Evan Erickson
TexPower
CEO
Dr. Evan M. Erickson is the CEO of TexPower, a company focused on commercializing higher energy, lower cost and cobalt-free lithium-ion battery materials made from abundant, affordable and safe materials sourced from a secure supply chain. He followed his B.S. in Chemistry from North Dakota State University with a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign focusing on fuel cell electrocatalysis. He transitioned to lithium-ion battery research at Bar-Ilan University in Israel and later the University of Texas at Austin where he founded TexPower with his partners Prof. Arumugam Manthiram and Dr. Wangda Li in 2019. He is the author of over 25 journal articles on energy materials.