What is the primary focus of Raw Science?

Raw Science provides independent, in-depth analysis of the energy transition. Rather than relying on oversimplified narratives, it examines the transition as a complex physical and industrial system. It evaluates low-carbon technologies through the realistic constraints of engineering, thermodynamics, materials science, economics, and global supply chains.

Who is the author behind Raw Science, and what are her credentials?

Raw Science was founded by Dr. Giada Caniglia, a chemist with nearly a decade of research experience. She holds a PhD in Natural Sciences from Ulm University (Germany) and specializes in electrochemistry, materials science, photocatalysis, and hydrogen evolution. Her background includes extensive work within international scientific consortiums and publications in peer-reviewed journals.

How is Raw Science funded?

Raw Science is 100% funded by its readers. It operates with complete editorial independence and does not accept money from advertisers, corporate sponsors, or institutional backers.

What methodology does Raw Science use to evaluate the energy transition?

All content is grounded in peer-reviewed literature, primary data, trade records, and national-laboratory studies. Raw Science applies a strictly defined "four-pillar framework" that organizes information by: The physical systems behind the transition. The material and supply chain constraints. System-level costs and infrastructural inertia. How scientific evidence is communicated (or distorted) in public discourse.

Does Raw Science advocate for specific energy policies or technologies?

No. The publication explicitly states that its goal is not to persuade. Instead, it aims to "take apart" complex subjects, contextualize contested issues, and present verifiable evidence with proper caveats so that critical thinkers can draw their own conclusions.

About Raw Science

Raw Science
Independent analysis of the energy transition

Raw Science analyzes energy systems and critical materials from the perspectives of physics, chemistry, industrial infrastructure, supply chains, and system-level costs: the underpinning realities that determine what can realistically be implemented on a large scale. Founded by Dr. Giada Caniglia, an electrochemist with over ten years of experience, Raw Science is aimed at readers seeking a deeper and less conventional perspective on the transition.

What Raw Science is

The energy transition is fundamentally a matter of engineering, thermodynamics, and materials: engineering determines how to design, build, and integrate low‑carbon technologies; thermodynamics sets the physical limits and efficiencies of energy conversion, conversion losses, and storage; and materials science governs availability, lifetime, performance, and the scalability of devices such as batteries, photovoltaics, wind turbines, and power electronics.
But the energy transition is also driven by economics, supply chains (including mining and recycling policy), market design, regulation, finance, political choices, and social systems, any of which can enable or become the binding constraint on its deployment.
Most public commentary skips that complexity or reduces it to oversimplified narratives.
Raw Science exists to connect these layers and analyze the transition as the complex physical and industrial system it actually is.

The analytical lens

Each deep dive and every article in Raw Science is built on peer-reviewed literature, primary data, trade and customs records, regulatory filings, and national-laboratory studies, synthesized through a consistent analytical lens.

Every Raw Science piece is read through four-pillar framework that organizes (i) the physical systems behind the transition, (ii) the materials and supply chains that constrain them, (iii) the system-level costs and infrastructural inertia that compound them, and (iv) the way how the evidence travels (and get distorted) from a peer-reviewed paper to the public conversation.

Editorial principles

Independence

Raw Science is fully editorially independent and funded entirely by its readers. No advertisers, corporate sponsors, or institutional backers influencing its editorial direction.

Methodological transparency

Each deep dive analysis is based on verifiable sources, and clearly stated limitations. When conclusions depend on uncertain variables or controversial evidence, those uncertainties are highlighted rather than concealed.

Citation hygiene

References are integrated directly into the text, with DOIs used whenever possible. Data, figures, and numerical claims remain attached to their original sources rather than recycled through secondary commentary.

The author

About the author

Dr. Giada Caniglia is a chemist with nearly a decade of research experience in electrochemistry, materials science, and surface analysis.

She holds a PhD in Natural Sciences from the Ulm University (Germany), with doctoral research on antimicrobial surfaces and functional electrochemical interfaces, conducted within a Marie Skłodowska-Curie (MSCA) international consortium of European academic and industrial partners. Prior to Ulm she completed a Master’s in Environmental and Materials Chemistry at the Universidad de La Laguna (Spain), where she also worked on early-stage corrosion mechanisms of metallic surfaces using local electrochemistry.

Her postdoctoral research at Ulm centered on a DFG-funded project in photocatalysis and hydrogen evolution, developing custom analytical platforms — micro- and sub-microscale electrochemical probes, and hybrid electrochemical–optical systems to characterize photoelectrodes, coatings, and functional materials. She has held international research collaborations, including a research stay at the University of Warwick (UK).

She has authored and co-authored peer-reviewed work in international journals across electrochemistry, materials science, and surface analysis, and has presented at more than thirty international scientific conferences, including the Electrochemical Society (ECS), the International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE), and Faraday Discussions.

Scientific profiles

The full publication record is available at:

Areas of research expertise: electrochemistry, local and micro-electrochemistry, AFM-based tecnhologies, electrochemical materials characterization, photocatalysis and hydrogen evolution, functionalized surfaces, corrosion science.

Editorial focus: energy systems, critical materials, supply chains, the physics of the energy transition.

Why Raw Science exists

Raw Science does not aim to persuade. It aims to put the right evidence, in the right context, with the right caveats, in front of readers who already know how to think… and let them do the rest.

If a subject is complex, we take it apart.
If it is contested, we put it in context.
And if it is fascinating, we explain it.