Gerbrand Ceder

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Gerbrand Ceder
Alma mater	KU Leuven (BA) University of California, Berkeley (PhD)
Awards	2017 National Academy of Engineering 2016 International Battery Award Research 2016 MRS Materials Theory Award 2015 MRS Fellow 2009 MRS Gold Medal 2007 MIT School of Engineering Graduate Teaching Award 2004 ECS Battery Research Award
Scientific career
Fields	Computational materials science Computational materials design
Institutions	University of California, Berkeley
Doctoral advisor	Didier de Fontaine
Doctoral students	Shyue Ping Ong, Kisuk Kang, Anubhav Jain, Geoffroy Hautier, Shirley Meng, Jinhyuk Lee, Anton Van der Ven, Wenhao Sun
Website	ceder.berkeley.edu

Gerbrand Ceder is a Belgian–American scientist who is a professor and the Samsung Distinguished Chair in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Research at the

In 2009, ByungWoo Kang and Gerbrand Ceder demonstrated that the lithium-ion battery cathode material LiFePO4 could undergo ultrafast charging and discharging (~10 sec full discharge).[5]

In 2014, Jinhyuk Lee and Gerbrand Ceder demonstrated that when the Li content surpasses the percolation threshold, disordered rocksalt structures can deliver high discharge capacity (>300 mAh/g) and energy density (>1000 Wh/kg). The discovery opens up new opportunities for Nickel and cobalt free cathode materials for Li-ion batteries and significantly lowers the cost of cathode materials.^[6]

Autonomous Materials Discovery

In November 2023, Ceder and colleagues introduced A-Lab, an autonomous laboratory for inorganic powder synthesis, integrating computations, machine learning, and robotics.[7] The work garnered significant attention^[8][9] based on the claim it successfully synthesized 41 out of 58 novel compounds, primarily oxides and phosphates, over 17 days. The A-lab used graph neural networks trained on computational materials databases and literature-trained natural language models for initial synthesis recipe proposals, optimized through active learning based on thermodynamics.

Awards and Honors

Professor Ceder is an elected Fellow of the Materials Research Society (MRS),^[10] the American Physical Society (APS),^[11] The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS),^[12][13] and the Electrochemical Society (ECS).^[14] In 2017, he was elected to the US National Academy of Engineering for "For the development of practical computational materials design and its application to the improvement of energy storage technology".^[15][16] He is also a member of the American Academy of the Arts and Science (2022) ^[17][18] and a Fellow of the Royal Flemish Academy of Arts and Sciences (2016).^[19]

As a young faculty member at MIT he received multiple awards for his work, including an National Science Foundation Early Career Award and the TMS Robert Lansing Hardy Award for from The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society for "exceptional promise for a successful career" (1996).^[20][21] In 1999 he was also appointed to the Res Metallica Chair of his Alma Mater, the K.U. Leuven.

Professor Ceder’s work on energy storage materials include the Battery Research Award from the Electrochemical Society in 2004,^[22] the Research Award from the International Battery Association in 2017,^[23] and in 2009 the Materials Research Society (MRS) Gold Medal "For pioneering the high-impact field of first-principles thermodynamics of batteries materials and for the development of high-power density Li battery compounds".^[24][25]

For his work on developing materials theory and computational materials science he received the MRS Materials Theory Award in 2016,^[26][27] and in 2019 the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS – Japan) Award for Data-driven Materials Research.^[28] In 2023 he was awarded the Hume Rothery Award from TMS for “seminal contributions to theory and predictive computational methods for complex multicomponent alloys and ceramic solid solutions, and pioneering advances for ab-initio materials design.”^[29] Most recently he was honored with the Charles Hatchett Award for the productive use of Nb in energy storage materials.^[30] Other awards include the TMS Morris Cohen Award (2016)^[31] and the Alexander M. Cruickshank Award at the 2015 Gordon Conference.

See also

• Materials informatics

References