Vilas G. Pol received a Ph.D. from University of Bar–Ilan, Israel, in 2005. He worked as a postdoctoral fellow in both the Bar–Ilan Institute of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials, Israel (Jan 2005 to Dec 2006), and Intense Pulsed Neutron Source, ANL, USA (Jan 2007 to June 2008). He worked as a material scientist at Lithium Battery Materials Group, Electrochemical Energy Storage Department, Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), IL, USA. Currently, he is working as a professor at Davidson School of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA. He has large number of articles, patents and awards to his name. His current research interests are in Li-ion batteries, lithium/sulfur batteries, solid-state batteries, low-temperature batteries, and battery safety.