We are delighted to announce the winners of this year's Energy Storage Materials Young Scientist awards. 

The purpose of the ENSM Young Scientist Award is to recognize promising young scientists in the field of energy storage materials and devices who have shown great potential from their work with significant innovation in the field each are awarded with a $1000 cash prize. You can read more about the award here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/energy-storage-materials/about/awards

This year's winners are:

  • ?Dr. Yijin Liu, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California, United States of America
  • Dr. Jia-Qi Huang, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China

A short bio of each winner has been provided below.  Our congratulations to all those selected this year!

Bios

Yijin Liu
Yijin Liu

Dr. Yijin Liu is a Lead Scientist at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. He leads the Transmission X-ray Microscopy (TXM) program at Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL), which has been broadly applied to a range of high-profile applications including energy materials, industry catalysis, oil production, and material under extreme conditions. With a scientific focus on energy material science, Liu’s research group develops and utilizes novel X-ray characterization techniques to detect the degradation phenomenon, to reveal the failure mechanisms, and to tackle challenges in synthesis and manufacturing. Notably, his group combines high-throughput experimentation with artificial intelligence to systematically investigate the interplay and evolutions of the hierarchical structure and the chemical heterogeneity, both of which are functionally very important. Liu’s work is of scientific and practical significances.

 

Jiaqi Huang
Jiaqi Huang

Prof. Jia-Qi Huang received his bachelor and Ph.D. degree in Department of Chemical Engineering from Tsinghua University in 2007 and 2012, respectively. He is now a full professor in Advanced Research Institute for Multidisciplinary Science at Beijing Institute of Technology. His research interests focus on the energy chemistry in the energy storage systems, especially the fundamental and application research of high energy density batteries. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed SCI papers in his career with a total citation for over 40,000 times with an H-index of 106. He was awarded the Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analysis in the years of 2018 to 2022, and China Youth Science and Technology Award Special Award in 2022.