Early Career Researchers
We have created an Early Career Researchers (ECRs) forum to encourage interdisciplinary collaboration, problem solving and learning among peers who are engaged in energy storage research. Access to flexible funding, a mentoring programme, workshops, seminars, and other events, will be part of the ECRs forum to facilitate knowledge exchange, identify research gaps, and support career development.
The ECRs forum is available to PhD students, postdoctoral fellows, and junior lecturers (typically that are within 36 months of their first academic lecturing appointment in a UK university). To become a member of the ECRs forum please subscribe here.
ECR COMMITTEE
We created an ECR committee to give you the opportunity to have more control over the Supergen Network+’s resources to decide how to help the ECR community thrive and develop. ECRs from across the whole energy storage sector applied in October 2020 to be part of our new committee.
MEET OUR TEAM
Secretary
Dr Jianing Li is an Assistant Professor in Smart Energy Systems. His research interests include electricity market modelling, energy policies, smart grid, distributed energy systems, internet of things and machine learning technology.
Event Lead
Dr Ludmilla Steier is an Associate Professor of Inorganic Chemistry developing and studying atomically engineered photo- and electrocatalysts for the production of green hydrogen and other energy-dense fuels and chemicals.
Communications Lead
Dr Hui Luo is a Research Associate in energy conversion and storage. Her research interests include electrocatalysis, green H2 production, biomass conversion, prototype up-scaling and commercialisation.
Public Engagement Lead
Dr Lola Ola is a Senior Research Fellow in energy conversion and storage. Research interests span the design, synthesis and characterization of functional nanomaterials for gas sensing, energy conversion and storage.
Cross-Network Engagement Lead
Dr Amruta Joshi is a Research fellow in Energy Systems and Policy Analysis Group. Her research interests include integration of renewable generation and storage systems, their performance degradation analysis and optimisation for energy efficient and low carbon footprint application.
Membership Development Lead
Dr Binjian Nie is a Senior Research Fellow in Thermal/thermochemical Energy Storage. His research interests include thermal/thermochemical energy storage, from materials to systems, and their integrations with wind/solar energy as well as their applications on decarbonizing heating & cooling.
Committee member
Dr Mona Faraji Niri is an Assistant Professor (Research Focused) in WMG, University of Warwick. Mona is also Fellow of Alan Turing Institution in Artificial Intelligence and a Researcher of Faraday Institution in Lithium-ion Battery area. Mona is specialised in modelling, control algorithms, machine learning for energy storage systems. Her research interests cover the analytical and data-driven models of Lithium-Ion batteries, battery management systems, load prediction and forecast via artificial intelligence, explainable artificial intelligence, as well as electric vehicle powertrain control.
Innovation and Industrial Engagement Lead
Dr. Shivangi Sharma is a Senior Post-doctoral Research Fellow in Thermal Energy Storage. She is affiliated with the Royal Society of Chemistry, IET, IChemE and the UK Higher Education Academy. Her research is focussed on the local energy systems, industrial energy efficiency and decarbonisation through waste heat recovery especially for the SME in the West Midlands area.
Committee member
Dr Chun Sing Lai is a Lecturer in Circuits & Devices and Course Director of MSc Electric Vehicle Systems at Brunel University London. His current interests are in energy system modeling, data analytics, electric vehicle systems, and energy economics for renewable energy and storage systems.
Committee member
Mr Guolong MA is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in Department of Electronic Electrical and Systems Engineering at University of Birmingham. His current interests are in renewable energy integration, distribution system optimization, smart grid, and energy storage systems.
