Karim Zaghib is a Professor at the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, Concordia University. He obtained the D.E.A. degree in 1987 and the Ph.D. degree in Electrochemistry in 1990, both from the Grenoble Institute of Technology. He was a postdoctoral fellow at CNRS and Saft investigating chemical lithiation of graphite and carbon fibers (1990–1992) and a guest researcher working on lithium-ion batteries for the Ministry of International Trade and Industry of Japan at the Osaka National Research Institute (1992–1995). Afterward, he joined the Hydro-Québec Research Institute, where he was instrumental in introducing Li-ion technology to the company in 1995. He was promoted to the Director of the Energy Storage and Conversion Division of the company in 2007. In 2017, he founded the Center of Excellence in Transportation Electrification and Energy Storage of Hydro-Québec. In 2014, he co-founded Esstalion Technologies, a joint-venture between Sony and Hydro-Québec, which aimed to research and develop large-scale energy storage systems for power grids. From 2020 to 2021, he was a strategic advisor at Investissement Québec on the Government of Québec initiative to establish a battery industry from mining to electric vehicles and concurrently a Professor of Practice at McGill University in the Department of Mining and Materials Engineering. In 2022, he joined Concordia University. He won the Prix Lionel-Boulet from the Government of Québec.