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Professor Mamdouh Abdelsalam received his PhD in Electrochemistry in 2000 from the University of Southampton, UK, and his BSc and MSc in Chemistry from Tanta University, Egypt, in 1994. His career spans more than 25 years across academia and industrial R&D leadership in the UK, KSA and the UAE, giving him a unique profile that bridges fundamental research, industrial innovation and technology commercialization in electrochemistry and energy storage. Before joining Khalifa University, he served as CTO of Yas Energy and Director of Electrochemical Systems at the Technology Innovation Institute (TII) in Abu Dhabi, and as Head of R&D at Anaphite Ltd and AMTE Power Plc in the UK, following senior battery R&D roles at Dyson, Nexeon and QinetiQ. In academia, he held senior research positions at the University of Southampton and was Associate Professor of Physical Chemistry at King Faisal University.
Mamdouh has taken energy storage technologies from the laboratory to the production line throughout his career. He established Dyson’s battery R&D and prototyping facility, and at Nexeon he partnered with Sony and Honda to integrate silicon anodes into commercial batteries. He also led lithium-ion and sodium-ion cell development and scale-up at AMTE Power, and developed a roll-to-roll dry electrode coating process at Anaphite. He is an inventor on 15 international patents, many of them in commercial use, and has published more than 60 peer-reviewed papers, including in Nature Photonics, JACS and Physical Review Letters. He is a Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), the International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE) and the Electrochemical Society (ECS).
