EPFL's Professor Michael Grätzel is Top #1 Scientist

(EPFL, August 26, 2019)

A study conducted by Stanford University, places EPFL Professor Michael Graetzel on the first place on a list of 100,000 scientists. Professor Grätzel directs the Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces and is best known for inventing the dye-sensitized solar cells, so-called “Grätzel cells”, which contributed hugely to the current development of perovskite photovoltaics. The ranking developed by Stanford University used a novel method which considers citations as well as other metrics. Unlike previous ranking methods, the new approach does not fall prey to common citation manipulations such as self-citation or “citation farms” – groups of scientists which disproportionately often cite each other. So far, the database includes over 100,000 scientists across various fields.