Prof. em. Dr. Petr Novák

Prof. em. Dr.  Petr Novák

Prof. em. Dr. Petr Novák

Retired Adjunct Professor at the Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences

TU Braunschweig

InES, Langer Kamp 19B

38106 Braunschweig

Germany

Additional information

Research area

Petr Novák’s research interests include the electrochemistry of lithium-ion batteries. His long-term goal is to develop large lithium-ion batteries for vehicle applications.

Petr Novák has been a lecturer at the Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences since 2002 and an Adjunct Professor at the Laboratory of Inorganic Chemistry since 2009. He build up the Section “Electrochemical Energy Storage” of the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) in Villigen, Switzerland.

He was born in Brno in the Czech Republic (then Czechoslovakia) in 1956.

Petr Novák completed his degree in chemistry at the University of Chemistry and Technology in Prague (Czech Republic, then Czechoslovakia) in 1980, where he went on to obtain a doctorate in electrochemical engineering three years later. From 1983, he worked as a research scientist at the J. Heyrovsky Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry in Prague for five years. 1988-1989 he worked at the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the University of Bonn, Germany. 

In 1994, Petr Novák received his habilitation in chemical technology of inorganic materials from the University of Chemistry and Technology in Prague. In 1990, he spent a year working as a group leader at the J. Heyrovsky Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry in Prague. From 1991 to 1995, he was a project leader at the PSI before working as a group leader and section head there.

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Honours

Year Distinction
2021 Honorary Professor of the TU Braunschweig
2020 Yeager Award of the International Battery Association for outstanding contributions to electrochemical energy conversion and storage science over a protracted period
2016 Fellow of the International Society of Electrochemistry
2008 Elected Vice-President of the International Society of Electrochemistry
2005 Technology Prize of the Battery Division of the Electrochemical Society, Inc.
1988 Tajima Prize of the International Society of Electrochemistry, Lausanne, Switzerland

Additional information

Petr Novák was appointed full professor for material research of novel energy storage systems at KIT, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany. He rejected the appointment.

 

Alumni    
Prof. Dr. Susanne Still 1994 - 1995 University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA
Prof. Dr. Martin Winter 1995 - 1996 University of Münster, Germany
Dr. Michael E. Spahr 1993 - 1997 Rain Carbon, Belgium
Dr. Roman Imhof 1996 - 1999 DSM, Switzerland
Dr. Daniel Häringer 1996 - 1999 Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Dr. Jan-Christoph Panitz 1999 - 2000 European Patent Office, The Netherlands
Dr. Marcello Coluccia 1997 - 2000 Imerys Graphite & Carbon, Switzerland
Mr. Beat Rykart 1996 - 2000 unknown
Dr. Martin Lanz 1999 - 2001 Meyer Burger (Switzerland) AG, Switzerland
Mr. Andreas Blome 2000 - 2001 unknown
Dr. Felix Joho 1993 - 2001 VICI AG International, Switzerland
Dr. Dietrich Goers 2000 - 2003 Liacon GmbH, Germany
Dr. Martin Bärtsch 2001 - 2003 Swissmedic, Switzerland
Ms. Sandra Peter 2002 - 2004 unknown
Dr. Andrea Piotto Piotto 2000 - 2004 unknown
Dr. Andreas Würsig 2002 - 2005 Fraunhofer Institute for Silicon Technology, Germany
Dr. Hilmi Buqa 2002 - 2006 Leclanché SA, Switzerland
Dr. Michael Holzapfel 2003 - 2006 Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical Technology, Germany
Prof. Dr. Laurence Hardwick 2003 - 2006 University of Liverpool, UK
Dr. Jens Vetter 2000 - 2006 BMW AG, Germany
Dr. Joachim Ufheil 2003 - 2007 Meyer Burger (Switzerland) AG, Switzerland
Dr. Nicolas Tran 2006 - 2007 Bio-Logic Science Instruments, France
Dr. Fabio Rosciano 2005 - 2008 European Patent Office, Germany
Prof. Dr. Fabio La Mantia 2005 - 2008 University of Bremen, Germany
Dr. See How (Desmond) Ng 2006 - 2008 Sefar AG, Singapore
Dr. Sau Yen (Sophie) Chew 2007 - 2008 Singapore
Dr. Anna Evans 2007 - 2008 Biotronik AG, Switzerland
Mr. Werner Scheifele 1990 - 2009 Belenos Clean Power, Switzerland
Dr. Timothy Patey 2006 - 2009 ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Ms. Chia-Ying Lu 2009 - 2009 USA
Dr. Jean-François Colin 2008 - 2010 CEA Liten, France
Dr. Pascal Maire 2006 - 2010 Renata AG, Switzerland
Dr. Franziska Simmen 2006 - 2010 Ems-Dottikon AG, Switzerland
Dr. Andreas Hintennach 2007 - 2010 Daimler AG, Germany
Dr. Heino-Harald Sommer 2009 - 2010 BASF SE, Germany
Dr. Tiphaine Poux 2010 - 2010 University of Strasbourg, France
Dr. Philippe Bernardo 2007 - 2011 Blue Solutions, France
Dr. Wolfgang Märkle 2007 - 2011 Daimler AG, Germany
Dr. Holger Schneider 2009 - 2011 BASF SE, Germany
Dr. Pallavi Verma 2008 - 2011 Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany
Dr. Vikram A. Godbole 2008 - 2011 Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany
Dr. Sofía Pérez-Villar 2010 - 2011 University of Kent, UK
Dr. Tsuyoshi Sasaki 2009 - 2012 Toyota Motor Corporation, Japan
Prof. Dr. Nuria Garcia-Araez 2011 - 2012 University of Southampton, UK
Dr. Michael Hess 2009 - 2013 Battronics Engineering AG, Switzerland
Dr. Christa Bünzli 2012 - 2014 Swiss Science Center Technorama, Switzerland
Dr. Elias Castel 2012 - 2014 unknown
Dr. Patrick Lanz 2010 - 2014 Apple Inc., USA
Dr. Peter Bleith 2011 - 2014 SGL Carbon GmbH, Germany
Prof. Dr. Juan Luis Gómez-Cámer 2011 - 2014 University of Córdoba, Spain
Ms. Iris Kovacsovics 2014 - 2015 unknown
Dr. Ahmet Tezel 2014 - 2015 Graphene Batteries AS, Norway
Dr. Leonie Vogt 2013 - 2016 McKinsey & Company, UK
Dr. Hai-Jung Peng 2013 - 2016 BASF SE, China
Dr. Daniel Streich 2013 - 2016 Kernkraftwerk Leibstadt AG, Switzerland
Dr. Minglong He 2013 - 2016 Belenos Clean Power, Switzerland
Dr. Lucien Boulet 2013 - 2016 Capgemini, France
Dr. Joana Conder 2013 - 2016 Asulab, Switzerland
Dr. Martin Reichardt 2013 - 2016 Deutsche Accumotive, Germany
Dr. Sebastian Schmidt 2013 - 2016 Mettler-Toledo International, Switzerland
Mr. Joel Cabanero 2016 - 2016 Departement of Science and Technology, Taguig City, Philippines
Mr. Ryo Asakura 2016 - 2017 Empa, Switzerland
Mr. Christoph Junker 2010 - 2017 Axon Lab AG, Switzerland
Dr. Tiphaine Schott 2014 - 2017 Cetim-Cermat, France
Dr. Sebastien Sallard 2011 - 2017 VITO NV, Belgium
Mr. Hermann Kaiser 2001 - 2017 Retired
Mr. Darryl Nater 2017 - 2018 ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Dr. Aurélie Guéguen 2013 - 2018 Toyota Motor Europe NV/SA, Belgium
Dr. Giulio Ferraresi 2014 - 2018 Imerys Graphite & Carbon, Switzerland
Dr. Laura Vitoux 2017 - 2018 Hatier, France
Dr. Elena Marelli 2016 - 2018 Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland
Prof. Dr. Erik J. Berg 2011 - 2018 University of Uppsala, Sweden
Dr. Bing Sun 2016 - 2018 Volvo Car Corporation, Sweden
Dr. Rosa Robert 2012 - 2018 Sensile Medical, Switzerland
Dr. Daniela Leanza 2015 - 2018 Pilatus Flugzeugwerke AG, Switzerland
Dr. Andrzej Kulka 2018 - 2018 Kraków University of Science and Technology, Poland
Dr. Juliette Billaud-Bouville 2015 - 2018 Dyson, UK
Dr. Yuri Surace 2017 - 2018 AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Austria
Mr. Gong Chen 2018 - 2019 China
Dr. Claire Villevieille 2010 - 2019 CEA - Interdisciplinary Research Institute of Grenoble, France
Dr. Cyril Marino 2015 - 2019 SERMA Technologies, France
Dr. Xiaohan Wu 2016 - 2019 BASF SE, Germany
Mr. Victor Landgraf 2018 - 2019 Imperial College London, UK
Dr. Paul Kitz 2016 - 2019 Volkswagen AG, Germany
Dr. Fabian Jeschull 2017 - 2019 Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Dr. Eibar Flores Cedeño 2015 - 2019 Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Mr. André Müller 2019 - 2019 Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Dr. Christoph Bolli 2015 - 2019 Volkswagen AG, Germany
Dr. Kai-Hsuan Hung 2019 - 2019 China Steel Corp., Taiwan
Keisuke Morita 2019 - 2019 Toyota Motor Corporation, Japan
Dr. Marta Mirolo 2016 - 2020 European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Grenoble, France
Maximilian Schuster 2017 - 2020 Passed away on July 31, 2020
Dr. David McNulty 2018 - 2020 University of Limerick, Ireland
Dr. Laura Höltschi 2017 - 2021 Leclanché SA, Switzerland
Dr. Simon Schneider 2017 - 2021 BSI Business Systems Integration AG, Switzerland
Dr. Leiting Zhang 2018 - 2021 University of Uppsala, Sweden
Dr. Sigita Trabesinger 2011 - @PSI group head
Dr. Mario El Kazzi 2013 - @PSI group head

 

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