Hugo Bouteiller joined Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) as a Staff Research Scientist in July 2024. He’s part of the University of Tennessee – Oak Ridge Innovation Institute (UT-ORII) which is a joint research faculty between ORNL and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. As a UT-ORII fellow, Dr. Bouteiller is involved in the Energy Storage and Transportation convergent research initiative. His research focuses on the development of energy-related materials and their implementation into energy conversion devices for nuclear battery applications. He specializes in inorganic chemistry, material processing, thermoelectrics, crystallography, transport properties and thin films. Dr. Bouteiller received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Normandy (France). His doctoral research was conducted at the Laboratory of Crystallography and Materials Science (CRISMAT, France) and the Laboratory of Innovative Key Materials and Structures (LINK, Japan) hosted at the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) after being awarded a Short-term fellowship by the Japan Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS). He is laureate of the 2023 Bernard Coqblin Prize for the best Ph.D. in the field of thermoelectricity. Prior to his current role at ORNL, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the PPRIME Institute (University of Poitiers, France), where he studied the influence of ion implantation on the transport properties of thin films for thermoelectric applications.