Academic Credentials
  • Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, Drexel University, 2024
  • M.S., Chemical Engineering, Purdue University, 2019
  • Bachelors, Chemical Engineering, Purdue University, 2018
Professional Honors
  • 2023 R. Gautam ’76 Ph.D. Fellowship
  • 2017 ThinkSwiss Fellowship, Switzerland

A chemical engineer by training, Dr. Cardoza specializes in battery material performance and emerging technologies. He has extensive experience in next-generation chemistries such as Lithium Sulfur (Li-S), and Lithium metal batteries (LMB). Additionally, he has worked on particle degradation of high nickel cathodes, and in-operando X-ray diffraction for lithium sulfur batteries. Dr. Cardoza leverages a variety of material and electrochemical characterization techniques to understand cell performance and degradation. At Exponent, Dr. Cardoza utilizes these skills to support clients with failure analysis, quality and safety testing, and performance analysis in battery applications ranging from consumer electronics to electric vehicles and beyond. 

Prior to Exponent, Dr. Cardoza was a graduate research associate at the Nanofibers for Energy Storage and Conversion Laboratory at Drexel University and a visiting researcher at Cornell University. His dissertation focused on the study and application of titania nanomaterials as lithium and sulfur host materials for lithium-sulfur batteries. In addition, he worked on in-operando X-ray diffraction studies into the crystallographic changes of a novel monoclinic gamma sulfur crystal (γ-S) during cycling, and electrospinning of nanofibers for free-standing electrode structures. Dr. Cardoza completed an internship at Bosch USA, where he worked on the parametrization of high nickel cathode active material degradation for lithium-ion battery management systems. Prior to his Ph.D., he was a ThinkSwiss Summer Fellow at the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland, where he studied polysulfide speciation using UV-Vis spectroscopy.