Manuel Dillenz is a postdoctoral researcher at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU). He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Chemistry from Ulm University, Germany, including a study semester at Gothenburg University, Sweden. He completed his Ph.D. in Theoretical Chemistry at Ulm University under Prof. Axel Groß, with a research stay at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). His research focuses on theoretical studies of battery materials for lithium-ion and post-lithium technologies, focusing on fundamental relationships between structural ordering transitions, phase transformations, and charge transport mechanisms.