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After that, he went on to work as a Miller Postdoctoral Fellow at University of California, Berkeley. In 2005 he became an Assistant Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Stanford University. In 2010 he was promoted with tenure. His current research is on nanomaterials for energy storage, photovotalics, topological insulators, biology and environment. He has founded three companies to commercialize technologies from his group: Amprius Inc., 4C Air Inc. and EEnovate Technology Inc. He is a Fellow of Materials Research Society, a Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry and a Fellow of Electrochemical Society. He is an Associate Editor of Nano Letters. He is a Co-Director of the Bay Area Photovoltaic Consortium and a Co-Director of Battery 500 Consortium. He is a highly proliferate materials scientist and has published more than 430 research papers. In 2014, he was ranked NO.1 in Materials Science by Thomson Reuters as “The World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds”. His selected awards include: Blavatnik National Laureate (2017), MRS Kavli Distinguished Lectureship in Nanoscience (2015), the Sloan Research Fellowship (2010), KAUST Investigator Award (2008), ONR Young Investigator Award (2008), Technology Review World Top Young Innovator Award (2004).

He received his Ph.D. in chemistry (1995) from the Belarusian State University in Minsk (Belarus), and worked as a staff scientist at the University of Hamburg (Germany) from 1995 to 2002. From 2002–2009 he was a lead staff scientist at the University of Munich (Germany), where he completed his habilitation in experimental physics. His research focuses on synthesis, assembly and optical spectroscopy of colloidal semiconductor and metal nanocrystals and their hybrid structures, and their use for optoelectronic applications.

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He studies the ultimate limits of miniaturization, developing new tools and methods for atomic-resolution and spectroscopic imaging and chemical patterning. He applies these advances in other areas including neuroscience, microbiome studies, and high-throughput cell transfection. He has won awards in science, engineering, teaching, publishing, and communications. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, AAAS, ACS, AIMBE, APS, AVS, and Canadian Academy of Engineering. He is the founding and current editor-in-chief of ACS Nano.

In these fields, he has published more than 290 research articles/book chapters/patents (Google Scholar: citations > 32,000 with h-index of 89) and been recognized as one of Highly Cited Researchers each year for 2014-2018 (by Thomson Reuters, Clarivate Analyatics) in the field of pharmacology. He is an elected fellow of AIBME, AAPS, and CRS. He is currently interested in oral nanoparticle absorption and combinatory gene therapy of metabolic diseases. He is serving on Journal of Controlled Release as an Associate Editor in America.

A Fellow of American Ceramic Society (1991) receiving its Ross Coffin Purdy Award (1994), Edward C. Henry Award (1999) and Sosman Award (2006), he has 100 papers in the Journal of the American Ceramic Society on nano crystal transformations, transformation plasticity,  superplasticity, fracture, fatigue, grain growth and sintering. An author with an h-index of 63 holding 16 patents, he currently conducts nanotechnology research on thin film devices, electrochemical energy devices and drug delivery.

He is one of the leading chemists in inorganic nanomaterials chemistry and nanomedicine. He has been recognized by awards such as U. of Illinois Sheth Alumni Award (2018), Ho-Am Prize (2015), KCS Academic Achievement Award (2013), POSCO ChungAm Prize (2012), Inchon Prize (2010). Dr. Cheon also received recognition as one of the “World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds” by Reuters and serves as Senior Editor for ACS Accounts of Chemical Research.

He received his M.S. degree in 2001 in Electrical Engineering, M.S. degree in Management Science and Engineering in 2005 and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering 2005, all from Stanford University. Dr.Demirci creates technologies to manipulate cells to enable solutions for real world problems in medicine including applications in infectious disease and cancer diagnostics, cell encapsulation in nanoliter droplets for cryobiology, and bottom up tissue engineering. His research interests;involve;applications of microfluidics, nanoscale technologies and acoustics in medicine, especially:portable, inexpensive, disposable viral load technology platforms for HIV in resource-constrained settings for global health problems; 3-D bioprinting and tissue models including 3-D cancer and neural cultures. Dr. Demirci has published 120 peer reviewed publications in journals including PNAS, Advanced Materials, Nature Communications, Small, Trends in Biotechnology, over 150 conference abstracts and proceedings, 10 book chapters, and four edited books. His work was highlighted in Wired Magazine, Nature Photonics, Nature Medicine, MIT Technology Review Magazine, Reuters Health News, Science Daily, and Science News. His scientific work has been recognized by numerous national and international awards including the NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, and the IEEE-EMBS Early Career Achievement Award. He was selected as one of the world’s top 35 young innovators under the age of 35 (TR-35) by the MIT Technology Review. In 2004, he led a team that won the Stanford University Entrepreneur’s Challenge and Global Start-up Competition in Singapore. His patents have been translated in to multiple start-up companies including DxNOW, Koek Biotech and some the technologies developed in his lab are clinically available across the globe

The main research activities focus on the development and applications of the surface sensitive technique, scanning probe microscopy (SPM) to study biomolecular nanostructures as well as novel functional nanomaterials for biological applications, etc. MD has published more than 260 peer-reviewed SCI papers in international journals such as Nature, Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Chemistry, Nature Communications, PNAS, Angewandte Chemie, Nano Letters, JACS, Advanced Materials, ACS NANO, Chemical Society Review, Accounts of Chemical Research, Nano Today etc.  MD also serve as a board member or guest editors for many international peer review journals and serve reviewers for several scientific journals such as the American Physics Society (APS, USA), the American Chemical Society (ACS, USA), the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC, UK), and the Institute of Physics (IOP, UK), Nature group (UK), Science AAAS (USA) and referee for EU, UK, HK, US etc. different National Research Councils MD is also member of several research societies (MRS, ACS, AVS, Biophysics, AAAS), and Fellow of  Royal Society of Chemistry, UK.

He received his B.S in applied chemistry and M.S. degree in polymer chemistry and physics from Fudan University, and completed his PhD thesis at Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in 2005. Before joining NTU in 2009, he had his postdoctoral training at the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Emory University and Georgia Institute of Technology. His current research focuses on understanding surface/interface properties of micro- and nano-structures for tailored optical, electronic, magnetic, and catalytic properties, and exploring their biomedical and environmental applications.

El-Sherbiny earned his PhD in Smart drug delivery from Massey University, New Zealand in 2007. He was awarded many awards including Gold Medal from 46^th International Exhibition of Innovations (Geneva, 2018), the prestigeous Shouman Award in Nanotechnology, and the State Incentive Award in Science, and he was honored as distinguished inventor by Egyptain President and many countries including France, Switzerland, South Korea, Malaysia, Romania, and Cooperation Council of Gulf States. He is a named inventor on 25 patents in US, UK, Europe and Egypt.

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From 1985-1993 he was heading the Ultrathin Organic Films’ project with BASF AG, Germany, before he became in 1993 a Full Professor and Director of the Physical Institute of the University of Münster. He is the founder of the Center for nanotechnology (CeNTech) in Münster and its scientific director since 1993. Since 2017 he is the director of the Herbert Gleiter Institute (HGI) at NJUST, Nanjing. His research focuses on nanoscale science and nanotechnology, ranging from scanning probe microscopy to self-organized nanostructure fabrication, and nano-bio systems documented in more than 600 peer reviewed publications and over 35 patents. He was the speaker of the first large scale collaborative research project, TRR 61, jointly funded by DFG and NSFC. H. Fuchs is a co-founder of two start-up companies and an elected member of the German National Academy of Science ‘Leopoldina’, the German National Academy of Science and Engineering 'acatech', and 'TWAS'.

Homepage: http://www.uni-muenster.de/Physik/PI/Fuchs and http://www.centech.de

From 1996 to 2000, she had a visiting researcher position in the United States, in Princeton University and in the mixed CNRS-Rhodia Laboratory in Cranbury (NJ, USA). In 1997 she received a Bronze Medal from CNRS for her work on the in situ hydrothermal NMR investigation of the formation of microporous materials. In 2001, she moved to the Institute Charles Gerhardt in Montpellier. She has published more than 90 papers in international peer-reviewed journals and filed 10 patents.  Her main interest is the controlled synthesis of hybrid nanomaterials mediated by the use of polymers. She developed an original synthesis route of polymer-stabilized colloidal particles of metal hydroxides, oxides, phosphates and sulfides by using double-hydrophilic block copolymers. Her present interests mainly focus on the preparation and the control of the properties of functional mesoporous silica and hierarchically porous aluminosilicates, such as mesoporous zeolites, for biomedical and catalytical applications. Her research group also works on the self-assembly processes of stimuli-responsive hydrophilic polymers and of hybrid polymer-inorganic systems, especially polyion complex micelles. Her group uses these original micelles for the formation of a new family of mesoporous materials whose polymer porogens can be recovered in water and recycled, and for directly bringing functionalities in the porous structure.

In 2010, he obtained Ph.D. in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at UCLA. He was a postdoctoral associate at MIT and Harvard Medical School during 2010 to 2012. Dr. Gu’s group studies controlled drug delivery, bio-inspired materials and nanobiotechnology. He serves as an Associate Editor for Nano Research and inaugural Chair for the Bioinspired and Biomimetic Drug Delivery (BBDD) Focus Group of CRS.

From 1985 until 1992 he had different positions in the industry. In 1992 he was appointed as professor at the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Utrecht. From 1996 on he is head of the Pharmaceutics division. At present he is the head of the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Utrecht University. His main research interests are in the field of polymeric drug delivery systems. He published over 580 papers and book chapters and is the inventor of 20 patents.

Some recent examples include carbon based materials, clay minerals, and new colloidal materials for energy storage, water treatments and functional coatings. Through teaching, they aim to develop intuition, unlock creativity and bring the best out of students and themselves. He is included in the lists of Highly Cited Researchers in Chemistry and Most Cited Researchers in Materials Science and Engineering, and a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship, the JSPS Fellowship from Japan and the Humboldt Research Award from Germany.

In 2014, he was promoted to full professor at the faculty of medicine at RWTH Aachen. He has published over 150 research articles and reviews, and has received several scholarships and award. He is associate editor for Europe for the Journal of Controlled Release. His primary research interests include drug targeting to tumors, image-guided drug delivery and tumor-targeted combination therapies.

She moved to the Institute of Process Engineering, CAS as a full professor (2001), and was appointed as Vice Director of Institute of Process Engineering (2005), Director of State key Laboratory of Biochemical Engineering (2012). She has won the NSFC Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, Innovation Team Scholar. Her research interests include preparation of functional nano/microparticles and biomedical and biological applications.

She has published 380 papers, such as Nature Mater, Nature Commun, JACS, Adv Mater, edited/wrote 12 books, has 90 patents authorized.

She has received Outstanding Contribution Award of YABEC from AFOB, the Second Prize of National Technological Invention Award, TWAS-TWOWS-SCOUPS Regional Young Women Researcher Award.

He was then Scientist at the National Nanotechnology Lab in Lecce (Italy) and then he moved to the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), Genova (Italy) in 2009 as Director of the Nanochemistry Department. Since 2010, he has also been part-time Professor at TU Delft (The Netherlands). Currently, he is also Deputy Director of IIT for the Materials and Nanotechnology programs at IIT. His re-search interests include the synthesis and assembly of colloidal nanocrystals, the study (including modeling) of structural, chemical and surface transformations in nanoscale materials, and their applications in energy, photonics, and electronics. He currently teaches theoretical chemistry and electronic structure of solids at the University of Genova.

The research on new biomaterials for application in neurosciences includes the development of new polymers for the design of vectors for efficient nucleic acid delivery to neurons and preparation of nerve grafts for spinal cord injury treatment.

APPêgo has been appointed the Scientific Director of the Bioimaging Centre for Biomaterials and Regenerative Therapies of INEB/i3S and is an Associate Editor of Biomaterials.

Homepage: https://www.i3s.up.pt/nanobiomaterials-for-targeted-therapies

From 2015, he joined CIC biomaGUNE, Spain as Ikerbasque Research Professor. He spent sabbatical terms at Yale University and at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He was the recipient of an ERC Advanced Research Grant in 2008, became a Member of Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in 2010, and Istituto Veneto di Scienze Lettere ed Arti in 2018.

His research focuses on the synthesis new functional materials, with applications in spinal cord repair, the splitting of water, and the reduction of carbon dioxide into useful chemicals.

Homepage: units.it/prato; http://personal.cicbiomagune.es/mprato/index.php

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To September 2018, he has co-authored of over 232 peer-reviewed publications, monographies and book chapters, with more than 15.000 citations (>8400 in the last 5 years) and an h-index of 56. Prof. Puntes completed his undergraduate studies in chemical engineering and materials science at the Université Louis Pasteur Strasbourg (France) and at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). In 1998, he earned his PhD in physics from the Universitat de Barcelona (UB), working with Prof. Xavier Batlle and Prof. Amilcar Labarta on giant magnetoresistance in granular alloys. He then spent over three years at the University of California, Berkeley (USA) and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL, USA) in the groups led by Prof. Paul Alivisatos and Prof. Kannan Krishnan, working on the synthesis and control of nanostructures. In 2003 he returned to Catalonia with a Ramón y Cajal research position at the UB. In 2005 he obtained an ICREA Professorship at the then ICN (now ICN2) to create the Inorganic Nanoparticles Group, which he currently leads.

He has co-authored more than 360 papers in refereed journals (over 45,000 citations with h-index 108).He has filed several patents and has attracted more than 12.0 million dollars in research grants from industrial partners and Australian Research Council (ARC).

Prof. Qiao was honoured with a prestigious ARC Australian Laureate Fellow (2017), ExxonMobil Award (2016), ARC Discovery Outstanding Researcher Award (DORA, 2013) and an Emerging Researcher Award (2013, ENFL Division of the American Chemical Society). He has also been awarded an ARC ARF Fellowship and an ARC APD Fellowship.

Prof. Qiao is a Fellow of Institution of Chemical Engineers (FIChemE), a Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) and a Fellow of Royal Australian Chemical Institute (FRACI). He is currently an Associate Editor of Journal of Materials Chemistry A, and is a Thomson Reuters/Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher (Chemistry, Materials Science).

He did a large part of his career at the CNRS where he was Director of Research and he  was also Professor at l'Ecole Polytechnique. He is specialised in the field of nanochemistry of nanostructured porous and non-porous transition metal oxide based gels and porous and non-porous hybrid organic inorganic materials shaped as monoliths, microspheres and films. He also studies the properties of hybrids and inorganic nanomaterials looking for applications in the domains of energy, environment, biomaterials and health.

For more information about CS  please visit: http://www.college-de-france.fr/site/en-clement-sanchez/biography.htm

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He returned to China by the end of 1987, and served as associate professor and later full professor in 1991 at the Department of Chemistry of Xiamen University till now.

The main research interests of Prof. Sun include Electrocatalysis, Electrochemical Surface Science, Spectroelectrochemistry, Nanomaterials and Chemical power sources. He has published up to now 530 SCI papers with peer citation over 20,000, obtained 14 innovation patents, co-authored 2 books entitled respectively “In-Situ Spectroscopic Studies of Adsorption at the Electrode and Electrocatalysis” (Elsevier, 2007) and “Electrocatalysis” (Chinese Chemical Engineering Press, 2014), and contributed by invitation 20 chapters to 18 scientific books.

Prof. Sun has been elected member of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2015, fellow of International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE) in 2007, and fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in 2005. He has been awarded the “Brian Conway Prize” from International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE), “Distinguished Contribution Award” from the Chinese Society of Electrochemistry, “Le prix Franco-Chinois 2014-2015” jointly from Société Chimique de France (SCF) and Chinese Chemical Society (CCS), and the State Natural Science Award (2nd Degree) of China. He is now editorial board member of Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Functional Materials Letters, ACS Energy Letters, Electrochemical Energy Review, National Science Review and Journal of Solid State Electrochemistry, serving as associate editor to Electrochimica Acta, Spectral Analysis and Spectroscopy, Chinese Journal of Chemical Education, Acta Chimica Sinica, and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Electrochemistry.

In 2005, he returned to Brown as a tenured Associate Professor and was promoted to full Professor in 2007. He is now the Vernon K. Krieble Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Engineering, co-Director of the Institute of Molecular and Nanoscale Innovation of Brown University, Associated Editor of the journal Nanoscale, Nanoscale Advances, and the Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. His main research interests are in chemical synthesis and self-assembly of nanoparticles for catalytic, magnetic and biomedical applications.

At the Hydro-Quebec Research Institute (IREQ) he has investigated the structural and physical properties of a variety of metastable and nanostructured materials. Over the years, he worked in hydrogen electrocatalysis, photohydrolysis, fuel cells, electrical contacts, electrodeposition, high energy mechanical milling, nanostructured characterization at high atomic resolution, hydrogen storage and battery materials. He is presently the group leader for the Materials Characterization Laboratory and for Hydrogen Research at CETEES (Hydro-Quebec Center of Excellence for Transportation Electrification and Energy Storage). Hydro-Quebec characterization laboratory is one of the best industrial materials characterization laboratory in Canada with a large number of state-of-the-art equipments that includes a dedicated Scanning Transmission Electron Microscope (STEM), with an information limit near 50 pm, and the first “cold-field emitter” Environmental 300 kV TEM (E-TEM).

He has co-authored more than 170 peer reviewed papers that have been cited nearly 6000 times and has contributed to three patents. He has written four book chapters and edited one conference proceeding. He is a member of a number of international advisory committee. He has co-chaired six international meetings related to nanostructured materials as well as the first symposium on "Nanocrystalline Solids" at the March APS meeting in 1991.

In 2008 he was elected fellow of the American Physical Society for his work on nanostructured materials.

His research interests concentrate on developing and understanding hierarchical self-assembly concepts inside and outside equilibrium, and on using them to create Active, Adaptive and Autonomous Bioinspired Material Systems - A3BMS.

He graduated from Bayreuth University in Germany in 2008 with a Ph.D. on Janus particles and pursued postdoctoral studies with a focus on biomimetic hybrid materials at Aalto University (Helsinki, Finland). After establishing his independent research group at the DWI – Leibniz Institute for Interactive Materials in Aachen in 2011, he was appointed to his present position in Freiburg in 2016.

A. Walther has published ca. 130 papers (h-index 50; > 8800 citations) and has recently been awarded the Bayer Early Excellence in Science Award (for Materials), the Reimund Stadler Young Investigator Award of the German Chemical Society, a BMBF NanoMatFutur Research Group, an ERC Starting Grant, as well as the Hanwha-Total IUPAC Young Scientist Award awarded at the biannual IUPAC World Polymer Congress 2018.

He is a fellow of both the Freiburg (FRIAS) as well as the Strasbourg Institute for Advanced Studies.

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Prior to joining Yale in 2014, he was a Philomathia Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Chemistry at University of California, Berkeley. He received his Ph.D. in chemistry from Stanford University in 2012 and B.S. in chemistry from Peking University in 2007. His research aims to understand the structures and properties of materials at solid/liquid interfaces under electrochemical conditions and to establish design principles for new and improved electrocatalyst and battery materials.

Homepage: https://wanglab.yale.edu/

From 2006 to 2012, he worked as a research fellow at University of Queensland, Australia and during 2010-2011, he worked at UCLA as a visiting scholar. He has published over 140 SCI articles with a citation of > 4400 times and the H index is 39. His research interest focuses on the structures and properties of environmental catalysts (metal nanoparticles/metal oxides) by in-situ environmental (heating, gas) TEM.

Now he is also an Associate Director in the Center for Nanoparticle Research at Institute of Basic Science. His research has focused on electrochemistry, photoelectrochemistry and nanotechnology in the area of fuel cells, battery, and other energy conversion and storage. He is a Fellow of the Korean Academy of Science and Technology. He has published more than 410 technical papers in the area of electrochemical technology and energy conversion.

Homepage: http://peel.snu.ac.kr/

He was educated and trained at Caltech, MIT, and UC Santa Barbara. He is head of the Catalysis and Nanomaterials Laboratory (120+ publications, 20+ pending/issued patents, 300+ presentations, Google scholar h-index of 48, and 10K+ citations, which tackles technical energy and sustainability issues through chemical engineering and materials chemistry approaches. He has received numerous honors over the years, including the MIT TR35 Young Innovator Award, the North American Catalysis Society/Southwest Catalysis Society Excellence in Applied Catalysis Award, and the 2018 American Chemical Society Greater Houston Section Joe W. Hightower Award.

He received his Bachelor degree (2003), Master degree (2004), and Ph.D. (2007) from Waseda University, Japan. He concurrently serves as an honorary group leader of NIMS, a visiting/honorary professor at several universities, and an associate editor of Journal of Materials Chemistry A published by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC). He has published more than 600 papers in international refereed journals with > 30,000 citations (h-index > 80). He is selected as one of the Highly-Cited Researchers in Chemistry in 2016, 2017 and 2018.

He received his Ph.D. degree from University of Toronto and did his postdoctoral research at Harvard University. Dr. Yang is a recipient of NSERC Canada Doctoral Prize, NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship, and US National Science Foundation CAREER Award. He is an elected Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).  He has so far given 170+ invited talks, including 29 plenary, keynote and name lectures (by 10/2018). His research interests include formation of nanocrystals, catalysis, electrocatalysis, and applications of nanomaterials for energy, sustainability, and biotechnology.

Homepage: http://faculty.scs.illinois.edu/hyang/

Before starting his independent research at Nankai University in March 2009, he was a postdoctoral fellow with Prof. Matthew Bogyo at Stanford Medical School. His research interests focus on biomedical applications of peptide-based hydrogels including hydrogels of drug-peptide amphiphiles for drug delivery, hydrogels of bioactive peptides for tissue engineering, and hydrogels as vaccine adjuvants, etc. He has published around 100 corresponding authored papers in the field of peptide self-assembly. He obtained the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars from National Natural Science Foundation of China in 2018.

Lab homepage: http://yang-lab.org

He was appointed as a full professor in 2002 and the Cheung Kong Professorship in 2006. He serves as the Director of the Division of Nanomaterials and Chemistry, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale, and Deputy Director of High Magnetic Field Laboratory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.He is a senior editor for Langmuir and an associate editor for Sci. China Mater., EnergyChem and Research, and on the editorial board or advisory board of journals Accounts of Chemical Research, Chemistry of Materials, Chemical Science, Materials Horizons, Nano Research, Matter, Triends in Chemistry, and ChemNanoMat. He received the Roy-Somiya Medal of ISHA and Chem. Soc. Rev Emerging Investigator Award. His research interests include bio-inspired synthesis of inorganic nanostructures, self-assembly of nanoscale building blocks, nanocomposites, their related properties and applications. His research work has been cited more than 40,000 citations (H index 112), named as a Highly Cited Researcher from 2014 to 2018.

As a Chemist and a Research Director, his work contributes to the development of lithium-ion  battery  materials,  making Hydro-Québec   the   first   company worldwide to use lithium iron phosphate in  a  cathode  and  to  develop  natural graphite anodes and nanotitanates. His  most  recent  innovations,  based  on collaboration with universities, research centers and companies is paving the way towards the next generation of batteries for electric vehicles and job creation in the industry.

His work earned him rewards from the Electric  Research  Exchange  (2008),  the International  Battery  Association  (2010 and  2017) and ECS. ECS has rewarded Karim Zaghib with the Energy Technology  Division  Award  (2009), the Battery Division Technology Award (2013) and the ECS Fellow title (2011). M.  Zaghib  is  a  co-inventor  in  over  550 patents.  He  is  also the author of 393 scientific publications and editor/co-editor of nearly  20  books, including Lithium Batteries: Science and Technology (2016), High Performance of Li-Ion  and  Li-Polymer  Batteries  (2004) and Lithium and Li-ion Batteries (2003). M. Zaghib holds a master (1987) and a doctorate  (1990)  in  Electrochemistry from the Institut national polytechnique de  Grenoble,  in  France.  From  1990  to 1992, he pursued post-doctoral research funded  by  Saft,  a  worldwide  leader  in High Tech batteries, and the Directorate General  of  Armaments  of  Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. In  2002,  M.  Zaghib  received  the authorization  to  direct  research  in material sciences [HDR] from Pierre-et-Marie-Curie University in France.

He published over 560 SCI-indexed articles, SCI cited over 20000 times without self-citation, with an H index of 72. He found 2 new energy materials, and published their standard powder diffraction spectra. He achieved 77 Chinese Patents of invention, 1 US Patent, and 2 Japanese Patents. He also achieved 8 awards at the national, provincial, or ministerial levels. He led the National Program on Key Basic Research Project (973 Program) as the chief scientist 2 times. He also serves as the member of the advisory board of NPG Asia Materials, the Adjunct Professor of the national institute for materials science (NIMS) of Japan, and a member of the strategic Steering Committee of the hydrogen energy and fuel cell industry innovation strategy alliance of China.