Noël and Zihao move on to new roles 1 March 2026
We were sad to say goodbye to Dr Noël Hallemans in March, as he moves on to Breathe Batteries in London. Noël was a fantastic member of the group and a great colleague; we’ll really miss having him around and wish him all the best. We also said goodbye to Dr Zihao Zhou recently after he completed an excellent DPhil on battery health estimation and modelling. Zihao now joins CATL, one of the world’s largest battery manufacturers. We’re excited to see what they both do next!
Recent work on solar forecasting and sensing 1 February 2026
Congratulations to Nora Gu on completing her MSc by Research in early 2026, developing new approaches to forecasting solar power from time series data using probabilistic machine learning. Luke McCarvill also joined us for a 10-week mini-project as part of the ILESLA CDT, building a prototype solar irradiance sensing system and exploring links to storage and grid operation.
Conference season 1 March 2025
It’s been an exciting spring for several of us. Professor Howey gave a keynote presentation at ModVal in Karlsruhe, Germany, and spoke at Duncanfest, a celebration of the remarkable career of Prof Stephen Duncan. Joe Ross and others travelled to one of our favourite conferences, Kraftwerk Batterie in Aachen, and Nicola Courtier spoke at MATSUS in Spain.
Group away day 28 February 2025
We spent a refreshing day together in the beautiful Wytham Woods in February, where we enjoyed chatting about research, eating together, hanging out, playing games, and generally getting stuck in muddy trails whilst walking through the trees.
Autumn update 2024 1 October 2024
A warm welcome to our new group members Blanka Gaál and Tihana Štefanić who arrived in October and are working on LMFP modelling/testing and electrochemical-thermal-mechanical coupling in large format cells, respectively, both with industry partners.
Faraday Institution conference 2024 1 September 2024
Several of us had a great time attending the Faraday Institution’s annual conference, this year held at Newcastle University, where we presented work on battery electro-thermal modelling, parallel packs, and lifetime prediction.
Autumn update 2022 1 October 2022
A warm welcome to new group members Emmanuelle Hagopian and Joe Ross who arrived in October and are working on voltage hysteresis and power prediction, respectively. We were sad to say goodbye to Antti Aitio recently who has moved to take up a position in industry. You can read about his awesome PhD work on battery life diagnostics and machine learning here.
