Pieremanuele Canepa

Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Location: West Lafayette

School of Mechanical Engineering
Purdue University
585 Purdue Mall
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2088

Websites

Degrees

  • Ph.D. Chemistry, University of Kent, United Kingdom (2012)
  • M.S. Chemistry, University of Turin, Italy (2008)
  • B.S. Chemistry, University of Turin, Italy (2006)

Research Interests

  • Computational materials science
  • First-principles calculations
  • High throughput screening
  • Extended Ising Hamiltonians
  • Functional materials for energy storage and conversion
  • Lithium, sodium and multivalent batteries
  • Solid electrolytes and all-solid-state batteries

Awards and Recognitions

  • 2024 Vanadium Award (Retrospective), Institute of Materials, Minerals, London, 2025
  • ResCorp For Science Advancement, Scialog, Automating Chemical Laboratories, 2024
  • Chemistry of Materials Lectureship & Best Paper Award ACS, American Chemical Society, USA, 2023
  • Materials Au Rising Stars, American Chemical Society, 2022
  • J. Mater. Chem. A, Emerging Investigator, Royal Society of Chemistry, United Kingdom, 2022
  • Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, United Kingdom, 2021
  • EU ERC MSEC+ Erasmus Mundus Scholar, France, 2021
  • NRF Fellow Class 2020, Singapore, 2020
  • Royal Society of Chemistry Travel Grant for Early Career Scientists, United Kingdom, 2017
  • Ramsay Memorial Fellow, University College London, London, United Kingdom, 2017
  • Advanced Scientific Computing Leadership Challenge, US Department of Energy, USA, 2015

Selected Publications

Full list of publications: https://caneparesearch.org/papers/