Petr Novák

Petr Novák

Petr Novák, Fellow of the International Society of Electrochemistry, is currently Senior Fellow and Honorary Professor at the Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany. He build up the Section “Electrochemical Energy Storage” of the Paul Scherrer Institute in Villigen, Switzerland where he used to work from 1991 to 2021. A graduate of the Institute of Chemical Technology in Prague, he obtained his PhD in electrochemical engineering in 1984 and his habilitation in 1994. He has been working in the field of electrochemical energy storage (focusing on batteries, mainly lithium-based) since 1983, first at the J. Heyrovský Institute, Prague, later as Alexander von Humboldt-Fellow at the University of Bonn, and then at the Paul Scherrer Institute. He was awarded the Tajima Prize of the International Society of Electrochemistry, the Technology Award of the Battery Division of The Electrochemical Society, Inc., and the 2020 Yeager Award of the International Battery Association for outstanding contributions to electrochemical energy conversion and storage science over a protracted period. Dr. Novák was appointed as a full (W3) professor at the University of Karlsruhe in 2008 (rejected). Petr Novák was awarded the title of Professor of ETH Zurich in 2009 and the Honorary Professorship of the Technical University of Braunschweig in 2021.