Karim Zaghib | |
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Citizenship | Algerian, Canadian |
Education | Grenoble Institute of Technology (DEA, PhD) Pierre et Marie Curie University (HDR) |
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Thesis | Analyse de la cinétique de cémentation du cuivre par le zinc en milieu sulfate[1] |
Doctoral advisor | Bernadette Nguyen |
Karim Zaghib FRSC FCAE (born in 1963) is an Algerian-Canadian electrochemist and materials scientist known for his contributions to the field of energy storage and conversion. He is currently Professor of Chemical and Materials Engineering at Concordia University. As former director of research at Hydro-Québec, he helped to make it the world’s first company to use lithium iron phosphate in cathodes, and to develop natural graphite and nanotitanate anodes.[2]