Kyra Owensby

Kyra Owensby of Nashville is a third-year Ph.D. student in the Bredesen Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Graduate Education and works in the Energy Storage and Conversion Group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Her research is focused on solid-state lithium metal batteries which, once viable, will push the country one step closer to an electrified economy. She is specifically investigating the interface of polymer-lithium metal batteries to understand how to promote uniform lithium metal stripping and plating.