university of Sheffield
peter bugryniec
Dr Peter Bugryniec is a Research Associate in The Chemical and Biological Engineering Department at the University of Sheffield. His research interest focuses on the development of Li-ion battery thermal runaway models. He gained a master degree in Mechanical Engineering from The University of Manchester in 2014, and completed his doctorate on the “Experimental and Computational Analysis of Thermal Runaway in Lithium Iron Phosphate Cells” at The University of Sheffield in 2021.
university of Oxford
Yongxiu chen
Yongxiu Chen obtained his PhD degree in Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Science in June 2019. The research in his PhD focused on the inhibition of lithium dendrites in rechargeable batteries. Following this, he focused on experimental parameterization for battery physical models for in the Energy Materials Group of University of Birmingham from October 2019 to January 2024. Currently, he is investigating the nucleation and propagation of failure in Li-ion batteries, and to explore the complex interplay between battery degradation and battery safety in University of Oxford.
King’s College London
Carolina Cruz-Cardona
Carolina is a computational scientist specialising in multiscale and multiphysics modelling of battery materials, integrating quantum, molecular and continuum methods to connect atomistic processes with macroscopic performance. She completed her PhD in Chemical Sciences at the Polish Academy of Sciences as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie doctoral fellow and recently held a postdoctoral position at Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden), where she worked on modelling and simulation of electrolytes for next-generation batteries. She is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Heat and Fire Lab, King’s College London, working on thermal runaway and propagation modelling.
UNIVERSITY of warwick
BEGUM GULSOY
Begum Gulsoy is a Lead Engineer in the Cell Instrumentation Team at WMG, University of Warwick. She obtained her MSc in Sustainable Energy Technologies from the University of Warwick, where she explored battery degradation using non-linear frequency response analysis (NFRA). She is currently pursuing a PhD by publication alongside her research, which focuses on advanced battery safety characterization. Her work includes developing in-situ sensing methods to monitor critical parameters such as cell core temperature, internal gas pressure, and gas composition under failure conditions.
UNIVERSITY college london
Xiaoxia GuO
Dr Xiaoxia Guo obtained her PhD in Chemistry from University College London for work on the electrolyte design of Zn-ion batteries. She is currently a research assistant in the Electrochemical Engineering Lab at University College London, working on the links between degradation and safety. Her main research interest is in the area of metal-based rechargeable batteries.
king’s college london
Francesca Lugaresi
Francesca is a Research Associate in the Heat and Fire Lab at King’s College London. She completed her PhD at Imperial College working towards improving the fire safety of tall building facades. Her previous research focused on developing numerical models for simulating the behaviour of large structures exposed to fire. Her current research now focuses on the numerical modelling of fire behaviour of Lithium-ion batteries. Francesca enjoys science communication and has presented her research work to the industry at various CPD seminars and conferences, and exhibited in large public outreach events like the New Scientist Live and Science Museum. She has been an active member of the Society of Fire Protection Engineers.
University of Cambridge
Santiago Maldonado-Ochoa
Santiago is a Research Associate at the University of Cambridge. He holds a PhD in Physics from the National University of Córdoba (Argentina), where he specialised in nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) for materials characterisation, with a focus on electrochemical systems. In his current role, he applies dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) to investigate the surface composition of lithium metal and to develop methodologies for the early detection of lithium plating.
Newcastle University
Joe McDonald
Joe McDonald is a research assistant within the Faraday Institution’s SafeBatt group at Newcastle University. He received an MEng degree in Mechanical Engineering from Newcastle University and has recently submitted his PhD thesis, which focusses on the characterisation and early detection of thermal runaway in large scale lithium-ion battery systems. His research involves conducting abuse testing on large scale battery systems with an emphasis on instrumentation and data collection, providing insights into thermal runaway propagation and the produced vapour cloud.
newcastle university
wojciech mrozik
Dr Wojciech Mrozik is interested in the environmental impact and safe application, usage and disposal (recycling) of lithium-ion batteries. His main focus is the assessment of hazards released during abuse, fails and processing of LiBs and how to mitigate them, so they affect first responders and users in the least negative way.
UNIVERSITY of warwick
Puritut Nakhanivej (Oat)
Dr Puritut Nakhanivej (Oat) is a Research Fellow in Forensic Analysis of Batteries at the Energy Innovation Centre within Warwick Manufacturing Group (WMG) at the University of Warwick. With a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), his research primarily focuses on energy storage materials for Lithium-ion batteries, specifically hybrid nanomaterials and 2D materials. He is also actively involved in customising 3-electrode cells and employing operando characterisation techniques to gain a deeper understanding of battery technology.
UNIVERSITY of warwick
Bradley Peirce
Bradley is a project engineer in the battery safety team at WMG, University of Warwick. He received his BSc in Chemistry from the University of Reading before joining the WMG Graduate scheme, where some of his work included carrying out thermal verification and validation programmes for industrial partners. Bradley’s current work looks into quantifying severity of different failure modes for cylindrical Lithium ion cells.
King’s College London
Hosein Sadeghi
Hosein is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Engineering at King’s College London, researching multiphysics modelling of lithium-ion battery thermal runaway, including the flaming and thermal decomposition mechanisms. He has a background in mechanical engineering, with a focus on thermofluids. Before joining KCL, he was a research assistant in the Fire Safety Engineering Group at Aalto University in Finland, where his research focused on modelling the radiative properties of fuel vapours in fires.
UNIVERSITY of Oxford
Zeyu Sun
Zeyu Sun is currently a research associate in the Engineering Science Department at the University of Oxford. He completed his PhD at the University of Birmingham, working on preventing Li-ion battery thermal runaway propagation. His research interests focus on failure analysis and multi-physics simulation of Li-ion battery under mechanical, electrical, thermal abuse.
university of Sheffield
Mark Wootton
Mark holds the position of Research Associate in Li-ion Battery Safety in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at The University of Sheffield as part of the Faraday Institution SafeBatt project. Mark’s work pertains to the application of computational chemistry and reaction network modelling methodologies, with the aim of building a fuller understanding of the mechanisms driving the phenomenon of thermal runaway, which can occur under some conditions of abuse.
