BANERJEE SARBAJIT
Professor Dr. Sarbajit Banerjee
ETH Zurich, Laboratory for Inorganic Chemistry
PSI Center for Energy and Environmental Sciences
OVGA/121
sarbajit.banerjee@psi.ch
sbanerje@ethz.ch
CV
AREAS OF INTEREST
Electrochemical energy storage
Electron correlated solids,
Electronic structure studies at interfaces,
Metastable materials
Energy efficient computation
Multifunctional coatings
Development of synchrotron spectroscopy and imaging methods
BIOGRAPHY
Sarbajit Banerjee, FRSC, FInstP, is a Full Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences (D-CHAB) at ETH Zürich and serves as Head of the Laboratory for Battery Science at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI). Prior to starting his positions at ETH and PSI, he was the Davidson Chair in Science and a Professor of Chemistry and of Materials Science & Engineering at Texas A&M University. He served as the Executive Director of Reconfigurable Materials Inspired by Nonlinear Neuron Dynamics (reMIND), an Energy Frontier Research Center funded by the Department of Energy. His research interests are focused on the design of battery materials, elucidation of mechanisms underpinning electrochemical energy storage, electron correlated solids, electronic structure studies at interfaces, metastable materials, energy efficient computation, multifunctional coatings, and the development of synchrotron spectroscopy and imaging methods.
He is a graduate of St. Stephen’s College (B.Sc.) and the State University of New York at Stony Brook (Ph.D.). He was a post-doctoral research scientist at the Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center at Columbia University prior to starting his independent career at the State University of New York at Buffalo in 2007 where he founded and served as the Co-Director of the New York State Center of Excellence in Materials Informatics. At SUNY-Buffalo, he was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor in 2012. In 2014, Prof. Banerjee moved to Texas A&M University as a Professor of Chemistry and Materials Science and Engineering and was named to the Davidson Chair in 2020. His research accomplishments have been recognized by the National Science Foundation CAREER award (2009), the American Chemical Society ExxonMobil Solid-State-Chemistry Faculty Fellowship (2010), the Cottrell Scholar Award from the Research Corporation for Science Advancement (2011), the Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society Young Leader Professional Development Award (2013), and the Journal of Physical Chemistry Lectureship (2013). In 2012, MIT Technology Review named Sarbajit to its global list of “Top 35 innovators under the age of 35” for the discovery of thermochromic ceramics that enable reduction of the energy utilization of buildings. He was named by the Institute of Materials, Minerals, and Mining (IOM3) as the recipient of the Rosenhain Medal and Prize in 2015 and was awarded the Beilby Medal and Prize by IOM3, Royal Society of Chemistry, and the Society for Chemistry & Industry in 2016. He was named by NASA as an Innovative Advanced Concepts (NASA NIAC) Fellow in 2021. He has received two separate Special Creativity Extension Awards from the National Science Foundation (2020 and 2021).
In addition to his research accomplishments, Sarbajit was awarded the 2018 Robert S. Hyer Award for graduate student mentoring by the Texas Section of the American Physical Society, the 2019 Undergraduate Research Mentoring Award by the College of Science at Texas A&M University, and the 2021 Stanley C. Israel Southwest Regional Award for Advancing Diversity in the Chemical Sciences by the American Chemical Society. He was named a Fish Camp Namesake by the student body at Texas A&M. He was awarded highest university honors in graduate mentoring in 2022. He has published over 250 articles and holds 10 issued US patents that have been licensed to three companies. He serves on the advisory boards of the research focus Energy at KIT and the PoLiS Cluster of Excellence on energy storage beyond lithium at KIT and Ulm. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Institute of Physics. He serves as Deputy Editor of ACS Omega after completing stints as Associate Editor and Senior Editor.
AWARDS & HONORS
Kilpatrick Lecturer
Illinois Institute of Technology
19 March, 2024
Outstanding Graduate and Professional Student Mentoring Award
Texas A&M University
17 April, 2024
Journal of Materials Research Distinguished Invited Speaker at MRS Meeting
Materials Research Society
28 November, 2023
Vanadium Award
Institute of Materials, Minerals, and Mining
29 June, 2023
Pioneering Investigator Honoree
Royal Society of Chemistry Chemical Communications
10 May, 2022
Association of Former Students Distinguished Achievement Award in Graduate Mentoring
Association of Former Students at Texas A&M University
25 March, 2022
Edith and Peter O’Donnell Award in Science
The Academy of Medicine, Engineering, and Science of Texas
8 December, 2021
Stanley C. Israel Regional Award for Advancing Diversity in the Chemical Sciences
American Chemical Society
3 November, 2021
Leadership in Equity and Diversity (LEAD) Award
College of Science, Texas A&M University
10 July, 2021
Special Creativity Extension Award
National Science Foundation
3 March, 2021
NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Fellow
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
25, February, 2021
Engineering Genesis (EG) Award for Multidisciplinary Research
Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station
15 December, 2020
Fish Camp Namesake
honors individuals who have made a lasting impact on Texas
A&M by naming a freshman orientation camp in their honor
Student Body at Texas A&M University
14 August, 2020
Special Creativity Extension Award
National Science Foundation
12 May, 2020
TMS Light Metals Division Best Poster Award (with Rachel D. Davidson)
The Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society (TMS)
14 November, 2019
College of Science Undergraduate Research Mentoring Award
College of Science, Texas A&M University
7 November, 2019
Chancellor Enhancing Development and Generating Excellence in Scholarship (EDGES) Fellow
Texas A&M University
6 November, 2019
Cohort Effect Team Prize (shared with Erick Braham, Lacey Douglas, and Bill Toler)
National Science Foundation
Midwest I-Corps Node
8 September, 2019
Robert S. Hyer Graduate Student Mentor Award
Texas Section of the American Physical Society
19 October, 2018
Fellow of the Institute of Physics
Institute of Physics
22 December, 2017
Stony Brook 40 Under Forty Alumni Recognition Award
Stony Brook University
31 January, 2017
Beilby Medal and Prize
Royal Society of Chemistry; Institute of Materials, Minerals, and Mining; Society for Chemical Industry
12 July, 2016
Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry
Royal Society of Chemistry (UK)
29 March, 2016
Rosenhain Medal and Prize
Institute of Materials, Minerals, and Mining (UK)
1 April, 2015
Emerging Investigator Honoree
Royal Society of Chemistry Chemical Communications
15 January, 2015
Scialog Collaborative Innovation Award
Research Corporation for Science Advancement
15 December, 2014
Dhirubhai Ambani Award for Chemical Engineering Innovation Benefitting Resource-Poor People: High Commendation
Institute of Chemical Engineers (UK)
6 November, 2014
Scialog Research Fellowship
Research Corporation for Science Advancement
15 May, 2013
Journal of Physical Chemistry C Lectureship Award
American Chemical Society (ACS) Division of Physical Chemistry
26 February, 2013
The Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society (TMS) Young Leader Professional Development Award
The Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society (TMS)
15 December, 2012
MIT Technology Review TR35 (Top 35 Innovators Under the Age of 35) Award
MIT Technology Review
21 August, 2012
University at Buffalo Exceptional Scholar, Young Investigator Award
University at Buffalo
1 April, 2011
Visionary Innovator Award
Research Foundation of the State University of New York
29 March, 2011
Cottrell Scholar Award
Research Corporation for Science Advancement
1 November, 2010
ExxonMobil Solid-State Chemistry Faculty Fellowship
ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry
1 March, 2010
CAREER Award
National Science Foundation
1 July, 2009
Faculty Mentor Award
UB Bridges to the Doctorate Program
19 May, 2009
