ABOUT
Robert Timms is a Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer at Ionworks and a core developer of the open-source battery modelling package PyBaMM. He is passionate about open science and delivering real-world impact from research through commercial activity. Before founding Ionworks, Robert was a Postdoctoral Research Assistant at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, where his research focused on developing fast and accurate models for the coupled electrochemical-thermal-mechanical behaviour of Li-ion cells. This research was conducted within the Multi-Scale Modelling Fast Start Project of the Faraday Institution. Robert gained his PhD from the University of East Anglia in 2018, where he worked on problems related to the safe handling of energetic materials.