Principal Investigator
FASc, FNA
Professor of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry, Deccan Institute of Science
Swarnajayanti Fellow
Chair, Clean Energy Materials Programme
Ananya leads the lab. She loves a good cyclic voltammogram and a better cup of chai.
Ananya Rao is Professor of Chemistry at the Deccan Institute of Science, where she leads a group of twenty researchers working on electrochemical energy storage.
Her group discovered the first layered sodium oxide cathode to keep more than 90% of its capacity after 2,000 cycles, and built an operando X-ray cell now used in labs on four continents. Before starting her lab she was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Cambridge, and she received her PhD from the Indian Institute of Science.
Academic portfolio
Professor of Chemistry, Deccan Institute of Science
Associate Professor, Deccan Institute of Science
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Cambridge
PhD in Solid State Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science
Thesis: Ion transport in layered transition-metal oxides
MSc in Chemistry, University of Hyderabad
Swarnajayanti Fellowship, National Research Foundation
Fellow, Academy of Sciences
Young Scientist Medal, National Science Academy
Associate Editor, Journal of Energy Materials
Chair, Clean Energy Materials Programme, Deccan Institute of Science
Sodium batteries for the grid, Gordon Research Conference on Batteries
Watching batteries work, Materials Research Society Fall Meeting