Egor Pazhetnov

Egor graduated from Novosibirsk State University (NSU), Department of Physics.

Job career:

Egor joined Skoltech as Principal Industrial Engineer in April 2019 to work in CEST (Battery Department).

Before that Egor worked in Samsung SDI, R&D Center (S.Korea).

He started his career in Samsung SDI in October 2007 as a Senior Engineer in R&D Battery Technology Department. He was promoted to Principal Engineer in 2016 and continued his job for Samsung SDI until April 2019.

Before Samsung SDI Egor worked as a research scientist at Boreskov Institute of Catalysis, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Novosibirsk).

Professional skills:

During his career in Samsung SDI Egor acquired a deep practical knowledge of the following processes:

• Manufacturing of different active materials for battery application (with focus on surface modification)
• Electrode/Electrolyte interphases anode/electrolyte (SEI) and cathode/elecrolyte (CEI) formation and characterization on various anodes and cathodes. Development of SEI and CEI formation processes from experimental cells to practical batteries and from laboratory scale to production lines.
• Battery manufacturing problems, including instant failure on production line;
• Battery degradation problems (from BOL (beginning of life ) till EOL (end of life)

Egor is an expert in following characterization techniques:

Surface characterization techniques such as X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS), Auger Electron Spectroscopy (AES), Reflection Electron Loss Spectroscopy (REELS), as well as electrochemical characterization techniques, like Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS)