Irene Rubio Lopez

· Quality assurance for slurry mixing, electrode coating and pouch cell manufacture in the scale up facility · Research activities to optimise the Lithium ion battery manufacturing process for an automotive OEM · Working to increase energy density while maintaining power density and battery safety · Project management: planning, execution and control of projects involving industrial SME’s to assure delivery to time and budget

· Capability to run the entire process of Lithium ion battery manufacture · High support on delivery of several projects involving SME’s and academic partners · Development of standardised electrode manufacturing procedures for all the chemistries commercially available for Lithium ion batteries and also Sodium ion batteries and supercapacitors · Electrochemical analysis of Lithium ion batteries, including test protocol development on Maccor and Bitrode systems

· Operation of lab-scale fluidised bed reactor for fast sewage sludge pyrolysis · New process development for Nitrogen extraction · Chemical and energy analysis of the reaction products for energy applications · Scientific publication and report writing

· Engineering, design and management of industrial processes · Control, instrumentation, simulation and optimization of industrial processes · Electrochemistry, electrotechnics and materials science · Physics, mathematics and fluid mechanics