After his Ph.D. from Saarbrücken/Germany in 1992, Stefan Adams worked as Post-Doc at the Stuttgart Max-Planck Institute and habilitated from Göttingen University before joining National University of Singapore, where he is Assoc. Professor for Materials Science and Engineering. His research primarily deals with the rational design of inorganic materials and interfaces with optimal transport properties for advanced energy storage and conversion devices. A current focus is on the accelerated design of high safety lithium- and sodium-based batteries. To this end he combines electrochemical, diffraction and NMR experiments with high-throughput computational design. Adams also serves as Secretary of the Asian Society for Solid State Ionics, Co-Editor of Acta Crystallographica B and is member of the editorial boards of several related journals including Solid State Ionics and Int. Journal for Ionics.