Dr. Robert Spotnitz – NESC Academy Biography

Robert M. Spotnitz, PhD, President, Battery Design LLC. Dr. Spotnitz has 35 years of industrial experience having worked at W. R. Grace & Co. and Hoechst as a Senior Staff Engineer, before founding Battery Design LLC in 1999. In 2009 he partnered with CD-adapco(now part of Siemens) to support computer-aided engineering tools for battery design and simulation. He is a technical advisor for several companies and has led workshops on batteries for a number of organizations including ECS, SAE, IEEE, AABC, Battery Power, and Materials Research Company.

During his career, Dr. Spotnitz worked extensively on various electrochemical processes and products. Notably he is a co-inventor of the multi-layer battery separators widely used in lithium-ion batteries, and co-developer of the Battery Design Studio(R) software. He holds 27 patents mostly dealing with batteries and authored or co-authored 43 publications (including 4 book chapters). He has a PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin Madison, a MS in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins, BS in Chemical Engineering from Arizona State University, and BS in Computer Science from University of Maryland College Park.

Last updated April 4, 2017