Professor Stefano Passerini is full Professor and Dean of the International Electrochemical Energy Storage Research Institute (IEES) in the School of Energy Science and Engineering at Nanjing Normal University (Nanjing, China) and Senior Professor at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.

From 2008-20013, he was Co-founde and co-Director of MEET (Muenster Electrochemical Energy Technology) at the University of Muenster, Germany, and from 2014-2022 he was Professor at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and Director of the Helmholtz Institute Ulm, Germany.

His research focuses on the basic understanding and development of materials for high-energy batteries and supercapacitors, with the goal to create sustainable energy storage systems from environmentally friendly and available materials and processes.

He is an internationally recognized pioneer in the field of ionic liquids and the development of sodium-ion batteries. Co-author of more than 800 scientific papers (Scopus H-Index: 134; more than 70,000 citations), a few book chapters and several international patents.