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Is a Moroccan scientist, engineer, and inventor. He is best known for his critical role in the development of the graphite anode (negative pole) for lithium-ion batteries and his research on fluoride ion batteries. While holding a research director position with the CNRS in France, Yazami served as a visiting associate at the California Institute of Technology between 2000 and 2010. In 2010, Yazami was appointed a Nanyang Visiting Professor. He was promoted in 2012 to the Cheng Tsang Man Chair Professor in Energy at the School of Materials Science and Engineering of the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore. Yazami is the co-author involved in over 250 published papers and the co-inventor of about 160 patents related to lithium primary and rechargeable batteries and on new battery chemistry based on fluoride ion. In 2014, Rachid Yazami, John Goodenough, Yoshio Nishi, and Akira Yoshino were awarded the Draper Prize by The National Academy of Engineering for pioneering and leading the groundwork for today’s lithium-ion battery. The prize. That same year, Yazami was a finalist of the Global Energy Award (Russia, 2014).

Professor at Mie University in Japan and a Fellow of the American Physical Society. His research interests include development of ab-initio computational method, full-potential linearized augmented plane wave method, for studying the magnetism phenomena in complex material systems including their use for investigations on non-collinear magnetism, and spin-orbital induced- and external electric field-induced magnetic phenomena of films and at surfaces/interfaces.

He is a CNRS Research Director at the Centre for Energy and Thermal Sciences of Lyon (CETHIL), and member of the "Microscale and Nanoscale Heat Transfer" (MiNT) group at CETHIL. Since 2018 he is co-responsible of the nano-micro-thermal thematic group of the SFT (Société Française de Thermique) and since 2020 director of the GDR-NAME (Nanomaterials for Energy Applications a French National Scientific Network).
His research is mainly focused on the influence of interfaces, surfaces and point or extended defects on the thermal properties of materials in nanoscales (superlattices, thin films, nanowires, nanotubes). Currently, he continues his research on the Modelling and Simulations of the Thermal Transport and Thermoelectric Properties and Phenomena at the Nanoscale, which is related to the open questions of the heat dissipation in nanostructures. Finally, he is working on the effect of the amorphous phase impact on the thermal properties of nanostructures and phononic crystals. Solid/liquid interfaces and interaction at nanoscale have also attracted his interest recently.

is the Battery Group Leader at GreenMat Labory of the University of Liège (Belgium). His research focuses on i) the development of the battery materials for Alkali-ion batteries, ii) all solid-state batteries and iii) recycling of spent Li-ion batteries and PV panels. He is in charge of the analytical platforms of electrochemistry and Mössbauer Spectroscopy. Before joining the University of Liège, Abdelfattah was a postdoctoral researcher for two years at Forschungszentrum Jülich, JCNS-2 (Germany). His research there focused on the characterization of electrochemically active materials using nuclear resonance and neutron scattering techniques. He graduated with a Ph.D. in Materials Science in December 2012 from Cadi Ayyad University in Marrakech (Morocco), where his dissertation focused on the development of three electrode materials for high-energy-density lithium-ion batteries. He has been a visiting researcher in many research centers, laboratories and Universities: Oak Ridge National Lab (USA, 2018), Montpellier University (France, 2011) and Materials Science Institute of Madrid (Spain 2009, 2010 and 2012). He has authored and co-authored more than 105 peer-reviewed papers, holds 2 patents, and has contributed to over 120 conference papers, invited talks, and extended abstracts.