About the Author

TLDR: A rare issue about the least interesting battery in the room: me (technically a fuel cell though if you think about it). Here's who actually writes this, plus two questions only you can answer, whether you want a look inside a real battery test and prototyping lab, and whether you want to write for BBB yourself.

Battery Burn Book almost never talks about itself. Today it does, briefly, because I have two things I genuinely need your read on.

Let's get into it.

Who's writing this

I'm Alyssa. I have a PhD in chemical engineering and I spent my research career recycling and making cathodes at 24M Technologies, plus a stint co-founding a materials company, so I've gotten to see three different battery startups fail from the inside! These days I'm Director of Business Development at the Battery Innovation Center, a battery test and prototyping lab: people bring us the materials and cells they swear work, and we find out.

I started Battery Burn Book because almost none of this information is in a bachelor's degree. I learned it one paper at a time in my PhD, and there's no good reason it should be that hard to find. You don't need a PhD to read it, which is the whole point.

Question 1: do you want to see inside a test lab?

Here's the honest tension. My day job now gives me a front-row seat to how cells actually get proven out: rate and HPPC testing, module design, abuse testing (yes, we blow things up on purpose), and the commercialization conversations that decide whether good science ever ships. I could bring you some of that, the genuinely educational parts, clearly labeled, views strictly my own and never my employer's.

But I don't want BBB to turn into a company newsletter, and I trust you to tell me the line. So: do you want behind-the-scenes of a real battery test and prototyping lab, or does that stray too far into self-promotion? Vote in the poll below. Be honest, I can take it, I'm from Boston.

Question 2: do you want to write for BBB?

One author can't fill a publication forever, and the fastest way to bring more voices into energy storage is, well, more voices. If you can explain real electrochemistry with candor and an opinion, I want to hear from you. It's a paid tryout: a short outline, then one sample post. No credentials required, just curiosity and rigor.

Apply here!

This is your publication as much as it's mine. Tell me what you want more of, and who you want to hear it from. I love hearing from you.

Yours,
Alyssa

Battery Burn Book is my personal publication. Opinions are mine alone and do not represent the Battery Innovation Center, its members, or any client.