Thomson Reuters has named Stefano Passerini among their list of the world’s most influential scientific minds of 2015. The annual list comprises authors whose work has permanently possessed great influence in the form of citations from fellow scientists. The corresponding report identifies the best and most influential scientists from among the world’s estimated nine million researchers who publish upwards of two million papers each year. Highly cited researchers were assigned to one of 21 main specialty areas, based on a majority of the specific journals in which they published their highly cited papers between 2003 and 2013. The report also includes a ranking of the “hottest researchers”, whose published papers were cited immediately after publication at extraordinarily high levels.
Since January 2014, Passerini holds a professorship at the HIU and since July 2015 he is also deputy director of the institute. He has been working on the development of materials and systems for electrochemical energy storage for 30 years. His research efforts are focused on the fundamental understanding and the development of materials for lithium batteries, such as ionic liquids, polymer electrolytes, and electrode materials. He is author of over 400 publications.