Shirley Meng

Professor Y. Shirley Meng is the Distinguished University Professor and Vice President (Industry) at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. She is also the Liew Family Professor in Molecular Engineering at the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering and serves as the founding Faculty Director of the Energy Technologies Initiative at the Institute for Climate and Sustainable Growth (ICSG) at the University of Chicago. She is the principal investigator of the Laboratory for Energy Storage and Conversion (LESC), a research group established in 2009 at the University of California San Diego. From 2017 to 2022, she held the Zable Chair Professorship in Energy Technologies and founded the Sustainable Power and Energy Center (SPEC) in 2016.

Professor Meng's accolades include the Shep Wolsky Battery Innovation Award (2025), the NATTBatt Lifetime Achievement Award (2025), the ACS Research Excellence in Electrochemistry Award (2024), the ECS Battery Division Research Award (2023), the C3E Technology and Innovation Award (2022), the Faraday Medal (2020), the IBA Research Award (2019), and the NSF CAREER Award (2011). She is an elected Fellow of the Electrochemical Society (FECS), the Materials Research Society (FMRS), and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

With over 350 peer-reviewed publications, two book chapters, and eight patents, her research has made significant contributions to the advancement of energy storage science. Professor Meng received her Ph.D. in Advanced Materials for Micro & Nano Systems from the Singapore-MIT Alliance in 2005 and her B.S. (First-Class Honours) in Materials Science from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, in 2000.