Prof. Ilias Belharouak
Research Director of the Energy Storage Group at the Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute (QEERI), and Professor at the College of Science and Engineering at the Hamad Ben Khalifa University (HBKU), Qatar Foundation, Doha, Qatar.
Prof. Ilias Belharouak Research Director of the Energy Storage Group at the Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute (QEERI), Qatar
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Biography
Dr. Ilias Belharouak is the Research Director of the Energy Storage Group at the Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute (QEERI), and Professor at the College of Science and Engineering at the Hamad Ben Khalifa University (HBKU), Qatar Foundation, Doha, Qatar. His mission is to develop and implement durable, efficient and affordable stationary energy storage solutions for solar and desalination applications with a focus on the valorization of the Qatari natural resources. Before joining Qatar Foundation in 2013, Dr. Belharouak was a Senior Materials Scientist and Battery Expert at the Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois, USA, since 2001. Dr. Belharouak has extensive experience working with multiple government agencies and industry in applying battery research for projects ranging from medical to electric vehicles and grid applications. His research interests deal with high power and high energy lithium ion batteries, sulfur batteries and sodium batteries for consumer, transportation and grid applications; synthesis and design of battery materials, electrolytes and additives; engineering and scale up of battery materials and cells; multi-scale range characterization of battery components and interfaces; and diagnostics and probing of aging phenomena in batteries. Dr. Belharouak was recognized with several awards including the Oscar of Innovation (100 R&D) awards in 2012, 2009, 2008 and 2005; the U.S. Federal Laboratory Consortium Awards for excellence in technology transfer in 2008 and 2009; and Recognition Letters from the US. Secretary of State of the Department of Energy and the US. Congress in 2009. Dr. Belharouak published more than 100 peer-reviewed papers in international high impact journals such as Nature Materials, Advanced Energy Materials, Nature Communications etc.; 18 US. Patents and 3 books. Dr. Belharouak received Ph.D. Degree (1999) and Master’s degree (1996) in Materials Science and Solid State Chemistry from the Institute for Solid State Chemistry (ICMCB), National Center for Scientific Research, Bordeaux 1 University, Bordeaux, France; and a Bachelor’s Degree (1995) in Inorganic Chemistry from the Faculty of Sciences Semlalia, Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakech, Morocco.