SERGIO BRUTTI

Didattica in presenza. Nessuna didattica a distanza o blended è prevista secondo le determinazioni dell'Ateneo. 
 
Corso di ELETTROCHIMICA
aa 2025/2026 svolto nel primo semestre
4 ore settimanali: mercoledì12-14 (aula C cu014), venerdì 9-11 (aula IV, cu032)
INIZIO LEZIONI 1/10/2026

Corso di Chimica Fisica 2 (canale 3)
aa 2025/2026 svolto nel secondo semestre
6 ore settimanali 
INIZIO LEZIONI 2 marzo 2026 (ore 8 aula La ginestra), lezione successiva 9 marzo ore 8 (aula la ginestra) e poi come da orario.
Non ci sarà lezione giovedì 26 febbraio, mercoledì 4 marzo e giovedì 5 marzo)
 
 
Ricevimento
ricevimento in studio (edificio CU014 stanza 284, II piano) venerdì 14-15 o in altro orario concordato
 

Sergio Brutti
Dipartimento di Chimica, Università di Roma La Sapienza. P.le Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Roma
Sergio.brutti@uniroma1.it

Work experience
From sept 2020 to today Associate Professor in Physical Chemistry (SSD chim/02)
Dipartimento di Chimica, Università di Roma La Sapienza. P.le Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Roma
▪ Group leader: “ENAM”: 25 team members (5 academic staff, 15-25 post docs/PhD/International visitors/graduate research fellows/Mater student Interns)
▪ Research Projects (Principal Investigator or Unit PI, >100 kE/project, overall project budget 2012-2025: ~3.1 MEuro):
I. HyLiB - FIRB Futuro in Ricerca 2010 (2012-2017)
II. SI-DRIVE - H2020 Grant agreement ID: 814464 (2019-2023)
III. Accordo di Programma – RSE - CSEA-ENEA (2017-2018,2019-2021, 2022-2024, 2025-2027)
IV. REALSEI - MCSA H2020 Grant agreement ID: 101029608 (2021-2023)
V. ACTEA - Lazioinnova Bando “Gruppi di ricerca 2020” (2021-2023)
VI. OpMetBat - EURAMET, European Green Deal (2022-2025)
VII. SIGNE - Horizon Europe Grant agreement ID: 101069738 (2022-2027)
VIII. MOST - CN4 spoke 13 (PNRR) – Next Generation EU (2022-2026)
IX. NEST - PE2 spoke 5 (PNRR) – Next Generation EU (2022-2026)
X. Calsiumbat - Sponsor “Norway Research Council” (2023-2026)
XI. HymetBat - EURAMET, European Green Deal (2025-2027)
XII. G2G – MASE, Italian Government (2025-2027)
▪ Board member of the Physical Chemistry Division of the Italian Society of Chemistry (2019 to 2024), Board member of the ACEE interdivisional group of the Italian Society of Chemistry (2024-2026)
▪ Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the “Future Batteries” journal (Elsevier BV, Online ISSN: 2950-2640)
▪ Member of the Italian Society of Chemistry, the Consorzio Interuniversitario Nazionale per la Scienza e Tecnologia dei Materiali (INSTM), the ALISTORE-ERI institute, the EERA association
▪ President of the Italian group for electrochemical energy storage (GISEL) (2024-2027)
▪ Publication record (2001-2026): 189 publications on peer reviewer international journal; >4700 citations (2001-2026); H-index 36 (source Scopus 06/01/2026)
From dec 2018 to aug 2020 Permanent Researcher in Physical Chemistry (SSD chim/02)
Dipartimento di Chimica, Università di Roma La Sapienza. P.le Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Roma
From dec 2011 to dec 2018 Permanent Researcher in Physical Chemistry (SSD chim/02)
Dipartimento di Scienze, Università della Basilicata, v.le dell’Ateneo Lucano 10, 85100 Potenza

Education and training
From 1994 to 2000 Master Degree in Chemistry (Laurea Quinquennale)
Università di Roma La Sapienza
From 2000 to 2003 PhD in Chemical Science
Università di Roma La Sapienza
From 2004 to 2011 Various Post-doc experiences
Università di Oxford (UK, University of St Andrews (UK) Università di Roma Tre, Università di Roma La Sapienza, University of Thessaloniki (Greece), Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR-ISMN)

PERSONAL SKILLS
Mother tongue(s) Italian
Other language(s) English (fluent)
Job-related skills Team working, leading attitude.
Digital skills Advanced level for standard (Microsoft suites including office, Google suites, Zoom) and scientific software (GSAS, Athena, VASP, Quantum expresso, Gaussian, Visual basic programming, etc).
Other skills Networking ability, extended experience within the European Scientific Community and Societies in battery-related topics (Battery Europe, ETIP, Battery Alliance, Alistore-ERI, etc.)
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Publications
1. Park, J., Kim, H., Celeste, A., Park, H., Kansara, S., Zumpano, R., Piacentini, V., Brutti, S., Matic, A., Agostini, M., Hwang, J.-Y. Prospects of Alkali Metal-Se Batteries and Beyond: From Redox Mechanisms to Electrode Design (2025) ACS Energy Letters, 10 (5), pp. 2512 - 2531
2. Talian, S.D., Brutti, S., Navarra, M.A., Moškon, J., Gaberscek, M. Impedance spectroscopy applied to lithium battery materials: Good practices in measurements and analyses (2024) Energy Storage Materials, 69, art. no. 103413
3. Sievert, B., Lufrano, E., Gerle, M., Tuccillo, M., Biswas, I., Simari, C., Brutti, S., Nojabaee, M., Nicotera, I., Friedrich, K.A. Carbonate swollen lithiated Nafion electrolyte for quasi-solid-state lithium-sulfur batteries (2024) Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 12 (15), pp. 9002-9016.
4. Petrongari, A., Piacentini, V., Pierini, A., Fattibene, P., De Angelis, C., Bodo, E., Brutti, S. Insights into the LiI Redox Mediation in Aprotic Li-O2 Batteries: Solvation Effects and Singlet Oxygen Evolution (2023) ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 15 (51), pp. 59348-59357.
5. Meggiolaro, D., Agostini, M., Brutti, S. Aprotic Sulfur-Metal Batteries: Lithium and Beyond (2023) ACS Energy Letters, 8 (3), pp. 1300-1312.
6. Pierini, A., Brutti, S., Bodo, E. Reactive pathways toward parasitic release of singlet oxygen in metal-air batteries (2021) npj Computational Materials, 7 (1), art. no. 126, .
7. Ferrari, S., Falco, M., Muñoz-García, A.B., Bonomo, M., Brutti, S., Pavone, M., Gerbaldi, C. Solid-State Post Li Metal Ion Batteries: A Sustainable Forthcoming Reality? (2021) Advanced Energy Materials, 11 (43), art. no. 2100785, .
8. Petit, Y.K., Mourad, E., Prehal, C., Leypold, C., Windischbacher, A., Mijailovic, D., Slugovc, C., Borisov, S.M., Zojer, E., Brutti, S., Fontaine, O., Freunberger, S.A. Mechanism of mediated alkali peroxide oxidation and triplet versus singlet oxygen formation (2021) Nature Chemistry, 13 (5), pp. 465-471.
9. Muñoz-García, A.B., Tirri, B., Capone, I., Matic, A., Pavone, M., Brutti, S. Structural evolution of disordered LiCo1/3Fe1/3Mn1/3PO4in lithium batteries uncovered (2020) Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 8 (37), pp. 19641-19653
10. Mourad, E., Petit, Y.K., Spezia, R., Samojlov, A., Summa, F.F., Prehal, C., Leypold, C., Mahne, N., Slugovc, C., Fontaine, O., Brutti, S., Freunberger, S.A. Singlet oxygen from cation driven superoxide disproportionation and consequences for aprotic metal-O2 batteries (2019) Energy and Environmental Science, 12 (8), pp. 2559-2568