Venkat Srinivasan named director of Argonne Collaborative Center for Energy Storage Science

Venkrat Srinivasan was recently named the next director of the Argonne Collaborative Center for Energy Storage Science (ACCESS), which focuses on the development and commercialization of energy storage and battery technologies.

ACCESS, founded in 2015, is a center within the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, which facilitates industrial coordination between Argonne’s energy storage programs and industry researchers.

Srinivasan previously served as a staff scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He will continue in his current role as the deputy director of the Joint Center for Energy Storage Research, a DOE Energy Innovation Hub that is led by Argonne and works to create batteries that surpass the energy storage capabilities of today’s lithium-ion technology.

“I’m deeply passionate about finding ideas and ways to move technologies from the laboratory to the marketplace,” Srinivasan said. “That’s why I’m excited to lead an organization like ACCESS, which is able to make the most of the full breadth of energy storage work at Argonne.”

While at Berkeley Lab, Srinivasan created the idea for CalCharge, an energy storage partnership between public and private enterprises.

“Venkat brings to Argonne a special combination of scientific savvy, understanding of how to make technology ready for the market and a familiarity with Argonne’s battery programs,” Paul Kearns, Argonne Deputy Laboratory Director for Operations and Chief Operations Officer, said. “He is unusually well equipped to generate the biggest impact from the world-class scientific research we conduct at Argonne.”