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Sustainable Battery Recycling Concepts: Breaking the Wall of Battery Recycling

Anna Vanderbruggen

Emerging Talents Winner

Li-ion batteries are currently the most potent and widely used energy storage concept. To render the use of Li-Ion Batteries sustainable, suitable recycling concepts are urgently needed.

Anna Vanderbruggen

Helmholtz-Institut Freiberg für Ressourcentechnologie

Anna Vanderbruggen is a process engineer at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Géologie in France and has completed the EMerald Erasmus Mundus Master’s program in the field of geoengineering. After working mainly with primary resources, she moved into the field of secondary materials in 2018. She created her own research project on lithium ion batteries recycling, with a major focus graphite. She is currently a PhD student at the Helmholtz Institute Freiberg for Resource Technology and at Aalto University in Finland.