Dr David Hall

David Hall is a Research Associate in the Department of Chemistry and a Project Lead in Battery Degradation Studies at the Faraday Institution. He is also a Director of Studies in Natural Sciences and a Research Associate at Hughes Hall Cambridge.

Dr Hall received a BSc (2010) with Distinction for Honours Specialisation in Chemistry and a Minor in Materials Science from Western University (London, Canada), and a PhD (2014) in Chemistry from the University of Ottawa. His doctoral research was performed as a visiting scientist at the National Research Council of Canada (Ottawa). He received an NSERC-CREATE fellowship for postdoctoral research at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada (2014-2016) where he researched interfacial reaction dynamics of electrolyte additives for lithium-ion batteries in collaboration with and with funding from 3M Canada. He then joined the Nuclear Waste Management Organization in Toronto (2016-2017), where he managed a portfolio of academic, government, and industrial corrosion research projects across Canada and regularly collaborated with several international partners. He was then a postdoctoral research associate at Dalhousie University (2017-2019) studying characterisation methods for surfaces and interfaces, fast-charging cell designs, and additive synthesis for lithium-ion batteries in partnership with Tesla Canada. Dr Hall moved to Cambridge in 2019, where he jointly leads the £16 million Degradation Project, which includes researchers at 10 UK universities and several industry partners.

Dr Hall is an active member of the international scientific and engineering community, especially within the Electrochemical Society (ECS) in which he is a standing member of the Education Committee and serves on several ECS subcommittees. His other activities include organising international symposia, serving as Lead Guest Editor for a special issue of Corrosion Engineering, Science and Technology (Taylor and Francis, Harwell UK), and regular public outreach activities, such as guest speaking on BBC Radio's The Naked Scientists.

See also:

The Degradation Project: https://degradationproject.com/

The Faraday Institution: https://www.faraday.ac.uk/

Hughes Hall: https://www.hughes.cam.ac.uk/

The Electrochemical Society: http://www.electrochem.org/