David Hall is an Associate Professor and the leader of the BIERS team. His research focuses on fundamentals and applications of interfacial electrochemistry for sustainable energy storage. His scientific interests are especially related to improving understanding of physico-chemical processes at electrode-electrolyte interfaces.

Before joining UiS in 2023, he completed a B.Sc. honors chemistry degree with a minor in materials science at Western University in London, Canada. His fourth-year honors thesis investigated the electrochemical and corrosion behaviour of copper in oxygen-rich and sulfide solutions, supervised by Prof. David Shoesmith. He then researched nickel-based electrocatalyst materials for sustainable hydrogen production at the National Research Council of Canada while completing a Ph.D. in Chemistry at the University of Ottawa, under the supervision of Prof. Barry MacDougall and Dr. Christina Bock.

David received an NSERC-CREATE (Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada-Collaborative Research and Training Experience) postdoctoral fellowship at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada. There, he researched electrolyte additives for lithium-ion batteries with Prof. Jeff Dahn. 

He then joined the Engineering Team of the Nuclear Waste Management Organization in Toronto as a Corrosion Scientist and Project Manager, supervised by Dr. Peter Keech and Chris Hatton. His role focused around lifetime assessments and risk analysis for the permanent disposal of high-level nuclear waste. David was responsible for creating and managing a range of academic, government, and industrial research projects. His role included collaboration with international partners in Europe, the USA, and Asia.

David then returned to academia as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Dalhousie University, where he studied characterisation methods, electrolytes for fast-charging, and additive synthesis for long-lasting, energy-dense lithium-ion batteries. This work was supervised by Prof. Jeff Dahn and in partnership with scientists at Tesla Canada.

In 2019, David moved to the University of Cambridge, where he was a Research Associate in the Department of Chemistry and the Joint Project Lead for the Faraday Institution Degradation Project, a UK-wide research consortium led by PI's Prof. Clare Grey (Univ. Cambridge) and Prof. Louis Piper (Univ. Warwick), and jointly led by Dr. Rhod Jervis (Univ. College London). He was also a Research By-Fellow and a Director of Studies in Natural Sciences at Hughes Hall, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge.