Gerbrand Ceder is a Belgian–American scientist who is the Daniel M. Tellep Distinguished Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

. He is notable for his pioneering research in high-throughput computational materials design, and in the development of novel

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technologies. He is co-founder of the Materials Project, an open-source online database of ''ab initio'' calculated material properties, which inspired the Materials Genome Initiative by the Obama administration in 2011. He is also the Founder and CTO o
Pellion Technologies
(previously CEO), which aims to commercialize magnesium-ion batteries. In 2017 Gerbrand Ceder was elected a member of the

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, "For the development of practical computational materials design and its application to the improvement of energy storage technology."

Career

Gerbrand Ceder received an engineering degree in Metallurgy and Applied Materials Science from the

KU Leuven KU Leuven (or Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) is a Catholic research university in the city of Leuven, Belgium. It conducts teaching, research, and services in computer science, engineering, natural sciences, theology, humanities, medicine, ...

, Belgium, in 1988, and a Ph.D. in Materials Science from the

University of California at Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant uni ...

in 1991, at which time he joined the faculty at

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the ...

(MIT). He was the R.P. Simmons Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for 25 years, after which he moved back to the U. C. Berkeley, where he remains. His research group focuses on the use of computational modeling to design novel materials for energy generation and storage, including battery cathodes,

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materials,

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, and electrodes for solar photoelectrochemical water-splitters. His group also designs, synthesizes and characterizes novel

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and

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chemistries. He has published over 400 scientific papers in the fields of alloy theory, oxide phase stability,

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, Li-battery materials, machine learning, and theory of materials synthesis, and holds 25 current or pending U.S. patents. In 2009, ByungWoo Kang and Gerbrand Ceder demonstrated that the lithium ion battery cathode material LiFePO4 could undergo ultrafast charging and discharging (~10 sec full discharge).

Awards

In 2009, he was awarded the Materials Research Society (MRS) Gold Medal "For pioneering the high-impact field of first-principles thermodynamics of batteries materials and for the development of high-power density Li battery compounds". In 2015 he was made a Fellow of the Materials Research Society "For the conception and development of the Materials Genome Project, highlighting the benefits and applications of first-principles modeling, and accelerating rational design and iteration of materials for energy". He was awarded the Materials Research Society (MRS) 2016 Theory Award and the 2017 International Battery Award in Research. Gerbrand Ceder was elected to the

2017, "For the development of practical computational materials design and its application to the improvement of energy storage technology". He has also received the Battery Research Award from the Electrochemical Society, a CAREER Award from the

National Science Foundation The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent agency of the United States government that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is the National ...

, and the Robert Lansing Hardy Award from

The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS) is a professional organization for materials scientists and engineers that encompasses the entire range of materials and engineering, from minerals processing and primary metals production to basic r ...

for "exceptional promise for a successful career". As a faculty member at MIT he taugh
3.320 Atomistic Computer Modeling of Materials
which is available freely online via

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and

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. He has won multiple graduate school teaching awards from MIT.

References

External links

The MaterialsProject

Ceder Group Website

Keynote Talk on Materials Genome Initiative

Scientific American Article "The Stuff of Dreams" on Computational Materials Design

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Career

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