Marie-Claude Bay won in the Emerging Talents category with her pitch on Breaking the Wall of Fast Charging, detailing how she is developing a sodium-ion battery that allows for 10 times faster charging than lithium-ion batteries.
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Marie-Claude Bay
Eidgenössische Materialprüfungs- und Forschungsanstalt
Marie-Claude Bay obtained her Bachelor’s degree in Materials Science from EPFL (CH) in 2013 and her Master’s degree in Materials Science from ETH Zurich (CH) in 2016. She has just obtained her PhD degree on new battery technologies from Albert-Ludwigs-University (DE) and EMPA, the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (CH), where she is currently continuing with her research.