Dr. Shirley Meng

Biography

Y. Shirley Meng is the Liew Family Professor of Molecular Engineering at the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago. She serves as the Chief Scientist at the Argonne Collaborative Center for Energy Storage Science (ACCESS) at Argonne National Laboratory and is the Director of the Energy Storage Research Alliance (ESRA). Meng's work pioneers the discovery and design of materials for energy storage, utilizing a unique combination of first-principles computation and guided materials discovery. She is the principal investigator of the Laboratory for Energy Storage Conversion (LESC). Meng has received several prestigious awards, including the Faraday Medal from the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2020, the International Battery Association Research Award in 2019, and the C.W. Tobias Young Investigator Award from the Electrochemical Society in 2016. She has been recognized as a fellow of the Electrochemical Society and the Materials Research Society. Meng served as the editor-in-chief of the MRS Energy & Sustainability Journal. She earned her PhD in Advanced Materials Micro & Nano Systems from the Singapore-MIT Alliance in 2005 and holds a bachelor’s degree with first-class honors from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, obtained in 2000. Meng also worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at MIT from 2005 to 2007 and previously held the Zable Endowed Chair Professor in Energy Technologies at the University of California-San Diego before joining the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago.

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