Hubert Girault
Full Professor
hubert.girault@epfl.ch +41 21 693 31 51 http://lepa.epfl.ch
Citizenship : Swiss
Birth date : 13.02.1957
EPFL Valais Wallis
EPFL SB ISIC LEPA
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CH-1951 Sion
Web site: Web site: https://lepa.epfl.ch
Fields of expertise
Electrochemistry
Redox flow batteries
Hydrogen production and distribution
Analytical Chemistry
Fuel cell cars
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
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)
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
Voltammetry in Two-Electrode Mode for Rapid Electrochemical Screening Using a Fully Printed and Flexible Multiplexer Sensor
Chemelectrochem. 2021-10-01. DOI : 10.1002/celc.202100477.Prussian Blue Analogue-Sodium-Vanadium Hexacyanoferrate as a Cathode Material for Na-Ion Batteries
Acs Applied Energy Materials. 2021-09-27. DOI : 10.1021/acsaem.1c01832.Combined hydrogen production and electricity storage using a vanadium-manganese redox dual-flow battery
Cell Reports Physical Science. 2021-09-22. DOI : 10.1016/j.xcrp.2021.100556.Ionosomes: Observation of Ionic Bilayer Water Clusters
Journal Of The American Chemical Society. 2021-05-26. DOI : 10.1021/jacs.0c12250.The Solvent Effect on H2O2 Generation at Room Temperature Ionic Liquid|Water Interface
Chemphyschem. 2021-05-25. DOI : 10.1002/cphc.202100219.Photonic Flash Synthesis of Mo2C/Graphene Electrocatalyst for the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction
Acs Catalysis. 2021-05-07. DOI : 10.1021/acscatal.1c00770.Catalytic layer - membrane electrode assembly methods for optimum formation of triple phase boundaries and fuel cell performances
Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 2021-03-23. DOI : 10.1039/D0TA07470E.Rapid Noninvasive Skin Monitoring by Surface Mass Recording and Data Learning
JACS Au. 2021-03-22. DOI : 10.1021/jacsau.0c00074.Hydrogen production on demand by redox-mediated electrocatalysis: A kinetic study
Chemical Engineering Journal. 2021-03-01. DOI : 10.1016/j.cej.2020.126721.Soft-probe-scanning electrochemical microscopy reveals electrochemical surface reactivity of E. coli biofilms
Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical. 2021-02-16. DOI : 10.1016/j.snb.2021.129669.Combining cryognic ion spectroscopy with ion mobility for the study of glycan fragmentation
Lausanne, EPFL, 2021. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-8916.Analyzing glycans cleaved from a biotherapeutic protein using a combination of ion mobility spectrometry and cryogenic ion spectroscopy
Lausanne, EPFL, 2021. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-10681.Photo-recycling the Sacrificial Electron Donor: Towards Sustainable Hydrogen Evolution in a Biphasic System
Chemphyschem. 2020-11-20. DOI : 10.1002/cphc.202000844.Communication-Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy Analysis of Interleukin-6 in Oral Cancer
Ecs Journal Of Solid State Science And Technology. 2020-10-21. DOI : 10.1149/2162-8777/abc058.How to polarise an interface with ions: the discrete Helmholtz model
Chemical Science. 2020-10-21. DOI : 10.1039/d0sc00685h.Discrete Helmholtz model: a single layer of correlated counter-ions. Metal oxides and silica interfaces, ion-exchange and biological membranes
Chemical Science. 2020-10-14. DOI : 10.1039/d0sc03748f.Discrete Helmholtz charge distribution at liquid-liquid interfaces: Electrocapillarity, capacitance and non-linear spectroscopy studies
Journal Of Electroanalytical Chemistry. 2020-09-01. DOI : 10.1016/j.jelechem.2020.114240.A Review: Electrochemical Biosensors for Oral Cancer
Chemosensors. 2020-07-13. DOI : 10.3390/chemosensors8030054.Experimental correlations and integration of gas boosters in a hydrogen refueling station
International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 2020-06-24. DOI : 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2020.04.162.Thermally regenerative copper nanoslurry flow batteries for heat-to-power conversion with low-grade thermal energy
Energy & Environmental Science. 2020-06-09. DOI : 10.1039/D0EE01590C.Vanadium‐manganese redox flow battery: Study of Mn(III) disproportionation in the presence of other metallic ions.
Chemistry A European Journal. 2020-06-05. DOI : 10.1002/chem.202000340.Inkjet-Printed Carbon Nanotube Electrodes Modified with Dimer-captosuccinic Acid-Capped Fe3O4 Nanoparticles on Reduced Graphene Oxide Nanosheets for Single-Drop Determination of Trifluoperazine
ACS Applied Nano Materials. 2020-04-22. DOI : 10.1021/acsanm.0c00661.Oxidative Print Light Synthesis Thin Film Deposition of Prussian Blue
ACS Applied Electronic Materials. 2020-03-11. DOI : 10.1021/acsaelm.9b00854.Energy efficient hydrogen drying and purification for fuel cell vehicles
International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 2020-03-02. DOI : 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2020.02.035.Montmorillonite clay-modified disposable ink-jet-printed graphene electrode as a sensitive voltammetric sensor for the determination of cadmium(II) and lead(II)
SN Applied Sciences. 2020-02-24. DOI : 10.1007/s42452-020-2283-5.Flash light synthesis of noble metal nanoparticles for electrochemical applications: silver, gold, and their alloys
Journal Of Solid State Electrochemistry. 2020-02-13. DOI : 10.1007/s10008-020-04521-5.Oxygen Plasma/Bismuth Modified Inkjet Printed Graphene Electrode for the Sensitive Simultaneous Detection of Lead and Cadmium
American Journal of Analytical Chemistry. 2020-01-14. DOI : 10.4236/ajac.2020.111001.Aqueous organic and redox-mediated redox flow batteries : A Review
Current Opinion in Electrochemistry. 2020-01-07. DOI : 10.1016/j.coelec.2019.12.006.Assembling Ni-Fe Layered Double Hydroxide 2D Thin Films for Oxygen Evolution Electrodes
Acs Applied Energy Materials. 2020-01-01. DOI : 10.1021/acsaem.9b02055.Electrochemical systems for hydrogen fuel cell and battery electric vehicle infrastructure
Lausanne, EPFL, 2020. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-7916.Liquid phase in situ spectroscopic investigations of heterogeneous catalysts
Lausanne, EPFL, 2020. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-8561.Aqueous Redox Flow Batteries Enhanced by Solid Boosters
Lausanne, EPFL, 2020. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-7898.Skin cell analysis
WO2020035707 ; GB2576374 ; GB201813449 . 2020.Highly Loaded Mildly Edge‐Oxidized Graphene Nanosheet Dispersions for Large‐Scale Inkjet Printing of Electrochemical Sensors
ChemElectroChem. 2020. DOI : 10.1002/celc.201901697.Copper battery for heat to power conversion and energy storage
Lausanne, EPFL, 2020. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-7341.Structure and reactivity of the polarised liquid–liquid interface: what we know and what we do not
Current Opinion in Electrochemistry. 2020. DOI : 10.1016/j.coelec.2019.12.002.Novel Analytical Methods for Allergy-Related Studies
Lausanne, EPFL, 2020. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-7271.Sodium chromium hexacyanoferrate as a potential cathode material for aqueous sodium-ion batteries
Chemical Communications. 2019-12-18. DOI : 10.1039/c9cc06350a.1D Amorphous Tungsten-Based Ternary Refractory Metal Sulfides for Catalytic Hydrogen Evolution at Soft Interfaces
Chemnanomat. 2019-11-07. DOI : 10.1002/cnma.201900536.Catalytic Hydrogen Evolution by Molybdenum-Based Ternary Metal Sulfide Nanoparticles
Acs Applied Nano Materials. 2019-11-01. DOI : 10.1021/acsanm.9b01694.Tape-Stripping Electrochemical Detection of Melanoma
Analytical Chemistry. 2019-10-15. DOI : 10.1021/acs.analchem.9b02819.Print-Light-Synthesis of Ni and NiFe-nanoscale catalysts for oxygen evolution
ACS Applied Energy Materials. 2019-08-06. DOI : 10.1021/acsaem.9b00957.Two dimensional diffusion-controlled triplet–triplet annihilation kinetics
Chemical Science. 2019-07-04. DOI : 10.1039/C9SC00957D.MALDI Detection of Exosomes: A Potential Tool for Cancer Studies
Chem. 2019-05-09. DOI : 10.1016/j.chempr.2019.04.007.Local Study on Hydrogen and Hydrogen Gas Bubble Formation on a Platinum Electrode
Journal Of Physical Chemistry C. 2019-05-02. DOI : 10.1021/acs.jpcc.8b10920.A Self-Assembled Organic/Metal Junction for Water Photo-Oxidation
Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2019-04-09. DOI : 10.1021/jacs.9b02693.On-Site Purification of Copper-Contaminated Vanadium Electrolytes by using a Vanadium Redox Flow Battery
Chemsuschem. 2019-03-21. DOI : 10.1002/cssc.201802895.Inkjet-Printed Mesoporous TiO2 and Perovskite Layers for High Efficiency Perovskite Solar Cells
Energy Technology. 2019-02-01. DOI : 10.1002/ente.201800905.Standard ion transfer potential at the water|butyronitrile interface
Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry. 2019-01-16. DOI : 10.1016/j.jelechem.2019.01.041.Detection of bacteria
EP3781701 ; WO2019201986 ; GB201806361 . 2019.Bimolecular charge transfer reactions at and through the liquid-liquid interface
Lausanne, EPFL, 2019. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-9658.Inkjet printing and electrocatalysis
Lausanne, EPFL, 2019. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-9795.Scattering HCl Molecules from Au(111) and Ag(111) Surfaces
Lausanne, EPFL, 2019. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-9742.Solid electrochemical energy storage for aqueous redox flow batteries: The case of copper hexacyanoferrate
Electrochimica Acta. 2019. DOI : 10.1016/j.electacta.2019.134704.Vanadium-oxygen cell for positive electrolyte discharge in dual-circuit vanadium redox flow battery
Journal of Power Sources. 2019. DOI : 10.1016/j.jpowsour.2019.227075.Large-scale fabrication of flexible solid-state reference electrodes
Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry. 2019. DOI : 10.1016/j.jelechem.2019.113241.Point-of-care amperometric determination of L-dopa using an inkjet-printed carbon nanotube electrode modified with dandelion-like MnO2 microspheres
Microchimica Acta. 2019. DOI : 10.1007/s00604-019-3644-x.Mechanistic study of the photo‐generation of hydrogen by decamethylruthenocene
Chemistry – A European Journal. 2019. DOI : 10.1002/chem.201902353.Inkjet Printed Carbon Nanotube Electrodes for Measuring Pyocyaninand Uric Acid in a Wound Fluid Simulant and Culture Media
Analytical Chemistry. 2019. DOI : 10.1021/acs.analchem.8b05591.Disposable Biosensor Based on Amidase/CeO2/GNR Modified Inkjet‐printed CNT Electrodes‐droplet Based Paracetamol Detection in Biological Fluids for “Point‐of‐care” Applications
Electroanalysis. 2019. DOI : 10.1002/elan.201900129.Non-Precious Electrodes for Practical Alkaline Water Electrolysis
Materials. 2019. DOI : 10.3390/ma12081336.Local Energy Storage and Stochastic Modeling for Ultrafast Charging Stations
Energies. 2019. DOI : 10.3390/en12101986.Mass Spectrometry Methods for Bacterial Infection Diagnosis and Cancer Analysis
Lausanne, EPFL, 2019. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-9322.Alterations of Brain Energy Metabolism in Type 2 Diabetic Goto-Kakizaki Rats Measured In Vivo by (13)C Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
Neurotoxicity research. 2019. DOI : 10.1007/s12640-017-9821-y.Frictional Heating Processes and Energy Budget During Laboratory Earthquakes
Geophysical Research Letters. 2018-11-05. DOI : 10.1029/2018GL079263.Immuno-affinity Amperometric Detection of Bacterial Infections
Angewandte Chemie-International Edition. 2018-11-05. DOI : 10.1002/anie.201808666.Characterisation of a 200 kW/400 kWh Vanadium Redox Flow Battery
Batteries. 2018-11-01. DOI : 10.3390/batteries4040054.Inkjet-printed mesoporous TiO2 and perovskite layers for high efficiency perovskite solar cells
ChemRxiv. 2018-10-29. DOI : 10.26434/chemrxiv.7127066.v1.Photosensitized Hydrogen Evolution on a Floating Electrocatalyst Coupled to Electrochemical Recycling
Journal of the American Chemical Society. 2018-08-01. DOI : 10.1021/jacs.8b06729.Maldi device and methods of preparation and use thereof
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL): WO2018134232 ; GB201700908 . 2018-07-28.Electrochemical potential window of battery electrolytes: the HOMO-LUMO misconception
Energy & Environmental Science. 2018-07-28. DOI : 10.1039/C8EE01286E.Effect of Chaotropes on the Transfer of Ions and Dyes across the Liquid–Liquid Interface
The Journal of Physical Chemistry. 2018-07-22. DOI : 10.1021/acs.jpcc.8b04490.Rapid inkjet printing of high catalytic activity Co3O4 /N-rGO layers for oxygen reduction reaction
Applied Catalysis A: General. 2018-06-20. DOI : 10.1016/j.apcata.2018.06.026.Semi-analytical modelling of linear scan voltammetric responses for soluble-insoluble system: The case of metal deposition
Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry. 2018-06-01. DOI : 10.1016/j.jelechem.2018.04.021.Monotonic Prefix Consistency in Distributed Systems
2018-05-30. 38th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference on Formal Techniques for Distributed Objects, Components, and Systems, Madrid, Spain, June 18-20, 2018. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-319-92612-4_3.Mobility from Renewable Electricity: Infrastructure Comparison for Battery and Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicles
World Electric Vehicle Journal. 2018-05-24. DOI : 10.3390/wevj9010003.Efficiency improvement of an all-vanadium redox flow battery by harvesting low-grade heat
Journal of Power Sources. 2018-04-13. DOI : 10.1016/j.jpowsour.2018.03.074.On-Chip Spyhole Nanoelectrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry for Sensitive Biomarker Detection in Small Volumes
Journal of The American Society for Mass Spectrometry. 2018-03-05. DOI : 10.1007/s13361-018-1937-7.Solvent effect in photo-ionic cells
Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry. 2018-02-26. DOI : 10.1016/j.jelechem.2018.02.045.Gold Raspberry-Like Colloidosomes Prepared at the Water-Nitromethane Interface
Langmuir. 2018-01-27. DOI : 10.1021/acs.langmuir.7b03532.Personalized and rapid test for food-related allergy
JOURNAL OF ALLERGY AND CLINICAL IMMUNOLOGY. 2018. DOI : 10.1016/j.jaci.2017.11.065.Electrochemical Imaging of Cells and Tissues
Chemical Science. 2018. DOI : 10.1039/C8SC01035H.Detection of antimicrobial resistance-associated proteins by titanium dioxide-facilitated intact bacteria mass spectrometry
Chemical Science. 2018. DOI : 10.1039/C7SC04089J.Molecularly Engineered Hole Transporting Materials for High Performance Perovskite Solar Cells
EPFL, 2018. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-8264.SECM study of hydrogen photogeneration in a 1,2-dichloroethane | water biphasic system with decamethylruthenocene electron donor regeneration
Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry. 2018. DOI : 10.1016/j.jelechem.2017.09.026.Large-scale layer-by-layer inkjet printing of flexible iridium-oxide based pH sensors
Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry. 2018. DOI : 10.1016/j.jelechem.2017.11.032.Electrotunable wetting, and micro- and nanofluidics: general discussion
2017. p. 195-237. DOI : 10.1039/C7FD90028G.Electrovariable nanoplasmonics: general discussion
2017. p. 565-583. DOI : 10.1039/C7FD90029E.Why You Can't Beat Blockchains: Consistency and High Availability in Distributed Systems
2017Bacterial Whole Cell Typing by Mass Spectra Pattern Matching with Bootstrapping Assessment
Analytical Chemistry. 2017. DOI : 10.1021/acs.analchem.7b03820.Weiche elektrochemische Sonden zum Abbilden der Verteilung von Biomarkern und injizierten Nanomaterialien in tierischem und menschlichem Gewebe
Angewandte Chemie. 2017. DOI : 10.1002/ange.201709271.New ionization and tagging methods for mass spectrometry
Lausanne, EPFL, 2017. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-8273.Battery
WO2017186836 ; GB201607461 . 2017.Alterations of brain energy metabolism in insulin-resistant Goto-Kakizaki rats measured in vivo by C-13 magnetic resonance spectroscopy
2017. 53rd Annual Meeting of the European-Association-for-the-Study-of-Diabetes (EASD), Lisbon, PORTUGAL, SEP 11-15, 2017. p. S579-S579.Compact and General Strategy for Solving Current and Potential Distribution in Electrochemical Cells Composed of Massive Monopolar and Bipolar Electrodes
Journal Of The Electrochemical Society. 2017. DOI : 10.1149/2.0471711jes.Soft Electrochemical Probes for Mapping the Distribution of Biomarkers and Injected Nanomaterials in Animal and Human Tissues
Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 2017. DOI : 10.1002/anie.201709271.Soft probes for bio-electrochemical imaging
Lausanne, EPFL, 2017. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-8024.Personalized and rapid food allergy test using natural allergenic extracts
2017. Congress of the European-Academy-of-Allergy-and-Clinical-Immunology, Helsinki, FINLAND, JUN 17-21, 2017. p. 344-344.Redox Electrocatalysis of Floating Nanoparticles: Determining Electrocatalytic Properties without the Influence of Solid Supports
The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 2017. DOI : 10.1021/acs.jpclett.7b00685.The antioxidant capacity of erythrocyte concentrates is increased during the first week of storage and correlated with the uric acid level
Vox Sanguinis. 2017. DOI : 10.1111/vox.12563.Teaching & PhD
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