Dr. Eric Dufek is the department manager for Idaho National Laboratory’s Energy Storage & Electric Transportation Department, overseeing more than 40 research scientists, engineers, postdoctoral researchers, and interns. The department focuses on advanced transportation systems with an emphasis on use, analysis and controls for electric vehicle infrastructure, the development, evaluation, and identification of technology gaps for advanced battery technologies and analysis of current and future mobility systems. His personal research interests are in electrochemical systems with an emphasis on Li metal and Li-ion batteries. Recent work has focused on methods to better understand battery failure modes and how they can be better predicted, quantified, and used for life prediction using limited data. He has published over 90 peer reviewed journal articles in the fields of electrochemistry, batteries, interface modification, immunoassay development and corrosion. He received his bachelor’s in chemistry from the University of South Dakota and his doctorate in Analytical Chemistry from the University of Wyoming. Before joining INL in 2010 he was a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Utah.