Faraday Pathways

The Faraday Institution has over 500 researchers from various universities, disciplines, projects, and career stages. These Faraday Pathways showcase the career success of talented individuals throughout our community and how Faraday Institution training programmes, interventions, collaborative ways of working and community building initiatives are helping to deliver future skills needed.

Can you help? Please consider preparing and posting a social media post that shares your #FaradayPathways and work with other researchers in your network encouraging them to share their career stories.

There’s lots of reasons to get involved:

  • Help inspire the next generation of talent in the UK energy storage sector.
  • Develop your communications and social media skills.
  • Share pointers with people following a similar path to you

Take a look at the resources we have developed to help you tell your stories and those of your colleagues.

James Le Houx

James has been closely involved with the Faraday Institution community for many years and has recently been awarded the Faraday ISIS Emerging Leader Battery Fellowship. His exciting career has led him from a degree in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Southampton to the role of Beamline Scientist at Diamond Light Source.

Siddhi Barhanpurkar

Inspired by an undergraduate attraction event on Battery Day 2023, Siddhi Barhanpurkar undertook a FUSE internship with About:Energy and is thinking about pursuing a PhD in the sector. Siddhi is a materials science undergraduate at the University of Cambridge

Megan Groom

Megan’s passion for sustainability has led her from an MSci degree in Natural Sciences at the University of Nottingham to pursuing a PhD in Physics at the University of Cambridge’s Cavendish Laboratory. She tells us how she enjoys investigating multidisciplinary problems and the importance of remaining curious.

Jake Brittain

Jake shares his career journey, from his PhD at the University of Oxford and his research for the Faraday Institution’s NEXGENNA project, to his current role as Battery Materials Scientist at Faradion. He explains how his career was driven by his passion for sustainability and why he decided to move into industry.

Peter Slater

Peter Slater’s career has led him from a PhD at the University of Birmingham to Surrey and full circle to back to Birmingham as Professor in Materials Chemistry. He shares with us the importance of creating a positive research environment, and how he supports the next generation of battery scientists.

Andrew Abbott

Andy Abbott is Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Leicester. He shares with us how his year in industry changed his life, his thoughts on how to be a good mentor to students, and the importance of making people from all backgrounds feel welcome in academia.

James Robinson

James shares his journey from his PhD at University College Dublin to securing the academic position of Lecturer in Advanced Propulsion at UCL, aided by his involvement in the Faraday Institution.

Megan Penrod

Megan’s career journey has led her from an undergraduate degree at Penn State to her current role as Research Assistant at the University of Cambridge. She is passionate about communicating science and runs inspiring STEM outreach workshops in schools.

Yang Xu

From studying chemistry as an undergraduate in China, to becoming a lecturer in electrochemical energy storage at UCL, Dr Yang Xu's career has spanned multiple continents. He tells us about his journey and his views on the value of work ethic, modesty, and patience…

Daisy Thornton

Daisy Thornton completed her PhD in Materials Engineering at Imperial College London and now works a Cell Degradation Engineer at Rimac Energy. She shares with us how she remained resilient during her PhD, why she decided to move to industry, and the importance of remaining open minded. 

Yashraj Tripathy

From a mechanical engineering degree in India, through research roles at Warwick Manufacturing Group, to becoming a senior principal engineer at Rolls Royce and now Head of Product at About:Energy, Dr Yashraj Tripathy has built his career through perseverance and proactively creating and seizing opportunities.

Gabriel Pérez

Gabriel is an Instrument Scientist at the ISIS Neutron and Muon Source. He shares how limitations he faced during his PhD allowed him to foster creativity and resourcefulness in his research, and the importance of seeking mentorship and making the most of the wealth of knowledge around you.

Huizhi Wang

Huizhi has had an exciting career, from her PhD at the University of Hong Kong to her current role as Senior Lecturer at Imperial College London. She shares how following her curiosity has led her from thermal engineering into electrochemical devices, and her views on the importance of having the freedom for exploration in research. 

Alastair Hales

Alastair made the move to the University of Bristol recently to take his first academic position as Lecturer. Here he outlines the importance of thinking strategically when taking the step up from post doc positions – taking every opportunity to actively fill in gaps in experience and capabilities, and demonstrate the ability to successfully bring in funding.

Ann Huang

Ann Huang is a Senior Lecturer in Energy Storage Materials at Imperial College London. Her career story highlights the power of a final year undergraduate degree project in setting a career direction and the importance of the support and encouragement of more senior researchers in establishing an academic career…

Ferran Brosa Planella

Ferran is an Assistant Professor at the Mathematics Institute, University of Warwick. Here, he discusses the rewards of sitting at the boundary of maths and engineering and the importance of researchers putting themselves in the right place at the right time to take the next steps in their career…

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