Dr. Carlos Ziebert earned his Diploma degree and his PhD in Physics from the Saarland University Saarbrücken. In 2002 he joined the KIT, where he is currently the leader of the group “Batteries – Calorimetry and Safety”. Since 2011, his research is focused in the field of electrochemical-thermal and safety characterization of Li-ion cells, where he has been leader in 5 projects and Manager of the EERA Joint Programme on Energy Storage from 2011–2013. He has 21 years of R&D experience and more than 90 peer-reviewed articles with a h-index of 25. Since 2017, he is a member of the Editorial Board of Batteries. As part of the umbrella concept “Research Factory Battery”, his group is involved in the two competence clusters Batt Use (battery usage concepts) and AQua (analytics / quality assurance) with the projects BatgasMod (battery gas modeling) and AnaLiBa (analytics on Li-ion batteries). At the European level, his group is an important partner in the Horizon 2020 project HELIOS (High-performance moduLar battery packs for sustainable urban electrOmobility Services). In the POLiS - Excellence Cluster for Battery Research Post-Lithium Storage, his group is responsible for the thermal characterization and safety of Na and Mg cells, which are expected to offer greater sustainability, safety and storage capacity combined with lower costs.