Jie Xiao

Battelle Fellow and Group Leader, Battery Materials & System Group, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

2023 C3E Technology Research & Innovation Award Winner

Jie Xiao is a Battelle Fellow and leads the Battery Materials & System Group at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). She holds a joint appointment at the University of Washington (UW) and is a PNNL-UW Distinguished Faculty Fellow. She currently serves as the Deputy Director of the Department of Energy’s 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 research and practical applications of energy storage materials and systems to accelerate deep decarbonization. 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 clean 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 has been named a top 1% Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher annually, since 2017. She holds 17 patents in energy storage, seven of which have been licensed to industry. She has received several awards, including DOE’s 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. She earned her PhD in Materials Chemistry from State University of New York Binghamton in 2008.