Prayag Biswal Email & Phone Number

Houston, Tx, Us

Araxá, Minas Gerais, Br

Driving the global go-to-market strategy for niobium enabled lithium batteries.

Culver City, Ca, Us

Advising development of prizes/public competition for emerging technologies

Responsible for planning, coordinating, revising & publishing articles/ issues on battery technologies

Houston, Texas, Us

Drove the global reach and business strategy for lithium products and services. Liased with technology development, operations, supply chain, and EPC teams to lead technical sales. Advised on global product development prioritization, created product roadmaps, and delivered business growth for integrated solutions of sustainable lithium mining.

Brilon, Nrw, De

Drove the product/ commercial strategy in North America for rail, solar, grid, & industrial applications.Built customer relationships for the lithium battery products.Designed the manufacturing process for the battery production line

Charlotte, Nc, Us

Principal Investigator of $5.4M U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Vehicle Technologies Office (VTO) grant to advance energy storage technology for electric vehicles by producing low-cost ultrathin lithium anodes via electrodeposition from lithium brine solutions. Responsibilities include technical & administrative leadership with financial, legal, contractual, customer, vendor, & data management across Albemarle, Argonne National Lab, & Solid Power. Developed cost models to forecast process-specific, attribute, & market price of different lithium products within the Albemarle portfolio.Contributed to competitive market intelligence of lithium value chain (mine to market). Consulted on an $12MM ARPA-E eVTOL advanced lithium anode project to develop lithium alloys that enable fast charging and discharging of lithium metal batteries for aerospace applications.

Charlotte, Nc, Us

Principal Investigator of $5.4M U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Vehicle Technologies Office (VTO) grant to advance energy storage technology for electric vehicles by producing low-cost ultrathin lithium anodes via electrodeposition from lithium brine solutions. Responsibilities include technical & administrative leadership with financial, legal, contractual, customer, vendor, & data management.

Charlotte, Nc, Us

Developed experimental and theoretical frameworks directed towards lithium metal product development at ALB. Advising the development of novel surface coatings for improving the shelf life and battery level performance of the lithium metal anode.

Ithaca, Ny, Us

Advisor: Lynden ArcherPh.D. thesis work focused on understanding the nanoscale processes at the electrode-electrolyte interphase during electrodeposition of reactive metals (lithium, sodium) through microscopy, spectroscopy, & data analysis techniques.

Ithaca, Ny, Us

Maintained the safety norms of the research group including equipment safety protocols, handling of reactive metals, inventory records of chemicals, and regular waste disposal

Ithaca, Ny, Us

Developed and co-facilitated workshops to prepare new TAs for their roles in working with students;Learnt innovative teaching methods;Received training in workshop facilitation;Conducted microteaching sessions.

Ithaca, Ny, Us

As one of the club's founding members, my work was to set up the club's infrastructure. The club is focused on energy sustainability and has a dedicated wing for career panels and public engagement.

Ithaca, Ny, Us

TA'ed a somphomore class of 50-70 students in CHEME 3230 Fluid Mechanics course for two consecutive years 2019, 2020.

Kharagpur, West Bengal, In

Advisor: Dr. Sunando DasguptaStudied the effect of viscous heat dissipation on heat transfer and momentum characteristics of power-law fluids experiencing forced convection in microchannels of different cross-sectional geometries.Employed Comsol Multiphysics simulation to design and study transport characteristics of such microchannels under various external conditions.

Tutored high school students on Physical, Inorganic, and Organic chemistry

Calgary, Alberta, Ca

Advisor: Dr. Cooper Harold LangfordPhotocatalyis and membrane separation for waste water treatment: Applied 3D architecture software (SolidWorks) to develop and simulate a macro-scale photocatalytic waste water treatment plant

In

Advisor: Dr. K.R. SreenivasExperimental Fluid Dynamics: Studied quantum mechanics aspects exhibited by a "Walking Droplet"; a macroscopic fluid entity showing diffraction, tunneling effect.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Chemical Engineering

Entrepreneurship Management, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies

Master Of Science - Ms, Chemical Engineering

Bachelor Of Technology - Btech, Chemical Engineering