Dr. Yaser Abu-Lebdeh is a Research Officer and Group Leader at the National Research Council of Canada in Ottawa. His research group focuses on energy storage materials and devices including lithium batteries for consumer electronics, electric vehicles, and smart grids. He has co-authored over forty publications and five patents in the field. He is the lead author and editor of a book titled “Nanotechnology for Li-ion batteries,” published by Springer in 2013. He earned his PhD in Electrochemistry from the University of Southampton (UK) in 2001, his Masters degree in Materials Science from the University of Manchester (UK) in 1997, and his Bachelor degree in Industrial Chemistry from Jordan University of Science and Technology in 1995. Before joining the National Research Council of Canada in 2005, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Montreal’s International Laboratory on Electro-active Materials.