Dr. Rana Mohtadi is a Senior Principal Scientist at the materials research department at Toyota Research Institute of North America TRINA and has been in the decarbonization R&D field for over two decades. She has been spearheading and leading research for the creation, design and demonstration of transformative materials for chemical and electrochemical energy storage technologies, including the research of novel battery electrolyte chemistries for liquid and solid state batteries, and has contributed important advancements in these areas. She has published influential research and has been awarded over 30 patents. Notable recognitions include receiving the R&D100 award (2011) and being named in “40 under 40” by the Automotive News (2014) and Crain’s Detroit Business (2014). She was recognized and showcased in the “We Run on Brain Power” initiative by the State Governor in 2015 as a face of cutting edge innovation in the State of Michigan, USA. More recently, she was elected to serve as Chair for the Metal-Hydrogen Systems Gordon Research Conference in 2025. Dr. Mohtadi also acts as a Principal Investigator at the Advanced Institute for Materials Research AIMR at Tohoku University in Japan (Researcher | AIMR (tohoku.ac.jp).