1. Jennifer Rupp has published more than 130 papers in peer reviewed journals, co-authored 7 book chapters and holds more than 25 patents.
15 Facts About Jennifer Rupp
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Jennifer Rupp was born in Germany in 1980 and grew up from her youth years in Vienna Austria.
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Jennifer Rupp's mother is a language teacher and her father is a physicist, the family is mixed French-German-Italian.
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Jennifer Rupp played competitive piano as a child and struggled to choose between pursuing her love for music and natural sciences.
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Jennifer Rupp was active in her teen years in an environmental chemistry group and an Austrian team member competing internationally at the International Young Physicist Team, where they won 3d place in 1998.
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Jennifer Rupp received a Master of Natural Science Degree at the University of Vienna followed by a doctoral degree at ETH Zurich.
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Jennifer Rupp was awarded the ETH Zurich medal for PhD excellence for her thesis on micro-Solid Oxide Fuel Cells and functional ceramic materials under the supervision of Ludwig Gauckler at ETH Zurich.
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Jennifer Rupp was appointed a postdoc and group leader working at ETH Zurich till 2010, where she studied solid state ionic conductors and conceptualized on micro-solid-oxide fuel cell devices.
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Jennifer Rupp left early as a consequence of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster and relocated in 2011 with her family to the USA where she joined as a senior scientist the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Short after in 2017, Jennifer Rupp joined as a faculty at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she went through the promotion from assistant to associate professor.
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In fall 2021, Jennifer Rupp joined as professor at Technical University of Munich keeping an appointment as visiting professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as well as accepting the roles of new CTO for battery research at TUM International Energy Research.
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Jennifer Rupp is developing next-generation batteries for application in electric vehicles and portable electronics, focusing on novel material synthesis and cell designs.
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Jennifer Rupp's research contributes to safer Li-conducting solid-electrolyte alternatives to classic polymers for lithium-ion solid and hybrid batteries by pioneering innovative solid-state synthesis chemistries like the sequential deposition synthesis in collaboration with Samsung, effects and structure science.
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Jennifer Rupp has made major contributions in developing battery ceramic synthesis routes for thin electrolyte compounds, contribute to interface engineering electrode-electrode designs and structural design of various electrolyte and electrode chemistries.
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Jennifer Rupp's objectives are to create tailored solid state materials and electroceramics for energy conversion and storage or information computing.