B. Layla Mehdi
University of Liverpool
Biography
Dr Mehdi is currently an Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering, Associate Director of the Albert Crewe Centre for Electron Microscopy and Team Lead for Energy Storage in the RUEDI facility at the University of Liverpool.
She received her undergraduate and Master's degree in Chemistry from the University of Warsaw in Poland (2008) and her PhD in Chemistry from Miami University, USA (2013). Following her PhD, she joined the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in 2013 and 2016 was promoted to a permanent staff scientist.
Her work at PNNL involved the development of the in-situ TEM stages to study dynamic process with application to Li-ion batteries as part of Joint Centre for Energy Storage Research (JCESR) funded by US Department of Energy.
She has over nine years of experience in the development and application of in-situ methods in electron microscopy for which she has received numerous awards. These include the 2021 KIT International Excellence Fellowship, 2019 Albert Crewe Award from the Microscopy Society of America MSA for distinguished contributions to the field of microscopy and microanalysis in the physical sciences by an early career scientist, the 2015 MRS Postdoctoral Award, the 2015 Microscopy Society of America postdoctoral award, the 2014 Microscopy & Microanalysis Presidential award.
Additionally, in 2016 she received a JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship to preform Research at the Nagoya University, Japan in collaboration with Toyota, which she turned down to join the University of Liverpool.
Her primary research area is focused on Li-ion battery and Energy Storage. She is a part of the “Degradation” and “Characterization” projects funded by the Faraday Institution/EPSRC. Her research group focuses on developing advanced new microscopy methods to generate an in depth understanding of reaction kinetics at solid/liquid and solid/gas interfaces in batteries, electrocatalysis and pharmaceuticals.
RSC affiliations
Editorial board, Energy Advances