Passerini, Stefano

Professor Stefano Passerini has worked on the development of materials and systems for electrochemical energy storage for more than 35 years. His research focuses on the basic understanding and development of materials for high-energy batteries and supercapacitors, with the goal to create sustainable energy storage systems from environmentally friendly and available materials and processes. He is an internationally recognized pioneer in the field of ionic liquids and the development of sodium-ion batteries. Co-author of more than 700 scientific papers (Scopus H-Index: 118; > 50,000 citations), a few book chapters and several international patents.

Following his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Sapienza University of Rome, he worked as a senior scientist at the University of Minnesota, USA, and later at ENEA the Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Environment. He has also been a visiting scientist at Waseda University, Japan, and the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil.

In 2008 he joined the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the University of Muenster, Germany where he became a Professor in 2010. Prof Passerini was a co-Founder and co-Director of MEET (Muenster Electrochemical Energy Technology) the battery research centre at the University of Muenster.

In 2014 he was appointed a Professor at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology at the Helmholtz Institute Ulm, Germany.

In 2023, he has been appointed Professor at the Chemistry Department of Sapienza University of Rome.

From January 2023 he is Distinguished Senior Fellow at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.