Juliane Fiates

Dr Juliane Fiates is a Faraday Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of Natural and Environmental Sciences at Newcastle University. She completed her PhD in Chemical Engineering at the University of Campinas (Brazil) in 2020. During her PhD, she was awarded a fellowship to work as a visiting researcher in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Notre Dame (US). Her PhD research centered on developing theoretical models for atomistic simulations of electrolytes and interfaces for Li-air battery applications.

Juliane also worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Innovation on New Energies (CINE) in Brazil from 2021 to 2023, where she concentrated on simulating and developing force fields for studying new electrolytes for Na-ion battery applications. In August 2023, she joined the Faraday Degradation project to investigate the atomistic mechanisms of anode-free battery degradation. Currently, she is working on developing computational procedures to model the solid electrolyte interfaces (SEI) for Li-based anode-free batteries, under the supervision of Dr James Dawson.