The rise of electric flight - with the Faraday Institution

Discover the future of battery-powered flight and how it could change air travel.

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This lecture was recorded on 19 May in collaboration with the Faraday Institution.

00:00 Intro with Dame Helen Atkinson
02:16 An overview of battery powered aviation
10:21 The technology behind electric flight
29:24 Vertical Aerospace
45:12 Next generation technologies

Take a deep dive into the research, systems engineering, challenges, and potential solutions of deploying batteries in the skies. Join a panel of experts to learn how batteries fit into the technology mix for decarbonising aviation.

This event is in collaboration with the Faraday Institution. The Faraday Institution is powering one of the most exciting scientific and technological developments of the 21st century—Britain’s battery revolution. As the world competes to define the future of energy and automation, the Faraday Institution is accelerating commercially relevant research needed for future battery development to power the transport and energy revolution for the UK.

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Dame Helen Atkinson is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, and joined Cranfield University as Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the School of Aerospace, Transport and Manufacturing in September 2017. Since August 2024, Dame Helen is Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Sciences. She was previously at the University of Leicester where she was Head of the Department of Engineering between 2012 and 2016. Dame Helen was the first woman President of the Engineering Professors’ Council in its fifty-year history and has also served as a Vice President and Trustee of the Royal Academy of Engineering. In 2010 she won a national award as a Woman of Outstanding Achievement in Science, Engineering and Technology for ‘Leadership and Inspiration to Others’, and in 2022 received the President’s Medal, one of the Royal Academy of Engineering’s most prestigious awards.

Jacqueline Castle joined the Aerospace Technology Institute (ATI) in June 2023 as Chief Technology Officer. Prior to joining the ATI, Jacqueline spent more than 25 years in the aerospace industry at Airbus. Most recently, she was the UK Chief Engineer for the Airbus A320 family of aircraft, with responsibility for the wings, landing gear and fuel system. Prior to this she was UK Chief Engineer for the A380 aircraft. Jacqueline is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and the Royal Aeronautical Society. She is a Mechanical Engineering graduate from the University of the West of England and gained an MSc in Aerospace Design from the University of Bristol, where she is Aegis Professor of Aerospace technologies.

Limhi Somerville is the Director of Engineering at Vertical Aerospace, a UK-based company developing electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. His expertise spans electric propulsion, having previously led powertrain and battery systems development at Vertical. For the past five years, he has chaired the European electrification committee within EUROCAE WG-112, contributing to the development of industry-wide aerospace standards. Prior to Vertical, Limhi managed advanced cell development at Jaguar Land Rover, contributing to the Jaguar I-PACE and other electrification projects.

Lee Johnson received his PhD in physical chemistry and electrochemistry at the University of Nottingham. He then joined the research group of Prof Sir P.G. Bruce FRS at the University of Oxford, where he studied the lithium-oxygen battery. In 2017, he was awarded a Nottingham Research Fellowship, University of Nottingham, followed by an EPSRC Fellowship in 2018. In 2019 he was promoted to Associate Professor in the School of Chemistry and then to Professor of Electrochemistry in 2024. His current research interests focus on understanding interfacial reactions, degradation, and charge transfer, in electrochemical energy devices.

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