Luigi Osmieri

Luigi Osmieri is currently a Director’s Postdoctoral Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He received the B.Sc. (Laurea), M.Sc. (Laurea Specialistica) and Ph.D. (Dottorato di Ricerca) in chemical engineering from the Politecnico di Torino, Italy. The topic of his Ph.D. research was the development and testing of precious metal-free electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction reaction with application to low temperature fuel cells. After graduating, he worked as a research assistant at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain) and at the Politecnico di Torino. In 2017 he moved to the U.S.A. to join the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (Golden, Colorado) as a postdoctoral researcher, where he was awarded with the “Department of Energy Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies Office’s Postdoctoral Recognition Award” (runner-up). In 2020 he joined Los Alamos National Laboratory (Los Alamos, New Mexico), where he was awarded with the prestigious Director’s Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. Dr. Osmieri’s main research interest is the development of precious metal-free catalysts for oxygen reduction, oxygen evolution and hydrogen evolution reactions. His research also involves electrode engineering and electrochemical diagnostics, with application to electrochemical energy conversion devices such as polymer electrolyte fuel cells, low temperature water electrolyzers and CO2 electrolyzers. He is the author of 35 publications, with more than 1300 citations and an H-index of 23.