Anna joined the Automotive team of Innovate UK in June 2017. Her focus is delivering the innovation programmes in battery technology for electric vehicles, in particular the innovation aspect of the £246 million Faraday Challenge. Before joining Innovate UK, she was based in the USA at Stanford University and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. There she carried out collaborative research with business and academia to understand battery behaviour using high intensity X-rays. Anna was awarded a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Southampton in 2012.