Dr. Jens Bakander is a senior manager in the Energy & Materials division at Toyota Research Institute (TRI), where he guides and takes active part in the research and development and helps grow the organizational health.

Dr. Bakander has a background in computational physics and its application to energy materials and has been working on scientific method and software development for the past two decades (starting during his undergrad), first at the Technical University of Denmark, where he received his Ph.D., and later at Stanford University.