Ilias Belharouak is a Moroccan-American chemist and scientist. He is a corporate fellow who heads the electrification section at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. He has contributed to research in high-power density and high-energy density energy storage materials for use in lithium-ion, sodium-ion, solid-state batteries and lithium-sulfur batteries.
At ORNL, Belharouak leads multidisciplinary US Department of Energy sponsored R&D programs focusing on battery energy storage and advanced manufacturing. He has received six R&D 100 Awards and is Editor in Chief for the Journal of Power Sources.
Belharouak received his bachelor's degree in Inorganic Chemistry from Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakech, Morocco in 1995. He obtained a master's degree in Materials Science in 1996 and a doctoral degree in 1999 from Bordeaux 1 University, France.