Stephen Browne

Stephen is a Materials Chemist, specializing in advanced functional materials for energy storage and conversion. He earned his undergraduate degree in Chemistry from St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi, before pursuing an Erasmus Mundus Joint Master’s degree in Materials Science and Electrochemistry. During this program, he conducted research on Li-ion capacitors at CIC energiGUNE in Spain and completed his master’s thesis—Exploring Degradation Pathways in Layered Oxide Full Cells for Sodium-ion Batteries—at the Collège de France in Paris under the supervision of Prof. Jean-Marie Tarascon. Starting January 2025, he joined the Seshadri Lab at the University of California, Santa Barbara as a PhD student, where he focuses on the synthesis, structural characterization, and electrochemical evaluation of advanced materials.