💚 Team

We’re a group of engineers, scientists, and learners passionate about batteries and decarbonisation. We are deeply curious about the chain of events which build up to industry trends.

  • Morning Brew. Why some VCs are taking notes from a niche battery group. 2023.

  • Sifted. Can the battery world shake its lithium addiction? 2022.

  • Morning Brew. The global race for battery production is underway. 2022.

  • UCL Technology Fund. The state of early-stage Climate Tech investing. 2021.

  • Mewburn Ellis Forward Magazine. Intercalation Station: bringing new energy to battery industry reporting. 2021.

  • Climate Tech VC. Staying current with the battery value chain. 2021.

  • Cell Siders Podcast. Mind the Gap (between academia and industry). 2021.

  • BatteryBits. Preventing Fraud in the Battery World. 2020.

  • American Chemical Society. Fostering a Sustainable Community in Batteries. 2020.

  • Nicholas Yiu Profile

    Nicholas Yiu

    Co-Founder

    Director at Intercalation. Business development at Voltaiq. Previously at About:Energy, Addionics, Heliotrope, UCL, PARC. UPenn and Berkeley alum.

  • Andrew Wang Profile

    Andrew Wang

    Co-Founder

    Postdoctoral scientist at Columbia University. Previously PhD Researcher at University of Oxford and the Faraday Institution, interned with Tesla, Bosch, and Berkeley Lab. Berkeley and Oxford alum.

  • Isabella Stephens

    Isabella Stephens

    Managing Editor

    PhD student at the University of Birmingham with the Faraday Institution working on sustainable battery materials. Interned at Northvolt & Vianode. Oxford Alum.

  • Gaël Mourouga Profile

    Gaël Mourouga

    Contributor

    Battery algorithm engineer at CSEM (Switzerland) for SoX estimations. PhD from ETH Zürich on organic redox-flow batteries. Masters research at Cambridge on Li-S batteries. Arts et Metiers Paristech alum.

  • Ethan Alter Profile

    Ethan Alter

    Contributor

    MSc researcher in Jeff Dahn’s lab at Dalhousie University with experience at Tesla and other startups in California, the UK, and Singapore. Waterloo alum.

  • Pooja Vadhva Profile

    Pooja Vadhva

    Contributor

    PhD student at University College London. Previously interned with Tesla, Jaguar Land Rover, and SKUTE. Former Great Britain athlete, Double British Champion and International Medallist.

  • Kent Griffith Profile

    Kent Griffith

    Contributor

    Assistant Professor of Chemistry at UC San Diego. Founder and CEO of Niobe Energy. Co-founder of Nyobolt. Alum of Indiana University, University of Cambridge, and Northwestern University.

  • Sophia Constantinou

    Sophia Constantinou

    Events Manager

    Freelance science communicator. MSc Science Media Production at Imperial College London, making science documentaries and radio. University of Edinburgh chemistry graduate.

  • Kush Sutaria

    Kush Sutaria

    Contributor

    Senior Applications Engineer at Hithium Energy Storage. Master's in Aeronautical Engineering from Imperial College London with experience working on unmanned aircraft and spacecraft batteries. Previously at Airbus and Axiom Space. Private Pilot.