Dr Kenza Maher joined Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute (QEERI) in January 2015 as a Scientist at the Energy Science and Technology Group. She has more than 10 years' experience in researching energy storage. Before joining QEERI, Dr Maher was Research Fellow and Project Leader at the Joint Future Mobility Research Lab with the BMW Group and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Her research focused on safety evaluation and diagnostics of BMW electric cars’ batteries to overcome the hazard of thermal runaway in cars.
Dr Maher received her PhD from Cadi Ayyad University, Morocco in January 2011. Her PhD focused on the development of new phosphate and oxides materials for high energy lithium-ion batteries. During her PhD, she was a Guest Researcher at Angström Laboratory, Department of Material Chemistry, Uppsala University, Sweden.
After her PhD, she joined the Energy Research Institute at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore as Research Fellow. She worked on development of a new method to determine the battery state of charge (SOC) and state of health (SOH) based on its thermodynamics properties.
After that she moved to TUM CREATE LTd, Singapore. Her research focused on the study of batteries’ thermodynamics and kinetics properties
My research focuses on the development of safe and reliable materials for Li-ion and Na-ion batteries and the evaluation of battery safety (of lithium, sodium and sulfur battery) by performing in-situ thermodynamics studies by isothermal calorimetry and conducting abuse tests at cell level by adiabatic calorimetry and at components level by thermogravimetry-differential scanning calorimetry to overcome the hazard of thermal runaway in battery.
Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute (QEERI), Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), Doha, Qatar.
January 2015 to presentJoint Future Mobility Research Lab with BMW Group and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
November 2013 - January 2015 - 1 year and 3 monthsTUM CREATE Ltd., Singapore.
November 2012 – October 2013 - 1 yearEnergy Research Institute (ERI@N), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore
July 2011 – October 2012 - 1 year and 4 monthsLCME, FST Marrakech, University Cadi Ayyad, Marrakech, Morocco.
2010Physical-chemistry of materials, LCMS, faculty of sciences, Ben M’Sik, University Hassan II Mohammedia, Casablanca, Morocco.
2006Inorganic Chemistry, faculty of sciences, Ben M’Sik, University Hassan II Mohammedia, Casablanca, Morocco.
2004faculty of sciences, Ben M’Sik, University Hassan II Mohammedia, Casablanca, Morocco.
2002R. Essehli, H. Ben Yahia, K. Maher, M.T. Sougrati, A. Abouimrane, J.-B. Park, Y.-K. Sun, M.A. Al-Maadeed, I. Belharouak, J. Power Sources 324 (2016) 657.
2016R. Essehli, I. Belharouak, H. Ben Yahia, K. Maher, A. Abouimrane, B. Orayech, S. Calder, X. L. Zhou, Z. Zhou, Y.-K. Sun, Dalton Trans., 44 (2015) 7881.
2015Kenza Maher, Rachid Yazami, J. Power Sources 261 (2014) 389
2014Kenza Maher, Rachid Yazami, J. Power Sources 247 (2014) 527.
2014Kenza Maher, Rachid Yazami, Electrochemica Acta 101 (2013) 71-78.
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