UYA member Dr. Sanli Faez receives Open Science grant
With the Open Science Fund, the Dutch research council NWO wants to boost the recognition and appreciation of open science practices by supporting projects of researchers who are frontrunners in this movement. UYA member Dr. Sanli Faez is one of the recipients of the fund, a financial impulse of up to 50,000 euros, for his FAIR-Battery Knowledgebase (FAIR = Findable + Accessible + Interoperable + Reproducible). This is a project that is supported by the .
The energy transition that is required to combat climate change requires an unprecedentedly rapid shift to sustainable electrification over the next decade. In particular, the development of innovative technology for energy generation and especially energy storage is urgent. No technology can be developed and scaled up in such a short time without decentralized open innovation and rapid knowledge dissemination. The project proposed by Dr. Sanli Faez and colleagues creates a common "knowledge pool" and builds and trains an expert community to enable rapid global development of open hardware batteries, specifically focused on sustainable electrochemical batteries; redox-flow batteries based on local renewable resources.