As the leader of Lyten’s Battery Product Innovation Group, Mikolajczak is responsible for advancing the development of the LytCell™ lithium-sulfur battery to full commercial readiness and optimization. She brings decades of EV battery development experience from cell engineering and manufacturing positions at leading battery companies, including Tesla, Panasonic, and most recently QuantumScape.
Mikolajczak has a long history of researching and delivering commercially viable and qualified battery architectures to the EV marketplace. Her technical consulting practice at Exponent focused on lithium-ion cell and battery safety and quality. She then took a senior management position at Tesla focused on cell quality and materials engineering and helped develop the battery cells and packs for Tesla’s Model S, Model X, Model 3, and Roadster Refresh. In 2019, she joined Panasonic Energy of North America, where she became Vice President of Engineering and Battery Technology, evolving Panasonic’s 2170 cell design and production processes to enable the output of billions of cells per year.
In 2020, Mikolajczak was named to Automotive News’ 100 Leading Women in North America; and was named by the Silicon Valley Business Journal as one of its “Women of Influence for 2022.”