Leader of the group

Pierre received a Micro-engineering degree (Ingénieur en Microtechnique) from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne (EPFL) in 1997. After a few years of industrial experience he started a PhD thesis working at the Paul Scherrer Institut and obtained his degree from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Zürich (ETHZ) in 2009. Since then, he has been leading the activity of neutron imaging of fuel cells and other electrochemical systems at PSI. In 2015, he performed a 6 research stay at CEA in Grenoble (France) on the topic of small angle neutron scattering of operating fuel cells.
 

Dirk received his Mechanical Engineering degree from the University of Applied Sciences, Cologne (Germany) in 2009. After two years as a scientific assistant in Cologne he moved to Ingolstadt to work for Audi. Then in February 2015 he moved back to his roots in southern Germany and joined PSI. As an Engineer in the Group – Neutron Radiography of electrochemical systems he is designing test fuel cells, test-benches, software, and many more trying to support the group members as good as possible.

Ricardo has a degree in engineering physics from ITESM (Mexico), where he worked on RX-NDT for aeronautical materials and in micro and nano-fabrication techniques at MTL - MIT. Afterwards, he received a double Master degree in Applied Physics and Material Science from the University of Rennes 1 and the University of Montpellier. During this time, he worked on energy selective neutron imaging for PEFC and Li-ion batteries at PSI, which greatly developed his interest in energy storage and conversion systems. Ricardo continues his professional development as a doctoral student at PSI where he works on the understanding of transport limiting mechanisms for Li-ion battery materials using advanced characterization techniques as wavelength resolved neutron imaging.

Magali received her Master degree in Fluid Dynamics in 2003 at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Electronique, d’Electrotechnique, d’Informatique,d’Hydraulique et de Télécommunications de Toulouse (aka N7) in Toulouse France, and her PhD thesis in Fluid Dynamics at the Institut Nationale Supérieur of Toulouse. After six years as a cooling engineer at Alstom in Baden in Switzerland, she went back to research as a scientist in PSI. Magalis main project in the group is building cells with evaporation cooling concept. She also helps with external Neutron campaigns.

Mateusz graduated from Lodz University of Technology with major in Power Engineering (Mechanical dept.) in 2016. During his studies he worked for Alstom Power as plant designer assistant and upon completing his contract he decided to broaden his experience by joining PSI Nuclear Energy and Safety division as scientific assistant. Seeing future in making renewable energies sustainable, Mateusz joined research on PEM water electrolysis using neutron imaging.