After Meng received her PhD in materials science through the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology program, she joined MIT as a postdoctoral fellow, with the goal of becoming an academic. Building better batteriesĮnergy storage wasn’t always a national or societal priority. “We are ready to build a dream team to tackle some of the most difficult energy storage problems in the world,” said Meng. Now a faculty member at the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering and the chief scientist for the Argonne Collaborative Center for Energy Storage Science, Meng has her sights set on creating new technologies that support a sustainable future.
That experience ultimately set her on the path to becoming a professor and then a global expert in energy storage research. But that disappointment was a turning point - it led to her to pursue an internship with a professor studying superconducting oxide materials. When she didn’t get an internship, she was devastated. Her father, a civil engineer who built hydroelectric dams in her native Hangzhou, China, read her stories of Nobel laureates and encouraged her to embrace cars and airplanes as well as dolls.Īs an undergraduate at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, she pursued an internship with Boeing to learn more about the light, strong alloys used in airplane structures. Shirley Meng understood the importance of both sustainability and scientific research.
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Editor’s note: This story is part of ‘Meet a UChicagoan,’ a regular series focusing on the people who make UChicago a distinct intellectual community.
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