Palani Balaya

Before moving to National University of Singapore, Dr. Palani Balaya worked as a Guest Scientist (2001-2006) at Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart in the area of Nano-ionics. He joined Department of Mechanical Engineering at College of Design and Engineering, NUS as an Assistant Professor in 2007. Since 2014, he works as an Associate Professor at NUS. His research area includes developing safe high-power lithium-ion battery and sodium-ion battery. He served as a Topical (Battery, Fuel Cell, Capacitor) Editor for Journal of Solid-State Electrochemistry (2013-2017). Since 2022, serving as Associate Editor for the International Journal of Applied Ceramic Technology (Wiley), Editorial Board Member of Ceramics International (Elsevier, since 2022) and for journal, Batteries (MDPI, since 2022). Elected as an Academician by the World Academy of Ceramics, Italy (2019) and elected as a Fellow of the American Ceramic Society (ACerS) in 2019. Recognized as an ACerS Global Ambassador in 2016, recipient of Global Star Award (2015) from ACerS, Late Shri Har Mahandar Singh Chhatwal Memorial Award (2015) from Indian Ceramic Society (ICS), M.G. Bhagat Memorial Lecture Award (2021) from ICS, etc. He served in Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change as a Co-ordinating Lead Author for preparing a Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation, in 2011. He served as the Chair of the Engineering Ceramic Division of ACerS (2022-23). Delivered more than 150 talks (Plenary/Keynote/Invited) at international conferences/meetings. Published 113 articles with h-index of 48 and citations of ~10280 (GS).