Yi Cui is the Director of the Precourt Institute for Energy, Founding Director of Sustainability Accelerator, Fortinet Founders Professor of materials science and engineering, and energy science and engineering. He earned his bachelor’s degree in chemistry in 1998 from the University of Science & Technology of China and his PhD in chemistry from Harvard University in 2002. Cui was a Miller Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley from 2002 to 2005 before joining the Stanford faculty. A preeminent researcher of nanotechnologies for better batteries and other sustainability materials technologies, Cui has published more than 550 studies and is one of the world’s most cited scientists with H-index 256 (Google). In 2014 he was ranked NO.1 worldwide in Materials Science by Thomas Reuters.   He is an Associate Editor of Nano Letters and Co-director of the Battery 500 Consortium, Bay Area Photovoltaic Consortium, Stanford StorageX Initiative. He has founded six companies to commercialize technologies from his lab: Amprius Inc., 4C Air Inc., EEnotech Inc., LifeLabs Design Inc. EnerVenue Inc and EnnoPure Inc. Cui is an elected member of the US National Academy of Sciences, fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, fellow of the Materials Research Society, fellow of the Electrochemical Society, and fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. His selected honors include Global Energy Prize (2021), Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award (2021), Materials Research Society Medal (2020), Electrochemical Society Battery Technology Award (2019) and Blavatnik National Laureate (2017).