2013 – 2018. Here, her research...

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January 16, 2026

Dr. Laura Allerston is Commercial Director at Smart Villages, where she leads the development of the company. Smart Villages support rural communities in Sub-Saharan Africa with clean energy access which is used as a catalyst for sustainable impact, such as agriculture advancements and water access. She has over 12 years experience in clean energy and completed her PhD at the University of Birmingham working on PEM electrocatalysts. Since graduating she has worked with circular battery projects across the world focusing on battery pack design and supporting systems to ensure the solutions can meet the requirements of the market. She has a particular interest in sustainability and circular solutions and works to build these considerations into developments across SSA.  ...

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November 12, 2025

Beatrice Browning is the Battery Recycling Technology Lead in the recycling team at Benchmark Mineral Intelligence. She holds a PhD from the University of Birmingham, giving her an in-depth technical understanding of lithium-ion battery recycling techniques. Beatrice has been working on the recycling forecast since March 2022, tracking regional advancements in battery recycling infrastructure, technologies, and policy frameworks to build up a global understanding of the lithium-ion battery recycling market....

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November 11, 2025

Pierre Kubiak is a Principal Engineer at NPL, the UK’s National Metrology Institute where he leads the battery metrology activities focusing on battery diagnostics, standardisation, and reproducibility protocols. Additionally he is chair of the BSI PEL/21 committee: secondary cells  and batteries. He has over 20 years in the battery field. He received his PhD in chemistry from Université Montpellier II (France), and then carried out post-doctoral research at the Institute for Solid State Chemistry (ICMCB) in France and at the Center for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research (ZSW) in Germany. He then worked as a staff researcher at CIC energiGUNE in Spain, where his activities focused on the development of novel positive electrode materials for Na-ion batteries as well as the management...

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October 22, 2025

Dr Xuekun Lu is a Senior Lecturer in Green Energy in the School of Engineering and Materials Science at Queen Mary University of London. He is a recent ERC Consolidator Grant Award, holds both an EPSRC Open Postdoctoral Fellowship and an EPSRC David Clarke Fellowship, and leads a research group focused on advancing next-generation high-energy-density silicon-based lithium-ion and solid state batteries through the integration of advanced manufacturing, multiscale 3D image-based modelling, multimodal operando imaging, and machine learning techniques. Before joining QMUL, he was a PDRA at UCL (2015-2022), where he contributed to the Faraday Institution’s Multiscale Modelling Project (2018-2022). He has been delivering world-leading research in energy storage and conversion, signified by 65 total publications (h-index 32, citation>3600) and 16 first-authored...

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October 15, 2025

Dr Laura Lander is a Senior Lecturer in the Engineering Department at King’s College London since 2022 and a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow. Her research focuses on the development of sustainable and resilient batteries. To this end, her group applies a multi-disciplinary research approach spanning from the design of cathode materials for next-generation batteries to life cycle assessment, techno-economic evaluations, and supply chain analyses. Laura received her PhD in 2016 from the College de France/UPMC in Paris. She subsequently moved to the University of Tokyo, where she was awarded a JSPS postdoctoral fellow. In 2019, she moved to Imperial College London as a Faraday Institution postdoctoral researcher....

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October 14, 2025

Dr Ieuan Seymour is a Lecturer in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Aberdeen since 2023 and a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow. Ieuan’s research focuses on the discovery and development of new materials for energy applications, such as batteries and fuel cells. His group uses a combination of computational and experimental materials chemistry techniques to understand the complex relationships between the structure of materials and their performance in sustainable energy devices. A key area of his current research is focusing on how to improve the sustainability of next-generation solid-state battery technology. Ieuan obtained his PhD in 2016 at the University of Cambridge in the group of Professor Dame Clare P. Grey. From 2018–2020, Ieuan was a postdoctoral researcher at...

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October 8, 2025

Mahfuz Kamal is the Founder and CEO of RecoVolt, building the intake-stage infrastructure that turns battery risk into circular value. A Newcastle University PhD whose research was supported by the Faraday Institution, and a Royal Academy of Engineering Enterprise Fellow, he specialises in battery discharging, power electronics, and end-of-life EV battery systems. His work focuses on industrial safety, EV battery recycling, and the infrastructure required to scale the battery circular economy.  ...

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October 7, 2025

Dr Gyen Ming Angel is the Managing Director of Prosemino, the first venture studio with its own chemistry labs built for climate tech. Prosemino co-founds and scales net-zero startups focused on electrochemical energy and materials science, taking them from concept through to seed investment. Its current portfolio includes Sention Technologies (advanced battery diagnostics) and Element 30 (zinc-ion batteries), alongside ventures in hydrogen, supercapacitors and methane mitigation. Balancing the roles of investor and builder, Gyen works closely with scientists and entrepreneurs to translate breakthrough research into scalable businesses. He oversees Prosemino’s innovation team, supporting portfolio companies in technical development, commercial strategy, IP, and fundraising. He is also leading the company’s expansion, including the development of new lab spaces. Prior to Prosemino, he worked...

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