Mission We strive to solve industry-relevant challenges to enable sustainable energy conversion and storage. By combining materials science and technological innovation we advance batteries and renewable fuels for mobility and stationary storage.

Expertise Our laboratory possesses strong competences in the processing and characterization of materials for batteries and electrocatalysis, and their integration into electrochemical cells.

Research Our research focuses on understanding the interplay between materials chemistry, structure, as well as transport and interfacial phenomena through experiments and data-driven approaches.

Our laboratory is also affiliated with ETH Zurich, Departement of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering and EPFL, School of Engineering, Institute of Materials.

News

September  2025: Congratulation for Hugo for winning the 2025 E-MRS Young Researcher Award at the 2025 E-MRS Fall Meeting in Warsaw.

September  2025: Congratulations to Enea and coauthors for getting their paper on the Aurora robotic battery materials research platform on the cover page of the September issue of Batteries and Supercaps. Read the article here. In addition the Battery Data Alliance of the Linux Foundation launched a press release available here and here crediting the publication of the large data set associated with this study which is available here. 

September 2025: We welcome Baban Deep and Olivier as new members of our lab.

August 2025: Read the Battery2030+ Batteries of the Future Manifesto co-authored by our PhD student Hug. The manifesto is available here.

August 2025 We are ready for the Swiss Battery Days 2025 and are looking forward to three days of stimulating presentations and discussions. More information here.

July 2025: 1500 km in 12 min, read the article about the development of next-generation batteries for electromobility with an interview with our lab head in the Tagesanzeiger here.

June 2025: We welcome Moritz and Augustin as new members of our lab.

June 2025: From the triumph of fossil fuels to an emission-free future, read the interview with our lab head in the latest edition of the SNSF Horizons magazine here.

June 2025: Making green hydrogen more affordable, read the interview with Konstantin and Meike in the latest edition of the Empa Quarterly here.

April 2025: Congratulations to Francesco for successfully defending his PhD at ETH Zurich.

March 2025: We welcome Alexandre, Adrian, Evamaria and Fionn as new members of our lab.

March 2025: Speeding up materials research with robots, read the interview with our lab head in the 2024 annual report of the ETH Board here on page 31 and 32.

January 2025: Congratulations to Edouard for winning the 2025 Empa Entrepreneur Fellowship.

January 2025: Congratulations to Carlota for winning the 2025 Empa Young Scientist Fellowship. More information here.

January 2025: We welcome Andrea and Karin as new members of our lab.

Dezember 2024: We welcome Julia as new member of our lab.

November 2024: We welcome Claudia as new member of our lab.

October 2024: We welcome Finn as new member of our lab.

September 2024: We welcome Alan, Rohat, Lina, Clea, and Florian as new members of our lab.

August 2024: We are ready for the Swiss Battery Days 2024 and are looking forward to three days of stimulating presentations and discussions. More information here.

August 2024: Fun new video about our fantastic new battery labs in the new laboratory building on Empa TV. Watch the video here. 

July 2024: Fire proof batteries! Read the interview with Meike, who is leading our molten-salt battery research in the latest edition of the Empa Quarterly here.

June 2024: Congratulations to Alessandro and coauthors at Empa and Agilent for getting their paper on CO2 electrolysis published in Nature Catalysis. Read the article here. Press release is here.

June 2024: We welcome Carlota as new member of our lab.

Mai 2024: Our lab on national radio RTS in the science broadcast CQFD. Listen the broadcast here.

April 2024: We welcome Devin and Florian as new members of our lab.

April 2024: Our lab on national television RSI in the infotainment show Trend: l’economia di un mondo che cambia. Watch the broadcast here.

March 2024: We welcome Efe as new member of our lab.

March 2024: Congratulations to Hugo, his paper on hydroborate solid-state batteries made it on the cover page of the January issue of ACS Energy Letters and  is among to most read articles for the past month. Read the article here.

March 2024: Where batteries are not an option! Read the interview with Alessandro, who recently launched his SNF Ambizione project on CO₂ conversion. More information here.

March 2024: Our lab on national TV RTS in the 19:30 news. Watch the broadcast here.

February 2024: Our lab on national TV SRF1 in the infotainment broadcast Einstein. Watch the broadcast here.

February 2024: We welcome Graham, Michael and Talia as new members of our lab.