Mr. Yoshio Nishi is retired senior vice president and CTO of the Sony Corporation. He graduated in 1966 from the Faculty of Applied Chemistry of the Department of Technology at Keio University in Tokyo and immediately joined Sony, where he rose through the ranks to become corporate research fellow, vice president, and president of the company’s materials laboratories. He engaged in research and development on fuel cells, materials for electroacoustic transducers, and electrochemical cells with nonaqueous electrolytes. In 1991 his team succeeded in the commercialization of the first lithium-ion secondary batteries (LIB). In 1994 he received technical awards from the Electrochemical Societies of both Japan and the United States in recognition of his contributions to LIB technology. He also received the Kato Memorial Award from Kato Foundation for Promotion of Science (Japan) (1998) and the Ichimura Award from The New Technology Development Foundation (Japan) (2000) in recognition of his contributions to LIB technology and the Technical Award from the Japan Society for Biotechnology and Agrochemistry (1998). Mr. Yoshio Nishi in also the honorable recipients of 2014 Charles Stark Draper Prize which is recognized as one of the world's preeminent awards for engineering achievement.
Michel Armand has covered during his career several theoretical concepts and practical application in the field of energy-related electrochemistry: electrode materials, inorganic or organic and he ushered the concept of intercalation compounds (1972) and of the sulfur/sulfide redox couple; introduction of the polymer electrolytes for battery application (1978), followed by the introduction of new families highly conductive salts (perfluoroimides like TFSI and FSI) for liquid and polymer electrolytes. Present activities include the study and optimisation of production of carbon-coated Lithium-Iron Phosphate (LiFePO4); new solvating polymers, and techniques to obtain cross-linked networks; Hückel stabilised negative charges. More recently, the use of such anions has resulted in significant advances in the field of ionic liquids. Recent developments include the transition metal fluorosulfates LiFeSO4F as improvements over phosphate positive electrodes.
Dr. Khalil Amine is a Senior Fellow Scientist and the Manager of the Advanced Lithium Battery Technology group at Argonne National Laboratory, where he is responsible for directing the research and development of advanced materials and battery systems for HEV, PHEV, EV, satellite, military and medical applications. Dr. Khalil currently serves as an Advisor to the U.S. National Research consul on battery related technologies. He was the founder and lead organizer and chair of the International Conference on Advanced Lithium Batteries for Automotive Applications. Among his many awards, Dr. Khalil is a 2003 recipient of Scientific America’s Top Worldwide Research 50 Research Award, a 2009 recipient of the US Federal Laboratory Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer, and is the three-time recipient of the R&D 100 Award. In 2010, he was awarded the ECS Battery Technology award and the International Battery Association award. He holds or has filed over 120 patents, patent applications and has over 254 publications. From 1998-2008, Dr. Khalil was the most cited scientist in the world in the field battery technology.
Christophe has been joining AVICENNE 20 years ago, three of which he spent living in Japan for making analysis on the Electronic, Mobile & Japanese battery market. Based upon his large experience in marketing, strategy analysis, technology and financial studies for the battery and power management fields, Christophe is publishing various regular market analysis and surveys such as the “The rechargeable battery market 2013-2025”. Christophe has been appointed Director of AVICENNE ENERGY and he’s the founder & chairman of the Batteries congress in France since 1999.
Joe has been working in the lithium industry for the last 24 years, 11 of them he spent in Asia (China and Japan). For most of that time he was working for FMC Lithium. During his career with FMC he was also President of Japanese based Joint Venture Companies and the Representative Director and President of FMC Lithium’s WOFE in China – FMC Zhangjiagang Specialty Chemicals Limited. Since he left FMC in October, 2012 he runs his own company which provides advisory and consulting services to a variety of companies who are engaged in the lithium business on five continents.
As CEO and holder of various leadership positions, Luka acquired deep expertise in strategy, finance, and law. In 2007 Luka founded the revolutionary company Simbol Materials, a company which developed novel extraction processes to produce lithium, manganese and zinc from geothermal brines. Until 2013, Luka managed Simbol Materials as President & Chief Executive Officer. Now, Luka is sharing his expertise as Board member of the companies NuMat Technologies, Inc. and DryLet, LLC and he is actively engaged in the acquisition of manufacturing companies in South Eastern Europe. Luka speaks two languages and is holding a M.B.A of the Rice University in Houston, a Master of Laws (LL.M.) in International Economic Law from the University of Houston Law Center and a Juris Doctor (J.D.) of the South Texas College of Law (and has been admitted to the State Bar of Texas).
A world renowned inventor, Dr Yuan Gao has over 20 years of experience in the complete supply chain from lithium extraction to lithium-ion batteries. One of his inventions, the Ti/Mg technology, enables high voltage lithium-ion batteries and is used in a vast majority of small portable electronics such as smart phones and tablets.
Dr Yuan Gao has just joined Pulead as its Vice Chairman and CTO, having served as a Vice President at Molycorp, and Global Marketing Director and Technology Manager, as well as other management positions at FMC.
Christophe has been joining AVICENNE 20 years ago, three of which he spent living in Japan for making analysis on the Electronic, Mobile & Japanese battery market. Based upon his large experience in marketing, strategy analysis, technology and financial studies for the battery and power management fields, Christophe is publishing various regular market analysis and surveys such as the “The rechargeable battery market 2013-2025”. Christophe has been appointed Director of AVICENNE ENERGY and he’s the founder & chairman of the Batteries congress in France since 1999.
CTO – Celgard LLC
Sr. Fellow and Council Chairman – Polypore International Inc (Parent Company).
Chairman, IEEE Cell Sub-Group (P1625)
2010-current, Honor of “John ZHANG Energy Prize”, Univ. NCC
2010-current, Chairman and Organizer of Lithium Battery International Summit (www.LBIS.net)
Honor Professor: Tsinghua U. (#29 in the world); Xiamen U. (Best in E-chem of Asia)
STAR Lecturer --- United Nations
Chairman and Leader in various battery safety committees around the world
John is widely recognized as the leading authority on Li-ion batteries safety and separators .Throughout his career, he chaired more than 50 international conferences and delivered more than 50 invited plenary speeches at various international conferences. Furthermore, as a member of the world’s largest professional association for advancement of technology (IEEE), John leads and helps to establish Li-ion battery industry standards (P1625, P1725 and CTIA).
John made his mark in the industry by having invented the Ceramic Coated Separator, patent-registered under the Patent-No.: US 6, 432, 586. (4/2000)
Furthermore, he published more than 100 patents, papers and books, including the first ceramic coating separator patent (US 6, 432, 586) and some of the most cited papers (Chem. Reviews, 2004 and Li-ion safety papers 2006-now) in the industry.
Joe has been working in the lithium industry for the last 24 years, 11 of them he spent in Asia (China and Japan). For most of that time he was working for FMC Lithium. During his career with FMC he was also President of Japanese based Joint Venture Companies and the Representative Director and President of FMC Lithium’s WOFE in China – FMC Zhangjiagang Specialty Chemicals Limited. Since he left FMC in October, 2012 he runs his own company which provides advisory and consulting services to a variety of companies who are engaged in the lithium business on five continents.
Prof. Dr. Shi-Gang Sun
Prof. Dr. Shi-Gang Sun received his B.S. (1982) from Xiamen University, China, and Doctorat d’Etat (Docteur ès Sciences Physiques, 1986) from Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI), France. After one year post-doctoral research in the Laboratoire d’Electrochimie Interfaciale du CNRS, France, he returned to China by the end of 1987, and served as an associate professor and later full professor in 1991 at the Department of Chemistry of Xiamen University till now. His research interests include electrocatalysis, spectroelectrochemistry and chemical power sources. He is currently president-elect of Chinese Electrochemical Society, Fellow of International Society of Electrochemistry and Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry. He serves as editorial board member of J. Electroanal. Chem., Funct. Mater. Lett., Int. J. Anal. Chem., Appl. Chem., and associate editor for J. Electrochem., Acta Phys-Chim. Sin., and Spectr. Anal. Spectr.
Awards:
- Brian Conway Prize for Physical Electrochemistry, ISE, 2010
- Award of distinguished contribution in electrochemistry, CSE, 2009
- 1st Degree Award in Natural Science,
- Ministry of Education, China, 2008
- 1st Degree Award of State Excellence in Education, China, 2001
- 2nd degree award of Advances in Science and Technology”, State Education Commission of China, 1996
- National “Gold Ox” award of State Key laboratories of China, 1994
- National Award of Chinese post-doctoral science foundation, 1994
- 2nd degree ward of “Guang Hua” science and technology foundation of China, 1994
- 2nd degree award of Advances in Science and Technology”, State Education Commission of China, 1992