After receiving his PhD in Physics from the Université de Neuchâtel, he was a postdoctoral researcher at EPFL, the University of California Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories, before joining Empa in 2014. He is co-author of ~200 peer-reviewed scientific publications and 8 patent applications. He is currently the president of the Swiss Battery Association iBAT, member of the Alistore European Research Institute, Swiss representative in the long-term large-scale European battery initiative Battery2030, scientific committee member of the Upcell Alliance , founding member of the Battery European Partnership Association, and member of the National Competence Center in Research on Catalysis.
Office at Empa LB314
Phone number at Empa 41 58 765 4131
Address at Empa Ueberlandstrasse 129, 8600 Duebendorf
Awards
Zeno Karl Schindler / EPFL postdoctoral award
Zeno Karl Schindler Foundation
2012
Omega MSc thesis award
Omega Foundation
2008
Selected publications
Hydroborate Solid-State Lithium Battery with High-Voltage NMC811 Cathode
Hugo Braun, Ryo Asakura, Arndt Remhof, Corsin Battaglia
Published in ACS Energy Letters in 2025
Enhancing Specific Energy and Cycling Stability of High-Temperature Na-ZnCl2 Batteries with Foam-Based Electrodes
Corsin BattagliaSajad Rahimi, Enea Svaluto-Ferro, Rohat Celik, Fabrizio Vagliani, Diego Basso, Alberto Turconi, Andrea Pozzi, Corsin Battaglia, Meike V. F. Heinz
Published in Advanced Energy Materials in 2025
Toward an Autonomous Robotic Battery Materials Research Platform Powered by Automated Workflow and Ontologized Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable Data Management
Batteries & Supercaps Batteries & Supercaps Research Article Open Access Toward an Autonomous Robotic Battery Materials Research Platform Powered by Automated Workflow and Ontologized Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable Data Management This article relates to: Enea Svaluto-Ferro, Graham Kimbell, YeonJu Kim, Nukorn Plainpan, Benjamin Kunz, Lina Scholz, Raphael Läubli, Maximilian Becker, David Reber, Peter Kraus, Ruben-Simon Kühnel, Corsin Battaglia
Published in Batteries & Supercaps in 2025
(Bi)carbonate Precipitation and Gas Diffusion Electrode Stability Coexist during Pulsed Electrochemical CO2 Reduction
Francesco Bernasconi, Marta Mirolo, Nukorn Plainpan, Qing Wang, Peng Zeng, Jakub Drnec, Alessandro Senocrate, Corsin Battaglia
Published in ACS Energy Letters in 2025
Parallel experiments in electrochemical CO2 reduction enabled by standardized analytics
Alessandro Senocrate, Francesco Bernasconi, Peter Kraus, Nukorn Plainpan, Jens Trafkowski, Fabian Tolle, Thomas Weber, Ulrich Sauter, Corsin Battaglia
Published in Nature Catalysis in 2025
High-efficiency crystalline silicon solar cells: status and perspectives
Corsin Battaglia, Andres Cuevas, Stefaan De Wolf
Published in Energy & Environmental Science in 2025
Teaching & PhD
PhD Students
Claudia Bissattini Alessi, Julia Anna Lorenzetti
Past EPFL PhD Students as codirector
David Reber, Daniel Alexander Landmann
Courses
Charge transport in energy conversion and storage
MSE-496
Fundamental concepts of charge transport in solar cells, batteries, and electrolysers, emphasizing analogies between semiconductor physics and electrochemistry.