The Precourt Institute for Energy welcomed a new director in January 2021. In this seminar, he will share his vision for the future of the institute.

Speaker bio

Yi Cui became Director of the Precourt Institute for Energy in January 2021. Cui, one of the world’s most cited scientists, is professor in Stanford’s Department of Materials Science & Engineering and professor of photon science at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. Among other responsibilities, Cui is co-director with Prof. William Chueh of the Precourt Institute’s StorageX Initiative, senior fellow at the Precourt Institute, a director of the U.S. Dept. of Energy’s Battery500 Consortium, an editor of the American Chemical Society’s peer-reviewed journal Nano Letters, and the founder of four companies to commercialize the energy and environment technologies from his lab.