Hubert Girault

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Citizenship: Swiss

Birth date: 13.02.1957

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Fields of expertise

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

Mission

Teaching and Research in Analytical and Physical Electrochemistry

Biography

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 - Professor of Physical Chemistry, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.
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.

Honours: Faraday medal 2006, Royal Society of Chemistry, Fellow of the International Society of Electrochemistry 2007, Reilley Award 2015. Fellow of the Electrochemical Society (USA), Shikata International medal, Polarography Society of Japan.

Associate editor of Chemical Science

Memberships

1994 - 1998 Division Officer of the International Society of Electrochemistry
1994 - 1998 Member of the International Advisory Board of Journal of the Chemical Society Faraday Transactions
1995 - VP & Editor for chemistry, Presses Polytechniques Universitaires Romandes
1996 2001: Associate Editor of Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry
1998 - Member of the International Advisory Board of the Journal of the Korean Chemical Society
1999 - Member of the International Advisory Board of Journal of the Physical Chemistry and Chemical Physics, Royal Society of Chemistry..
1999 - Member of the Editorial Board of Electrochemical Communications.
1999 2000: Président de la Société Suisse dElectrophorèse
2001 - 2002: Member of the Advisory board of the A-pages of Analytical Chemistry.
2002 - Member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry.
2003 - Member of the Editorial Board of Electrophoresis.
2003 - Member of the International Academic Committee of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
2003 - Member of the jury of the Carnot Fundation (Paris, France)
2005 - Member of the Editorial Board of Analytical Sciences (Japan Society for Analytical Chemistry)

Publications

Infoscience publications

Infoscience

Visible-light driven water oxidation and oxygen production at soft interfaces

S. N. M. Betancourt; J. S. Riva; J. G. Uranga; A. J. Olaya; H. H. Girault

Chemical Communications. 2022-02-28. DOI : 10.1039/d1cc07013d.

Hubert Girault

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Infoscience publications

Infoscience

Visible-light driven water oxidation and oxygen production at soft interfaces

Advances in the Sensing and Treatment of Wound Biofilms

Banana split: biomass splitting with flash light irradiation

Electrochemical imaging of metabolic activity in tissue and biofilms

Redox dual-flow battery for combined electricity storage and hydrogen production

Visible-Light-Driven Water Oxidation on Self-Assembled Metal-Free Organic@Carbon Junctions at Neutral pH

Voltammetry in Two-Electrode Mode for Rapid Electrochemical Screening Using a Fully Printed and Flexible Multiplexer Sensor

Prussian Blue Analogue-Sodium-Vanadium Hexacyanoferrate as a Cathode Material for Na-Ion Batteries

Combined hydrogen production and electricity storage using a vanadium-manganese redox dual-flow battery

Ionosomes: Observation of Ionic Bilayer Water Clusters

The Solvent Effect on H2O2 Generation at Room Temperature Ionic Liquid|Water Interface

Photonic Flash Synthesis of Mo2C/Graphene Electrocatalyst for the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction

Catalytic layer - membrane electrode assembly methods for optimum formation of triple phase boundaries and fuel cell performances

Rapid Noninvasive Skin Monitoring by Surface Mass Recording and Data Learning

Hydrogen production on demand by redox-mediated electrocatalysis: A kinetic study

Soft-probe-scanning electrochemical microscopy reveals electrochemical surface reactivity of E. coli biofilms

Combining cryognic ion spectroscopy with ion mobility for the study of glycan fragmentation

Analyzing glycans cleaved from a biotherapeutic protein using a combination of ion mobility spectrometry and cryogenic ion spectroscopy

Photo-recycling the Sacrificial Electron Donor: Towards Sustainable Hydrogen Evolution in a Biphasic System

Communication-Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy Analysis of Interleukin-6 in Oral Cancer

How to polarise an interface with ions: the discrete Helmholtz model

Discrete Helmholtz model: a single layer of correlated counter-ions. Metal oxides and silica interfaces, ion-exchange and biological membranes

Discrete Helmholtz charge distribution at liquid-liquid interfaces: Electrocapillarity, capacitance and non-linear spectroscopy studies

A Review: Electrochemical Biosensors for Oral Cancer

Experimental correlations and integration of gas boosters in a hydrogen refueling station

Thermally regenerative copper nanoslurry flow batteries for heat-to-power conversion with low-grade thermal energy

Vanadium‐manganese redox flow battery: Study of Mn(III) disproportionation in the presence of other metallic ions.

Inkjet-Printed Carbon Nanotube Electrodes Modified with Dimer-captosuccinic Acid-Capped Fe3O4 Nanoparticles on Reduced Graphene Oxide Nanosheets for Single-Drop Determination of Trifluoperazine

Oxidative Print Light Synthesis Thin Film Deposition of Prussian Blue

Energy efficient hydrogen drying and purification for fuel cell vehicles

Montmorillonite clay-modified disposable ink-jet-printed graphene electrode as a sensitive voltammetric sensor for the determination of cadmium(II) and lead(II)

Flash light synthesis of noble metal nanoparticles for electrochemical applications: silver, gold, and their alloys

Oxygen Plasma/Bismuth Modified Inkjet Printed Graphene Electrode for the Sensitive Simultaneous Detection of Lead and Cadmium

Aqueous organic and redox-mediated redox flow batteries : A Review

Assembling Ni-Fe Layered Double Hydroxide 2D Thin Films for Oxygen Evolution Electrodes

Electrochemical systems for hydrogen fuel cell and battery electric vehicle infrastructure

Liquid phase in situ spectroscopic investigations of heterogeneous catalysts

Aqueous Redox Flow Batteries Enhanced by Solid Boosters

Skin cell analysis

Highly Loaded Mildly Edge‐Oxidized Graphene Nanosheet Dispersions for Large‐Scale Inkjet Printing of Electrochemical Sensors

Copper battery for heat to power conversion and energy storage

Structure and reactivity of the polarised liquid–liquid interface: what we know and what we do not

Novel Analytical Methods for Allergy-Related Studies

Sodium chromium hexacyanoferrate as a potential cathode material for aqueous sodium-ion batteries

1D Amorphous Tungsten-Based Ternary Refractory Metal Sulfides for Catalytic Hydrogen Evolution at Soft Interfaces

Catalytic Hydrogen Evolution by Molybdenum-Based Ternary Metal Sulfide Nanoparticles

Tape-Stripping Electrochemical Detection of Melanoma

Print-Light-Synthesis of Ni and NiFe-nanoscale catalysts for oxygen evolution

Two dimensional diffusion-controlled triplet–triplet annihilation kinetics

MALDI Detection of Exosomes: A Potential Tool for Cancer Studies

Local Study on Hydrogen and Hydrogen Gas Bubble Formation on a Platinum Electrode

A Self-Assembled Organic/Metal Junction for Water Photo-Oxidation

On-Site Purification of Copper-Contaminated Vanadium Electrolytes by using a Vanadium Redox Flow Battery

Inkjet-Printed Mesoporous TiO2 and Perovskite Layers for High Efficiency Perovskite Solar Cells

Standard ion transfer potential at the water|butyronitrile interface

Detection of bacteria

Bimolecular charge transfer reactions at and through the liquid-liquid interface

Inkjet printing and electrocatalysis

Scattering HCl Molecules from Au(111) and Ag(111) Surfaces

Solid electrochemical energy storage for aqueous redox flow batteries: The case of copper hexacyanoferrate

Vanadium-oxygen cell for positive electrolyte discharge in dual-circuit vanadium redox flow battery

Large-scale fabrication of flexible solid-state reference electrodes

Point-of-care amperometric determination of L-dopa using an inkjet-printed carbon nanotube electrode modified with dandelion-like MnO2 microspheres

Mechanistic study of the photo‐generation of hydrogen by decamethylruthenocene

Inkjet Printed Carbon Nanotube Electrodes for Measuring Pyocyaninand Uric Acid in a Wound Fluid Simulant and Culture Media

Disposable Biosensor Based on Amidase/CeO2/GNR Modified Inkjet‐printed CNT Electrodes‐droplet Based Paracetamol Detection in Biological Fluids for “Point‐of‐care” Applications

Non-Precious Electrodes for Practical Alkaline Water Electrolysis

Local Energy Storage and Stochastic Modeling for Ultrafast Charging Stations

Mass Spectrometry Methods for Bacterial Infection Diagnosis and Cancer Analysis

Alterations of Brain Energy Metabolism in Type 2 Diabetic Goto-Kakizaki Rats Measured In Vivo by (13)C Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy

Frictional Heating Processes and Energy Budget During Laboratory Earthquakes

Immuno-affinity Amperometric Detection of Bacterial Infections

Inkjet-printed mesoporous TiO2 and perovskite layers for high efficiency perovskite solar cells