Horizons Journal Club: Energy Storage & Conversion

Bohayra is a senior researcher at Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany. His research area is related to the multiscale modeling, materials and systems for energy storage/conversion and machine learning. Prior to joining Leibniz Universität he accomplished 6 years of postdoctoral research in Bauhaus-Universität Weimar and Technische Universität Dresden, respectively. He holds a PhD since 2013 from University of Strasbourg in collaboration with Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology on the multiscale modeling of thermal and mechanical properties of nanostructured materials and polymer nanocomposites. His Bachelor and MSc studies are related to mechanical/manufacturing engineering, graduated in 2005 and 2008, respectively.

Fei Du is the professor of Condensed Matter Physics, Vice dean of College of Physics, Director of Key Laboratory of Physics and Technology for Advanced Batteries (Ministry of Education) at Jilin University. He received his Ph. D in Materials Physics and Chemistry from Jilin University in 2008, and then joined College of Physics at Jilin University as a lecturer. He was promoted to the associate professor in 2010 and full professor in 2015. During 2011-2013, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Solid State Physics, the University of Tokyo. His research interest includes rational design of key electrode materials for sodium-ion, potassium-ion and aqueous rechargeable batteries; structural phase transition, energy storage mechanism, solid state electrolyte and all-solid-state batteries. So far, he has coauthored more than 150+ peer-reviewed papers in high-impact journals, such as Nature Materials, Nature Communications, Physical Review Letters, Angew Chem. Int. Ed., Advanced Energy Materials, etc. In 2018, he has won the prize of “Tang’ao’qing Young scholar” and “Outstanding Reviewer of Journal of Materials Chemistry A”.