Research Scientist — Battery Safety & Performance

Understanding what makes batteries fail — so they don't.

Hi, I'm Dhev Kannan, a research scientist at UL Research Institutes. I design and run experiments on lithium-ion and sodium-ion cells and modules to understand the safety and performance.

PhD, Electrical Engineering · Houston, Texas

Current focus

Sodium-ion & lithium-ion safety

Designing and running abuse and performance tests on commercial cells and modules to characterize thermal runaway behavior and failure modes.

battery safety · thermal stability

Battery performance characterization

Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy, pulse charging, and degradation studies across multiple cell chemistries — LCO, NMC, LFP, LMO, LTO.

EIS · degradation · cycling

Volta Foundation — Battery Report

Contributing editor and workforce-development committee member, helping document and grow the battery industry community each year.

editorial · workforce development

Clean Energy Leadership Institute

CELI Fellow, building leadership skills for the clean energy transition alongside professionals across the sector.

fellowship · clean energy

Selected publications

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On GitHub

@dhev-rk →

Projects and code are hosted on GitHub. Visit github.com/dhev-rk for the latest repositories.