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Dahn, Jeff
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Dates of existence
1957-
History
Dr. Jeff Dahn was born in Bridgeport, Conn in 1957. His family immigrated to the Lunenburg area in Nova Scotia in 1970, and in 1978 he graduated with a BSc from Dalhousie. During his time at Dal he played on the men’s soccer team, which won AUS championships all 4 years he played. After graduating, he pursued a PhD at UBC, finishing in 1982. He worked for various energy companies and did research before returning Dal in 1996 as the NSERC/3M Industrial Research Chair. He started teaching in Physics and Chemistry and is now based in the Department of Physics. He has worked on pioneering developments in materials used in lithium-ion batteries. He and his team invented a new set of materials now used in about one-third of all lithium-ion batteries worldwide in everything from cars to cell phones. Dr. Dahn started the Jeff Dahn Research Group at Dalhousie and established research partnerships with 3M. The group is now starting a new five year contract with Tesla, to create/improve the batteries in their electric cars. The Dahn Research Group is considered one of the world’s top research teams investigating battery technology. Dahn is a world-renowned physicist, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and the recipient of the Governor General’s Innovation Award in 2016.