Ilias Belharouak

Ilias Belharouak is a Moroccan-American chemist and scientist. He is a corporate fellow who heads the electrification section at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee, USA. He has contributed to research in high-power density and high-energy density energy storage materials for use in lithium-ion, sodium-ion, solid-state batteries and lithium-sulfur batteries.

At ORNL, Belharouak leads multidisciplinary US Department of Energy sponsored R&D programs focusing on battery energy storage and advanced manufacturing. He has received six R&D 100 Awards and is also an editorial board member of the Journal of Power Sources.

Education
Belharouak received his bachelor's degree in Inorganic Chemistry from Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakech, Morocco in 1995. He obtained a master's degree in Materials Science in 1996 and a doctoral degree in 1999 from Bordeaux 1 University, France.

Recognition

 * 2022 Corporate Fellow by UT-Battelle/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
 * 2022 R&D 100 Award by R&D Magazine for SolidPAC
 * 2021 US Federal Laboratory Consortium Award for building cobalt-free battery technologies licensed to Sparkz
 * 2020 R&D 100 Award by R&D Magazine for Cobalt-free Li-ion battery cathode material
 * 2019 Editor for the Special Issue in Journal of Power Sources in celebration of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
 * 2012 R&D 100 Award by R&D Magazine for High-Energy Concentration-Gradient Cathode Material for Plug-in Hybrids and All-Electric Vehicles
 * 2008 R&D 100 Award by R&D Magazine for Advanced High-Power Battery for hybrid electric vehicles
 * 2005 R&D 100 Award by R&D Magazine for Bion microsimulator