ABOUT
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 of the post-mortem analysis and failure diagnostics of commercial Li-ion batteries. Subsequently, Pierre worked as a senior scientist at QEERI in Qatar, where he extended his activities to the characterisation of a 250kW/500kWh field-deployed Li-ion battery, before moving to join NPL in 2021.Background in materials development for lithium-ion and sodium-ion batteries, as well as diagnostics, post-mortem analysis, and system-level battery protocols. Worked across France, Germany, Spain, and Qatar before joining NPL in 2021.