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POLiS Award of Excellence Awardee on cooperation visit

Kelsey Hatzell, Assistant Professor Princeton University, received the award in 2021 and recently came on a cooperation visit to Justus Liebig University Giessen (JLU). She is working on the ion transport in all solid state sodium batteries and works mainly with the research groups of Dr. Marcus Rohnke and Prof. Dr. Jürgen Janek at JLU.

Kelsey Hatzell, Assistant Professor Princeton University, received the award in 2021 and recently came on a cooperation visit to Justus Liebig University Giessen (JLU). Together with the JLU POLIS PIs Prof. Jürgen Janek and Prof. Marcus Rohnke, Kelsey is working on novel reservoir-free sodium solid state batteries. Her PhD student Ana Claus is currently on a 2,5-months exchange stay at Justus Liebig University Giessen for the interface characterization between the solid electrolyte and the anode. Promising interlayers were tested to improve the Na deposition.