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It will work to accelerate research in future battery technologies byusing benchtop Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) to develop new methods to monitor reactions in battery cells and use this understanding to enhance their performance.
It aims to contribute to the UK’s industrial strategy to fight climate change through the development of new technology for net zero-emission vehicles and will contribute to realising practical lifetimes for beyond Li-ion technologies such as the Lithium-Air battery that promises a step-change improvement in energy density.
Researchers will useX-Pulse, Oxford Instruments’ benchtop NMR spectrometer, to characterize the behavior of a wide range of different elements within novel battery material formulations during electrochemical processes. X-Pulse is the world’s only broadband X-nucleus benchtop NMR spectrometer.
Vice President and World Bank Group Chief Economist
Carmen M. Reinhart is the Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank Group. Assuming this role on June 15, 2020, Reinhart provides thought leadership for the institution at an unprecedented time of crisis. She also manages the Bank’s Development Economics Department.
Reinhart’s areas of expertise are in international finance, and macroeconomics. Her work has helped to inform the understanding of financial crises in both advanced economies and emerging markets. She has published extensively on capital flows, exchange rate policy, banking and sovereign debt crises, and contagion.
She comes to this position on public service leave from Harvard Kennedy School where she is the Minos A. Zombanakis Professor of the International Financial System. Previously, she was the Dennis Weatherstone Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Intern
Bradley J. Cardinale named head of Department of Ecosystem Science & Management
December 16, 2020
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. Bradley J. Cardinale, professor and director of the Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research in the School for Environment and Sustainability at the University of Michigan, has been named head of Penn State s Department of Ecosystem Science and Management, effective Jan. 4, 2021.
Cardinale will succeed David Eissenstat, professor of woody plant physiology. Eissenstat has served as interim department head since the June 2019 retirement of Michael Messina, who led the department and its forerunner, the School of Forest Resources, for more than a decade. In Bradley Cardinale, Penn State and the college are getting one of the foremost scholars in ecosystem science, with an impressive record of research and academic leadership, said Rick Roush, dean of the College of Agricultural Sciences. His experience positions him well to maintain and enhance the depart