Dr. Weihan Li is a research group leader at RWTH Aachen University. Previously, he was team leader and research associate at RWTH Aachen from 2018 to 2021, where he received his Ph.D. (electrical engineering) with the highest praise “summa cum laude” in 2021. He is the recipient of the Deutscher Studienpreis, Battery Young Research Award and RWTH Start-Up Grant in 2022. The research interests of Weihan Li’s group include the modeling, testing and control of batteries from material level to system level with a wide application of physics-based and machine learning approaches.
Dr. Billy Wu is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) at Imperial College, London, UK and Faraday Institution Industrial Fellow. He works at the interface between fundamental science and engineering application of electrochemical energy devices such as batteries, fuel cells and supercapacitors. Cross cutting activities include: energy materials, continuum modelling, understanding degradation, thermal management, pack design and control.
Dr. Caiping Zhang is a Professor at the School of Electrical Engineering, Beijing Jiaotong University, China. She is a recipient of the National Excellent Young Scientists Fund, and Beijing New-star Plan of Science and Technology. Professor Zhang received her PhD from Beijing Institute of Technology in 2010 and was a visiting PhD student at the University of Southampton from 2008 to 2009. Her research interests include lithium-ion battery multi-physics modeling and states estimation in electric vehicles, battery degradation mechanism and remaining life prediction, fault diagnosis, battery control and optimal charging, battery endurance and reliability management strategy.
Dr. Jiangong Zhu is an Associate Professor in the School of Automotive Studies at Tongji University, China. He received the Ph.D. degree in automotive engineering at Tongji University. He was a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Institute for Applied Materials at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany. He is a “Humboldtians” Fellow from the support of Humboldt Foundation and a DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst) fellow. His research interests include electric vehicles, lithium-ion batteries, battery lifetime and safety management, state estimation, and battery modeling. His current research focus is on applying ex-situ and in-situ methods to investigate battery degradation, and inventing new methods (e.g., machine learning and optimization) to prognose battery state of health and manage lifespan. Jiangong Zhu is an Editorial Board Member of Communications Engineering.