Short bio
Fabrizio Murgia obtained his Master Degree (cum laude) in Chemical Sciences in 2013 at the University of Sassari. The dissertation of his MD dealt with the synthesis and characterization of hydride-based mixtures nanoconfined in carbonaceous scaffolds as negative electrodes for Li-ion batteries. During this period, he joined for an internship the laboratory of Electrochemistry at Università La Sapienza (Rome), where under the supervision of Pr. Stefania Panero and Dr. Priscilla Reale, he studied the basis of electrode preparation, battery assembly and electrochemical characterization techniques. In November 2013 he obtained a PhD student fellowship at the Laboratory “Aggrégats, Interfaces, Molecules pour l’Énergie” – Université de Montpellier (France) under the supervision of Pr. Lorenzo Stievano and Dr. Romain Berthelot. He graduated in 2016 with the thesis “p-block elements as negative electrode materials for Magnesium-ion batteries: electrochemical mechanism and performance”. During the PhD he expanded its skills on electrochemical characterizations, in particular operando techniques (X-rays diffraction, Mössbauer spectrometry, X-rays absorption spectroscopy), as well as new competencies on solid-state syntheses. In 2017 he joined, as post-doctoral fellow, the Laboratory of Crystallography (headed by Pr. Radovan Cerny) in the Department of Quantum Matter Physics at the Université de Genève (Switzerland), where he developed and tested innovative materials as solid electrolytes for post-Li solid-state batteries. In this experience, he improved its knowledge on the characterization of solid-state diffusion mechanism, as well as on synchrotron light techniques (5 proposals granted in different beamlines at ESRF – Grenoble). Actually, He is Assistant Professor at the Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy.
He is coauthor of 16 articles, with 296 citations and a Hirsch index of 10. He participated with 8 oral contributions (1 invited) to international conferences on electrochemistry, material science and synthetic chemistry. He is a member of the Swiss Society for Crystallography and he has been invited as speaker in events for popularization of material science and electrochemistry.
Research Interests
Currently, his main research interests are focused on the synthesis of and characterization of materials and components for solid state sodium batteries.
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