Sarbajit Banerjee | Professor and Laboratory Head
ETH Zurich

Sarbajit Banerjee, FRSC, FInstP, is a Full Professor of Chemistry at ETH Zürich and serves as Head of the Laboratory for Battery Science at the Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI) in Villigen, Switzerland. Prior to starting his positions at ETH and PSI, he was the Davidson Chair in Science and a Professor of Chemistry and of Materials Science & Engineering at Texas A&M University. His research accomplishments have been recognized by the National Science Foundation CAREER award (2009), the American Chemical Society ExxonMobil Solid-State-Chemistry Faculty Fellowship (2010), the Cottrell Scholar Award from the Research Corporation for Science Advancement (2011), and the Journal of Physical Chemistry Lectureship (2013). In 2012, MIT Technology Review named Sarbajit to its global list of “Top 35 innovators under the age of 35” for the discovery of thermochromic compounds that are allowing for significant reductions of the energy utilization of buildings. He was named by the Institute of Materials, Minerals, and Mining (IOM3) as the recipient of the Rosenhain Medal and Prize in 2015 and was awarded the Beilby Medal and Prize by IOM3, Royal Society of Chemistry, and the Society for Chemistry & Industry in 2016. He was named by NASA as an Innovative Advanced Concepts (NASA NIAC) Fellow in 2021. He has received two separate Special Creativity Extension Awards from the National Science Foundation (2020 and 2021). Recent distinctions include the Royal Society of Chemistry Centenary Prize (2025) and the Edith and Peter O’Donnell Award in Science from The Academy of Medicine, Engineering, and Science of Texas.