Agratas
Meltiani Belekoukia currently serves as the Electrochemistry Team Lead at Agratas, starting in January 2024, where responsibilities include leading the assessment of electrochemical performance for next-generation lithium-ion cell technology. Prior to this role, Meltiani held positions at Jaguar Land Rover as Cell Development Manager and Lead Engineer for Battery Cell R&D from April 2022 to January 2024, and at WMG, University of Warwick as Assistant Professor focusing on electrochemical materials and research fellow in battery cell characterization and electrochemical testing from November 2019 to April 2022. Additional experience includes a research fellowship at The Faraday Institution examining degradation and electrochemistry from November 2019 to November 2021, alongside a PhD research role at Heriot-Watt University in chemical engineering from January 2016 to December 2019. Meltiani holds a PhD from Heriot-Watt University and an MSc in Physics, Energy and Environment from the University of Patras.
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Agratas is a wholly owned subsidiary of Tata Sons. We design, develop and manufacture high-quality, high-performance, sustainable batteries applied to multiple use cases in the mobility and energy sectors, to match our customers’ requirements. We will accelerate the global transition to net zero by creating an industry-leading benchmark in sustainability. Our world-class gigafactories will be powered by purpose-built renewable energy plants. We will also embed circular economy processes throughout our value chain to reuse, recycle and recover materials back into production. We will serve customers in Passenger Vehicle, Commercial Vehicle, 2 and 3 Wheeler and Energy Storage Solution (ESS) industries, supplying state-of-the-art high energy density NMC and long lasting LFP battery cells. Agratas will also support its customers with the integration of cells into their applications, such as modules and packs. We have already secured two anchor customers, Tata Motors and JLR. They provide us with the scale to establish our global battery business. Agratas will be driven by our pursuit of green growth and technological progress. We will develop next-generation battery technologies at new R&D Innovation Hubs in India and the UK, collaborating with world-leading universities, research institutions and strategic partners. We are a scale-up business with a start-up mentality. Our name, derived from the Sanskrit word ‘Agra’, the world’s oldest language, stands for leadership. It reflects our ambition to be purpose driven, pioneering power for future generations.