Speaker 1

Jagjit Nanda, Senior Staff Scientist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Speaker Bio

Education:

• Ph.D., Solid State Chemistry and Materials Science, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, 2000.
• Postdoctoral, Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, CA USA, 2000-02.

Research and Professional Experience:

• Senior R&D Staff Member, Materials Science & Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 2009-present.
• Technical Expert, Energy Storage Materials & Nanotechnology, Research & Innovation Center, Ford Motor Co. Dearborn Michigan, 2005-09.
• Research Associate, Los Alamos National Laboratory, 2002-05.

Other Affiliations:

• Joint Faculty, Dept. of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Tennessee
• Bredesen Faculty, University of Tennessee  

Research Areas:

•  High energy density electrodes and materials for electrochemical energy storage.  
•  Electrode architectures for optimizing electrochemical transport and kinetics.
•  Synthesis and characterization of nanostructured materials using soft-matter approaches.
• Steady state and time resolved laser spectroscopy of colloidal hybrid nanostructures.   

Host

Xin Li

Contact

Nick Grall

Email

ngrall@seas.harvar.edu