OUR PEOPLE
Academic Credentials
- Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering, North Carolina State University, 2024
- Masters, Materials Science and Engineering, North Carolina State University, 2022
- Bachelors, Materials Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, 2019
Professional Honors
- Christine Mirzayan Science & Technology Policy Fellowship, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, & Medicine, 2024
- National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, 2021-2024
- Climate Leadership Scholar, Kenan Institute for Engineering, Technology, & Science, 2022-2023
Dr. Kamboj is a materials scientist and engineer who specializes in the synthesis, electrochemistry, and characterization of energy storage materials. She has extensive experience designing and evaluating the performance of state-of-the-art lithium-ion battery materials, electrodes, and devices. Her work has focused on interrogating the relationships of electrode architecture and materials chemistry to battery performance using a suite of advanced characterization techniques. At 51ÉçÇø, Dr. Kamboj leverages this background to support clients across the battery life cycle from design reviews, to performance and safety assessments, to failure analysis.
Before joining 51ÉçÇø, Dr. Kamboj was an NSF Graduate Research Fellow at NC State University where she designed and characterized lithium-ion cathode materials and architectures. She advanced a low-temperature, aqueous synthesis method to create electrode architectures with tunable morphologies and geometries for structural batteries. During an internship at Argonne National Lab, Dr. Kamboj also studied the influence of transition metal composition on the performance of low cost, earth-abundant Li- and Mn-rich cathodes. She has experience with a variety of techniques ranging from materials synthesis (hydrothermal, electrodeposition, solid-state), characterization (SEM, EDS, XRD, X-ray CT, ICP, TGA, in-situ and operando Raman microscopy) and electrochemical analysis (GCD, CV, GITT, entropymetry).
As a former Mirzayan Fellow at the National Academies of Sciences, Dr. Kamboj also supported convenings and studies on plastics, carbon management, municipal solid waste, circular economy, and forever chemical pollution. Prior to her graduate studies, she assessed hermetic welding techniques for medical device batteries at Medtronic and synthesized and characterized vibration-damping adhesives at 3M.