Bill Tiedemann

Tiedemann brings 32 years of advanced battery research experience. He has a comprehensive background in chemical engineering, beginning with his education at UCLA for a BS in Engineering, MS in Chemical Engineering, and a PhD in Electrochemical Engineering. As the Vice President of Advanced Battery Research at Johnson Controls, he assembled a top-notch R&D team and later built a world-class R&D laboratory, now called JCI’s Battery Technology Center. In collaboration with John Newman, Tiedemann also published an extremely influential paper on porous-electrode theory with battery applications at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. For the 15 most recent years, Tiedemann has served as President of Slab Creek LLC, an energy conservation consultancy based in Wisconsin. He will be an asset to Gridtential’s implementation of the Silicon Joule platform for battery manufacturers.