SafeRock CEO meets UChicago Professor Shirley Meng
During SafeRock CEO Shah Karim’s recent business trip to Chicago on November 18th, 2024, it was a great pleasure to meet up with Professor Shirley Meng from the University of Chicago to discuss new developments of her research in the energy sector.
Y. Shirley Meng is a professor of molecular engineering at the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago. She also serves as the chief scientist of the Argonne Collaborative Center for Energy Storage Science (ACCESS) Argonne National Laboratory.
Her work pioneers in discovering and designing better materials for energy storage by a unique combination of first-principles computation guided materials discovery and design, and advanced characterization with electron/neutron/photon sources. Meng is the principal investigator of the research group – Laboratory for Energy Storage and Conversion (LESC). She has received several prestigious awards, including the Faraday Medal of Royal Chemistry Society (2020), International Battery Association Battery IBA Research Award (2019), Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists Finalist (2018), C.W. Tobias Young Investigator Award of the Electrochemical Society (2016), Science Award Electrochemistry by BASF and Volkswagen (2014) and NSF CAREER Award (2011). Meng is the elected fellow of Electrochemical Society (FECS) and elected fellow of Materials Research Society (FMRS). She serves as the editor-in-chief for Materials Research Society MRS Energy & Sustainability Journal.
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The picture above shows from left to right: Professor Shirley Meng (UChicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, Liew Family Professor in Molecular Engineering), Shah Karim (SafeRock CEO, Co-Chair and Presider of CME NASA Symposium).