Dr. Y. Shirley Meng

Dr. Y. Shirley Meng is the Liew Family Professor of the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago. She serves as the Chief Scientist for Energy Storage Science at Argonne National Laboratory. Dr. Meng is the director of Energy Storage Research Alliance (ESRA), an innovation hub funded in 2024 by US Department of Energy, Office of Science. She is the principal investigator of the research group – Laboratory for Energy Storage and Conversion (LESC). She is the author and co-author of more than 320 peer-reviewed journal articles, 2 book chapters and over 20 issued and pending patents. Dr. Meng is a world leader in materials science for energy storage. Among her contributions are discoveries of novel electrolyte/electrode materials and solid-state superionic conductors for both lithium and sodium batteries. Meng pioneered the use of cryogenic microscopy for battery materials and their energetic interfaces. Her work has transformed the ways how we can design and manipulate energy storage materials for batteries. Dr. Meng is elected Fellow of Electrochemical Society (FECS), Fellow of Materials Research Society (FMRS) and Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).