Michael Grätzel

Who is Michael Grätzel?

Michael Grätzel is a professor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne where he directs the Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces. He pioneered research on energy and electron transfer reactions in mesoscopic-materials and their optoelectronic applications. He discovered a new type of solar cell based on dye sensitized mesoscopic oxide particles and pioneered the use of nanomaterials in lithium ion batteries.

Author of over 900 publications, two books and inventor or co-inventor of over 50 patents, he has been the Mary Upton Visiting Professor at Cornell University and a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the National University of Singapore. He was an Invited Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, the École normale supérieure de Cachan and Delft University of Technology. His work has been cited over 107’000 times making him one of the 10 most highly cited chemists in the world. He was a frequent guest scientist at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado, was a fellow of the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science.