Solar Energy Harvesting and Storage (Energy Harvesting and Storage Europe 2012)

 

Dr Emma Kendrick FIMMM, FRSC, is an energy storage technical specialist at Sharp Laboratories of Europe Ltd (SLE) and has been active in the field of functional materials for nearly 20 years, with 55 journal publications and 19 patent applications. She joined SLE 6 years ago where she established the energy storage research and development program in sodium ion batteries; prior to SLE she was lead scientist for two start-up companies in lithium ion batteries. Her technical management expertise and background is in developing novel materials, and taking these materials through the research and development stages to prototype devices. She holds current honorary academic positions within chemical engineering at University College London, and chemistry at the University of Birmingham and has a BSc in chemistry from the University of Manchester, MSc and PhD in solid state materials from the University of Aberdeen and Keele University /CERAM research respectively.