Michel Armand, researcher at CICenergiGUNE, the Basque research center of reference in electrochemical energy storage, thermal energy storage and conversion and hydrogen technologies, appears again in the international scientific reference list updated every year by Clarivate Analytics, a company specialized in analysis and collection of data from scientific and academic research. The 2023 edition of "Highly Cited Researchers" once again includes Armand as one of the researchers with the most cited papers by other scientists during the past year.
"We know that it is not easy to appear year after year in this list because the context is increasingly competitive, -reacted Nuria Gisbert, General Director of CIC energiGUNE- but the truth is that his scientific work is so extensive and so inspiring that for us it is simply the deserved recognition of a whole research career dedicated to battery science. The good fortune is that we can enjoy her knowledge and her good work at CIC energiGUNE, with great expectations yet to be achieved," she concluded.
In this regard, it should be noted that the “Ranking of WorldScientists” of Stanford University, updated to 2023, has also recently been released, and that Michel Armand is once again the leading researcher in Spain in the field of Energy and the twelfth in the world, in addition to being the most important researcher in the Basque Country at all levels.
The list of highly cited researchers is obtained through the most cited articles in the Web of Science™ citation index. These articles are part of the top 1% of the most cited articles in their field of study during the same year.
Born in France in 1946, Michel Armand began research on rechargeable lithium batteries at the end of the 1980s - through the combination with solid polymer electrolyte - which has enabled the development of the main associated technologies, including the electric vehicle. Currently, he is the head of the polymer electrolyte research area and honorary scientific director of the electrochemistry area at CIC energiGUNE, where he coordinates a working team focused on achieving the solid-state battery for the electric vehicle of the future.
Professor Armand has received several scientific awards such as the volta medal in 2000, the Galileo prize 2010, the Aymé-Poirson prize 2012, and the Catalan-Sabatier prize 2016. He is also Doctor Honoris Causa of Deakin University 2006 and Upsala University 2016, and in October 2022 he was distinguished in Atlanta with the “Fellow of The Electrochemical Society” award by the ECS. He is also author or co-author of 416 publications in international journals, 295 conference presentations, and 200 delivered or pending patents, and has supervised 30 doctoral theses, three of which belong to the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU.
His relationship with CIC energiGUNE began in 2011, when he joined the Scientific Committee of the "Energy Storage, Batteries and Supercondensers" Area while leading the creation of the polymer electrolyte research group. Since then, Prof. Armand has been the great scientific mentor at the center, a position he continues to exercise from his position as honorary scientific director of CIC energiGUNE. It should be recalled that the solid electrolyte research line of the Basque center is among the five most outstanding at European level.
