Jeff Dahn (born in 1957 in the United States and emigrated to

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, Canada in 1970) is a Professor in the Department of Physics & Atmospheric Science and the Department of Chemistry at

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. He is recognized as one of the pioneering developers of the

lithium-ion battery A lithium-ion or Li-ion battery is a type of rechargeable battery which uses the reversible reduction of lithium ions to store energy. It is the predominant battery type used in portable consumer electronics and electric vehicles. It also se ...

that is now used worldwide in laptop computers, cell-phones, cars and many other mobile devices.

Education

Dahn obtained his B.Sc. in

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from

in 1978 and his Ph.D. from the

University of British Columbia The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a public university, public research university with campuses near Vancouver and in Kelowna, British Columbia. Established in 1908, it is British Columbia's oldest university. The university ranks a ...

in 1982.

Career

Following his PhD, Dahn did research at the

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from 1982 until 1985, before working at

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until 1990. At that time, he took up a faculty position in the Physics Department at

Simon Fraser University Simon Fraser University (SFU) is a public research university in British Columbia, Canada, with three campuses, all in Greater Vancouver: Burnaby (main campus), Surrey, and Vancouver. The main Burnaby campus on Burnaby Mountain, located from ...

. Six years later, in 1996, Dahn returned to

as a professor in the Department of Physics & Atmospheric Science and began to focus his research on lithium-ion batteries. From the time that he started doing research, Dahn has worked closely with industry. During his years at

he worked with

. Upon moving to Dalhousie in 1996, Dahn became the NSERC/3M Canada Industrial Research Chair in Materials for Advanced Batteries, a position that he was to hold for the next 20 years. In June 2016, Dahn began a 5-year research partnership with

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, in order to improve the energy density and lifetime of lithium-ion batteries, along with reducing their cost. He is also Chief Scientific Advisor to NOVONIX (NASDAQ:NVX)-a battery materials and technology company based in Canada and the United States.

Awards and honors

Dahn has received numerous awards including: International Battery Materials Association (IBA) Research Award (1995); Herzberg Medal, Canadian Association of Physicists (1996); ECS Battery Division Research Award (1996); Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (2001); Medal for Excellence in Teaching (2009) from the Canadian Association of Physicists, The Rio-Tinto Alcan Award from the Canadian Institute of Chemistry (2010), the ECS Battery Division Technology Award (2011) the Yeager award from the International Battery Materials Association (2016), the Inaugural Governor General's Innovation Award (2016) and the

Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering The Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering is awarded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada to recognize "research contributions characterized by both excellence and influence." Prior ...

(2017).

References

External links

Google Scholar profile
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