2026 Gerbrand Ceder: Materials Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

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Materials Science	183	53	51	25	23	906	142095

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Materials Science in United States Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Best Scientists Award
2025 - Research.com Materials Science in United States Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Materials Science in United States Leader Award
2020 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For extensive contributions to the fundamental understanding of energy storage materials, and for pioneering the materials genome approach for computational materials design
2017 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For the development of practical computational materials design and its application to the improvement of energy storage technology.
2016 - Materials Theory Award, Materials Research Society “For seminal contributions to the emerging field of computationally guided materials exploiting high-throughput computation and promoting the development of open databases to enable widespread use.
2009 - MRS Medal, Materials Research Society For pioneering the high-impact field of first-principles thermodynamics of batteries materials and for the development of high-power density Li battery compounds.

Overview

Gerbrand Ceder is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Engineering and Materials Science, with significant contributions in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Automotive Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Inorganic Chemistry.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics, including:

Advancements in Battery Materials
Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies
Machine Learning in Materials Science
X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
Advanced Battery Technologies Research
Extraction and Separation Processes
Crystallization and Solubility Studies

Gerbrand Ceder has published extensively in various notable venues. Frequent publication venues include:

ECS Meeting Abstracts
arXiv (Cornell University)
Chemistry of Materials
Advanced Energy Materials
The Cambridge Structural Database

Some recent papers authored or coauthored by Gerbrand Ceder are:

Promises and Challenges of Next-Generation "Beyond Li-ion" Batteries for Electric Vehicles and Grid Decarbonization, 2020, Chemical Reviews
An autonomous laboratory for the accelerated synthesis of novel materials, 2023, Nature
Cation-disordered rocksalt-type high-entropy cathodes for Li-ion batteries, 2020, Nature Materials
CHGNet as a pretrained universal neural network potential for charge-informed atomistic modelling, 2023, Nature Machine Intelligence
Cation-disordered rocksalt transition metal oxides and oxyfluorides for high energy lithium-ion cathodes, 2020, Energy & Environmental Science

Coauthors frequently collaborating with them include:

Christopher J. Bartel
Bin Ouyang
Kristin A. Persson
Haegyeom Kim
KyuJung Jun

Gerbrand Ceder has received several awards, including:

Fellow of American Physical Society (APS), 2020, for extensive contributions to the fundamental understanding of energy storage materials and pioneering the materials genome approach for computational materials design
Member of the National Academy of Engineering, 2017, for the development of practical computational materials design and its application to the improvement of energy storage technology
Materials Theory Award, Materials Research Society, 2016, for seminal contributions to computationally guided materials and open databases enabling widespread use
MRS Medal, Materials Research Society, 2009, for pioneering first-principles thermodynamics of battery materials and development of high-power density lithium battery compounds

Best Publications

Commentary: The Materials Project: A materials genome approach to accelerating materials innovation

Anubhav Jain;Shyue Ping Ong;Geoffroy Hautier;Wei-Wei Chen

12240
Citations
Python Materials Genomics (pymatgen): A robust, open-source python library for materials analysis

Shyue Ping Ong;William Davidson Richards;Anubhav Jain;Geoffroy Hautier

4205
Citations
Battery materials for ultrafast charging and discharging

Byoungwoo Kang;Gerbrand Ceder

4086
Citations
Electrode Materials for Rechargeable Sodium-Ion Batteries: Potential Alternatives to Current Lithium-Ion Batteries

Sung-Wook Kim;Dong-Hwa Seo;Xiaohua Ma;Gerbrand Ceder

3595
Citations
Electrodes with high power and high capacity for rechargeable lithium batteries.

Kisuk Kang;Ying Shirley Meng;Ying Shirley Meng;Julien Bréger;Julien Bréger;Clare P. Grey;Clare P. Grey

3003
Citations
Oxidation energies of transition metal oxides within the GGA+U framework

Lei Wang;Thomas Maxisch;Gerbrand Ceder

2894
Citations
First-principles study of native point defects in ZnO

A. F. Kohan;G. Ceder;D. Morgan;Chris G. Van de Walle

2226
Citations
Ab initio study of lithium intercalation in metal oxides and metal dichalcogenides

Mehmet Aydinol;Adrian Kohan;Gerbrand Ceder;Kang Cho

1613
Citations
Interface Stability in Solid-State Batteries

William D. Richards;Lincoln J. Miara;Yan Wang;Jae Chul Kim

1575
Citations
Voltage, stability and diffusion barrier differences between sodium-ion and lithium-ion intercalation materials

Shyue Ping Ong;Vincent L. Chevrier;Geoffroy Hautier;Anubhav Jain

1571
Citations
The structural and chemical origin of the oxygen redox activity in layered and cation-disordered Li-excess cathode materials

Dong-Hwa Seo;Jinhyuk Lee;Jinhyuk Lee;Alexander Urban;Rahul Malik

1501
Citations
Design principles for solid-state lithium superionic conductors

Yan Wang;William Davidson Richards;Shyue Ping Ong;Shyue Ping Ong;Lincoln J. Miara

1479
Citations
Promises and challenges of next-generation "beyond Li-ion" batteries for electric vehicles and grid decarbonization

Yaosen Tian;Yaosen Tian;Guobo Zeng;Guobo Zeng;Ann Rutt;Tan Shi

1433
Citations
Lithium-Ion Battery Supply Chain Considerations: Analysis of Potential Bottlenecks in Critical Metals

Elsa A. Olivetti;Gerbrand Ceder;Gerbrand Ceder;Gabrielle G. Gaustad;Xinkai Fu

1428
Citations
LI CONDUCTIVITY IN LIX MPO 4 ( M = MN , FE , CO , NI ) OLIVINE MATERIALS

D Morgan;A J Van Der Ven;G Ceder

1400
Citations
Formation enthalpies by mixing GGA and GGA + U calculations

Anubhav Jain;Geoffroy Hautier;Shyue Ping Ong;Charles J. Moore

1373
Citations
Unlocking the potential of cation-disordered oxides for rechargeable lithium batteries

Jinhyuk Lee;Alexander Urban;Xin Li;Dong Su

1256
Citations
First-principles prediction of redox potentials in transition-metal compounds with LDA+ U

Fei Zhou;Matteo Cococcioni;Chris A. Marianetti;Dane Morgan

1208
Citations
Odyssey of Multivalent Cathode Materials: Open Questions and Future Challenges

Pieremanuele Canepa;Pieremanuele Canepa;Gopalakrishnan Sai Gautam;Gopalakrishnan Sai Gautam;Gopalakrishnan Sai Gautam;Daniel C. Hannah;Rahul Malik

1146
Citations
A high-throughput infrastructure for density functional theory calculations

Anubhav Jain;Geoffroy Hautier;Charles J. Moore;Shyue Ping Ong

1138
Citations
The Alloy Theoretic Automated Toolkit: A User Guide

A. van de Walle;M. Asta;G. Ceder

1082
Citations
Voltage, Stability and Diffusion Barrier Differences between Sodium-ion and Lithium-ion intercalation Materials

S. Ong;V. Chevrier;A. Jain;Geoffroy Hautier

22
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