Noshin Omar is the head of Battery Innovation Center at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). He obtained in 2012 his PhD degree in electromechanical Engineering Sciences from VUB. He was awarded a tenure track He is now coordinating several national and European projects in the field of characterisation, electrical, thermal, electrochemical and lifetime modelling of various rechargeable energy storage systems. He was and is still active in various European projects such as SUPERLIB, BATTERIES2020, FIVEVB. He is author of more than 110 scientific publications.