Event Speakers

Anthony K. Burrell received a Ph.D. in chemistry in 1990 from the University of Auckland, New Zealand.  He was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Texas, Austin (1991-1992) before joining Los Alamos National Laboratory as a Directors Fellow in 1992. He then moved to the Chemistry Department at Massey University, New Zealand and 1994 and was awarded the Chair of Synthetic Chemistry in 1998.  In 2001 he returned to LANL as a Scientist where he established new programs in materials chemistry.  In 2011 he moved to Argonne National Laboratory where he was the Head of Department for the CSE Electrochemical Energy Storage Department and a PI in the Joint Center for Energy storage Research (JCESR).  In 2016 he joined the National Renewable Energy Laboratory as Head of Energy Storage. He is the principal investigator on a multi-national laboratory consortium project targeting the critical aspects of silicon anodes. He leads the Behind the Meter Battery consortium, the Low-Pressure all-Solid-State Cells and the Modeling, Mapping and Analysis Consortium.