Dr. Xi DOU is the CEO & Co-founder of Hytzer Energy, a start-up commercializing next-generation solid-state battery technology developed over 15 years from the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He envisions Hytzer Energy to bring high-performance and highly safe energy storage solutions to daily life, facilitating the “Net-0“ energy transition.
Prior to founding Hytzer Energy, he served as strategic technology analyst at bp in London. Whereas he overlooked various emerging technologies and business models associated with energy transition, specializing in digital energy, future power grid systems, Energy as a Service, solid-state battery, and many other different battery storage technologies.
He also held research scientist roles in material innovation in Germany, the Netherlands and Singapore at the centre research divisions of Bayer, DSM, and BASF.
He holds a master‘s degree in Chemistry of Materials and a Doctorate in Organic Chemistry from Johannes-Gutenberg University at Mainz and Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research at Mainz, as well as an MBA degree from INSEAD, France.