ABOUT
Emma Palin is a Senior Electrochemistry Manager at Vertical Aerospace, where she leads the engineering strategy and qualification for battery cells for electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. Her responsibilities include leading sourcing, systems engineering, testing and modelling to optimise performance, lifetime and safety of cells for the battery system. As part of her work at Vertical, Emma also serves as a document editor for EUROCAE WG-112, contributing to international standards for aerospace battery systems. Prior to this role, she worked at Dyson, developing and characterising thin-film solid-state battery materials for solid state cell development.
Emma holds a PhD in Materials Chemistry from the University of Leicester, where her research focused on electrochemical and neutron reflectivity techniques for studying electrodeposition and dissolution processes of printed circuit board (PCB) metal systems. Her publications have focused on the study of materials, electrochemical processes and sustainable process chemistry and recent work in EES Batteries (2025) in collaboration with UCL examines battery cell selection for electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) vehicles.