Advisory Board

The Advisory Board (AB) advices the eNargiZinc Supervisory Board on key issues related to the research training, the job opportunities for doctoral candidates, and the building of an effective pipeline from the academic partners to the industry and other private or public sectors. The AB is composed by the following prestigious and recognised researchers:

BS in Chemistry and PhD in Materials Science (UAB), she is currently a Research Professor at the Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC). Her career has been fully focused in solid state chemistry and electrochemistry applied to batteries and covered a wide diversity of technologies from commercial (e.g., Ni or Li-ion) or pre-commercial (Na-ion) concepts to new emerging chemistries (Mg, Ca). She has always placed emphasis on developing fertile cooperation scenarios between basic oriented research and industry, and often performed research under direct industrial contracts. She has published over 150 articles in peer reviewed journals and is co-inventor of 11 patents. She serves as an Associate Editor for Chemistry of Materials (ACS) since 2016 and has several editorial and institutional responsibilities. Rosa was appointed (2010-2017) as scientific co-director of ALISTORE ERI and is member of the International Battery Association Board since 2012, being also elected to the Governing Board of Batteries Europe ETIP (Future and Emerging Technologies) in 2019. In 2021 she was elected Fellow of the Electrochemical Society and received the Research Award from the International Battery Association for her contribution to energy storage and conversion research through the development of new materials and technologies and understanding of reaction mechanisms. She has also been awarded the Spanish-French Miguel Catalán – Paul Sabatier prize by the French Chemical Society, delivered in June 2023.

Patrik Johansson is Full Professor in Physics at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, and holds a Distinguished Professor grant from the Swedish Research Council (48.5 MSEK, 10 years). At Chalmers he leads a group of ca. 12 PhD students and postdocs, as well as being co-director of ALISTORE-ERI, one of Europe’s largest industry-academia networks within the field of modern batteries, and being director of the Graphene Flagship. He received his PhD in Inorganic Chemistry in 1998 from Uppsala University, Sweden and has continuously aimed at combining understanding of new materials at the molecular scale, often via ab initio/DFT computational methods and IR/Raman spectroscopy, with battery concept development and real battery performance – with a special interest in all kinds of electrolytes. He is currently active in several large battery projects at the European level, such as BIG-MAP and DESTINY. Most notably, his team won the Open Innovation Contest on Energy Storage arranged by BASF in 2015 for his new ideas on Al-battery technology (prize sum 100,000 €) and that he in 2020 was awarded “l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques, Grade d’Officier” by the French Ministry of Education. He has published over 200 papers and started the software company Compular AB together with some former PhD students.

Professor Jennifer L.M. Rupp FRSC is the professor for electrochemical materials at TU Munich, Germany, researching materials for next energy conversion and storage and until recently was affiliated as faculty to MIT, she is also Co-Founder and CSO of Qkera GmbH a battery material producer. Prior she earned her PhD degree at ETH Zurich Switzerland and was affiliated as a visiting and senior scientist at MIT (2011-2012) and the National Institute of Materials Science (NIMS) in Tsukuba, Japan (2011). She was a non-tenure track Assistant Professor at ETH Zurich (2012-2016). In 2017, she joined as faculty MIT, where she was promoted from Assistant to Associate Professor at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (MIT) till 2023. She has published more than 130 papers, holds more 25 patents, and being a frequent speaker and panel member of the World Economic Forum, enjoys discussing material tech trends on the theme of energy with the public, economists and policy makers. Rupp also enjoys engaging with companies all around the world through both consultancy and collaborations focused on material processing, business, and electrochemical device & product engineering (e.g., battery, sustainable fuel processing, sensing, electronic companies). Recently she Co-Founded the battery material manufacture company Qkera to translate green battery solid manufacture to energy storage products and serves as the chief strategy officer (CSO). Through her career she has won numerous awards and received honors from academies and industry including 2024 Fullrath Award for excellence in ceramics by the American Ceramic Society and since of 2024 National Academy Leopoldina, 2024 Max Planck Fellow and 2024-2026 Vice President of the International Solid State Ionics Society. Since 2021 she is an elected member of the Royal Chemical Society, received the 2018 Merck Displaying Future Awards for novel energy conversion devices, the 2017 BASF and Volkswagen Science Award for her battery research, 2018 Merck Award, and many others. In 2019, she founded the LILA Mentorship program for Minorities in Engineering and Sciences.