Ceramics and Composite Materials

Biography

Dr Frédéric Aguesse received his PhD degree from Imperial College London, UK, in 2012 following a Master Science degree at the University Louis Pasteur in Strasbourg, France. In February 2012, Frédéric Aguesse started as a postdoctoral researcher and then Associate Researcher (from 2015) at CIC Energigune on ceramic materials for all-solid state batteries and post-mortem analysis. Since his early start Frédéric developed collaborations with worldwide institutes such as ETH Zürich, MIT Boston, the London Centre of Nanotechnology and the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan, where he worked as research visitor in 2010. He also performed a 6-month stay at Argonne National Laboratory in the Battery and Energy Storage Division. Dr. Aguesse presents a large knowledge on the development of ceramics, functional materials and thin films by means of physical vapour deposition techniques. During his PhD he studied the magnetoelectric effect in thin films and at CIC Energigune he works in developing all-solid state batteries and dedicates his skills for the preparation of ceramics with high Li-ions conductive properties and their integration in full cells. Frédéric constantly looks for opportunities to develop new skills and aptitudes and he is acquiring further experience by developing an inspiring protocol for a fast characterisation of aged/end-of-the-life Li-ion cells in close collaboration with international battery companies. His research has been published in more than 20 peer-reviewed papers and he owns a patent on all-solid-state batteries.

Research Interest

Functional materials, Thin films