Dr. Ihsan Ul Haq’s PhD and postdoctoral research at HKUST were focused on the synthesis and characterization of nanocomposite electrodes, as well as using advanced in situ and cryogenic electron microscopy techniques to explore the real-time nanostructural evolution of battery electrodes upon sodiation and elucidate the electrode-electrolyte interphases.

In 2022, he joined Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) as a postdoctoral researcher in the Kostecki Research Group. His research employed advanced characterization techniques such as scattering-type scanning nearfield optical microscopy (s-SNOM/nano-FTIR), synchrotron infrared nearfield spectroscopy (SINS), ATR-FTIR, X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), and resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS) to investigate next-generation Li-ion battery electrodes. He was also an affiliate researcher at the Marvell Nanofabrication Laboratory at UC Berkeley, where he fabricated thin-film electrodes using plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) and DC sputtering. Additionally, he gained experience working at the Molecular Foundry and the Advanced Light Source.