Maite Etxandi Santolaya is a PhD student and engineer at the Catalonia Institute for Energy Research (IREC). She holds a double master’s degree in energy and industrial engineering by the Polytechnic University of Catalonia. She currently works in the Energy Systems Analytics group at IREC and her main topics of research are EV battery state algorithm development (SoH and RUL), second-life application assessment and EV EoL evaluation.