With the change to electric vehicles, the demand for Lithium-ion batteries is increasing dramatically. Both new and existing lithium mines and salars are looking to increase the efficiency of their operations to maximize the recovery of lithium, whilst keeping cost under control.
Learn how spectroscopic techniques such as X-ray fluorescence, FTIR, Raman and near-IR are used for process and quality control in mining operations and what benefits it offers compared to conventional wet-chemistry techniques.
About the speakers
Christina Drathen is the product manager for the ARL XRF spectrometers at Thermo Fisher Scientific. The products include both benchtop and floor-standing EDXRF and WDXRF instruments for research and industry. Christina has over 10+ years’ of experience with X-ray analytical tools. Following a post-doc at the European Synchrotron in France, Christina moved to the analytical instrument manufacturing industry, where she worked as an application specialist and product manager.
Christina holds a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Edinburgh, UK.
Sudhir Dahal is the Product Manager of research Raman products at Thermo Fisher Scientific. The products include Raman microscopes and benchtop Raman spectrometers. He has worked with several spectroscopy techniques in the industry and has over 7 years of experience. He has a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), where he researched and collaborated on developing a novel spectroscopy-based technique for brain tumor cell detection.
His everyday responsibilities include, but are not limited to, market research for product development and improvement, training support engineers and users, producing scientific literature, researching new products and applications, representing Thermo Fisher Scientific at conferences, and promoting the products through various marketing campaigns.
Shailesh has over 15 years of experience in Vibrational spectroscopy. He has served as an Application Specialist and Sales Manager in various regions of Europe and has helped to implement Raman, IR and NIR spectroscopy in Pharma/Biopharma, Chemical, and Food and Agri sectors.
He is currently working as Applications manager (Vibrational Spectroscopy) for EMEA region.