Corsin Battaglia

Corsin Battaglia directs the laboratory Materials for Energy Conversion at Empa, the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, and is Adjunct Professor of Electrical Engineering at ETH Zurich, Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering and Adjunct Professor of Materials Science at EPFL, School of Engineering, Institute of Materials. His research focuses on developing new materials and scalable manufacturing processes for next-generation sustainable energy storage, with a particular emphasis on understanding interphases between electrodes and electrolytes in lithium-ion, sodium-ion, and post-lithium-ion batteries. He also works on the electrocatalytic reduction of CO₂ to carbon-neutral feedstock chemicals and synthetic fuels, and integrates lab automation and machine learning to accelerate materials discovery and validation.He received his PhD in Physics from the Université de Neuchâtel, followed by postdoctoral research at EPFL, and subsequently at the University of California Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, before joining Empa in 2014. He is co-author of more than 200 peer-reviewed scientific publications and 8 patent applications. He is currently the president of the Swiss Battery Association iBAT, member of the topical platform Chemistry of the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences, member of the Alistore European Research Institute, Swiss representative in the long-term large-scale European battery initiative Battery2030, scientific committee member of the Upcell Alliance, founding member of the Battery European Partnership Association, and member of the National Competence Center in Research on Catalysis.Office at Empa LB314Phone number at Empa 41 58 765 4131Address at Empa Ueberlandstrasse 129, 8600 Duebendorf Teaching & PhD PhD Students Claudia Bissattini Alessi, Julia Anna Lorenzetti Past EPFL PhD Students as codirector David Reber, Daniel Alexander Landmann Courses Charge transport in energy conversion and storage MSE-496 Fundamental concepts of charge transport in solar cells, batteries, and electrolysers, emphasizing analogies between semiconductor physics and electrochemistry. Awards Zeno Karl Schindler / EPFL postdoctoral award Zeno Karl Schindler Foundation 2012 Omega MSc thesis award Omega Foundation 2008