Jennifer L.M. Rupp U.S. Academic Awardee

Professor Jennifer L.M. Rupp FRSC is the professor for electrochemical materials at TU Munich researching materials for next energy conversion and storage and until recently was affiliated as faculty to MIT, she is also Co-Founder and CSO of Qkera GmbH a battery material producer.

She earned her PhD degree at ETH Zurich Switzerland and was affiliated as a visiting and senior scientist at MIT (2012-2011) and the National Institute of Materials Science (NIMS) in Tsukuba, Japan (2011). She was a non-tenure track Assistant Professor at ETH Zurich (2012-2016). In 2017, she joined as faculty MIT, where she was promoted from Assistant to Associate Professor the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (MIT) until 2023.

She has published more than 130 papers, holds more 25 patents, and being a frequent speaker and panel member of the World Economic Forum, enjoys discussing material tech trends on the theme of energy with the public, economists and policy makers. Rupp also enjoys engaging with companies all around the world through both consultancy and collaborations focused on material processing, business, and electrochemical device & product engineering (e.g. battery, sustainable fuel processing, sensing, electronic companies). Recently she Co-Founded the battery material manufacture company Qkera to translate CO₂ reduced solid state battery manufacture to energy storage products and serves as the chief strategy officer (CSO).  Through her career she has won numerous awards and received honors from academies and industry including being an elected member since of 2024 National Academy Leopoldina and since 2021 of the Royal Chemical Society, the 2018 Merck Displaying Future Awards for novel energy conversion devices, the 2017 BASF and Volkswagen Science Award for her battery research, 2018 Merck Award, and many others. In 2019, she founded the LILA Mentorship program for Minorities in Engineering and Sciences.