Jie Xiao

Boeing Martin Professor, University of Washington; Battelle Fellow, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

2023 C3E Technology Research & Innovation Award Winner

Jie Xiao is the Boeing Martin Professor in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Washington (UW). She also holds a joint appointment at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) as a Battelle Fellow. She is also a PNNL-UW Distinguished Faculty Fellow. She currently serves as the Deputy Director of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Innovation Center for Battery500 Consortium. She is also the Director of the DOE-sponsored Cathode-Electrolyte Interphase Consortium.

Xiao has been leading research thrusts in both fundamental science and practical applications of energy storage materials and systems, encompassing stages from resource extraction to manufacturing. Her research has led to breakthroughs in long-cycling, next-generation high-energy lithium metal batteries and novel battery materials, accelerating the establishment of domestic manufacturing capability for new energy technologies. Xiao’s research has changed how battery research is conducted and reported in the scientific community, with the protocols she developed being broadly adopted by scientists and engineers to cross-validate and accelerate innovations in clean energy technologies.

Xiao is the Editor-in-chief of Energy Storage Materials and is the founding editor of Energy Storage Manufacturing Science (ESMS) supported by DOE. Having published over 130 papers, she has been named a top 1% Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher many times. Xiao holds 27 patents and 3 copyrights in energy storage, 7 of which have been licensed to industry. She has received multiple awards, including the DOE E.O. Lawrence Award, the Battelle Distinguished Inventor Award, the Electrochemical Society Battery Division Technology Award, the International Automotive Lithium Battery Association’s Young Researcher Award, the Materials Today Rising Star Award, a Federal Laboratory Consortium Award, and two R&D 100 Awards.

Xiao earned her PhD in Materials Chemistry from State University of New York (SUNY) at Binghamton, supervised by Professor Sir M. Stanley Whittingham, 2019 Nobel Prize Laureate in Chemistry.