Juan Forero Saboya is a Chemist and Chemical Engineer from the Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá, Colombia). In 2017, he graduated with a Master’s degree in Materials for Energy Storage and Conversion (MESC) form the Universidad de Córdoba (Spain), the Université de Picardie Jules Verne (France), and Politechnika Warszawska (Poland), and obtained his Pd.D. in Materials Science from the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona.

His doctoral thesis focused on the development of electrolytes for calcium metal batteries, and the study of the reactivity of those electrolytes with the metallic electrode. Upon completing his Ph.D., Juan worked from 2022 to 2024 as a postdoctoral researcher at the Solid State Chemistry and Energy Lab at Collège de France in the team of Prof. Jean-Marie Tarascon. There, he focused on understanding the degradation phenomena of commercial lithium-ion and sodium-ion batteries, particularly focusing on the role of the electrolyte.

Recently, Juan has obtained the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellowship to develop a new family of florine-free salts and their application in lithium-metal batteries. In this project, he will collaborate with Dr. Betar Galland at the Massachusetts Insittute of Technology (MIT), Dr. Alexis Grimaud at Boston College (both in the United States), and Dr. Montserrat Casas Cabanas at CIC energiGUNE.

• Physicochemistry of battery electrolytes
• Electrolyte-electrode interface in batteries

• Synthesis and characterization of salts and additives
• Electrochemical studies of electrolytes
• Battery testing and battery degradation mechanisms

• Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship 2024-2027
• M. Abraham Travel Award for the Electrochemical Society Meeting – Fall 2023
• Second place of Young Energy Storage Scientist – YESS – Award 2022 (French network for energy storage and conversion, RS2E)