Irene Ruggeri

Irene Ruggeri has a diverse work experience in the field of battery technology. Irene is currently working as a Battery Performance Simulation Engineer at Farasis Energy since May 2021. Prior to this, she worked as a Development Engineer at Brunel from May 2021 to June 2022.

From 2019 to 2021, Irene worked as a Battery Scientist at Zentrum für Sonnenenergie- und Wasserstoff-Forschung Baden-Württemberg (ZSW), supervised by Dr. Margret Wohlfahrt-Mehrens and Dr. Peter Axmann.

Before joining ZSW, she was a Temporary Research Fellow at the University of Bologna from February 2015 to January 2019. Irene's responsibilities there included working on projects related to Li-O2 Battery and Supercapacitors under the supervision of Dr. Francesca Soavi and Prof. Catia Arbizzani. Additionally, she worked as a PhD student at the same university, where her research focused on various battery technologies, including Li-O2, Li-S, redox-flow battery, and semi-solid redox flow battery. Irene also had the opportunity to write papers, patent inventions, and present her research at several conferences on batteries. During this period, she spent a year abroad in Germany and Canada.

In 2018, Irene was indeed a Visiting PhD Student at the Helmholtz Institute Ulm (HIU) for a period of six months. In 2017, she worked as a Visiting PhD Student at Technologiezentrum Energie under the supervision of Prof. K. H. Pettinger. Irene also had a similar role as a Visiting PhD Student for 4 months at École Polytechnique de Montréal, where she gave an invited talk at HydroQuebec in Varennes, thanks to the support of Dr. Andrea Paolella and Dr. Karim Zaghib.

Irene started their career with an internship at ENEA from September 2010 to May 2011 and has been a Master student during her Master thesis (2014) at the laboratory founded by Prof. Bruno Scrosati in Sapienza University, under the supervision of Prof. Jusef Hassoun.

Overall, Irene Ruggeri's work experience showcases their expertise in battery technology research, development, and simulation across various academic and industrial settings.

Irene Ruggeri began her education at the Sapienza Università di Roma from 2008 to 2012, obtaining a Bachelor's degree in Industrial chemistry-Polymer materials. Continuing her education, she pursued a Master's degree CUM LAUDE in the same field at Sapienza Università di Roma from 2013 to 2014. Irene's academic journey culminated in Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna, where she earned a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Chemistry CUM LAUDE from 2015 to 2018.