Prof Madhavi is the Executive Director of Energy Research Institute at NTU (ERI@N) and NTU Sustainability Office. She is also the co-Director of SCARCE (Singapore-CEA alliance for research in Circular economy), a joint lab, in collaboration with French Alternative energies and atomic energy commission (CEA, France) focusing on recycling of e-waste. Prof Madhavi ‘s research focuses on advanced energy storage and circular economy with an emphasis on novel energy storage solutions and recycling of e-waste and lithium-ion batteries. She focusses on synthesis, fabrication and application of nanoscale materials/architectures in improving the performance of electrochemical energy storage devices such as advanced lithium-ion batteries, supercapacitors, sodium ion batteries, multivalent aqueous Zn / Al batteries. Her research is also on recycling of lithium ion batteries e-waste by novel hydrometallurgical techniques towards a closed loop approach. Madhavi has published over 370 high impact research papers and has 30 patents.