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