Speakers

Boris Monahov devoted 45 years to battery science, R&D and manufacturing. His experience includes 25 years of basic electrochemical research (with the team of Prof. D. Pavlov as one of his Associate Professors), followed by 6 years of research and innovative technologies development in the battery industry as Chief Electrochemist of Firefly Energy Inc., Peoria, IL (lead ― carbon foam batteries), a start-up which closed in early 2010. For 9 years (in the period 2010-2018) he served as Program Manager of the Advanced Lead-Acid Battery Consortium (ALABC), the only global battery R&D organization found by the lead industry in the USA and managed by the ILA in London. Since 2019 he has been managing the global R&D battery optimization program of WaveTech Group. The company develops new methods for increasing power performance and extending the service life of lead-acid and lithium-ion batteries.
He has published over 65 articles on battery electrochemistry and holds 5 patents. Boris is an active member of the Electrochemical Society. In 2014 he was awarded by the Gaston Plante medal of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences for fundamental contributions to the lead-acid battery science and technology.