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He is a Fellow of several learned societies and holds eleven honorary doctor's degrees from European and Asian Universities.
Michael Grätzel is a professor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne where he directs the Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces.

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Michael Grätzel

Swiss professor (born 1944)

Michael Grätzel (born 11 May 1944, in Dorfchemnitz, Saxony, Germany)^[3] is a professor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne where he directs the Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces. He pioneered research on energy and electron transfer reactions in mesoscopic-materials and their optoelectronic applications. He co-invented with Brian O'Regan the Grätzel cell in 1988.^[1]^[4]^[5]^[6]

Graetzel is the author of over 1000 publications,^[7] two books and inventor or co-inventor of over 80 patents,^[8] he has been the Mary Upton Visiting Professor at Cornell University and a distinguished visiting professor at the National University of Singapore, and is currently a distinguished scientist at King Abdulaziz University.^[9] He was an invited professor at the University of California, Berkeley, the École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay and Delft University of Technology.

Education and career

In 1968 he graduated from Free University of Berlin,

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Michael Grätzel

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Switzerland/Germany

2009 Balzan Prize for the Science of New Materials

For his many contributions to the science of new materials, and in particular for his invention and development of a new type of photovoltaic solar cell, the dye-sensitized Cell, commonly known as the Grätzel cell.

Michael Grätzel, born in Dorfchemnitz (Germany) on 11 May 1944, is a Swiss citizen.

He is currently Professor at the Ecole Polytechnique de Lausanne (EPFL), where he directs the Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces.

Michael Grätzel graduated in Chemistry in 1968 from the Free University of Berlin. He received his PhD in 1971 from the Technical University of Berlin and was Research Associate at the Hahn-Meitner Institute in Berlin from 1969 to 1972. From 1972 to 1974 he was Postdoctoral Fellow at the Radiation Laboratory, University of Notre Dame, Indiana (USA). He was then Scientific Staff Member of the Hahn-Meitner Institute in Berlin from 1974 to 1976, and received his teaching qualification (Habilitation) in Physical Chemistry in 1976 from the Free Uni

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For transcendent merits in development of low cost and efficient solar cells, known as “Graetzel cells”, aimed to creation of cost-efficient, large-scale engineering solutions for power generation.

Head, Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces, EPFL.

SHORT BIOGRAPHY

Born on May 11, 1944 in Dorfchemnitz commune (Germany).
In 1968 he graduated from Free University of Berlin, in 1971 he earned the Doctor of Philosophy in natural science in Technical University of Berlin.
In1976 he earned Doctor of Science in physical chemistry.
Since 1977 to the present day he is a Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne where he directs the Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces.
He acted as postdoctoral research fellow, lecturer, visiting professor in Berlin Institute for Nuclear Researches named after Hahn and Meitner, Free University of Berlin, University of California at Berkeley, Ecole National Supérieur de Cachan (Paris), Oil and Gas Research Fund, University Notre Dame (USA) and other educational and research centers.
In1991 he publis