The Precourt Institute for Energy is part of the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability.

Subra Herle

CTO of Energy Storage and Sr. Director, Applied Materials

Subra is currently the CTO of the energy storage group in Applied Materials. He has   20+ years leading materials development for Li-ion battery and process scale-up activity. Prior to joining Applied Materials, Subra worked at Panasonic battery division as a senior technologist. Subra worked in Germany (Alexander von Humboldt fellow), Canada (U. Waterloo) and US Ames Lab (US_DOE) and had wide chemistry and materials engineering experience from discovery of new material to optimize material for battery application. Subra obtained PhD degree in Solid state chemistry from the IISc Bangalore and Masters in Chemistry form the Mangalore University.

Currently he is the principal investigator for US Department of Energy (DOE) programs - EERE and USABC funded programs (>$25m); leading 2 US-Army funded programs. He is a strong proponent of collaborative engagement in R&D and process development for energy storage application.