Dr Mario El Kazzi
Group leader, Paul scherrer Institute (PSI)
Dr. Mario El Kazzi is currently a group leader of "Battery Materials and Diagnostics" in the Electrochemistry Laboratory, at Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI), Switzerland. He obtained his B.Sc. at University Joseph Fourier - Grenoble - France and his Ph.D from Ecole centrale de Lyon - Institute of Nanotechnologies of Lyon (INL) - France in 2007.
He had a number of post-doctoral positions, namely, SOLEIL synchrotron at TEMPO beamline (2008-2010) and IBM Zurich Research Laboratory (2010-2013) before joining PSI on a tenured- track scientist position.
Dr. Mario El Kazzi's research cover areas such as thin films for applications in semiconductor nanotechnologies and surface and interface of battery materials, with main interest that can broadly be described as surface science. He has expertise in synchrotron facilities techniques, such as X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS), X-ray Photoemission Spectroscopy (XPS) and electrochemical operando measurements.