Professor Chris-Kriton Skylaris is at the School of Chemistry at the University of Southampton. He co-leads the Experimental and Digital parametrisation work package and is working on the development of large-scale atomistic simulation models for batteries in the ONETEP program and their coupling to higher scale modes as in the PyBaMM program.

WP1 is co-led by Emma Kendrick (Birmingham) and Chris Kriton Skylaris (Southampton), and supported by Harry Hoster (Lancaster), Denis Kramer (Southampton), Sam Cooper (ICL), Charles Monroe (Oxford), Paul Shearing (UCL), Saiful Islam (Oxford) and Ben Morgan (Bath). Models which have many different parameters are only effective if the initial values for these parameters are as close to the real value as possible. To some extent, these parameters can be either measured, using carefully controlled experiments, or estimated through sound theoretical means

Dr. Arihant Bhandari is a research fellow at the School of Chemistry, University of Southampton, working with Prof. Chris-Kriton Skylaris on the development of methods for atomic scale modelling of electrochemical interfaces.

Dr Carlos Garcia is a Research Associate at the Electrochemical Science and Engineering Group, Imperial College London. His research turns around electrochemical characterisation and rapid ageing, supporting the development of new and improved lithium-ion batteries.

Jacek Dziedzic’s work on MSM focuses on methods for implicit solvation and their implementation in the ONETEP program for linear-scaling density functional theory calculations.

Dr. Yongxiu Chen is a postdoc research associate at Energy and materials group of University of Birmingham, where he works with Prof. Emma Kendrick on experimental parameterizations, thus investigating the physical, chemical, and electrochemical database for novel materials, identifying the rate-limiting electrode of any full formats cell, learning the degradation mechanism of full cell, and tracking the solid-state interface (SEI) layer evolution for full cell.

Julian Holland is a Faraday-aligned PhD researcher at the University of Southampton, where he works with Prof. Chris Skylaris on the atomistic modelling of battery materials including graphite nanoparticles and solid-electrolyte material LLZO.

Roksana is a PhD Researcher at the University of Birmingham, where she works under the supervision of Professor Emma Kendrick on developing methodologies for the parameterisation of battery interfaces.

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Irma is an associated PhD student at the University of Birmingham, looking at developing novel sensing methodologies to monitor battery performance, degradation, and safety. She is jointly supervised by Professor Emma Kendrick and Professor Gerard Fernando.

Professor Gregory Offer is the PI of the MSM project. Professor of Electrochemical Engineering at Imperial College London his research spans the interface between the science of how batteries work and the engineering of how to design the best products around them.