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Linda Nazar

University Professor, O.C., F.R.S. Fellow of the Royal Society (Canada) Fellow of the Royal Society (U.K.)

Professor Linda Nazar is a faculty member of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Waterloo, and is cross appointed to the Department of Chemical Engineering Prof. Nazar, holder of a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Solid State Materials since 2004, has focused her research on developing new materials for energy storage and conversion for the past 15 years. She has published over 250 papers, review articles, and patents in the field which were cited over 53000 times. She was awarded the Order of Canada in 2015.

Office: QNC 4609

Tel: (519) 888-4637

Email: lfnazar@uwaterloo.ca

Orcid iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3314-8197

Baltej Singh Gill

Postdoctoral Fellow

Office: QNC 3612

Email: bgill@uwaterloo.ca

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/baltej-singh-gill-3026b57b/

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.ca/citations?hl=en&user=Tp2f4cYAAAAJ

Research Areas:

  • Ab-initio modelling of electronic structure, thermodynamics and kinetic behaviour of materials and interfaces in batteries.
  • Structure-properties relationship in solid ion conductors.
  • New materials discovery using high-throughput computation and machine learning methods.

Ivan Kochetkov

Postdoctoral Fellow

Office: QNC 3613

Tel: (519) 888-4567, ext.37981

Email: ikochetk@uwaterloo.ca

Research areas: Solid-state and Li-S batteries

Awards:

  • 2019 - Waterloo Institute of Nanotechnology (WIN) Fellowship
  • 2017 - Waterloo Institute of Nanotechnology (WIN) Fellowship

Lanting Qian

Postdoctoral Fellow

Office: QNC 3613

Email: ltqian@uwaterloo.ca

Project: Synthesis of Halide Solid Electrolyte for All Solid-State Batteries

Awards:

  • 2026 - IODE War Memorial Scholarship Ontario Finalist
  • 2025 - David Zaharchuk Memorial Award
  • 2025 - David Johnston Internation Experience Award
  • 2025 - W.S. Rickert Graduate Student Fellowship in Science
  • 2025 - University of Waterloo International Experience Award
  • 2025 - Canada Graduate Scholarship - Michael Smith Foreign Study Award
  • 2024 - Tim Collings Graduate Research Scholarship
  • 2023 - Engineering Excellence Award
  • 2022–2025 - NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship (NSERC-CGS-D)
  • 2022–2025 - President’s Graduate Scholarship
  • 2022 - Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS)
  • 2022 - Dr. M. Chandrashekar Memorial Award in Sustainable Energy
  • 2022 - Waterloo Institute of Nanotechnology (WIN) Fellowship
  • 2021 - Faculty of Engineering Domestic Doctoral Student Award
  • 2021 - Engineering Dean’s Entrance Award

Cameron Dean

PhD Student

Office: QNC 3612

Email: cldean@uwaterloo.ca

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/camdean/

Research areas:

  • Ab initio computation for thermodynamic and kinetic properties of solid electrolyte and electrode materials
  • Design of high-performance interfaces within batteries using nanoscale simulation
  • Multi-scale modelling of battery failure mechanisms (void formation, dendrite growth, cracking, etc.)

Awards:

  • 2025 - NSERC Vanier Scholarship
  • 2023 - Waterloo Institute of Nanotechnology (WIN) Fellowship

Karthikeyen Natarajan Pugazhendhi

PhD Student, Chemical Engineering

Office: ESC 132

Email: knataraj@uwaterloo.ca

Research Area: Cathode and solid electrolyte materials for Lithium-Sulfur Batteries.

Previous Experience: For my undergraduate thesis, my research focused on "Supercritical Fluid Assisted Synthesis of Metal Selenide/TiO2 Nanocomposites for Photocatalytic Hydrogen Production," and was published in ACS Applied Nano Materials.

Jackson Schuler

PhD Student

Office: QNC 3613

Email: jschuler@uwaterloo.ca

Research area: Sodium solid-state batteries with NASICON solid electrolytes

Awards:

  • 2025 - Waterloo Institute of Nanotechnology (WIN) Fellowship
  • 2023 - University of Waterloo International Experience Award
  • 2023 - Douglas T. Wright International Co-op Award

Zhuo Yu

PhD Student

Office: ESC 131

Tel: (519) 888-4567, ext.37334

Email: z328yu@uwaterloo.c

Research project: All-Solid-State Lithium-Sulfur Batteries

Awards: 

  • 2022 - Waterloo Institute of Nanotechnology (WIN) Fellowship

Past Collaborators

We have previously worked with the following research organizations:

Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR)

DOE Energy Innovation Hub - Batteries and Energy Storage

BASF

The Research Network, Electrochemistry and Batteries

Alumni

Previous members of our group include:

Dr. Shashwat Singh

Former Postdoc

Dr. Insang You

Former Postdoc
Now Assistant Professor at KAIST, South Korea

Alireza Mashayekhi

Former Ph.D. Student
Now Battery Innovation Engineer, Flex-N-Gate, USA

Dr. Yue Yu

Former Postdoc
Now Associate Professor at Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry/University of Science and Technology of China

Dr. Chang Li

Former Postdoc
Now Assistant Professor at Westlake University, China

Dr. Laidong Zhou

Former Postdoc
Now Assistant Professor at Nanjing Univeristy, China

Shiqi Xu

Former Ph.D. Student

Se Young Kim

Former Ph.D. Student
Now Senior Researcher at KIST, South Korea

Kavish Kaup 

Former Ph.D. Student
Now Principal Member of Technical Staff, QuantumScape, USA

C. Y. Kwok

Former Ph.D. Student
Now Associate R&D Scientist at Oak Ridge National Lab, USA

Dr. Shahrzad Hosseini Vajargah

Former Postdoc
Now Head of Data Science at Havas Health Network, ON

Dr. Chun Xia

Former Postdoc

Dr. Zhizhen Zhang

Former Postdoc
Now Professor at Sun Yat-Sen University, China

Dr. Erika Ramos

Former Ph.D student
Now Staff Scientist at Lawrence Livermore Labs, USA

Parvin Adeli

Former Ph.D. Student
Now Manager, Batteries Program at Nickel Institute, ON

Dr. Kern Ho Park

Former Postdoc
Now Senior Researcher at Korea Electronics Technology Institute, South Korea

Dr. Chansun Park

Former Postdoc
Now Research Engineer, Ford Motor Co, USA

Dr. Xiaoqi Sun

Former Ph.D. Student
Now Professor at Northeastern University, China

Dr. Quanquan Pang

Former Ph.D. Student
Now Assistant Professor at Peking Univeristy, China

Dr. Xiao Liang

Former Postdoc
Now Professor at Hunan University, China

Dr. Fabien Lalere

Former Postdoc
Now Component Design Engineer Battery Cell at OPmobility, France

Dr. Patrick Bonnick

Former Postdoc
Now Battery Scientist at Ford Motor Co, USA

Dr. Guang He

Former Postdoc
Now R&D Director, Tianneng Group, China

Dr. Dipan Kundu

Former Postdoc
Now Associate Professor at University of New South Wales, Australia

Yverick Rangom

Former M.Sc. Student
Now Assistant Professor at University of Waterloo, ON

Agnieszka Starobrat

Former Visiting Student
Now Associate Director - Clinical Supply IRT at Astrazeneca, Poland

Dr. Elahe Talaie Pashiri

Former Ph.D. Student
Now Data Scientist at Scotiabank, ON

He Huang

Former M.Sc. Student

Russel Fernandes

Former M.Sc. Student
Now Analytical Chemistry Lab Supervisor at Vale, ON

Dr. Robert Black

Former Ph.D. Student
Now Team Lead - Accelerated Materials Discovery & Process Optimization Team at National Research Council, ON

Dr. Guerman Popov

Former Laboratory Manager
Now Research Associate at Western University, ON

Sarah (McCaugherty) Knopf

Former Undergraduate Student
Now Field Service and Application Chemist at Folio Instruments Inc., ON

Christine Lawler

Former Undergraduate Student
Now Service Dispute Analyst & Project Lead at 3M, ON

Franz Dinkelacker

Former Visiting Student
Now Vice President, Project Management at o9 Solutions Inc., Germany

Dr. Brian Adams

Former Ph.D. Student
Now Adjunct Associate Professor at McMaster University, ON/Co-Founder and CEO at NS Sustainable Resources, NS

Dr. Mohammadhosein Safari

Former Postdoc
Now Professor at Hasselt University, Belgium

Dr. Victor Duffort

Former Postdoc
Now Researcher at University of Lille, France

Diane Houtarde

Former M.Sc. Student
Now Cell Technical Leader at Verkor, France

Dr. Jaka Sunarso

Former Banting Postdoctoral Fellow
Now Adjunct Professor at Swinburne University of Technology Sarewak Campus, Malaysia

Connor Hart

Former M.Sc. Student
Now QC Manager at Piramal Pharma Solutions, ON

Dr. Marine Cuisinier

Former Postdoc
Now Team Lead, Operations at Natural Forces, NS

Dr. Claudio Radtke

Former Visiting Professor
Now Full Professor at Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil

Dr. Ekaterina Pomerantseva

Former Postdoc
Now Professor, Drexel University, USA

Dr. David Ji

Former Ph.D. Student
Now Professor, Oregon State University, USA

Dr. Si Hyoung Oh

Former Ph.D. Student
Now Principal Research Scientist at Korea Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea

Dr. Jin-Hyon Lee

Former Postdoc
Now Principal Engineer/Part Lead at Samsung, South Korea

Dr. Tae Eun Yim

Former Postdoc
Now Professor at Incheon National University, South Korea

Dr. Thimmasandra Narayan Ramesh

Former Postdoc
Now Assistant Professor at Tumkur University, India

Dr. Shri Prakash Badi

Former Postdoc
Now Scientist Gr IV(4) at National Aerospace Laboratory (NAL), Bangalore, India

Dr. Kyu Tae Lee

Former Postdoc
Now Professor at Seoul National Univeristy, South Korea

Dr. Rajesh Tripathi

Former Ph.D. Student
Now CTO and Founder at Crystron Technologies, USA

Dr. Brian Ellis

Former Ph.D. Student
Now Scientist at Canadian Nuclear Laboratories, ON

Kaitlin Town

Former M.Sc. Student

Pierre-Etienne Cabelguen

Former M.Sc. Student
Now Research, Development & Innovation Director at UmiCore, Belgium