Michael Grätzel

Prof. Michael Grätzel
Departement de Chimie
Institut des Sciences et Ingénierie chimiques
EPF Lausanne
EPFL SB ISIC LPI
CH G1 526 Bâtiment CH, Station 6
CH-1015 Lausanne
Switzerland


Phone: +41 (0) 21 693 11 11
Phone2: +41 (0) 21 693 80 56
Fax: +41 (0) 21 693 80 70
E-mail: michael.graetzel(at)epfl.ch
URL Institution: lmce.epfl.ch
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Additional functions:
Selection committees, advisory boards: Since 2020: Chairman of Panel 8, selecting recipient for ERC Advanced Research Grants. Since 2018: European Research Council (ERC) Panel for selecting recipients of Advanced Research Grants in Physical Science and Engineering. Since 2015: Scientific Commission for ENI Energy Award. Since 2014: Election Panel for Fellows and Advanced Investigator of the National Research Foundation Singapore. Scientific Advisory Board Member for the Presidents of: DGIST (Daegu South-Korea 2012-2014) KTH Stockholm (2010-2011) and University of Helsinki (2010-2013), Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel (2006). UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPRC) Review College Evaluation Board of the NIMC Institute, Tsukuba, Japan (1999-2006). Invited panelist, US Department of Energy Council on Chemical Science, 2005 and 1997. Expert witness for the Royal Court of Justice, London (2002-2004). 1995- 2000. Member of the Scientific Committee of the French CNRS, expert for evaluating the Physical Chemistry Laboratory of the University of Paris (URA 75) and the Institute of Electrochemistry of the University of Grenoble.
Evaluation Board: Scientific Committee of the French CNRS, Photovoltaic Research Helmholtz Foundation Germany (1998), and Volkswagenstiftung, Hannover Germany (1997-2003).
International Editorial Boards (past and present): eScience (Elsevier), Angewandte Chemie (Wiley), ChemPhysChem. (Wiley-VCh), Journal of Molecular Catalysis (Elsevier), Langmuir (American Chemical Society), Chemistry of Materials (American Chemical Society), Handbook of Nanostructured Materials and Nanotechnology (Academic Press), Advances in Photochemistry and Photophysics (CRC), Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells (Elsevier), Renewable &Sustainable Energy Reviews (Elsevier), Advanced Functional Materials (Springer), Nanostructured Materials (Elsevier), Progress in Photovoltaic Science and Technology. Chemical Physics Letters (Elsevier). Topical Editor, New Journal of Chemistry, 1989: Fractals in Chemistry.
Chair of International Scientific Conferences : Chair, 2016 Gordon Conference on Hybrid Electronic and Photonic Materials, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.




Key Publications of Michael Grätzel (up to ten) :
1) B.O’Regan and M. Grätzel , A Low Cost, High Efficiency Solar Cell based on the Sensitization of Colloidal Titanium Dioxide, Nature,1991, 353, 7377-7381.

2) U.Bach, D.Lupo, P.Comte, J.E.Moser, F.Weissörtel, J.Salbeck, H.Spreitzer and M.Grätzel, Solid-state dye-sensitized mesoporous TiO2 solar cells with high photon-to-electron conversion efficiencies, Nature 1998, 395, 550.

3) M. Grätzel, Photoelectrochemical Cells, Nature 2001, 414, 332.

4) 7 A.Yella, H.-W. Lee, H. N. Tsao,1 C. Yi, A.Kumar Chandiran,Md.K. Nazeeruddin,1 E. W.-G.Diau, C.-Y. Yeh, S. M. Zakeeruddin and M. Grätzel, Porphyrin- based Solar Cells Exceed 12 % Efficiency, Science 2011, 334, 629-634.

5) H.S.Kim,…;M. Grätzel, et.al, Lead Iodide Perovskite Sensitized Mesoscopic Solar Cell with Efficiency Exceeding 9% Scientific.Reports 2012, 2, article 591.

6) J. Burschka, N. Pellet, S.-J. Moon, R.Humphry-Baker, P. Gao, M K. Nazeeruddin and M. Grätzel, Sequential deposition as a route to high-performance perovskite sensitized solar cells, Nature 2013, 499, 316-319.

7) M. Grätzel, Light and shade of perovskite solar cells, Nature Materials 2014, 13, 838-842 .

8) J. Luo, J.-H. Im, M.T. Mayer, M. Schreier, Md.K. Nazeeruddin, N.-G. Park, S.D.Tilley, H.J. Fan, M. Grätzel, Water photolysis at 12.3% efficiency via perovskite photovoltaics and Earth abundant catalysts, Science 2014, 345, 1593-1596.

9) A.Ummadisingu, L. Steier, J.-Y. Seo, T. Matsui, A. Abate, W. Tress, M.Grätzel The effect of illumination on the formation of metal-halide perovskite films, Nature 2017, 545, 208-212..

10) H. Lu,…,M. Grätzel et. al, Vapor-assisted deposition of highly efficient, stable black-phase FAPbI3 perovskite solar cells. Science, 2020, https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abb8985



Expertise of Michael Grätzel:

Expertise Category	Specific Expertise
Energy Working Group	Technology
	Economical Dimension
	Ecological Dimension
	Pollution

Last update: 11/27/21
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