On March 14, 2025, Johanna Naumann successfully defended her dissertation “Electrochemical Cell Modeling of Hierarchically Structured Electrodes in Lithium-Ion Batteries.” The thesis was written as part of the “POLiS-Post Lithium Storage” Cluster of Excellence.
Subject of the thesis is the optimization of electrodes for lithium-ion batteries with porous secondary particles, known as hierarchically structured electrodes, using a specially developed simulation model. Johanna thus provided crucial support for experimental work being carried out in parallel at KIT.
Congratulations!
Diana Avadanii has been awarded an Early Career Award at the E-MRS Spring Meeting 2025 in Strasbourg.
Diana’s research focuses on degradation phenomena at interfaces in solid-state batteries, a critical challenge in the development of next-generation solid-state energy storage systems. Her expertise lies in in-operando investigations - cutting-edge methods that allow real-time tracking and quantification of interfacial degradation during battery operation.
This award recognizes Diana’s innovative contributions to the field and highlights the impact of her work on the future of high-performance, reliable solid-state batteries.
Congratulations on this well-deserved recognition!
Maral Sarebanzadeh, Postdoc in the group Hydrogen Micromechanics, receives an Acta Student Award for her paper “Twin nucleation at grain boundaries in Mg analyzed through in situ EBSD and high-resolution DIC”, published in Acta Materialia.
Her work, which originated from her PhD, introduced a novel experimental setup combining in-situ EBSD and HRDIC to investigate twin nucleation during tensile deformation in pure magnesium.
Congratulations Maral!
Chukwudalu (Dalu) Okafor was awarded the 1st prize in the Best Student Poster Presentation Award during the EMA 2025 (Electronic Materials and Applications, Denver, Colorado, USA).
The work Dalu presented is on point defects - dislocations interaction in functional oxides.
Congratulations, Dalu!