Ali Shaygan Nia

Ali Shaygan Nia is a group leader at the Chair of Molecular Functional Materials at TU Dresden since 2018, and at the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics since 2023. He also served as the Business Developer of Graphene Flagship from 2020 to 2023. He received his B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from Isfahan University of Technology (Iran) and his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Polymer Chemistry from Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (Germany). He is the inventor of more than 10 patents and patent applications, and recently won with his team a prestigious innovation project in Germany (EXIST Transfer of Research) to bring printed batteries and supercapacitors to commercialization level. His current interests include the exfoliation and functionalization of new 2D materials via wet chemistry, the development of functional 2D material inks/pastes/formulations for printing technologies, and the fabrication of energy storage devices beyond lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) such as supercapacitors, dual-ion batteries, and zinc batteries.