José-Manuel Tapia-Cáceres

José-Manuel Tapia-Cáceres earned his Master’s degree in Mechanical and Materials Engineering from Universidad Austral de Chile in 2024, after completing a B.Sc. in Physics in 2020. His work focuses on lithium-ion batteries and nanoscale materials characterization—morphological, crystallographic, and electrochemical. Before joining the ECEE PhD program at ASU, he worked for an engineering firm implementing electron microscopy techniques for REE analysis in tailings and contributed to FIB-based TEM lamella fabrication at an advanced microscopy unit.