Gerbrand Ceder

Gerbrand Ceder
Nationality USA
Occupation Professor
Materials Scientist
Engineer
Known for Computational Materials Design
Awards 2015 MRS Fellow
2009 MRS Gold Medal
2007 MIT School of Engineering Graduate Teaching Award
2004 ECS Battery Research Award
Website http://ceder.berkeley.edu

Gerbrand Ceder is the Chancellor's Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at University of California, Berkeley.[1][2] He is notable for his pioneering research in high-throughput computational materials design, and in the development of novel lithium-ion battery technologies. He is co-founder of the MaterialsProject, an open-source online database of ab initio calculated material properties, which inspired the Materials Genome Initiative[3] by the Obama administration in 2011. He is also the Founder and CTO of Pellion Technologies (previously CEO), which aims to commercialize Magnesium-ion batteries. As an author, he is held in libraries worldwide.[4]

Career

Gerbrand Ceder received an engineering degree in Metallurgy and Applied Materials Science from the University of Leuven, Belgium, in 1988, and a Ph.D. in Materials Science from the University of California at Berkeley in 1991 at which time he joined the faculty at MIT. He was the R.P. Simmons Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for 25 years, after which he moved to the University of California, Berkeley, where he is now. His research group focuses on the use of computational modeling to design novel materials for energy generation and storage, including battery cathodes, hydrogen storage materials, thermoelectrics, and electrodes for solar photoelectrochemical water-splitters. His group also designs, synthesizes and characterizes novel lithium-ion and sodium-ion battery chemistries. He has published over 300 scientific papers in the fields of alloy theory, oxide phase stability, high-temperature superconductors, and Li-battery materials, and holds 15 current or pending U.S. patents.

In 2009, ByungWoo Kang and Gerbrand Ceder demonstrated that the lithium ion battery cathode material LiFePO4 could undergo ultrafast charging and discharging (~10 sec full discharge). [5] This work was published in Nature and is the 16th most highly-cited Nature paper since 2009.[6]

In 2009, he was awarded the Materials Research Society (MRS) Gold Medal “For pioneering the high-impact field of first-principles thermodynamics of batteries materials and for the development of high-power density Li battery compounds”.[7] In 2015 he was made a Fellow of the Materials Research Society “For the conception and development of the Materials Genome Project, highlighting the benefits and applications of first-principles modeling, and accelerating rational design and iteration of materials for energy.”[8]

He has also received the Battery Research Award from the Electrochemical Society, the CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation, and the Robert Lansing Hardy Award from The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society for “exceptional promise for a successful career.”

As a faculty member at MIT he taught 3.320 Atomistic Computer Modeling of Materials, which is available freely online via MIT OpenCourseWare and Youtube. He has won multiple graduate school teaching awards from MIT.

He founded the companies Computational Modeling Consultants and Pellion Technologies.

Publications

Gerbrand Ceder has published over 300 scientific papers, which can be found on his Google Scholar and group website

References

  1. ↑ UC Berkeley MSE Faculty http://www.mse.berkeley.edu/ourfaculty/ceder-gerbrand. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  2. ↑ "Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Technology Review, Volume 102". Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 1999. Retrieved September 19, 2016.
  3. ↑ "The Materials Genome Initiative". www.whitehouse.gov.
  4. ↑ "Ceder, Gerbrand". worldcat.org. Retrieved September 19, 2016.
  5. ↑ Kang, Byungwoo; Ceder, Gerbrand (2009). "Battery materials for ultrafast charging and discharging". Nature. 458: 190–193. doi:10.1038/nature07853.
  6. ↑ "Nature h-5 Index".
  7. ↑ "Gerbrand Ceder, 2009 MRS Medal Recipient". www.mrs.org.
  8. ↑ "Current MRS Fellows". www.mrs.org.

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