Francesca Soavi is the Director of the BattEco Master. She is Associate Professor in Inorganic Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry “Giacomo Ciamician” of the University of Bologna, Italy. She is affiliated with the National Interuniversity Consortium for Science and Technology of Materials (INSTM) and GISEL network. She is Secretary General of The International Society of Electrochemistry.

Her research activities focus on the electrochemistry, chemical physical characterization and synthesis of materials for diversed energy storage and/or conversions systems, from supercapacitors to Li-ion batteries, Li/O₂ batteries, redox flow batteries, inorganic and microbial fuel cells, as well as for micro-electrochemical devices like ion-gated transistors.  She is leading leading ENERCube, a laboratory dedicated to knowledge transfer actions in energetics at the Interdipartimental Center for Industrial Research (CIRI FRAME).