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Hubert Girault

hubert.girault@epfl.ch http://isic.epfl.ch

Nationality: Swiss

EPFL SB-DO
CH F0 494 (Bâtiment CH)
Station 6
1015 Lausanne

Office: CH F0 494
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EPFL SB ISIC-GE
CH F0 494 (Bâtiment CH)
Station 6
1015 Lausanne

Office: CH F0 494
EPFL › SB › ISIC › ISIC-DIV

Expertise

Electrochemistry
Redox flow batteries
Hydrogen production and distribution
Analytical Chemistry
Fuel cell cars

Mission

Teaching and Research in Analytical and Physical Electrochemistry

Current Work

Research and consultancy
Education:
1979 - Engineering diploma from Grenoble Institute of Technology. FRANCE.
1982 - PhD- Department of Chemistry, University of Southampton.
Thesis entitled : Interfacial studies using drop image processing techniques.
Positions :
1982 - 1984 SERC Research Fellow. University of Southampton.
1984 - 1985 CNRS Research Fellow. University of Southampton.
1985 - 1992 Lecturer in Physical Chemistry, University of Edinburgh.
1992 -  2022 Professor of Physical Chemistry, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.
2022-   : Director H2ValSmart
2011 - 2014 Dean of Bachelor and Master studies
Hubert Girault is the author of 2 textbooks, the co-author of about 600 scientific publications with more than 20'000 citations and the co-inventor of more than 15 patents.
During his academic career, he has supervised 70 PhD students. 30 alumni of his laboratory are now Professors.


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Awards

Charles N. Reilley Award

American Society of Electroanalytical Chemistry

2014

Electrochemical Acta Gold Medal

International Society of Electrochemistry

2025

Infoscience

Teaching & PhD

Past EPFL PhD Students

Alfio Tamburello-Luca (1996), Rosaria Ferrigno (1998), Grégoire Lagger (1998), Frédéric Reymond (1998), Zhifeng Ding (1999), Hye Jin Lee (1999), Joël Stéphane Rossier (2000), Alexandra Ros (2000), Paolo Galletto (2000), Laure Tomaszewski (2000), François Bianchi (2001), Juliette Perrenoud (2001), Alexis Piron (2001), Véronique Gobry (2001), Tatiana Rohner (2003), Virginie Mengeaud (2003), Jean-Pierre Abid (2003), Sorina-Mirela Ulmeanu Plass (2004), Nicolas Eugster (2004), Xiaoxia Bai (2004), Isabelle Di Maïo (2004), Joseph Jose Kakkassery (2005), Niels Lion (2006), Andrea Lionello (2006), Loïc Dayon (2006), Bin Su (2006), Hoang-Trang Lam (2007), Michel Prudent (2009), Mohamad Hojeij (2009), Mélanie Abonnenc (2009), Raheleh Partovi Nia (2010), Hongyan Bi (2010), Fernando Cortes Salazar (2010), Anne-Laure Gassner (2011), Brice Perruche (2011), Manuel Alejandro Méndez Agudelo (2011), Mohammad Reza Pourhaghighi (2012), Yu Lu (2012), Peiyu Ge (2013), Astrid Johana Olaya Avendano (2013), Liang Qiao (2013), Dmitry Momotenko (2013), Haiqiang Deng (2014), Elena Tobolkina (2014), Natalia Gasilova (2014), Véronique Amstutz (2015), Alexandra Bondarenko (2015), Patrick Voyame (2016), Jonnathan Cesar Hidalgo Acosta (2016), Evgeny Smirnov (2017), Lucie Rivier (2017), Tzu-En Lin (2017), Xiaoqin Zhong (2017), NA (2019), Victor Costa Bassetto (2019), Yingdi Zhu (2019), Sunny Isaïe Maye (2020), Mikaël Frossard (2020), Elena Zanzola (2020), Yorick Ligen (2020), Danick Reynard (2022), Sorour Darvishi (2022)