Guest Speaker: Montse Casas-Cabanas
Title: Exploiting Defects in the Design of Battery Materials
Montse Casas-Cabanas is an Ikerbasque Research Professor and Scientific Director of the Electrochemical Energy Storage Area at CIC energiGUNE (Basque Country, Spain). Her work focuses on developing next-generation battery chemistries and understanding energy storage phenomena using a multidisciplinary approach, particularly crystal chemistry. She is recognized for pioneering FAULTS software, widely used for studying structural defects and their impact on electrochemical performance. She is actively involved in education and collaboration efforts through the i-MESC Erasmus Mundus program, the Alistore-ERI network, and the Battery 2030+ initiative. Montse has held leadership roles in European battery-focused organizations, such as the Batteries European Partnership Association (BEPA), where she served as a Technical Advisor for the “Advanced Materials and Manufacturing” group, and more recently as the Technical Leader for the “New Emerging Technologies” group in the Batteries Europe platform. In 2021, she received the Young Researcher Award from the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry for her innovative contributions.
Agenda, CET
15:30 -15:35 Intro TBD
15:35- 16:30 Presentation “Exploiting Defects in the Design of Battery Materials” Montse Casas-Cabanas
16:30- 16:50 Q&A and Summary TBD