Dr.-Ing. Magdalena Graczyk-Zajac

Magda works on optimization and efficient operation of stationary storage installations including testing and evaluation of innovative storage solutions. Sodium-based stationary storage is in a focus of her research and professional interest. She is also involved in the activities of EnBW related to the extraction of lithium from geothermal sources.
She is a deputy coordinator of the Horizon 2020 EU granted project SIMBA (Sodium Ion and Sodium Metal Batteries, Grant Agreement no. 963542). From September 2023 she holds a Guest Professorship in Materials and Resources Division, Material Science Department of TU Darmstadt. Her research interests include innovative processing routes to obtain well-performing materials for lithium and beyond lithium technologies as well as advanced recycling routes of Li-ion batteries.
Magda studied Chemistry at Technical University of Gdansk in Poland and received her PhD in Physical Chemistry on electroactivity of organometallics-modified conducting polymers at Burgundy University, Dijon, France in 2007. Then she moved to CEA Liten Grenoble, France to work as a research engineer on novel electrodes and electrolytes for Li-ion batteries. Later, she moved back to academia and continued her research on polymer-derived ceramics for energy-related applications as a postdoc and later Junior Group Leader in Material Science Department of TU Darmstadt, Germany. In May 2020 she joint R&D division of EnBW.