Francesco CIUCCI

Prof. Francesco Ciucci was an associate professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He graduated cum laude from Politecnico di Milano, Italy and Ecole Centrale de Paris, France with degrees in Aerospace Engineering and Applied Physics, respectively. He pursued his Ph.D. in Engineering from the California Institute of Technology, USA, where he was supported by the internationally renowned Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship. Francesco did his postdoctoral work at the Heidelberg Graduate School of Mathematical and Computational Methods for the Sciences of the University of Heidelberg, Germany. There, he obtained a Marie Curie Fellowship and a Heidelberg Graduate School Fellowship. His research articles have been featured in major journals, including, Nature Chemistry, Advanced Energy Materials, Chemistry of Materials, and Chemical Reviews. Francesco’s current research centers around solid-state energy materials, including those used in fuel cells and solid-state batteries, with particular emphasis on the modeling of such systems and the development of new functional materials.