Dr Wesley Dose

Dr Wesley Dose completed his PhD in Chemistry in 2014 at the University of Newcastle (Australia). His doctoral thesis focused on investigations of manganese-based materials for application in lithium batteries. In 2016, Wesley moved to Argonne National Laboratory (Chicago, USA) for a postdoctoral position in Dr Christopher Johnson’s group working on understanding the operation and failure mechanisms of silicon-based negative electrodes for lithium-ion batteries. In 2018, Wesley joined the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom) as a postdoctoral research associate in the groups’ of Prof. Dame Clare Grey and Prof. Michael De Volder. At Cambridge, his research studied the mechanisms of degradation of lithium-ion battery cells with high nickel-content positive electrodes and graphite negative electrodes as part of the Faraday Institution’s Battery Degradation project. He joined the faculty at the University of Leicester in 2021, moving to the University of New South Wales in 2022 to take up his DECRA Fellowship, and to the University of Sydney in 2024. Wesley’s current research interests are energy storage materials for applications in current and emerging battery chemistries including lithium-ion, sodium-ion, and other ‘beyond’ lithium-ion chemistries. He is particularly focused on the synthesis and electrochemical characterisation of advanced materials and understanding the interfacial chemistry at electrode-electrolyte interfaces.