Hugo Bouteiller is a staff research scientist in the Materials Science and Technology Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He is also a University of Tennessee–Oak Ridge Innovation Institute Fellow, working with the institute’s Energy Storage and Transportation Convergent Research Initiative.

Bouteiller’s research focuses on the development of energy-related materials and their integration into energy conversion devices for nuclear battery applications. His expertise includes inorganic chemistry, materials processing, thermoelectrics, crystallography, transport properties and thin films.

He earned a doctorate in chemistry from the University of Normandy in France. His doctoral research was conducted at the Laboratory of Crystallography and Materials Science (CRISMAT) in France and the Laboratory of Innovative Key Materials and Structures (LINK) in Japan, hosted at the National Institute for Materials Science. His work in Japan was supported by a short-term fellowship from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.

In 2023, Bouteiller received the Bernard Coqblin Prize, awarded for the best doctoral thesis in the field of thermoelectricity. Before joining ORNL, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the PPRIME Institute at the University of Poitiers in France, where he studied the influence of ion implantation on the transport properties of thin films for thermoelectric applications.

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