Dr. Song is the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of ESS Inc. In this position, she has spearheaded the transition of the iron flow battery technology to becoming a commercial energy storage system. Prior to joining ESS Inc., Dr. Song was the Vice President of Research and Development at ClearEdge Power Inc., where she led over 20 cross-functional scientists and engineers on all corporate R&D projects and the commercialization of the 5 kW Combined Heat and Power Fuel Cell system. Dr. Song started her career at Milliken & Co. as an Industrial Research Chemist. Dr. Song has authored approximately 20 peer-reviewed publications and over 10 patents and patent applications. Dr. Song holds a B.S. in Chemistry from Peking University and a Ph.D. in Chemistry from University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. She specializes in fuel cells, batteries, electrochemistry and the catalysis properties of nanoparticles.
Julia Song holds a Ph.D. of electrochemistry, with entrepreneurial and executive managerial experience on renewable and clean energy products. She has a successful startup track records on developing grid-scale energy storage systems and combine-heat-and-power fuel cell systems, with experience in product research and development, engineering, technical strategy, planning and budgeting, and operations, as well as startup intellectual property development.
Her specialties include redox flow batteries, fuel cells, IP portfolio development, failure root cause analysis, nanomaterial synthesis and catalysis, material Corrosion, and hydrogen generation.