Prof. Dr. Emma Kendrick

Professor Emma Kendrick, CChem FIMMM FRSC FIMMM is Professor of Energy Materials, in the School of Metallurgy and Materials at the University of Birmingham (UoB), lead of the Energy Materials Group (EMG) and co-director of the Centre for Energy Storage (BCES). Before joining academia, she led innovations in the battery industry, latterly as Chief Technologist in Energy Storage at SHARP Laboratories of Europe Ltd (SLE) and before that for two lithium-ion battery SMEs, Fife Batteries Ltd and Surion Energy Ltd.  Her research focuses on design and development of sustainable battery technologies and chemistries. The materials cycle, from component, manufacturing, lifetime, and recycling. In 2021 her work on battery parameterisation was spun out into a company, About:Energy, for which she is chair of the scientific advisory panel. Before UoB, she spent two years as Reader in WMG, University of Warwick. Prof Kendrick holds a PhD from Keele University, obtained as part of a postgraduate transfer partnership (PTP) scheme with CERAM Research, a MSc in new materials from the University of Aberdeen and a BSc in chemistry from the University of Manchester. She has been recognised for her research in sustainable batteries and her continued support to the research community through several awards; 2021 Faraday Institution (FI) Researcher Development Champion, Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) 2021 Environment, Sustainability and Energy Division Mid-Career Award, and the 2019 Hothersall Memorial Award for outstanding services to Metal Finishing.