Dr Kenza  Maher joined Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute (QEERI)  in January 2015 as a Scientist at  the Energy Science and Technology Group. She has more than 10 years' experience in researching energy storage. Before joining QEERI, Dr Maher was Research Fellow and Project Leader at the Joint Future Mobility Research Lab with the BMW Group and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Her research focused on safety evaluation and diagnostics of  BMW electric cars’ batteries to overcome the hazard of thermal runaway in cars.

Dr Maher received her PhD from Cadi Ayyad University, Morocco in January 2011. Her PhD focused on the development of new phosphate and oxides materials for high energy lithium-ion batteries. During her PhD, she was a Guest Researcher at Angström Laboratory, Department of Material Chemistry, Uppsala University, Sweden.

After her PhD, she joined the Energy Research Institute at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore as Research Fellow. She worked on development of a new method to determine the battery state of charge (SOC) and state of health (SOH) based on its thermodynamics properties.

After that she moved to TUM CREATE LTd, Singapore.  Her research focused on the study of batteries’ thermodynamics and kinetics properties