Dr. Anjali Singh has joined WRI India as the Lead for the Energy Minerals and Circularity pillar within the Energy Program. She has a B.Sc. (Hons) in Physics and an M.Sc. in Physics with a specialization in condensed matter physics from Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi. She earned her Ph.D. from the Materials Theory Group at the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR) in Bangalore, where she also worked as a postdoctoral fellow from 2017 to 2019. 

For the past one and a half years, Anjali worked as a Senior Fellow at the Climate Change, Urbanization and Sustainability division of the Indian Council of Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER) in New Delhi. Her work at ICRIER was focused on developing a technology roadmap for electric vehicle (EV) battery recycling for India. Prior to ICRIER, she served as the group lead of the Technology Assessment Group at the Centre of Science, Technology, and Policy (CSTEP), Bangalore, India from 2019 to 2024. At CSTEP, she worked on multiple projects – technology assessment frameworks, circular economy for critical raw materials in India, sodium-ion batteries, etc. She has more than 13 years of post-M.Sc. experience in science, technology and policy research. 

Anjali’s research interests encompass simulation and modelling of materials, the study of materials suitable for energy and the environment, technology assessment, advanced low-carbon technologies, critical raw materials, battery recycling, circular economy, and semiconductors. Over the years, she has built experience working in close collaboration with government, industry, academia, and CSOs. She has also published multiple peer review journals in international journals, book chapters, reports and op-eds on modelling and simulations of materials, technologies such as solar and batteries, critical minerals, battery recycling, and India’s net-zero transition. 

In her free time, Anjali likes to read about recent scientific discoveries, review papers/reports and spend time with her family.