Martin Winter graduated in chemistry from the University of Münster in 1992. He obtained his Ph.D. under the professorship of Jürgen O. Besenhard and worked as Post-Doctoral Research Fellow with Prof. Petr Novak at the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland. After habilitation in 1999, Martin Winter held a full professorship and the chair at the Institute of Chemical Technology of Inorganic Materials at the TU Graz. In 2008 he came back to Münster to hold the professorship for “Materials Science, Energy and Electrochemistry” at the Institute of Physical Chemistry at the University of Münster. The full professorship developed from an endowed full professorship funded by the companies Volkswagen, Evonik Industries and Chemetall from 2008 to 2012. He was full professor for “Applied Materials Science for Electrochemical Energy Storage and Conversion” between 2008 and 2016 and is full professor for “Materials Science, Energy and Electrochemistry” since 2016. In 2008 Martin Winter founded the MEET Battery Research Center at the University of Münster. Until today he is the scientific director of MEET, which stands for „Münster Electrochemical Energy Technology“. Since January 2015 he is also the founding director of the Helmholtz-Institute Münster “Ionics in Energy Storage”, which is part of the Institute of Energy and Climate Research of Forschungszentrum Jülich. His expertise in battery research led to diverse advisory positions and activities. As the chairman of the Advisory Board of German Battery Research by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, former spokesman of the Innovation Alliance LIB2015, spokesman of the battery initiative Batterie2020 of the BMBF, head of the Battery Competence Center and member of the "Electromobility" expert council of the North Rhine-Westphalian state government he represents the German battery research on national and international level. Martin Winter is President of the International Meeting on Lithium Batteries, chairman of the International Battery Materials Association, Fellow of the International Society of Electrochemistry and of the Electrochemical Society, where he is also board member of the Battery Division. He has published more than 500 articles in journals, books and proceedings and has filed ca. 70 patent applications.
Schmuch R.; Wagner R.; Hoerpel G.; Placke T.; Winter M.: Performance and cost of materials for lithium-based rechargeable automotive batteries, Nature Energy 3,2018, Nr. 4, 267–27
Placke T.; Kloepsch R.; Duehnen S.; Winter M.:Lithium ion, lithium metal, and alternative rechargeable battery technologies: The odyssey for high energy density, J. Solid State Electrochem.,2017, 1-26, DOI: 10.1007/s10008-017-3610-7
Meister, P.; Jia, H.; Li, J.; Kloepsch, R.; Winter, M.; Placke, T.: Best Practice: Performance and Cost Evaluation of Lithium Ion Battery Active Materials with Special Emphasis on Energy Efficiency. Chem. Mater., 2016, 28, 7203–7217
Winter, M.: The solid electrolyte interphase - the most important and the least understood solid electrolyte in rechargeable Li batteries. Z. Phys. Chem.,2009, 223, 1395-1406.
Winter, M.; Brodd, R.: What are batteries, supercapacitors and fuel cells? Chem. Rev.,2004, 104, 4245-4269
Winter, M.; Besenhard, J. O.: Electrochemical lithiation of tin and tin-based intermetallics and composites. Electrochim. Acta1999, 45, 31-50
Winter, M.; Besenhard, J. O.; Spahr, M.; Novák, P.: Insertion electrode materials in rechargeable lithium batteries. Adv. Mater.,1998, 10, 725-763
