Keynote Speaker – Faraday ECR Conference

Pam Thomas

February 12, 2024

Professor Pam Thomas FinstP Cphys became the Chief Executive Officer of the Faraday Institution in September 2020 after a decade in senior management roles at the University of Warwick that culminated in a 5-year period as a Pro Vice Chancellor (Vice President) for Research. Pam is currently also a council member of the Science Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) and a Fellow of the Clean Growth Leadership Network (CGLN). Retaining her professorial status at the University of Warwick, she chairs the Social Inclusion Committee in her non-executive capacity as an Academic Vice President. Her personal research is in the field of functional ferroelectric materials where she has published more than 160 peer-reviewed journal articles and two patents, one of which became the...

Ana Sobrido

by Emily Baird

February 12, 2024

Professor Sobrido holds a prestigious UK Research and Innovation Future Leaders Fellowship to develop alternative electrodes for redox flow batteries. In particular, she is interested in using sustainable resources such as biomass waste to replace fossil-derived compounds. Her research group uses scalable processing techniques such as electrospinning and 3D printing that enable the production of freestanding materials that can be easily inserted in energy devices, including redox flow batteries, fuel cells and electrolysers. Her group also focuses in devising new in situ characterisation methods that can provide useful insight in structure-property relationship, key for the optimisation of electrochemical systems. She sits in the committee of the UK Redox Flow Battery Network, is an active member of STFC Battery Steering Committee...