Dr. Baek received her B.S. in Chemical Engineering in 2011 from KAIST, Korea, and Ph.D. in EEWS graduate school in 2017 from KAIST, Korea. Dr. Baek worked as a postdoctoral researcher at University of Toronto, ECS from 2017-2020. He started a new position as an Assistant Professor since March. 2020 from Korea University.  Baek group focuses on semiconducting nanomaterials, colloidal quantum dot (CQD) including synthesis, surface modification, and device fabrication. Especially, they are studying on infrared CQD materials, which can be utilized in various fields, such as autonomous driving, virtual reality, quantum communication, bio-imaging. Recently, they developed a non-toxic infrared CQD and thereby demonstrating the efficient photodetector, solar cells, LED and bio-sensor. The group has representative publications in Nat. Energy, Adv. Mater, Nat. Commun., Adv. Energy Mater., Chem. Eng. J, etc. in recent five years

 

 

Kwang Seob Jeong is a professor in the Department of Chemistry at Korea University. He received his B.S. in Chemistry from Korea University and earned his Ph.D. in Chemistry from The Pennsylvania State University in 2013. Following his doctoral studies, he conducted postdoctoral research as a JFI Fellow at the University of Chicago. He joined the Department of Chemistry at Korea University in 2015. Kwang Seob Jeong was recognized by the Royal Society of Chemistry as a Chemical Communications Emerging Investigator in 2018 and a Pioneering Investigator in 2024. In 2019, he was selected as a POSCO Science Fellow, and in 2021, he received the Korean Chemical Society(KCS)–Wiley Young Chemist Award. His research centers on the discovery and mechanistic understanding of novel electronic transitions in low-dimensional semiconductor nanomaterials, with particular emphasis on narrow-bandgap chalcogenides, infrared optoelectronic devices, and emerging quantum materials.

Gerasimos Konstantatos received the Diploma from the University of Patras, Patras, Greece, in 2001 and the M.A.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, in 2004 and 2008, respectively, all in electrical and computer engineering.He is currently a Group Leader with ICFO - the Institute of Photonic Sciences, Castelldefels, Barcelona, Spain. His work has been published in over 25 journal articles, 7 of them in Nature-family journals, in the field of colloidal quantum dot optoelectonics. He is also an inventor of 5 granted patents licensed to Invisage Technologies and a recipient of the TR35 Spain 2012 award for his contributions on colloidal quantum dot photodetectors. His current research interests lie in the field of solution processed functional nanomaterials for solar cell and optical sensor applications.

Emmanuel Lhuillier has been undergraduate student at ESPCI in Paris and then followed a master in condensed matter physics from university Pierre and Marie Curie. He was then PhD student under the mentorship of Emmanuel Rosencher at Onera in the optics department, where he work on transport in quantum well heterostructure. As post doc he moved to the group of Philippe Guyot-Sionnest in the university of Chicago, and start working on infrared nanocrystal. Then he moved back to ESPCI for a second post in the group of Benoit Dubertret working on optoelectronic properties of colloidal nanoplatelets. Since 2015 he is a CNRS researcher at Institute for nanoscience of Paris at Sorbinne université. His research activities are focused on optoelectronic properties of confined Nanomaterial with a special interest on infrared system. He receive in 2017 an ERC starting grant to investigate infrared colloidal materials.

Zeke Liu is a professor at Soochow University. He obtained his PhD degree from Soochow University, worked as a joint PhD student at the University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Before he joined Soochow University in 2019, he worked as a joint postdoctoral scholar at Indiana University, Bloomington and Soochow University. His current research interest focuses on the design and synthesis of semiconductor quantum dots/nanocrystals, and their applications in optoelectronic devices.

Maria Antonietta Loi studied physics at the University of Cagliari in Italy where she received the PhD in 2001. In the same year she joined the Linz Institute for Organic Solar cells, of the University of Linz, Austria as a postdoctoral fellow. Later she worked as researcher at the Institute for Nanostructured Materials of the Italian National Research Council in Bologna, Italy. In 2006 she became assistant professor and Rosalind Franklin Fellow at the Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials of the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. She is now full professor in the same institution and chair of the Photophysics and OptoElectronics group.

She has published more than 300 peer-reviewed articles on photophysics and optoelectronics of different types of materials.

In 2013 she has received an ERC Starting Grant and in 2022 and ERC Advanced Grant from the European Research Council. She currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of Applied Physics Letters and she is member of the international advisory board of several international journals in physics and materials physics. In 2018 she received the Physicaprijs from the Dutch physics association for her outstanding work on organic-inorganic hybrid materials. In 2020 she became fellow of the American Physical Society. In 2022 she was elected fellow of the Dutch Academy of Science (KNAW). In the same year she became fellow of the European Academy of Science (EURASC) and of the Royal Society of Chemistry. In 2025 she became Fellow of the Material Research Society.