NIPHO26
#NIPHO26 Information
nanoGe International Conference on Perovskite Thin Film Photovoltaics and Perovskite Photonics and Optoelectronics (NIPHO26) will take place from 8th to 9th of June 2026 in Pavia, Italy at the University of Pavia.
Organizers
Giulia Grancini
Giulia is Associate Professor at Physical Chemistry Unit at University of Pavia, leading the PVsquared2 team, and running the European Grant ERCStG Project “HYNANO”aiming at the development of advanced hybrid perovskites materials and innovative functional interfaces for efficient, cheap and stable photovoltaics. Within this field, Giulia contributed to reveal the fundamental lightinduced dynamical processes underlying the operation of such advanced optoelectronic devices whose understanding is paramount for a smart device development and for contributing to the transition of a green economy.
Giulia received an MS in Physical Engineering in 2008 and obtained her PhD in Physics cum laude in 2012 at the Politecnico of Milan. Her experimental thesis focused on the realisation of a new femtosecond-microscope for mapping the ultrafast phenomena at organic interfaces. During her PhD, she worked for one year at the Physics Department of Oxford University where she pioneered new concepts within polymer/oxide solar cell technology. From 2012-2015, she was a post-doctoral researcher at the Italian Institute of Technology in Milan. In 2015, she joined the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) with a Co-Funded Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship. From 2016 to 2019, she has been awarded by the Swiss Ambizione Energy Grant providing a platform to lead her independent research group at EPFL focused on the developemnt of new generation hybrid perovskite solar cells.
She is author of 90 peer-reviewed scientific papers bringing her h-index to 44 (>13’000 citations), focused on developement and understanding of the interface physics which governs the operation of new generation solar cells.
Recently, she received the USERN prize in Physical Science, the Swiss Physical Society Award in 2018 for Young Researcher and the IUPAP Young Scientist Prize in Optics. She is currently USERN Ambassador for Italy and board member of the Young Academy of Europe.
More can be found at https://pvsquared2.unipv.it.
Weblink: https://people.epfl.ch/giulia.grancini?lang=en
Feng Gao
Blanca Fonollosa
Conference Manager
Important Dates
Venue
Conference venue
Piazza Botta Adorno Antoniotto, 6, 27100 Pavia PV, Italia
Invited Speakers
Sascha Feldmann
Sascha is a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Physical Chemistry and Head of the Laboratory for Energy Materials at EPFL (Switzerland), while he is also maintaining strong ties with the Harvard community and in particular Winthrop House which he regularly visits as NRT and SCR member.
His team employs light-matter interactions to understand the next generation of soft semiconductors with the overarching goal of maximizing energy efficiency for a sustainable future by unlocking applications ranging from flexible light-weight solar cells & displays all the way to entirely new applications in quantum information processing.
Previously, he was a research group leader and Rowland Fellow at Harvard University. Before starting his lab at Harvard, Sascha studied Chemistry at Heidelberg University (Germany) and completed a PhD in Physics at the University of Cambridge (UK), where he subsequently worked as EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellow.
Yi Hou
Felix Lang
Dr. Felix Lang is heads the ROSI (Radiation-Tolerant Electronics with Soft Semiconductors) Group in the Physics and Optoelectronics of Soft Matter Department at the University of Potsdam. Felix Lang earned his degree in Physics from Technische Universität München and Freie Universität Berlin, and his Ph.D. from the Technical University Berlin. He then conducted his Ph.D. research on the stability and degradation of perovskite solar cells at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin.
Following his Ph.D., Dr. Lang was awarded a Feodor-Lynen Fellowship, which he used to conduct further research in the group of Prof. S. Stranks at the Cavendish Laboratory of the University of Cambridge, UK. There, he worked on testing and developing next-generation perovskite tandem photovoltaics for space photovoltaics. After completing his fellowship, Dr. Lang returned to Germany with a return fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and joined the University of Potsdam to focus on a deeper understanding of the degradation, working, and loss mechanisms of perovskite-based tandem photovoltaics.
Dr. Lang's work in this field earned him a prestigious Freigeist-Fellowship from the Volkswagen Stiftung. Currently, Felix Lang is setting up the Tolerant Electronics with Soft Semiconductors Group at the University of Potsdam.
Chieh-Ting Lin
Chieh-Ting Lin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan. He received his PhD in Materials Science from Imperial College London in 2020, and subsequently carried out postdoctoral research at Imperial College London and the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology. His research focuses on the development of high-efficiency thin-film solar cells, particularly hybrid tin–lead perovskites, with an emphasis on interface engineering, stability enhancement, and scalable fabrication. His group integrates advanced spectroscopic and device-physics characterization techniques to advance renewable energy conversion technologies for sustainable applications.