Dear Colleagues and Students,

 

It is our great pleasure to invite you all to a Colloquium Lecture by Prof. Jagjit Nanda from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, USA. We are honoured to host Prof. Nanda at IACS, and I warmly encourage you to join us for what promises to be an inspiring and insightful talk. The details of the lecture and a brief biography of Prof. Nanda are provided below. The abstract is attached with this email.

 

Title: Sustainable Electrochemical Energy Storage: Opportunities and Challenges 

Speaker: Prof. Jagjit Nanda

Date: December 10, 2025 (Wednesday)

Time: 10:30 AM

Venue: C.V. Raman Hall

 

Brief Biography of Prof. Jagjit Nanda 

Dr. Jagjit Nanda is a Distinguished Scientist at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and the  Executive Director of the  SLAC-Stanford Battery Research Center. He is also an adjunct professor in Materials Science and Engineering Department, Stanford University and Scholar at the Stanford’s Precourt Energy Institute. Dr. Nanda is an internationally recognized leader in batteries and energy storage materials with emphasis on beyond lithium-ion chemistries, solid-state and grid scale energy storage.  Prior to joining Stanford in 2022, Dr. Nanda was the leader of the Energy Storage and Conversion group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and a joint faculty in the Dept. of Chemical Engineering in University of Tennessee at Knoxville.  He is a Fellow of Electrochemical Society (ECS), Materials Research Society (MRS), National Academy of Inventors (NAI) and is a Battelle Distinguished Innovator.

 

Yours sincerely,

Dr. Urmimala Maitra

School of Materials Sciences

Indian Association for the Cultivation of Sciences