Dr Faezeh Makhlooghi Azad

Faezeh gained her PhD at the Institute for Frontier Materials at Deakin University under supervision of Professor Maria Forsyth in 2018 on development of novel solid-state electrolytes for sodium batteries in 2018. She was awarded an Australia Endeavour Fellowship in 2018 to work with Prof. Linda Nazar, a world-leading electrochemist at the University of Waterloo in Canada, where she investigated the sodium battery performance of advanced solid-state electrolyte that she well characterized during her PhD. Currently she is working as an associate research fellow at Deakin University within the ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science (ACES) on developing solid-state lithium-metal battery technology based on novel solid-state electrolytes. Faezeh is interested in studying advanced materials for energy storage systems and their incorporations into devices. Her strength is in energy material analysis using techniques such as Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC), Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS), Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Microscopy (NMR), Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR) and also a range of electrochemical techniques such as Cyclic Voltammetry (CV) Galvanostatic Cycling, Chronoamperometry and device fabrication.