Maha Yusuf

Maha is a Ph.D. candidate in chemical engineering at Stanford University. She is also a Schlumberger Faculty for the Future and Stanford Diversifying Academia, Recruiting Excellence Fellow. Advised by Professor Michael F. Toney and Dr. Johanna Nelson Weker, her research uses imaging diagnostic tools to understand the failure mechanisms of lithium-ion batteries during extreme fast-charging. She holds an M.S. in chemical engineering from Stanford and a B.E. from the National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan. Prior to Stanford, she worked as a drilling engineer on oil and gas rigs in the Amazon rainforests in Colombia.