Jennifer Rupp

Prof. Jennifer Rupp is the Thomas Lord Assistant Professor of Electrochemical Materials at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, and Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. Prior she is a non-tenure track assistant professor at ETH Zurich Switzerland where she was holding two prestigious externally funded career grants, namely an ERC Starting Grant (SNSF) and Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) professorship.

She previously was affiliated as a visiting and senior scientist at MIT (2012-2011), the National Institute of Materials Science (NIMS) in Tsukuba Japan (2011), and was working as a postdoc at ETH Zurich (2010-2006). Rupp's team's current research interests are on solid state material design and tuning of structure-property relations for novel energy and information devices and operation schemes. This ranges from alternative energy storage via solid state batteries, solar-to-synthetic fuel conversion or novel types of neuromorphic memories and computing logic entities for data storage and transfer beyond transistors and new sensing functions to track chemicals in the environemnt. Here, her team goes the whole way from material design, novel processing techniques to make ceramics, cermets or glassy-type ceramic structures up to novel device prototypes, their operation and characteristics.

She has published more then 81 papers, holds 8 patents, and enjoys to be active discussing material tech trends on the theme of energy with the public, economists and policy makers being a frequent speaker and panel member of the World Economic Forum.

Rupp and team received several honors and awards such as Displaying Future Awards by the company Merck KGaA 2018 for a glucose converting fuel cell chip, BASF and Volkswagen Science Award 2017 for battery research, "Top 40 international scientist under the age of 40" by World Economic Forum 2015, Spark Award for the most innovative and economically important invention of the year 2014 at ETH Zurich, Kepler award “new materials in energy technology” by the European Academy of Science 2012 or Young Scientist Award by the Solid State Ionic Society. She gave keynote lectures at Royal Society UK 2018, Nature Energy conference 2016, Gordon Research lecture 2014 and many others, also she presented on battery and energy technologies at the World Economic Forum 2017.

Publications

2019

R. Schmitt et al., “Accelerated Ionic Motion in Amorphous Memristor Oxides for Nonvolatile Memories and Neuromorphic Computing”, Advanced Functional Materials, vol. 29. p. 1804782, 2019.

2018

M. Struzik, Garbayo, I., Pfenninger, R., and Rupp, J. L. M., “A Simple and Fast Electrochemical CO $\textrm2$ Sensor Based on Li $\textrm7$ La $\textrm3$ Zr $\textrm2$ O $_\textrm12$ for Environmental Monitoring”, Advanced Materials, vol. 30. p. 1804098, 2018.

E. Sediva, Bowman, W. J., Gonzalez-Rosillo, J. C., and Rupp, J. L. M., “Investigation of the Eightwise Switching Mechanism and Its Suppression in SrTiO $\textrm3$ Modulated by Humidity and Interchanged Top and Bottom Platinum and LaNiO $\textrm3$ Electrode Contacts”, Advanced Electronic Materials. p. 1800566, 2018.

R. Pfenninger, Afyon, S., Garbayo, I., Struzik, M., and Rupp, J. L. M., “Lithium Titanate Anode Thin Films for Li-Ion Solid State Battery Based on Garnets”, Advanced Functional Materials, vol. 28. p. 1800879, 2018.

F. Pagani et al., “Epitaxial Thin Films as a Model System for Li-Ion Conductivity in Li $\textrm4$ Ti $\textrm5$ O $_\textrm12$”, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, vol. 10. pp. 44494-44500, 2018.

F. Messerschmitt, Jansen, M., and Rupp, J. L. M., “When Memristance Crosses the Path with Humidity Sensing—About the Importance of Protons and Its Opportunities in Valence Change Memristors”, Advanced Electronic Materials, vol. 4. p. 1800282, 2018.

I. Garbayo, Struzik, M., Bowman, W. J., Pfenninger, R., Stilp, E., and Rupp, J. L. M., “Glass-Type Polyamorphism in Li-Garnet Thin Film Solid State Battery Conductors”, Advanced Energy Materials, vol. 8. p. 1702265, 2018.

R. Pfenninger, Struzik, M., Garbayo, I., Afyon, S., and Rupp, J. L. M., “Lithium Titanate Anode Thin Films for Li-O in Solid State Battery Based on Garnets”, Advanced Functional Materials. 2018.

I. Garbayo, Struzik, M., Bowman, W. J., Pfenninger, R., Stilp, E., and Rupp, J. L. M., “Glass-Type Polyamorphism in Li-Garnet Thin Film Solid State Battery Conductors”, Advanced Energy Materials. 2018.

2017

E. Gilardi et al., “Effect of Dopant–Host Ionic Radii Mismatch on Acceptor-Doped Barium Zirconate Microstructure and Proton Conductivity”, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, vol. 121. pp. 9739-9747, 2017.

J. van den Broek, Rupp, J. L. M., and Afyon, S., “Boosting the electrochemical performance of Li-garnet based all-solid-state batteries with Li4Ti5O12 electrode: Routes to cheap and large scale ceramic processing”, Journal of Electroceramics, vol. 38. pp. 182-188, 2017.

J. L. M. Rupp, Valov, I., and Ielmini, D., “Editorial for the JECR special issue on resistive switching: Oxide materials, mechanisms, and devices”, Journal of Electroceramics, vol. 39. pp. 1-3, 2017.

M. J. Ignatowich et al., “Impact of enhanced oxide reducibility on rates of solar-driven thermochemical fuel production”, MRS Communications, vol. 7. pp. 873-878, 2017.

S. Schweiger, Pfenninger, R., Bowman, W. J., Aschauer, U., and Rupp, J. L. M., “Designing Strained Interface Heterostructures for Memristive Devices”, Advanced Materials, vol. 29. p. 1605049, 2017.

A. H. Bork, Povoden-Karadeniz, E., and Rupp, J. L. M., “Modeling Thermochemical Solar-to-Fuel Conversion: CALPHAD for Thermodynamic Assessment Studies of Perovskites, Exemplified for (La,Sr)MnO3”, Advanced Energy Materials, vol. 7. p. 1601086, 2017.

R. Schmitt, Spring, J., Korobko, R., and Rupp, J. L. M., “Design of Oxygen Vacancy Configuration for Memristive Systems”, ACS Nano. 2017.

J. L. M. Rupp, Rettenwander, D., Kilner, J., and Doeff, M., “Editorial for the JECR special issue on All Solid-State Batteries”, Journal of Electroceramics. 2017.

M. Ignatowich et al., “Impact of Enhanced Oxide Reducibility on Rates of Solar-Driven Thermochemical Fuel Production”, MRS Communications. 2017.

Y. Shi, Garbayo, I., Muralt, P., and Rupp, J. L. M., “Micro-Solid State Energy Conversion Membranes: Influence of Doping and Strain on Oxygen Ion Transport and Near Order for Electrolytes”. 2017.

M. Kubicek, Bork, A. H., and Rupp, J. L. M., “Perovskite Oxides\textendashA Review on a Versatile Material Class for Solar-to-Fuel Conversion Processes”. 2017.

M. Kubicek, Bork, A. H., and Rupp, J. L. M., “Perovskite oxides – a review on a versatile material class for solar-to-fuel conversion processes”, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, vol. 5. pp. 11983-12000, 2017.