2022: M Rosa Palacin – awarded. Award by the French Chemical Society to a Spanish Chemist. It will be officially delivered during the next meeting of the society in June.
2022: The first ever PRACE (Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe) HPC Excellence Award has been awarded to a team led by Professor Nicola Marzari, head of Theory and Simulation of Materials at EPFL's School of Engineering and Materials Simulations at PSI, and director of NCCR MARVEL.
Professor Nicola Marzari
07-06-2022: Prof Clare Grey is appointed "Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE)" for her work on rechargeable batteries, including lithium and sodium ion batteries, to improve their charging and discharging speeds, and their storage capacity, to meet the demand in transport applications, for storage and load-levelling on the electrical grid.
07-06-2022: Prof Peter Bruce is appointed "Knight Bachelor (Kt)" for his work to develop a fundamental understanding of the properties of materials and the processes taking place in batteries, and to use this knowledge to improve performance.
05-2021: New BIG-MAP publication in Advanced Energy Materials: Towards better and smarter batteries by combining AI with multisensory and self-healing approaches by T. Vegge, J.‐M. Tarascon, K. Edström
10-2020: Interview "Fremtidens batterier" in EUindblik
15-09-2020: Jean-Marie Tarascon is the 2020 Balzan Prizewinner for Environmental Challenges: Materials Science for Renewable Energy
09-09-2020: Press release: BATTERY 2030+ – large-scale European initiative for battery research starts up
04-09-2020: Clare Grey is awarded the Royal Society Hughes Medal for her pioneering work in energy
09-2020: Hvorfor har vi travlt med at udvikle nye batterier, Dynamo no. 62 p. 22