Ismael Saadoune served as Professor of chemistry/electrochemistry and applications at University Cadi Ayyad focussing on Material Science with the specific research topic ‘Active Materials for Lithium and Sodium-ion Batteries’ . Founder of Materials and Environmental Chemistry Laboratory (100 graduate, 40 Master students and 25 PhD Students are supervised to date). All R&D topics are related to the Industry. Saadoun is PI of 17 research funded projects on Battery Materials. He was involved in two European Master ERASMUS MUNDUS: ‘Materials for Energy Storage and Conversion’ and ‘Functionalized Advanced Materials and Engineering’ . He received several awards (from Tokyo University of Science, Japan, IRESEN). He is invited to deliver lectures at Uppsala University, Sweden; Argonne National Lab., USA . Currently Working at Green Energy Park (GEP, Benguerir) and associated to the Université Mohammed VI Polytechnique (UMP6).