On October 7, Maria Helena Braga presented “The future of batteries as we know them today: possible entanglements leading to a transformation”, within the scope of UT Austin Portugal's 2020 Annual Conference. Here you can watch the full presentation.
Biography
Maria Helena Braga is an Associate Professor and Head of the Engineering Physics Department at Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto. She has a degree on Solid State Physics and Materials Science and a PhD on Materials and Metallurgy Engineering. From 2008 to 2011, she worked as a Research Scholar and Long-Term Staff Member at Los Alamos National Laboratory, US, where she firstly started working on crystalline solid-state electrolytes. In 2014, she discovered a Li- and Na- based glass-electrolyte that would lead her to work on new energy storage devices and to collaborate with Prof. John B. Goodenough (Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2019) from 2016 to 2019 as a Senior Research Fellow at The University of Texas at Austin. Presently, she collaborates with colleagues across the world and was invited to give more than 30 talks in countries such as Japan, South Korea, Chile, Brazil, Bolivia, US, and Germany, among others. She has more than 55 peered reviewed papers some in high very impact journals, 13 families of patents and more than 130 talks.
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