William Walker
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
USA
Biography
W Walker graduated from West Texas A&M University with a BS in Mechanical Engineering and began his career with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Johnson Space Center (JSC). He is currently pursuing PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Houston with a research focused on thermo-electrochemical testing and analysis of lithium-ion batteries designed for space applications. He is the Recipient of a 2015-2016 NASA JSC Academic Fellowship offer to focus on lithium-ion battery thermal runaway and propagation research. His publication center is around the use of Li-ion batteries in thermal radiation driven space environments, the passive thermal design of batteries for spacecraft, thermo-electrochemical test and analysis techniques and the general use of Li-ion batteries in the aerospace industry.