Martin Green is currently a Scientia Professor at the University of New South Wales and Director of the Australian National Energy Agency (ARENA) supported Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics. He was formerly a Director of CSG Solar, a company formed specifically to commercialise the University’s thin-film, polycrystalline-silicon-on-glass solar cell. His group's contributions to photovoltaics are well known including the development of the world’s highest efficiency silicon solar cells and the successes of several spin-off companies.

Erkan Aydın is leading the “Aydin Group” in the Chemistry Department of LMU Munich. His research group is focusing on the development of “realistic ultra-efficient tandem photovoltaic solutions for earth and space applications“ by currently prioritizing multijunction solar cells, specifically perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells and all-perovskite tandem solar cells. Erkan Aydın obtained his PhD (2016) degree from the Micro and Nanotechnology Program at TOBB ETU (University of Economics and Technology) in 2016 and he pursued his postdoctoral research at the KAUST for seven and half years before establishing his team at LMU Munich. His extensive work at KAUST led to several record-breaking efficiencies in perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells. Erkan Aydın is the principal investigator of the INPERSPACE ERC StG Project. 

Fatwa Abdi is an Associate Professor at the School of Energy and Environment, City University of Hong Kong. Until July 2023, he was a group leader and the deputy head of the Institute for Solar Fuels, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB). He obtained his PhD (cum laude) in Chemical Engineering from TU Delft, the Netherlands, in 2013. He was the recipient of the Martinus van Marum prize from the Royal Dutch Society of Sciences and Humanities. His research focusses on the development of novel (photo)electrode materials as well as engineering and scale-up of devices for solar fuels and chemicals conversion.

Alexander W. Achtstein studied Physics at University of Augsburg and Ludwigs Maximilians University Munich (LMU). He recieved a PhD from Technical University of Berlin in 2013. After a postdoc period at TU Delft he returned to TU Berlin. His research concentrates on the linear and nonlinear optical as well as electronic properties of 2D semiconductors, with a focus on II-VI nanosheets and transition metal dichalcogenides.

Prof. Adachi obtained his doctorate in Materials Science and Technology in 1991 from Kyushu University. Before returning to Kyushu University as a professor of the Center for Future Chemistry and the Department of Applied Chemistry, he held positions as a research chemist and physicist in the Chemical Products R&D Center at Ricoh Co., a research associate in the Department of Functional Polymer Science at Shinshu University, research staff in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University, and an associate professor and professor at Chitose Institute of Science and Technology. He became a distinguished professor at Kyushu University in 2010, and his current posts also include director of Kyushu University’s Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics Research (OPERA) since 2010 and program coordinator of Kyushu University’s Education Center for Global Leaders in Molecular Systems for Devices and director of the Fukuoka i3 Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics Research since 2013.

Philipp Adelhelm is a physical chemist and works at the interface between the research disciplines of materials science and electrochemistry. His current main interest is research on sustainable batteries.

After studying materials science at the University of Stuttgart, he moved to the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam (Department of Prof. Antionetti / Smarsly, 2005-2007) for his doctoral project. This was followed by a 2-year postdoctoral stay at the University of Utrecht (Prof. de Jongh) and then a position as a junior research group leader at the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Justus Liebig University in Giessen (Prof. Janek, 2009-2015). From 2015-2019 he was a professor at the Institute for Technical Chemistry and Environmental Chemistry at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena.

He has been a professor at the Institute for Chemistry at Humboldt-University since 2019 and heads a joint research group on operando battery analysis at the Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin (HZB).

Dr Tom Aernouts is R&D leader of the Thin Film Photovoltaics group at imec. Over the last few years this activity has grown steadily with state-of-the-art work in organic solar cells and recently also perovskite-based photovoltaics, next to inorganic materials like Kesterites for future replacement of the currently strongly growing CIGS thin film solar cells. Also the lab environment was drastically improved with setting-up the O-line infrastructure in 2009 at imec, allowing the processing and characterization of thin film solar cells and modules with area up to 15 x 15 cm². A next upgrade in 2018 enabled to extend the device size to 35x35cm². Dr Aernouts earned his Master of Science and PhD degree in Physics (in 2006) at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. Firstly, he worked on organic oligomer-based diode structures, afterwards continuing his research on organic photovoltaics at imec. There, his work focused on the processing and characterization of polymer-based organic solar cells and monolithic modules, introducing techniques like screen and inkjet printing. He has authored or co-authored more than 80 journal publications, book chapters and conference contributions. Also, his research group participates on a regular basis in a broad range of local and international projects, with the most recent example the coordination of the European H2020 project ESPResSo.

Joel W. Ager III is a Senior Staff Scientist in the Materials and Chemical Sciences Divisions of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and an Adjunct Professor in the Materials Science and Engineering Department, UC Berkeley. He is a Principal Investigator in the Electronic Materials Program and the Program Lead for the Liquid Sunshine Alliance (LiSA) at LBNL. He graduated from Harvard College in 1982 with an A.B in Chemistry and from the University of Colorado in 1986 with a PhD in Chemical Physics. After a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Heidelberg, he joined Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in 1989. His research interests include the discovery of new photoelectrochemical and electrochemical catalysts for solar to chemical energy conversion, fundamental electronic and transport properties of semiconducting materials, and the development of new types of transparent conductors. Professor Ager is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and is a frequent invited speaker at international conferences and has published over 400 papers in refereed journals. His work is highly cited, with over 46,000 citations and an h-index of 111 (Google Scholar).

Ainara is a Tenured Scientist at the Intituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid, CSIC and Visiting Reader in Energy Materials in the Department of Materials, Imperial College London. Her research focuses on the quantitative anlysis and optimisation of ion and electron dynamics in complex oxides, bulk surfaces and interfaces.  She uses a combination of structural, chemical and electrochemical analysis including surface sensitive techniques and operando characterisation to develop the next generation of solid-state electrochemical devices such as metal anode all-solid-state batteries, low and intermediate temperature solid oxide fuel cells and electrolysers. She has been awarded with fellowships and grants as PI up to €3,3M and is involved in several UK , Spanish and European Commission projects. She has published over 80 (>3.2k citations h=29, i10=52) research papers in this field and holds 2 patents on their applications.

Dr. Mahshid Ahmadi received her Ph.D. from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore in 2013. She then worked as a research technology consultant in a start-up solar cell company (HEE) in Dallas, Texas, USA. She is currently working as an assistant professor at Joint Institute for Advanced Materials (JIAM), Department of Materials Science, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Her research interest includes materials development and electronic device fabrication. Specially, her current research focuses on organic-inorganic halide perovskite photovoltaics and
high energy radiation detectors.

Dr. Caroline Ajo-Franklin is Professor in the Department of BioSciences at Rice University. Her scientific training started in Chemistry; she earned a B.S. in Chemistry at Emory University in 1997 and received her Ph.D. in Chemistry from Stanford University in 2004. She then trained as postdoctoral fellow in Synthetic Biology with Pam Silver at Harvard Medical School, and moved to Lawrence Berkeley Lab in 2007 to start her independent research career, and then in 2019, she moved to Rice University as a Professor with appointments in BioSciences, Bioengineering and the Systems, Synthetic, and Physical Biology Program. During her career, has built a strongly interdisciplinary research program focused on molecular-level understanding and engineering of the interface between living organisms and non-living materials.

Ilya Akimov, Prof.

- Graduated State Electrotechnical University, St. Petersburg in 1997

- PhD in physics in 2000 at Ioffe Physical Technical Institute, St. Petersburg (Russia). 

- 2001-2006, Postdoc at Photonics Chair in Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany and as research assistant at PennState University in USA.

- In 2007 joined Experimental Physics 2 at TU Dortmund, where since 2019 he is professor.

Research interests: spin-related and magneto-optical phenomena in semiconductor nanostructures and magnetic materials using transient optical spectroscopy.

 

José Alemán defended his Doctoral Thesis in 2006 in the field of asymmetric synthesis under the supervision of Prof. García Ruano. After completing a postdoctoral stay with Prof. Jørgensen (2006-2008) in the field of organocatalysis, he joined the Department of Organic Chemistry at UAM as a Ramón y Cajal researcher and was later promoted to Associate Professor and Full Professor in 2023. He has been awarded various research prizes, such as the Lilly Prize for the best doctoral student (2005), the award for the best Doctoral Thesis at UAM (2006), the Sigma-Aldrich Award for Young Researchers of the RSEQ (2013), the Lilly Young Researcher Award (2015), and the José Barluenga-RSEQ Medal (2022). His research focuses mainly on asymmetric catalysis and catalytic materials, and he is the author of 220 scientific publications. He has supervised 25 Doctoral Theses, more than 40 Bachelor's and Master's theses, and has secured 18 projects in various competitive calls. Since 2021, he has been the Director of the Advanced Institute of Chemical Sciences-Universidad Autonoma de Madrid; in 2022, he was appointed Deputy Director of the Department of Organic Chemistry, and since 2024, he is Vice President of the Organic Chemistry section of the Spanish Royal Chemistry Society.

Professor Marin Alexe has been recently appointed as Chair of Functional Materials at the University of Warwick after spending about 18 year at the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics-Halle. His research interest is physics and engineering of complex oxide thins films for information technology and integration of functional materials for oxide electronics. He has published more than 280 papers and 2 books and has an h-index of 41. In the last five years he has given more than 30 invited talks and lectures at international meeting and conferences. He was recently awarded the Wolfson Research Merit Award of the Royal Society.

She obtained a PhD degree in Azerbaijan. She has spent two years in the Institute of Plant Biology, Szeged, Hungary as UNESCO and ITC fellow. She has joined the Molecular Plant Biology unit at the University of Turku as a postdoctoral research fellow in 2002. Currently she is acting as a PI of the 'Photosynthetic microbes' team. Since 2017 she is  Associated Professor of Molecular Plant Biology. She mainly focuses on cyanobacterial / algal research and the alternative electron-transport routes, which are heavily involved in regulation of photosynthesis via maintaining redox homeostasis in cells. She is a co-chair of the Nordic Center of Excellence “Towards Versatility of Aquatic Production Platforms: Unlocking the Value of Nordic Bioresources” (NordAqua, www.nordaqua.fi) funded by NordForsk (2017-2022) and a chair of the Biocity Turku Research Programme “Advanced Bioresources and Smart Bioproducts – Towards Sustainable Bioeconomy” (SmartBio, www.smartbio.fi).

Husam Alshareef is a Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST).  He is also the Director of the newly-established Center of Excellence in Renewable Energy and Storage Technologies at KAUST. He obtained his Ph.D. at NC State University followed by a post-doctoral Fellowship at Sandia National Laboratories, USA. 

He spent over 10 years in the semiconductor industry where he implemented processes in volume production for chip manufacturing.  He joined KAUST in 2009, where he initiated an active research group focusing on the development of nanomaterials for energy and electronics applications.  His work has been recognized by over 25 awards including the SEMATECH Corporate Excellence Award, two Dow Sustainability Awards, the Kuwait Prize for Sustainable and Clean Technologies, and the KAUST Distinguished Teaching Award.  He has published over 600 papers and 80 issued patents. He is a Fellow of several prestigious societies including the American Physical Society (APS), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), US National Academy of Inventors (NAI), Institute of Physics (IoP), Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), and the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining.  He has been a Clarivate Analytics Highly-cited Researcher in Materials Science for several years.

Dr. Stéphane Altazin got a Master degree in Micro and Nanoelectronics from University of Grenoble (F) with a thesis on quantum optic logical gate carried out at University of Bristol (UK). Thereafter he performed a Ph.D. thesis at CEA-LITEN in Grenoble on modelling of organic diodes and photodiodes. In 2012 he joined Fluxim AG in Switzerland as a technical consultant and has contributed to the further development of the simulation software SETFOS for OLEDs and organic solar cells.

Julia Amici has a PhD in Material Science and Technology from Politecnico di Torino (Italy), focused on polymers and polymeric coatings. She conducted her Post Doc in the Electrochemistry Group at Politecnico di Torino DISAT, on post Li-ion technologies, in particular Li-Air and Li-Sulfur (Li-S) batteries. She participated to different European and national projects on Li-Air, Li-S and Li-ion systems, preparing, testing and optimizing electrode materials and various electrolytes. She is currently Associate Professor at Politecnico di Torino and her research activities are focused on synthesis and characterization of highly efficient composite polymer electrolytes for Li-ion, Li-air and Li-S batteries. She is the P.I. for Politecnico di Torino in the EU funded projects SUBLIME (H2020) and ADVAGEN (Horizon Europe), both on all solid-state Li-ion batteries. She is actively participating in Battery2030+ initiative (co-author of the Roadmap: “Inventing the Batteries of the Future, Research Needs and Future Actions”) and has been selected as an expert in WG1:” New and Emerging Battery Technologies” of ETIP EBA Batteries Europe Platform. She is author of above 60 publications in international peer-reviewed journals, on materials, Li-ion, Li-Air and Li-S systems and 2 patents.

 

Amirav is an expert in the use of hybrid nanostructures for renewable energy generation, in particular photocatalytic solar-to-fuel conversion. She has demonstrated success in designing sophisticated heterostructures for the water reduction half reaction. She is particularly interested in photocatalysis on the nano scale and related photophysical and photochemical phenomena. The laboratory’s cutting-edge synthetic effort is combined with development of nontraditional techniques for mechanistic study of charge transfer pathways, and fundamental research on reaction mechanism.

Claudio Ampelli obtained his PhD from the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Pisa (Italy) in 2005, with a thesis focused on the development of chemical reactors for highly reactive systems, with emphasis on industrial sensors. After completing his doctorate, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Messina (Italy), gaining extensive experience in chemical and industrial engineering, especially in the development of nano-engineered electrodes and in the design and optimisation of (photo)electrochemical devices.

In 2010, he assumed the position of Junior Researcher (RTD), in 2016 Senior Researcher (RTD-b), and in 2019 Associate Professor in the Academic Discipline 09/ICHI-02 (Chemical Plants and Technologies). In the same discipline, he obtained the national scientific qualification to Full Professor in 2022.

He is a member of the Academic Board of the Industrial and International Doctoral School in “Advanced catalytic processes for using renewable energy sources” at the University of Messina. He has supervised over 10 PhD theses, several master’s and bachelor’s theses, and postdoctoral students’ projects.

Currently, he is the Principal Investigator (PI) for the research unit of Messina of two European H2020 Projects and a national PRIN project. In recent years, he has been involved in more than 20 multidisciplinary research projects funded by MUR and European Commission, coordinating activities in many work packages. Among these, from 2017 to 2021, under the H2020 A-LEAF Project (ID: 732840) he led an experimental study for the realization of a high-efficiency (>10%) artificial leaf-type reactor for the production of green hydrogen and formic acid.

He has co-authored around 90 articles indexed in ISI/Scopus and 130 contributions to national and international conferences (with 30 oral communications and 3 invited keynote lectures). He serves as a reviewer for many international scientific journals (with more than 120 certified reviews on Web of Science), including Science, Nature Catalysis, Applied Catalysis B and Chemical Engineering Journal. Since 2022, he has joined the Editorial Board of Journal of Energy Chemistry (Elsevier, IF=14.0, Q1).

Recently, he was invited to prestigious universities and research institutions in Portugal, Spain, France and Switzerland as a Visiting Professor and/or a Researcher as part of Erasmus Plus and Research & Mobility projects. He was included in the world’s top 2% of Scientist List for the years 2020-2021-2022 according to the ranking compiled by Stanford University.

His current research interests focus on the development of new chemical processes and technologies based on photo-electrocatalytic systems for the sustainable production of energy, fuels, and products of high industrial interest. His studies range from the synthesis of nanostructured materials for the preparation of electrodes to the design and construction of unconventional (photo-)electrochemical devices, including industrial scale-up. Special attention is given to understanding the phenomena that influence the chemical kinetics determining process performance, such as light absorption, charge separation, diffusion and transport of species in solution and at interfaces, charge distribution on electrodes, and overpotential.

The processes of interest include: i) the water photo-electrolysis and photo-reforming of organic waste streams for the production of green hydrogen; ii) the (photo-)electrocatalytic reduction of CO₂ into higher-value products (in liquid and gas phases); iii) the electrocatalytic synthesis of ammonia from nitrogen and water at room temperature and atmospheric pressure as an alternative to the Haber-Bosch process; and iv) the synthesis of ammonia and methane through the combination of non-thermal plasma and catalysis.

Robbyn K. Anand is the Suresh Faculty Fellow at Iowa State University where she joined the Department of Chemistry as an Assistant Professor in August 2015. The Anand research group has advanced methodologies for selective capture and analysis of single circulating tumor cells, electrokinetic enrichment and separation of clinically relevant compounds in complex media, and electrochemical sensing at wireless bipolar electrode arrays. Prof. Anand recently led the the development of a method that leverages ion concentration polarization for enrichment, separation and cation exchange in water-in-oil droplets. She is the founder of the Midwest Retreat for Diversity in Chemistry - an annual event aimed at the retention of underrepresented groups in the chemical enterprise.

Throughout his career, Jens has worked with successfully designing and developing complex experiments for in situ structural studies in the fields of polymer solar cells and functional organic materials, catalysis and hydrogen storage using synchrotron radiation, in fact since the beginning of his PhD studies. From 2001-2010 his focus was mainly on synchrotron radiation scattering techniques and their use for in situ experiments and for determining structure-property relations in functional thin films.

In 2011, Jens shifted his focus towards synchrotron-based 3D imaging of energy materials, particularly the very demanding case of polymer solar cells, where the low-contrast soft matter constitute a specific challenge. Through a dedicated effort of synchrotron experiments this led from 3D ptychographic imaging of roll to roll coated polymer solar cell active layers to 3D imaging of a complete polymer tandem solar cell. The scope of applications is all the time broadening, and Jens is now developing new tools for 3D imaging and organizing training and teaching in these.

In the same period, he developed a new setup for fast mapping of nano-structure, crystallinity and texture in R2R coated thin-films, which is still being improved and extended. Most recently, he has taken up research in ultrafast X-ray scattering and spectroscopy applied to solar energy materials, using X-ray free electron lasers.

In parallel with the studies of nano-structure in energy materials, Jens is running a small group that works with upscaling of organic solar cells, in order to maintain research into the entire development of this technology, from the fundamental understanding of charge generation and transport, over mesoscale structure formation to the performance of the final devices.

Virgil Andrei obtained his Bachelor and Master of Science degrees in chemistry from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, where he studied thermoelectric polymer pastes and films in the group of Prof. Klaus Rademann (2014-2016). He then pursued a PhD in chemistry at the University of Cambridge (2016-2020), where he developed perovskite-based artificial leaves in the group of Prof. Erwin Reisner, working closely with the Optoelectronics group of Prof. Richard Friend at the Cavendish Laboratory. He was a visiting Winton fellow in the group of Prof. Peidong Yang at University of California, Berkeley (2022), and is currently a Title A Research Fellow at St John's College, Cambridge. His work places a strong focus on scalability, material design, complementary light harvesting and synthesis of added-value carbon products, introducing modern fabrication techniques towards low-cost, high-throughput solar fuel production.

Dr. Teresa Andreu is lecturer professor at the University of Barcelona since 2020. She received the degree in Chemistry (1999) and PhD in Materials Science (2004) from the University of Barcelona. After a period in industry and academia, she joined IREC in 2009 as senior researcher and the Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology at UB in 2020. Her research is focused on the development of materials and reactors for emerging technologies for hydrogen generation and carbon dioxide conversion (photoelectrochemistry, heterogeneous catalysis and plasma-catalysis). She is the author of more than 130 scientific publications and 4 patents.

Denis Andrienko is a project leader at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research working on the development of multiscale simulation techniques for charge and exciton transport in conjugated polymers as well as small molecular weight organic semiconductors. After completing his Masters degree in the University of Kiev he obtained his first PhD in optics/structural transitions in liquid crystals from the Institute of Physics, Ukraine (group of Prof. Reznikov) and his second PhD on computer simulations of complex fluids from the University of Bristol, UK (group of Prof. M. P. Allen). He joined MPIP as a Humboldt Fellow doing theoretical studies of the slippage effect, mechanical properties of polyelectrolyte microcapsules, and effective interactions in colloidal systems. Dr. Andrienko has published over eighty journal articles and four book chapters.

Corina Andronescu received her B.Sc. and M.Sc. from the University Politehnica of Bucharest (Romania) in 2009 and 2011, respectively. Her Ph.D. title she received from the same university in 2014. In 2016 she joined the group of Prof. W. Schuhmann (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany) first as postdoctoral researcher and later as group leader. December 2018, she was appointed Junior Professor at the University of Duisburg-Essen, where she is currently leading the group of Electrochemical Catalysis in the Faculty of Chemistry. Her research interests include development of hybrid electrocatalysts for the CO2 electroreduction reaction, alcohol electrooxidation as well as investigation of electrocatalysts at nanoscale using Scanning Electrochemical Cell Microscopy.

Juan A. Anta is Full Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University Pablo de Olavide, Seville, Spain. He obtained a BA in Chemistry in the Universidad Complutense of Madrid (Spain) and carried out his PhD research at the Physical Chemistry Institut of the National Research Council of Spain. His research focuses on fundamental studies of energy photoconversion processes, especially on dye and perovskite solar cells, using numerical simulation and modelling tools, as well as advanced optoelectronic characterization techniques such as impedance spectroscopy and other small perturbation techniques.

Thomas D. Anthopoulos is a Professor of Emerging Electronics at the University of Manchester in the UK. Following the award of his BEng and PhD degrees, he spent two years at the University of St. Andrews (UK), where he worked on organic semiconductors for application in light-emitting diodes before joining Philips Research Laboratories in The Netherlands to focus on printable microelectronics. From 2006 to 2017, he held faculty positions at Imperial College London (UK), first as an EPSRC Advanced Fellow and later as a Reader and full Professor of Experimental Physics. From 2017 to 2023, he was a Professor of Material Science at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia.

Yoichi Aoki is a senior research chemist in the Advanced Materials Laboratories at Toray Industries. He received his PhD degree in engineering from Kyushu University in 2017. He joined R&D Headquarters in Rohm from 2007 to 2017, during which he was engaged in development of medical POCT for diabetes, organic solar cells, and discrete module of thermal printheads. Currently his research interests are organic photovoltaics for indoor application like a wireless sensor network and focuses on printed organic electronics.

Ryota ARAI was born in Hiroshima, Japan in 1983. He got a master's degree from Kyushu University in 2008 under the supervision of Prof. Masahiro Irie and Kenji Matsuda . In 2008 he joined RICOH Co. Ltd., and engaged in development of Organc photoconductor materials and organic photovoltaic materials. Now, He is working for Ricoh and is completing a PhD at Kyushu University.

Dr. Clara Aranda Alonso, received her doctorate degree in Science from University Jaume I in 2019 at the Institute of Advanced Materials (INAM) (Castellón, Spain). She worked as postdoctoral researcher at the Forschungszentrum Jülich and Institute for Photovoltaics (ipv) at the University of Stuttgart (Germany) for two years. Then she moved to the Institute of Materials Science (ICMUV) at the University of Valencia (Spain) as a Margarita Salas fellow. Currently, she is working at Universidad Pablo de Olavide in Seville (Spain). Her work is focused on the synthesis and characterization of wide band gap perovskite materials, both in thin film and single crystal configuration, for photoconversion devices such as solar cells, photodetectors and memristors, using impedance spectroscopy as the main characterization tool.

Docent Moyses Araujo received his PhD degree, in Condensed Matter Physics, from Uppsala University (UU). Thereafter, he has held a postdoc position at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm with a distinguished scholarship from the Swedish Research Council (VR). As a recognition of his work in Sweden, he has won three research awards, viz. Benzelius prize (from the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala), Ångstrom Premium (UU), and Bjurzon’s Premium (the highest award for PhD thesis at UU). In 2011, he has moved for a postdoc in USA, at Yale University, with a prestigious scholarship from the Yale Climate and Energy Institute (YCEI). In 2012, he has returned to Sweden as researcher at UU and in 2014 he has started his independent research group in the same institution with support from VR through the Young Researcher Grant. In 2018 he has become Docent in Physics at Uppsala University. From September 2020, he has joint Karlstad University as universitetslektor/Associate Professor in condensed matter theory.

ICREA Prof. Jordi Arbiol was born in Molins de Rei (Catalonia) in 1975. Having graduated in physics from the Universitat de Barcelona (UB) in 1997, he went on to obtain his PhD in transmission electron microscopy as applied to nanostructured materials from this same university in 2001, earning the “European Doctorate” label in recognition of the project’s European dimension, as well as the university’s extraordinary doctorate award. He then held the position of assistant professor at the UB, before becoming a group leader at the Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona in 2009, as well as the scientific supervisor of this institute’s electron microscopy facility. It was here that he began his personal and professional mission to improve Barcelona’s baseline electron microscopy infrastructure, an endeavour he has continued to pursue at the ICN2, which he joined in 2015 as the leader of the Advanced Electron Nanoscopy Group.

He was President of the Spanish Microscopy Society (SME) (2017-2021), Vice-president (2013-2017) and member of its Executive Board (2009-2021). In 2019 he became a Member of the Executive Board of the International Federation of Societies for Microscopy (IFSM) (2019-2027). He is member of the Research Committee at the Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST) and scientific supervisor of Electron Microscopy at ICN2 and the ALBA Synchrotron EM Center.

Other recognitions include the FWO Commemorative Medal in 2021, the BIST Ignite Award in 2018, the 2014 EU40 Materials Prize (E-MRS), the 2014 EMS Outstanding Paper Award and being listed in the Top 40 under 40 Power List (2014) by The Analytical Scientist. He currently has more than 410 peer-reviewed publications, h-index 87 GoS (76 WoS), with more than 24,400 GoS (19,000 WoS) citations.

I am an energetic, creative, female scientist with a solid expertise in Material Science and Technology.  I have successfully implemented an engineering approach to guide the development of functional nanohybrids through general and simple routes. Throughout my work, I have introduced important mechanisms on the cooperative coupling of dissimilar materials in single structures, which represents a fundamental knowledge for the creation of a new-generation of nano and macro hybrid materials. 

Rosa Arrigo (WoS Researcher ID L-6676-2016) is lecturer in Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Salford in Manchester (UK) and honorary research scientist at the UK’ s synchrotron facility Diamond Light Source. Her research interests are focused on the design of innovative processes and nanostructured systems for decarbonization technologies in green chemistry and energy storage and conversion. Her research strategy consists of establishing molecular level structure-function relationships through the controlled synthesis of tailored materials, testing and thorough structural characterisation, including but not limited to the extensive use of innovative in situ synchrotron-based techniques such as X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and X-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy. Current projects focus the conversion of carbon dioxide and H2 production. Recently, she is investigating the host/guest chemistry in metal-organic frameworks for the delivery of Aspergillus derived drugs and in CO2 capture.

 

Selected Publications of Relevance to Catalysis Science.

Dynamics at Polarized Carbon Dioxide–Iron Oxyhydroxide Interfaces Unveil the Origin of Multicarbon Product Formation, R. Arrigo, R. Blume, V. Streibel, C. Genovese, A. Roldan, M. E. Schuster, C. Ampelli, S. Perathoner, J. J. Velasco Vélez, M. Hävecker, A. Knop-Gericke, R. Schlögl, G. Centi , ACS Catal. 2022, 12, 1, 411–430

Elucidating the mechanism of the CO2 methanation reaction over Ni/hydrotalcite-derived catalysts via surface sensitive in situ XPS and NEXAFS, G. Giorgianni, C. Mebrahtu, M. E. Schuster, A. I. Large, G. Held, P. Ferrer, F. Venturini, D. Grinter, R. Palkovits, S. Perathoner, G. Centi, S. Abate, R. Arrigo, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2020, DOI: 10.1039/D0CP00622J.

Operando X-ray absorption fine structure study of the electrocatalytic reduction of carbon dioxide over Ferrihydrite on nitrogen-doped carbon, C. Genovese, M. E. Schuster, E. K. Gibson, D. Gianolio, V. Posligua, R. Grau-Crespo, G. Cibin, P. P. Wells, D. Garai, V. Solokha, S. Krick Calderon, J. Velasco Velez, C. Ampelli, S. Perathoner, G. Held, G. Centi, R. Arrigo, Nat. Comms. 9, 2018, 935. doi:10.1038/s41467-018-03138-7.

In situ observation of reactive oxygen species forming on oxygen-evolving iridium surfaces, V. Pfeifer, T. E. Jones, J. J. Velasco Vélez, R. Arrigo, S. Piccinin, M. Hävecker, A. Knop-Gericke, R. Schlögl, Chem. Sci. 8, 2017, 2143-2149. DOI: 10.1039/C6SC04622C.

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Vincent Artero was born in 1973. He is a graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure (Ulm; D/S 93) and of the University Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6). He received the Ph.D. degree in 2000 under the supervision of Prof. A. Proust. His doctoral work dealt with organometallic derivatives of polyoxometalates. After a postdoctoral stay at the University of Aachen (Aix la Chapelle) with Prof. U. Kölle, he joined in 2001 the group of Prof. M. Fontecave in Grenoble with a junior scientist position in the Life  Science Division of CEA. Since 2016, he is Research Director at CEA and leads the SolHyCat group. His current research interests are in bio-inspired chemistry including catalysis related to hydrogen energy and artificial photosynthesis.

Vincent Artero received the "Grand Prix Mergier-Bourdeix de l'Académie des Sciences" in 2011 and has been  granted with a Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council (ERC, photocatH2ode project 2012-2017). He's a member of the Young academy of Europe (YAE). He currently acts as Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of the ARCANE Excellence Laboratory Network  (LABEX) for bio-driven chemistry in Grenoble and as co-head of the French network (CNRS-Groupement de recherche) on Solar Fuels. Since 2016, Vincent Artero is associate editor of the Royal Society of Chemistry journal "Sustainable Energy and Fuels". From January 2018 onward, he actsas associate editor of the Royal Society of Chemistry  flagship journal "Chemical Science"

Dr. rer. nat. Nongnuch Artrith (http://nartrith.atomistic.net) is a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in the Materials Chemistry and Catalysis group at the Debye Institute for Nanomaterials Science, Utrecht University. Prior to joining Utrecht, Nong was a Research Scientist in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Columbia University, USA, and was also funded by the Center for Functional Nanomaterials at Brookhaven Lab. Nong is also a PI in the  Columbia Center for Computational Electrochemistry.

Nong obtained her PhD in Theoretical Chemistry from Ruhr University Bochum, Germany (Prof. Jörg Behler) for the development of machine learning (ML) models for applications in chemistry and materials science. She was awarded a fellowship from Schlumberger Foundationfor postdoctoral work at MIT with Prof. Alexie M. Kolpak, where she applied machine learning methods to understand catalyst systems. She subsequently joined Prof. Gerbrand Ceder’s group at UC Berkeley to apply machine learning models to the understanding of amorphous electrode materials for Li-ion batteries. In 2019, she was named a Scialog Fellow for Advanced Energy Storage.

Nong is the main developer of the open-source Atomic Energy Network (ænet) (http://ann.atomistic.net), a package for the construction and application of machine learning models for materials science. Her research interests focus on the development and application of first principles and ML methods for the computational discovery of energy materials and for the interpretation of experimental observations.

Maria Asplund is an expert in bioelectronics. Her research interests include flexible microtechnology, tissue-device interaction and electronic biomaterials. She completed her PhD at the Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm, 2009) and is, since 2011, head of her research group Bioelectronic Microtechnology at the Department of Microsystems Engineering, University of Freiburg in Germany. Her work has resulted in new technologies which contributes to smaller, more energy efficient and durable bioelectronics in the future, as for instance explored in project NeuraViPeR where a brain implant for visual restoration is under development. Furthermore, in her ERC Starting Grant (2017) SPEEDER she is developing a new bioelectronic concept for tissue engineering of skin. She holds a Guest Professorship at the University of Luleå (since 2019) and is a member of the editorial board of Scientific Reports.

Maria Asplund is professor in Bioelectronics at Chalmers University of Technolology. Her research expertise is in bioelectronics, flexible microtechnology, tissue-device interaction and electronic biomaterials. After completing her PhD at the Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm, 2009) she led her own research group at the University of Freiburg, Germany (2011-22). Her work has resulted in new technologies which contributes to smaller, more energy efficient and durable bioelectronics in the future. She currently holds ERC starting and proof of concept grants, is a Visiting Professor at Luleå University of Technology (2019-23) and an editorial board member of Scientific Reports. Maria Asplund is furthermore the scientific secretary for the Swedish Society for Medical Engineering.

Dr. Dani S. Assi received a Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Biomedical Engineering from Lodz University of Technology (TUL) in 2018, followed by a Master of Science (MSc) in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Glasgow (UofG) in 2019. He then completed his Ph.D. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering at the University of Glasgow (UofG) in 2023. Dr. Dani S. Assi, currently a lecturer at the School of Science and Technology at Hong Kong Metropolitan University (HKMU), specializes in Neuromorphic Computing and Quantum Technologies.

Heather is a Royal Society University Research Fellow in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London.

She obtained her PhD in 2017 from Imperial College developing covalent modification strategies on carbon nanomaterials. She was a postdoctoral research associate at Queen Mary University of London and Imperial College, where her research interests shifted to investigating charge storage mechanisms in sodium-ion battery anodes, and later a Faraday Institution Research Fellow, working on the development of engineered carbon hosts for sulfur cathodes in lithium-sulfur batteries.

Heather was awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship in 2023, allowing her to establish an independent research team exploring sustainable materials for structural energy storage.

Christophe Aucher holds a doctorate in Energy and Material Sciences from both the University of Québec at Montréal (Canada, UQAM) and the Material Institute of Nantes (France, IMN). He is developing his career in the LEITAT R&D department since 2011. LEITAT is a private Technological Centre based in Barcelona and dedicated to R&D activities in the areas of biomedicine, biotechnologies, environment, surface treatments, material science, nanotechnology and energies with deep knowledge and experience in technological transfers to several industrial sectors. Christophe is leading the Energy Storage team working on solid state, lithium sulfur, metal air and lithium recovery. His team is currently involved in National and European initiatives for electrical mobility, stationary, printed electronic and batteries recycling.

Dr. Takeru Bessho is a Project Lecture at the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST) at the University of Tokyo, Japan, who was granted Doctor of Engineering in 2009 from the Shibaura Institute of Technology as developments of optoelectronic device properties with organic-inorganic hybrid materials. His affiliations were SONY Corporation as a Researcher at
Advanced Materials Laboratories from 2011 to 2015, and École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne as a Research Associate at laboratory of Prof. Michael Grätzel from 2009 to 2011. His main interest is on device engineering with organic-inorganic materials and its improvement of energy conversion efficiency as solar cells.

Udo Bach is a full professor at Monash University in the Department of Chemical Engineering; the Deputy Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Exciton Science and an ANFF-VIC Technology Fellow at the Melbourne Centre of Nanofabrication (MCN).  He received his PhD from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL, Switzerland) working in the research group of Prof Michael Grätzel and worked for 3 years in a technology start-up company in Dublin (Ireland).  Subsequently he spent 15 months as a postdoc in the group of Prof. Paul Alivisatos in UC Berkeley (USA) before moving to Monash University in November 2005 to establish his own research group.

 

Prof Bach has a strong background in the area of photovoltaics and nanofabrication.  He is involved in fundamental and applied research in the area of perovskite and dye-sensitized solar cells.  He has additional research activities in the area of nanofabrication, DNA-directed self-assembly, nanoprinting, plasmonics for sensing, photovoltaic applications and combinatorial photovoltaic materials discovery.

Gerd Bacher actually holds the chair of electronic materials and nanostructures at the Faculty of Engineering at Duisburg-Essen University. His research career started at Stuttgart University in the 1990s working on optical spectroscopy on epitaxially grown quantum wells, which was then extended to nanotechnology and nanodevice fabrication for optoelectronic applications at Würzburg University and Tokyo Institute of Technology. Being full professor since 2003, he is currently working on a wide diversity of nanomaterials, including 2D materials and nanocrystals, for applications in optoelectronics, information science and energy science. He is author or co-author of more than 250 articles in peer-reviewed journals.

Julien Bachmann studied chemistry at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, and graduated with a Diplôme de chimiste in 2001 (with Carlo Floriani). He then joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the USA to obtain his Ph. D. in inorganic chemistry (with Dan Nocera, 2006). He moved with a Humboldt Fellowship to the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics in Germany to learn the chemistry and physics of solids (with Ulrich Gösele) and worked as a postdoc at the University of Hamburg (with Kornelius Nielsch). He started as an Assistant Professor position (‘Juniorprofessur’, W1) in physics and chemistry in Hamburg in 2009 and was appointed as an Associate Professor (W2) of Inorganic Chemistry at the Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg in 2012. In 2017, he was promoted to the Full Professor (W3) status in the framework of the Cluster of Excellence ‘Engineering of Advanced Materials’, and he now leads the Chair for ‘Chemistry of Thin Film Materials’ at FAU.

Prof. Bachmann obtained several teaching prizes. He was awarded by the European Research Council an ERC Consolidator Grant (2015) and a Proof of Concept Grant (2022). He used to hold an adjunct position as a Full Professor at Saint Petersburg State University (2017 to February 2022) and was invited to the Danish Technical University as an Otto Mønsted Guest Professor (2021). He is also a co-founder and director of the company Atlant 3D Nanosystems.

Dowon Bae received his BSc and MSc (Honors) from the Russian State Technological University named after K.E. Tsiolkovsky (current - Moscow Aviation Institute). After research activities within solar cells at the LG Innotek (South Korea; 2008 – 2012), he joined the VILLUM Center for the Science of Sustainable Fuels and Chemicals at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), where he conducted his PhD study and Postdoc under the supervision of Prof. Ib Chorkendorff. His research has focused on PEC (photoelectrochemical) device design for solar-fuel applications. From 2018 to 2020, he has worked as a Postdoc at the Delft University of Technology with LEaDing Fellowship (Marie-Curie COFUND) support. He has held academic appointment as an Assistant Professor at Heriot-Watt University from 2020. His research concerns PEC devices and rechargeable flow-battery systems.

Peter Bäuerle received his Ph.D. in organic chemistry from the University of Stuttgart (Germany, 1985) working with Prof. F. Effenberger. After a post-doctoral year at MIT, Boston (USA, 1986), in the group of Prof. M.S. Wrighton, he completed his habilitation (1994) at the University of Stuttgart. After being Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Würzburg (Germany, 1994-95), he became Director of the Institute for Organic Chemistry II and Advanced Materials at the University of Ulm (Germany, since 1996). Current research interests of the group include development of novel organic semiconducting materials, in particular, conjugated poly- and oligothiophenes, structure-property relationships, self-assembling properties, and their applications in electronic devices, in particular organic solar cells. Results have been published in more than 280 peer-reviewed scientific papers, 8 book chapters and 12 patents. For his work in the field of plastic electronics he was awarded with the René Descartes Prize of the European Union (2000) and the Nozoe Memorial Lecture at ISNA-14 (USA, 2011). Guest Professorships at the University of Osaka (Japan, 2002), Université Rennes 1 (France, 2004), Melbourne (Australia, 2008), Shanghai (China, 2010), and Gainesville (USA, 2012) followed. He is co-founder of Heliatek GmbH, Dresden/Ulm, a spin-off company devoted for the production of organic solar cells (2006).

Dr. Chris Baeumer is Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) for Electrochemistry of Nanostructures in the Inorganic Materials Science group at the University of Twente and associate research group leader at Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany.  His research focuses on model electrochemical materials and interfaces with precisely controlled, single-crystalline surfaces, and their operando X-ray characterization to reveal the atomic details of complex oxide electrode materials at the solid/liquid interface. For this work, he was awarded the ERC Starting Grant. Before moving to the University of Twente, he was a Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellow at Stanford University and RWTH Aachen University.

Dr. Bag is currently an assistant professor of Department of Physics and an adjunct faculty of Centre of Nanotechnology at Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India. He got his Bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering from Jadavpur University and Master degree in Physics from University of Pune in 2003 and 2006 respectively. After completing PhD from Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, India in the field of Material Science in 2011 he did few years of postdoctoral work at University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA and at Lund University, Sweden before joining to IIT Roorkee in 2016.

Dr. Bag has worked on multi-disciplinary projects during PhD and postdoctoral works with multiple research groups. His expertise varies from device fabrication to various characterization including theoretical modelling and simulations. He has been working in the field of organic electronics for last fourteen years and hybrid perovskite-based materials for energy harvesting for last six years. His current research laboratory known as Advanced Research in Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (AREIS) at IIT Roorkee is focusing on the impedance spectroscopy measurement of various kinds of optoelectronic materials along with the fabrication and optimization of large area thin film based solar cells and LEDs.

Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Detlef Bahnemann has received his PhD in Chemistry from the Technical University Berlin in 1981 and his Habilitation in the area of Technical Chemistry from the Leibniz University Hannover in 2012. He is currently the Head of the Research Unit „Photocatalysis and Nanotechnology“ at the Institute of Technical Chemistry of the Leibniz University Hannover in Germany and also the Director of the Research Institute on Nanocomposite Materials for Photonic Applications at Saint Petersburg State University in Russia. His main research topics include photocatalysis, photoelectrochemistry, solar chemistry and photochemistry focussed on the synthesis and the detailed investigation of the physical-chemical properties of semiconductor and metal nanoparticles. He holds an Honorary Professorship at the Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen/Scotland (United Kingdom), an Honorary Professorship at the Xinjiang Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry (Chinese Academy of Sciences) in Urumqi (China), the Erudite Professorship at the Mahatma Gandhi University in Kottayam (India), a Guest Professorship of Tianjin University (China) and is DeTao Master of Photocatalysis, Nanomaterials and Energy Applications (China). Prof. Bahnemann is the lead author of more than 260 publications in peer reviewed journals that have been cited more than 22,000 times (h-index: 58 according to ISI, 64 according to Google Scholar Citations) and has edited 2 scientific books.

Academic Career

Since May 2020: W3 Associate Professor at the Department of Physics, TUM.

2014 - 2020: W2 Assistant Professor at the Department of Physics, TUM.

2010 - 2014: Group leader ("Adsorption and Electrocatalysis") at the Center for Electrochemical Sciences (CES) at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany.

2008 - 2010: Post-doc, Department of Physics, Technical University of Denmark.

2006 - 2008: Post-doc, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Twente, the Netherlands.

2002 - 2005: PhD in Physical and Solid State Chemistry, Belarusian State University, Minsk, Belarus.

Awards

• The German National Ernst Haage Award for the research in the field of chemical energy conversion (2016)

• Hans-Jürgen Engell Award of the International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE Prize for Electrochemical Materials Science) for the research on electrocatalysis and in situ characterisation of the electrode–electrolyte interface (2013)

Professor Uri Banin is the incumbent of the Larisch Memorial Chair at the Institute of Chemistry and the Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HU). Dr. Banin was the founding director of the Harvey M. Kreuger Family Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (2001-2010) and led the program of the Israel National Nanotechnology Initiative at HU (2007-2010). He served on the University’s Executive Committee and on its board of managers and was a member of the board of Yissum. He served on the scientific advisory board of Nanosys. In 2009 Banin was the scientific founder of Qlight Nanotech, a start-up company based on his inventions, developing the use of nanocrystals in display and lighting applications. Since 2013, Banin is an Associate Editor of the journal Nano Letters. His distinctions include the Rothschild and Fulbright postdoctoral fellowships (1994-1995), the Alon fellowship for young faculty (1997-2000), the Yoram Ben-Porat prize (2000), the Israel Chemical Society young scientist award (2001), the Michael Bruno Memorial Award (2007-2010), and the Tenne Family prize for nanoscale science (2012). He received two European Research Council (ERC) advanced investigator grant, project DCENSY (2010-2015), and project CoupledNC (2017-2022). Banin’s research focuses on nanoscience and nanotechnology of nanocrystals and he authored over 180 scientific publications in this field that have been extensively cited.

Olivier joined ICPEES as independent young researcher (Chargé de Recherche) in February 2023. His interests are in understanding the chemical and electrochemical doping mechanisms of highly anisotropic and porous organic semiconductors for bioelectronic and thermoelectric applications. A physicist by training, he obtained his MSc in Nanoscience and Engineering Physics at the Grenoble Institute of Technology (Phelma, France) in partnership with Imperial College London (UK). To better understand the molecular design of the materials he was studying, he completed a PhD at Université Grenoble Alpes/CEA Grenoble (France) with Dr. Renaud Demadrille from 2016 to 2019. He focused on the organic synthesis of n-type polymers and their doping for thermoelectric and photovoltaic applications. From 2020 to 2023, he developed his skills in time-resolved spectroscopy and data analysis during a post-doctoral stay in the FemtoMat group of Prof. Natalie Banerji at the University of Bern. Notably, he improved the electronic performance of organic electrochemical transistors (OECTs) and identified energetical and morphological factors limiting the (de)doping kinetics of the polymer channel during device operation.

Alex Barker is a researcher in the groups of Annamaria Petrozza and Guglielmo Lanzani at the Center for Nanoscience and Technology in Milan, Italy. He received his PhD from Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand). His core research interests focus on ultrafast spectroscopy of hybrid organic perovskites and organic photovoltaics.

Piers studied for his first degree in Physics at the University of Bristol, graduating in 1998. For his PhD (2002) he investigated the physics of polycrystalline ice at the British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge. After two Antarctic field seasons (2000/2001 and 2002/2003) drilling and measuring the world�s oldest ice core record recovered from Dome C he moved to the University of New South Wales in Australia. In 2004 he made a change in research direction to develop photoelectrodes for solar water splitting after winning a post-doctoral fellowship with the CSIRO. In 2006 he was awarded an Ig Nobel prize for �calculating the number of photographs that must be taken to (almost) ensure that nobody in a group photo will have their eyes closed�. Piers returned to the UK (2007) to work as a Research Associate at Imperial College London on interpreting loss mechanisms in dye sensitised solar cells where developed new approaches to simulating and characterising behaviour in this class of devices. In October 2011 he began an EPSRC fellowship at Imperial to measure model and exploit molecular wiring in hybrid optoelectronic devices.

Jesús Barrio Hermida received his Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Madrid, Spain) in 2014, where he got in touch for the first time with chemical research whilst working in the synthesis and characterization of Fe and Cu coordination polymers in the Inorganic Chemistry department.

In 2016, he obtained his Master in Nanoscience and Molecular Nanotechnology from the same institution. His Master Thesis, carried out at the IMDEA Nanoscience Institute entailed the formation of controlled assemblies of plasmonic building blocks and was directed by Dr. Beatriz H. Juárez and Prof. Félix Zamora.

Due to a scholarship in the Erasmus program, he moved to the Max Planck Institute for Colloids and Interfaces (Potsdam, Germany) for pursuing his doctoral studies, and in September 2016, he joined the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (Beer-Sheva, Israel) along with his PhD supervisor, Prof. Menny Shalom, where he obtained his PhD in May 2020. His doctoral thesis focused on the design of metal-free carbon nitride materials for photo-electrocatalytic applications.

In June 2020 he joined the Materials Department at Imperial College as a Research Associate for working along with Dr. Ifan Stephens and Prof. Magda Titirici in the design of hybrid metal-carbon composites for different electrochemical applications. In August 2023 he started his independent career as an Imperial College Research Fellow at the Chemical Engineering Deaprtment of Imperial. His research covers the synthesis of carbon-based materials for different energy-related scenarios.

Dr. Carlos L. Bassani studies the multiscale interactions of systems containing crystals, from molecular ordering to the emergence of mesostructures and their interactions with the environment. Of special interest are plasmonic nanocrystals and clathrate hydrates. Carlos holds a dual doctorate in Chemical Engineering from Mines Saint-Etienne, France, and Mechanical and Materials Engineering from the Federal University of Technology—Paraná, Brazil. He is a postdoctoral fellow at the Self-Organization Group of the Institute for Multiscale Simulation at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany.

Arindam Basu received the B.Tech. and M.Tech. degrees in ECE from the I.I.T, Kharagpur, India, and the M.S. degree in
Mathematics and the Ph.D. degree in ECE from the Georgia Institute of Technology,
Atlanta, GA, USA. He is currently a Professor with the Department of EE, City University of Hong Kong and was a tenured faculty at NTU, Singapore previusly.

 

Dr. Basu was included in Georgia Tech Alumni Association’s 40 under 40 list in 2021 and was awarded the MIT Technology Review’s TR35 Asia Pacific Award in 2012. He also received the Prime Minister of India Gold Medal from I.I.T Kharagpur in 2005. He and his students have received several best paper awards and nominations in IEEE conferences.

He has served as IEEE CAS Distinguished Lecturer from 2016 to 2017 and currently serves IEEE in various roles such as TC Chair, Associate editor of journals etc.

Carsten is a Solar Cell Engineer at the European Space Agency (ESA) in Noordwijk, the Netherlands. He joined ESA in 2006 after he finished his PhD in Physics at the Fraunhofer Institute of Solar Energy Systems (ISE) in Freiburg, Germany.

At ESA he was and is responsible for the definition and supervision of numerous R&D activities to improve solar cells and solar cell assemblies for space applications. Furthermore, he is an expert in the characterisation of multi-junction solar cells and the analysis and modelling of degradation effects in solar cells due to particle irradiation.

Carsten is Author or Co-author of more than 80 scientific publications.

Manfred Bayer has studied physics at University of Wuerzburg, finishing his PhD in 1997. He was appointed as full professor at TU Dortmund in 2002. Since then he is working on optical spectroscopy of semiconductors.

Prof. Aimy Bazylak is the Canada Research Chair in Thermofluids for Clean Energy and Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the U of T. In 2011, she was awarded the I.W. Smith Award from the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering, and she received the Ontario Early Researcher Award in 2012. From 2015-2018, she served as the Director of the U of T Institute for Sustainable Energy. In 2015 she was named an Alexander Von Humboldt Fellow (Germany), and in 2019 she was named a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. In 2020, she was named a Helmholtz International Fellow (Germany), was awarded the U of T McLean Award, and was elected to the Royal Society of Canada College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists.

Andrew M. Beale is a Professor of Inorganic Chemistry and Group leader at the Research Complex at Harwell. He is also a Co-I and principal academic responsible (since 2018) for the Harwell activities of the EPSRC-sponsored UK Catalysis Hub. His interests lie in establishing structure-function relationships in heterogeneous materials, including catalytic solids and energy storage materials as a function of both time and space (micron, to sub-micron length scales) using both X-ray & optical spectroscopic and scattering methods and often applied under operando conditions. In 2012 he started Finden Ltd providing high-end characterisation of solid-state functional materials spanning the fields of catalysis, energy, automotive parts and pharmaceuticals, typically at the critical juncture of scale-up to pilot plant. He has many collaborative projects with the STFC facilities at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory.

Remi Beaulac received his B.Sc. (2001) and Ph.D. (2006) in Chemistry from the University of Montreal, Canada. His Ph.D. thesis, written under the direction of Prof. Christian Reber, focussed on the elucidation of complex metal-ligand interactions involving Jahn-Teller-active electronic states of transition-metal complexes. From 2006 to 2011, Dr. Beaulac worked under the guidance of Prof. Daniel R. Gamelin at the University of Washington, studying various magneto-optical and photophysical effects of transition-metal-doped colloidal quantum dots. Highlights of the work done at the University of Washington include the observation of spin-polarized photoluminescence, photo-induced magnetization, and thermally-activated dual emission in manganese-doped colloidal quantum dots. In 2011, Prof. Beaulac joined the Department of Chemistry at Michigan State University as an Assistant Professor, where his work focusses on the study of interfacial electron donor-acceptor interactions involving colloidal quantum dots and organic moieties, as well as on the development of the solution-phase chemistry of nitride nanomaterials.

Artur Bednarkiewicz received his M.Sc. Eng. in Physics and Biomedical Engineering from Wroclaw University of Technology in Wroclaw, Poland in 1993 and a Ph.D. in Physics from Institute of Low Temperature and Structure Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, in 1998. After postdoctoral research in the European Commission Joint Research Centre, Italy, in December 2008 he returned to ILT&SR PAS and simultaneously established an interdisciplinary team NAOMIS with Wroclaw Research Center EIT+ focusing on Nanoparticle Assisted Molecular Imaging and Sensing. His current interdisciplinary research focuses on optical (bio)spectroscopy, novel designs of lanthanide doped nanoparticles and quantum dot biolabels, optical and spatial light modulation engineering, as well as on pure physics, spectroscopy and chemistry of lanthanide doped materials.

Dr. Amilcar Bedoya-Pinto completed his undergraduate studies in Physics at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), carrying out his Master thesis at Walther-Meissner-Institute (WMI) on the growth and characterization of ZnO-based magnetic semiconductors. He received his PhD in Condensed-matter Physics at the University of Goettingen, focusing on charge and spin transport studies of epitaxial metal-semiconductor heterostructures, and being awarded with the Dr. Berliner-Ungewitter Prize for outstanding PhD theses (2011). He started his Postdoctoral work at CiC nanoGUNE research center in San Sebastian (Spain), focusing on molecular-based spintronics and hybrid metal-molecule functional interfaces. After that, he moved to the Max-Planck Insitute of Microstructure Physics (Director: Stuart Parkin) as a Research Associate, leading projects on two-dimensional materials and Weyl semimetal-based thin films and heterostructures. In 2022, he got appointed as a Distinguished Researcher and Principal Investigator at the Institute of Molecular Science, University of Valencia, where he is building up a research group working on molecular beam epitaxy of 2D ferroic heterostructures.

Thomas Bein obtained his PhD in Chemistry from the University of Hamburg (Germany) and the Catholic University Leuven (Belgium) in 1984. His major field of study encompassed catalytically active nanoclusters in porous hosts. He continued his studies as Visiting Scientist at the DuPont Central Research and Development Department in Wilmington, DE (USA). From 1986 to 1991 he was Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque (USA). In 1991 he joined Purdue University (Indiana) as Associate Professor, and was promoted to Full Professor of Chemistry in 1995. In 1999 he was appointed Chair of Physical Chemistry at the University of Munich (LMU), where he also served as Director of the Department of Chemistry. His current research interests lie in the synthesis and physical properties of functional nanostructures, with an emphasis on porous materials for targeted drug delivery and nanostructured materials for solar energy conversion. He has authored and co-authored more than 300 peer-reviewed publications.

Thomas Bein received his PhD in Chemistry from the University of Hamburg (Germany) and the Catholic University Leuven (Belgium) in 1984. He continued his studies as Visiting Scientist at the DuPont Central Research and Development Department in Wilmington, DE (USA). From 1986 to 1991 he was Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque (USA). In 1991 he joined Purdue University (Indiana) as Associate Professor, and was promoted to Full Professor of Chemistry in 1995. In 1999 he was appointed Chair of Physical Chemistry at the University of Munich (LMU), where he also served as Director of the Department of Chemistry.

He has recently won an ERC Advanced Grant entitled “Electroactive Donor-Acceptor Covalent Organic Frameworks”. Presently he is LMU-Coordinator of the newly funded Excellence Cluster “e-conversion”. Bibliographic data: Over 500 publications, over 38.000 citations, h=115. Since 2018, Thomas Bein is listed as a Highly Cited Researcher (Clarivate).

His current research interests cover the synthesis and physical properties of functional nanostructures, with an emphasis on porous materials for targeted drug delivery and nanostructured materials for solar energy conversion.

URL: http://bein.cup.uni-muenchen.de/

Date of birth: April 11, 1962 Academic and Scientific Career 1982-1987 Study of chemistry at Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Germany 1987-1989 PhD thesis at the Institute of Organic Chemistry at Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Germany 1989 Graduation with honors (Dr. rer. Nat.), Germany 1990 Liebig scholar and postdoctoral stay with Prof. K. B. Sharpless at Massachussetts Institute of Technology, USA 1991-1993 Central Research at Hoechst AG, Germany 1993 Group leader of “Organometallic chemistry –Catalysis” at the Central Research of Hoechst AG, Germany 1994-1995 Project leader of “Homogeneous catalysis” at Hoeachst AG, Germany 1996-1998 Associate Professor for Inorganic chemistry (C3) at the TU Munich, Germany 1998-2005 Full Professor (C4) for Catalysis, Director of the “Leibniz-Institut für Organische Katalyse an der Universität Rostock e.V. (IfOK), Germany 2005 to date Full Professor (W3), Director of the newly founded “Leibniz-Institut für Katalyse e.V.”, Germany Research Profile  Based on our background in organic, inorganic, and industrial chemistry my research group is focusing on the transfer of basic research into practical applications. As a result in the last ten years we have developed three catalyst systems; e.g. palladium catalysts for telomerization and formylation as well as amidocarbonylations, which are nowadays applied in chemical and pharmaceutical industry on ton-scale. In addition, various catalysts, which were introduced by us in the last decade, are now commonly used by researches in the pharmaceutical and agrochemical industries. Apart from that we have introduced more fundamental new sustainable catalytic methods for organic synthesis. Clearly, catalysis – the science of accelerating and controlling chemical reactions – is one of the key technologies for the creation of a sustainable chemistry. Selected exam-ples of our main achievements include the first catalytic dihydroxylations with air as oxi-dant; the first anti-Markovnikov-aminations of olefins and alkynes; the discovery of most efficient telomerization catalysts; the introduction of environmentally benign cyanation reagents for coupling chemistry and more recently the invention of stereoselective iron catalysts for environmentally benign oxidation and hydrogenation reactions. In the last years we promote the idea of using bio-inspired, molecularly-defined catalysts based on easily available iron instead of using precious metal catalysts. This conception has become one of the “hot topic” in organometallic catalysis. At the age of 52 I have pub-lished around 650 original publications and review articles. Moreover, I have been a co-author of >90 patent applications, which have been filed in the last decade.

Magnus Berggren received his MSc in Physics in 1991 and graduated as PhD (Thesis: Organic Light Emitting Diodes) in Applied Physics in 1996, both degrees from Linköping University. He then joined Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, NJ in the USA, for a one-year post doc period focusing on the development of organic lasers and novel optical resonator structures. 

In 1997 he teamed up with Opticom ASA, from Norway, and former colleagues of Linköping University to establish the company Thin Film Electronics AB (ThinFilm). From 1997 to 1999 he served Thin Film as its founding managing director and initiated the development of printed electronic memories based on ferroelectric polymers. 

After this, he returned to Linköping University and also to a part time manager at RISE Acreo. In 1999, he initiated the research and development of paper electronics, in part supported by several paper- and packaging companies. Since 2002, he is the professor in Organic Electronics at Linköping University and the director of the Laboratory of Organic Electronics, today including close to 90 researchers. 

Magnus Berggren is one of the pioneers of the Organic Bioelectronics and Electronic Plants research areas and currently he is the acting director of the Strategic Research Area (SFO) of Advanced Functional Materials (AFM) at LiU. In 2012 Magnus Berggren was elected member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and in 2014 he received the Marcus Wallenberg Price. He is also the co-founder of 7 companies: ThinFilm, Invisense, DP Patterning, Consensum Prodcution, OBOE IPR, OBOE Players and Ligna Energy.

Dr. Curtis P. Berlinguette is an Associate Professor of Chemistry and Chemical & Biological Engineering at the University of British Columbia. After graduating with a B.Sc. in 2000 from the University of Alberta, Dr. Berlinguette headed to Texas A&M University to pursue a Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry (Advisor: Prof. K. R. Dunbar) before doing two years of postdoctoral studies at Harvard University (Advisor: Prof. R. H. Holm). He started his independent career at the University of Calgary in 2006 before moving his program to the University of British Columbia in 2013. He currently leads a research program fully dedicated to solar energy conversion, which includes the design of novel nanoscale materials for advanced solar cells, and developing economically viable ways of storing solar electricity as high density fuels. Dr. Berlinguette holds several patents, has authored over 50 scientific articles, and holds a Tier II Canada Research Chair and an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship.

Joseph J. Berry is a Senior Research Fellow at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and Associate Professor of Physics a the University of Colorado Boulder  working on metal halide perovskite based materials and devices. His Ph.D. for work was on spin transport and physics in semiconductor heterostructures from Penn State University. His efforts at NREL emphasize relating basic interfacial properties to technologically relevant device level behaviors in traditional and novel semiconductor heterostructures including oxides, organics, and most recently hybrid metal halide semiconducting materials. He also leads the DOE SETO “Perovskite Enabled Tandems” Project at NREL and is a PI for the NREL lead Center for Hybrid OrganicInorganic Semiconductors for Energy (CHOISE), an Energy Frontier Research Center financed by the Office of Basic Energy Sciences. 

Alexander Bessonov is the Director of Engineering at Quantum Solutions, where he leads device engineering initiatives and drives advancements in quantum dot semiconductor research. His extensive expertise lies in optoelectronic device architectures and manufacturing process development, with a focus on nanomaterial sensors, flexible displays, and printed electronics systems. Alexander earned his first degree and Ph.D. in Chemistry from the Novosibirsk Science Centre in Russia. His professional journey includes significant roles at industry giants Samsung Electronics and Nokia Technologies between 2008 and 2016. From 2016 to 2022, he served as the Chief Engineer at Emberion. Alexander has made notable contributions to the field, co-authoring over 60 patent applications and academic papers.

Marco Bettinelli received his doctorate in Chemistry at the University of Parma in 1981. He has been Assistant Professor at the University of Padova and Associate Professor at the University of Salerno. He has then moved to the University of Verona, where he is Full Professor of Inorganic Chemistry since 2002. He has worked in numerous Universities abroad; in particular, as a CNR and NATO Post-Doc Fellow at the University of London. He has published more than 360 papers in the field of Chemistry and Optical Spectroscopy of Inorganic Materials, and is the leader of a team collaborating with many Italian and foreign Universities. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC CChem). He has been Visiting Professor in various Universities abroad and has acted as invited speaker and member of the Organizing Committee in numerous International Conferences. He is a member of the Review College of EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council), UK Government's leading funding agency. His scientific interests deal with the synthesis, characterization and optical spectroscopy of inorganic materials, both pure and doped with transition metal and lanthanide ions.

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Sayan Bhattacharyya is Professor of the Department of Chemical Sciences, IISER Kolkata since September 2019. He joined the Institute as Assistant Professor in April 2010 after obtaining his Ph.D. at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India in 2006 and postdoctoral research at Bar-Ilan University, Israel (2006-2008, advisor: Prof. Em. Aharon Gedanken) & Drexel University, USA (2008-2010, advisor: Prof. Yury Gogotsi). He was visiting Professor at University of Goettingen, Germany in 2011 and the founder chair of the Centre for Advanced Functional Materials at IISER Kolkata, 2016-2020. Prof. Bhattacharyya is a Solid State and Physical Chemist devoted to the advancements in energy conversion and storage. His current interests are electrocatalysis, photovoltaics and opto-electronics. A combination of wet-chemical synthesis and self-assembly of smart nanomaterials, structure-property correlation and device applications are used to attain these research goals. He is elected as the Life Fellow of the Indian Chemical Society since 2020. In 2017, Dr. Bhattacharyya has been highlighted as one of the Emerging Investigators by the Journal of Materials Chemistry A, Royal Society of Chemistry. He has received several unsolicited media coverage on his scientific research work. He is member of the American Chemical Society, American Nano Society, Chemical Research Society of India, Association for Iron & Steel Technology, and American Ceramic Society, USA.

Prof. Laurent Billon gained his PhD in 1996 from the Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour, France (UPPA) and his habilitation in 2005. He is a Professor of exceptional class and was deputy director of the Institute of Analytical Sciences and Physico-Chemistry for Environment and Materials IPREM (CNRS UMR 5254) from 2028 to 2022. He is now leader of the Bio-inspired Materials Group at the UPPA.

Prof. Billon is the coordinator and principal investigator of a large series of national and international research projects such as the coordinator of the H2020 ITN EJD eSCALED Project (european SChool on Artificial Leaf: Electrodes & Devices) with 10 partners from 8 European countries. He has authored 155 scientific publications in highly impact journals, 4 book chapters & 1 book editor, 35 invited lectures at international conferences and 20 patents. From 2016 to 2022, he was invited Professor at the University Immersion Program of Sichuan University (Chengdu, China).

His research activities cover 1) Synthesis of macromolecular designs by controlled radical polymerizations (NMP, RAFT and ATRP) or "click" chemistry; 2) Synthesis of organic colloids in a dispersed medium; 3) Surface chemistry and functionalization; 4) Development of macromolecular systems 5) Stimuli-triggered self-assembly in aqueous solution and self-assembly in bulk and thin film directed by the process for hierarchically structured materials; 6) Multi-scale characterization: from the local scale to the macroscopic scale, through the mesoscopic scale and the (sub) micrometric scale and 7) Biomimicry and bio-inspired materials/processes. The main applications of his research are dedicated to bio-inspired materials for cosmetic/healthcare (Christian DIOR, L’OREAL, CHANEL, Pierre FABRE, Yves ROCHER, SEPPIC) and since many years to energy solutions (CO2 reduction and green H2 evolution)

Christina Birkel is an Associate Professor in the School of Molecular Sciences at Arizona State University (ASU) and holds a joint professorship position in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the Technische Universität (TU) Darmstadt. In 2024, she was appointed Navrotsky Professor of Materials Research at ASU. Prior to her independent career, she was a Junior Research group leader at TU Darmstadt (Habilitation in 2018), a Postdoctoral Researcher (group of Prof. Galen Stucky) at the University of California, Santa Barbara (Feodor Lynen Research Stipend, Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation) and completed her PhD thesis (group of Prof. Wolfgang Tremel) at the Johannes Gutenberg-University of Mainz holding a stipend of the Graduate School of Excellence (2010). Her group focuses on the synthesis and structural science of new types of layered solids and two-dimensional materials with a strong focus on carbides and (carbo)nitrides (MAX phases and MXenes), as well as the investigation of their properties including transport (electronic, magnetic), high-temperature and electrochemical behavior.

Juan Bisquert (pHD Universitat de València, 1991) is a Professor of applied physics at Universitat Jaume I de Castelló, Spain. He is the director of the Institute of Advanced Materials at UJI. He authored 360 peer reviewed papers, and a series of books including . Physics of Solar Cells: Perovskites, Organics, and Photovoltaics Fundamentals (CRC Press).  His h-index 95, and is currently a Senior Editor of the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. He conducts experimental and theoretical research on materials and devices for production and storage of clean energies. His main topics of interest are materials and processes in perovskite solar cells and solar fuel production. He has developed the application of measurement techniques and physical modeling of nanostructured energy devices, that relate the device operation with the elementary steps that take place at the nanoscale dimension: charge transfer, carrier transport, chemical reaction, etc., especially in the field of impedance spectroscopy, as well as general device models. He has been distinguished in the 2014-2019 list of ISI Highly Cited Researchers.

 

My main research interest is development of the novel post Li-ion battery systems with a specific focus on the application of organic materials as cathode materials in different multivalent metal anode batteries and development of new multivalent electrolytes. 

Paul W.M. Blom, born in 1965 in The Netherlands, received his Ph. D. Degree in 1992 from the Technical University Eindhoven on picosecond charge carrier dynamics in GaAs. At Philips Research Laboratories he was engaged in the electro-optical properties of polymer light-emitting diodes. From 2000 he held a professorship at the University of Groningen in the field of electrical and optical properties of organic semiconducting devices. In September 2008 he became Scientific Director of the Holst Centre in Eindhoven, where the focus is on foil-based electronics, followed in 2012 by an appointment as director at the MPI for polymer research in Mainz.

Volker Blum is an Associate Professor in the Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at Duke University, Durham, NC. He obtained his doctoral degree from University of Erlangen, Germany in 2001 and then pursued his post-doctoral research at National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, CO, from 2002-2004. From 2004-2013, he was a scientist and group leader at the Fritz Haber Institute in Berlin, Germany. He develops computational methods and software for electronic structure simulations, data analysis and data sharing in materials science and in computational chemistry, including as the lead developer of the FHI-aims electronic structure code. His current applied research focuses on novel semiconductor materials as well as molecular spectroscopy. In particular, his group is working on hybrid perovskite materials and chalcogenide semiconductors.

Boettcher is a Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Oregon. His research is at the intersection of materials science and electrochemistry, with a focus on fundamental aspects of energy conversion and storage. He has been named a DuPont Young Professor, a Cottrell Scholar, a Sloan Fellow, and a Camille-Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar. He was included as an ISI highly cited researcher (top 0.1% over past decade) over the past two years. In 2019, he founded the Oregon Center for Electrochemistry and in 2020 launched the nation’s first targeted graduate program in electrochemical technology.

Hendrik (Henk) Bolink obtained his PhD in Materials Science at the University of Groningen in 1997 under the supervision of Prof. Hadziioannou. After that he worked at DSM as a materials scientist and project manager in the central research and new business development department, respectively. In 2001 he joined Philips, to lead the materials development activity of Philips´s PolyLED project.

Since 2003 he is at the Instituto de Ciencia Molecular (ICMol )of the University of Valencia where he initiated a research line on molecular opto-eletronic devices. His current research interests encompass: inorganic/organic hybrid materials such as transition metal complexes and perovskites and their integration in LEDs and solar cells.

Annalisa Bonfiglio graduated in Physics in 1991 at the University of Genova, Italy and got the PhD in Bioengineering in 1996 at the Politechnical School in Milan.

She is currently Full Professor of Electronic Bioengineering at the Scuola Universitaria Superiore IUSS in Pavia, Italy.

She authored more than 200 papers on international journals, conference proceedings, book chapters. She also holds 12 patents. Her research activity is focussed on innovative materials (in particular organic semiconductors) and devices for wearable electronics and biomonitoring.

From 1996 to 2023 she was with the University of Cagliari where, from 2015 to 2017 she served as Vice-Rector for Innovation and Territorial Strategies. From 2014 to 2017 she was in the Board of Directors of CRS4 (Center for Advanced Studies, Research and Development in Sardinia). From 2017 to 2020, she served as President at CRS4.

1. Personal details Prof. Dr. Mischa Bonn Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research Ackermannweg 10 D-55128 Mainz Male; born, 25/01/71, Nijmegen (NL), married +1. Nationality: Dutch (NL) 2. Education Undergraduate: University of Amsterdam; MSc in Physical Chemistry (highest honors), 10/05/93 Graduate: AMOLF / University of Eindhoven; PhD in Physical Chemistry, 18/12/96 Postdoctoral: Fritz Haber (Max Planck) Institut (Wolf/Ertl group), Berlin, Germany, 1997�1999 Postdoctoral: Columbia University (Heinz group) NY, USA, 1998-2001 (totaling ~6 months). 3. Appointments 4/2011-present Director at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany 5/2013-present Honorary Professor (Chemistry Dept.) University of Mainz 6/2005�present Extraordinary Professor (Physics Dept.) University of Amsterdam 1/2004�3/2012 Group Leader at FOM-Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics 1/2003�1/2004 Scientific Advisor at FOM-Institute for Plasma Physics �Rijnhuizen� 1/2003�9/2009 Associate professor (tenured) at Leiden University (Chemistry Dept.) 8/1999�12/2002 Assistant professor (fixed term) at Leiden University (Chemistry Dept.)

Dr Juliane Borchert is the head of the junior research group “Optoelectronic Thin Film Materials” at the University of Freiburg as well as the head of  the research group “Perovskite Materials and Interfaces” at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems. She studied physics in Berlin, Groningen, and Halle (Saale). Her PhD research was conducted at the University of Oxford where she focused on co-evaporated perovskites for solar cells. She continued this research as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cambridge and AMOLF research institute in Amsterdam. Now she leads a team of researchers and technicians who are on a mission to develop the next generation of solar cells combining novel metal-halide perovskite semiconductors and established silicon technology into highly efficient tandem solar cells.

Francesca Borghi is a tenure track assistant professor at the Physics Department of the University of Milano. She graduated in Physics from the University of Milano in 2011 and she received her PhD in Physics, Astrophysics and Applied Physics in 2015. Her research focuses on structural and functional properties of cluster-assembled nanostructured materials, and the development of neuromorphic computing systems and soft electronic devices. She’s currently coordinating multidisciplinary laboratories for the advanced characterization of neuromorphic systems at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Nanostructured Materials and Interfaces (CIMaINa) at the Physics Department (UniMi). She’s co-founder of GRUCIO, a start-up initiative aiming at the development of unconventional data processing devices.

Paola Borri did her undergraduate in Physics at the University of Florence (Italy) and received the Laurea (MSc equivalent) and Ph.D degree in Physics in 1993 and 1997 respectively. From 1997 to 1999 she was Assistant Research Professor at the Technical University of Denmark. From 1999 to 2004 she worked as Senior Scientist and EU Marie Curie Fellow (2001-2003) at the Physics Department of Dortmund University in Germany where she received the Habilitation degree in Physics (Venia Legendi) in 2003. In 2004 she was appointed Senior Lecturer in the School of Biosciences at Cardiff University, promoted to Reader in 2007 and to Personal Chair in 2011. Her current research interests include the ultrafast nonlinear optical response of semiconductor and metallic nanostructures, and the development of novel coherent multi-photon microscopy techniques for imaging micro- and nano-structures in living cells.

Tessel Bouwens is an early career researcher from the Netherlands. She is currently working as an NWO Rubicon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, UK.

In her research, Bouwens employs supramolecular strategies in artificial leaf-research. She uses the concepts used in nature to design new devices for solar energy conversion technologies with a supramolecular approach.

Bouwens obtained her PhD in 2021 supervised by Prof. Dr. Joost Reek and Dr. Simon Mathew from the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She developed the ring-launching solar cell that improves the power conversion efficiency by launching charged rings (hence the name) away from the electron donor, thereby inhibiting charge recombination. This approach integrates supramolecular machinery in solar cells and demonstrates the impact of molecular organization on the performance of devices for solar conversion technologies.

Steven Boxer is the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Stanford University. His research interests are in biophysics: the interface of physical chemistry, biology and engineering. Topics of current interest include: electrostatics and dynamics in proteins; excited state dynamics of green fluorescent protein, especially split GFP, with applications in biotechnology; electron and energy transfer mechanisms in photosynthesis; and the fabrication of artificial systems to simulate, manipulate and image biological membranes. He has served on the scientific advisory board of many start-ups in the general area of biotechnology, and as an advisor to the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation and the European Research Council. He is the recipient of several awards, and is an elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Biophysical Society and the National Academy of Sciences.

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Christoph J. Brabec is holding the chair “materials for electronics and energy technology (i-MEET)” at the materials science of the Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg. Further, he is the scientific director of the Erlangen division of the Bavarian research institute for renewable energy (ZAE Bayern, Erlangen).
He received his PhD (1995) in physical chemistry from Linz university, joined the group of Prof Alan Heeger at UCSB for a sabbatical, and continued to work on all aspects of organic semiconductor spectroscopy as assistant professor at Linz university with Prof. Serdar Sariciftci. He joined the SIEMENS research labs as project leader for organic semiconductor devices in 2001 and joined Konarka in 2004, where he was holding the position of the CTO before joining university.
He is author and co-author of more than 150 papers and 200 patents and patent applications, and finished his habilitation in physical chemistry in 2003.

Guy Brammertz graduated in 1999 from the University of Liège (Belgium) in Applied Physics. In 2003 he obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Twente (The Netherlands) defending a thesis about his work on superconducting Josephson junction photon detectors carried out for the European Space Agency. He then joined imec in 2004, where he first was involved in the LogicDram program aiming at the fabrication of Ge and III-V 35 nm gate length MOS transistors for CMOS applications. His work focused on electrical and optical characterization as well as passivation of electrical defects at Ge and III-V/oxide interfaces. In 2011 he joined the imec photovoltaic program, where he is now working on the fabrication and characterization of thin film solar cells based on Cu(In,Ga)(S,Se)2 (CIGS), Cu2ZnSn(S,Se)4 (CZTS) and Cu2ZnGe(S,Se)4 (CZGS) absorbers.

Dr. Habil. Martin Brinkmann (07.10.1971 in Mulhouse, France)

Directeur de Recherche CNRS

Institut Charles Sadron

CNRS Université de Strasbourg

23 rue du loess

67034 Strasbourg – France

h=45, 137 publications

 

Scientific Career

Since 2013          Director of Research CNRS

2002.                   Invited Researcher EPFL, group of L. Zuppiroli  

2000 -2013          Senior Scientist CNRS     

1999-2000           Postdoctoral researcher MIT, Cambridge, USA

1997-1999           Postdoctoral researcher at CNR Bologna, Italy

1994-1997           PhD, University Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg

 

Scientific Focus

Structure and morphology in thin organic films,

Organic semiconductors,

Transmission Electron Microscopy,

Crystallization and orientation of polymer and molecular materials,

Growth control in organic thin films. Polymer Thermoelectric Materials.

 

Scientific Awards

 

2007                    CNRS Bronze Medal

2011                    Prize of Groupe Français des Polymères – Société Française de Physique

 

Management activities

2013-2020      SYCOMMOR Group leader, ICS

2018-now      Deputy-director of Doctoral School of Physics and Chemical Physics             

                      ED182, Strasbourg

2017-now.      IC FRC and GFP member

2018-now: Coordinator ANR ANISOTHERM

Supervision:

12 PhD students  (Bruno Schmaltz, Christelle Vergnat, Navaphun Kayunkid, Lucia Hartmann, Alexandru Sarbu, Amer Hamidi-Sakr, Morgane Diebold, Vishnu Vijajakumar, Marion Brosset, Yuhan Zong, Shubhradip Guchait),

7 postdocs (Jean-François Moulin, Sirapat Pratontep, Navaphun Kayunkid, Uttiya Sureeporn, Nicolas Crespo-Monteiro, Maria Girleanu, Laure Biniek)

Teaching “Structure and Growth of Conjugated Polymer and Molecular Materials” , Master polymer Science (2010-2012), Strasbourg.

 

Reviewing: Macromolecules, Chemistry of Materials, JACS, Advanced Functional Materials,  Advanced Materials, J. Mater. Chem. C

Project reviewer for ANR, DFG, NSF, Swiss national Science foundation

 

Five most important publications

 

1) M. Brinkmann, J.-C. Wittmann: Orientation of regio-regular poly(3-hexylthiophene) by directional solidification: a simple method to reveal the semi-crystalline structure of a conjugated polymer, Adv. Mat. 2006, 18, 860.

2) N. Kayunkid, S. Uttiya and M. Brinkmann: Structural model of regioregular poly(3-hexylthiophene) obtained by electron diffraction analysis, Macromolecules 2010, 43, 4961.

3) M. Brinkmann, E. Gonthier, S. Bogen, K. Tremmel, S. Ludwigs, M. Hufnagel, M. Sommer: Segregated versus mixed stacking of bithiophene and naphthalene bisimide units in highly oriented films of an n-type polymeric semiconductor, ACS Nano, 2012, 6, 10319.

4) A. Hamidi Sakr, L. Biniek, S. Fall, M. Brinkmann: Precise control of crystal size in highly oriented regioregular poly(3-hexylthiophene) thin films prepared by high temperature rubbing: correlations with optical properties and charge transport, Adv. Funct. Mat. 2016, 26, 408.

5) Vijayakumar, V.; Zhong, Y.; Untilova, V.; Bahri, M.; Herrmann, L.; Biniek, L.; Leclerc, N.; Brinkmann, M. Bringing Conducting Polymers to High Order: Toward Conductivities beyond 10⁵ S cm⁻¹ and Thermoelectric Power Factors of 2 mW m⁻¹ K⁻². Advanced Energy Materials 2019, 9, 1900266.

Dr. Albert Bruix is currently a "La Caixa" Junior Leader at the Institute of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry of the University of Barcelona. He obtained his PhD from the University of Barcelona in 2014, after which he carried out postdoctoral research studies at Aarhus University (Denmark) and the Technical University of Munich (Germany). His group focuses on the computational characterization of complex nanostructured materials used in catalysis and nanoelectronics, with a special interest in their response to operating conditions. Their work combines first-principles calculations with statistical mechanics, thermodynamics, multiscale modeling approaches, machine learning, and global optimization algorithms.

Dr. Annalisa Bruno is an Associate Professor  Nanyang Technological University (ERI@N), coordinating a team working on perovskite solar cells and modules by thermal evaporation. Annalisa is also a tenured Scientist at the Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy, and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA). Previously, Annalisa was a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at Imperial College London. Annalisa received her B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. Degrees in Physics from the University of Naples Federico II. Her research interests include perovskite light-harvesting and charge generation properties and their implementation in solar cells and optoelectronic devices.

Dr. Stephan Buecheler is group leader in the Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics at Empa in Switzerland. He is His main focus is on the development of highly efficient thin films photovoltaic solutions including CIGS, CdTe, perovskite and tandem devices.

Professor William E. Buhro earned an A.B. in Chemistry in 1980 at Hope College (Holland, Michigan) and a Ph.D. in Chemistry in 1985 at the University of California, Los Angeles. His dissertation research focused on organometallic chemistry. He was then awarded the first Chester Davis Research Fellowship at Indiana University, where he was a postdoctoral fellow from 1985-1987. In 1987 he joined the Department of Chemistry at Washington University as an assistant professor. Buhro twice received the Washington University Council of Arts and Sciences Faculty Award for Teaching (1990, 1996), the Emerson Electric Co. Excellence in Teaching Award (1996), and was named a National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator (1991-1996). In 2010 Buhro received the St. Louis Award from the ACS St. Louis Section, and was named a Fellow of the American Chemical Society. He is currently the George E. Pake Professor in Arts & Sciences, Chair of the Department of Chemistry, and an editor of the ACS journal Chemistry of Materials. His research interests in nanoscience include the synthesis of nanocrystalline materials, especially pseudo-1D and 2D colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals, the spectroscopic properties of quantum nanostructures, and mechanisms of nanocrystal growth.

Raffaella Buonsanti obtained her PhD in Nanochemistry in 2010 at the National Nanotechnology Laboratory, University of Salento. Then, she moved to the US where she spent over five years at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, first as a postdoc and project scientist at the Molecular Foundry and after as a tenure-track staff scientist in the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis. In October 2015 she started as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering at EPFL. She is passionate about materials chemistry, nanocrystals, understanding nucleation and growth mechanisms, energy, chemical transformations.

1982 PhD in Mathematical and Physical Sciences from the Institute for Spectroscopy, Russian Academy of Sciences 1993 Doctor of Mathematical and Physical Sciences Since 1999 work in Oxford

Keith Butler obtained his undergraduate degree from Trinity College Dublin. He then obtained a PhD from University College London, working in the field of computational modelling of zeolite nucleation and growth. He spent three years as a post-doctoral researcher in the group of Prof. John Harding in Sheffield, developing multi-scale models for solar cell interfaces. He currently works at the University of Bath where research interests include, interface design, ferroelectric photovoltaics and porous materials for electronic applications.

Julea Butt is Professor of Biophysical Chemistry at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. She graduated from Oxford University in 1989 with a degree in Chemistry, pursued research for her PhD at the University of California, Irvine, USA and post-doctoral research at the National Institutes of Health, USA and Wageningen University, Netherlands. In 1997 she joined the University of East Anglia as a Wellcome Trust Career Development Fellow and was subsequently appointed as a lecturer (2001), reader (2004) and professor (2010). Throughout her career Julea has pursued multi-disciplinary studies for molecular level understanding of the functional properties of electron transfer proteins, both the fundamentals and the opportunities for solar conversion. She collaborates with research teams across the UK and internationally and in 2015 was awarded a Royal Society Senior Research Fellowship.

Dr. Suresh Chand is an internationally known scientist having more than 34 years of research and development experience in the area of polymers and their applications in opto-electronic and organic electronics devices. He had all his education from Delhi University and has always been a brilliant student. He has been CSIR research fellow and joined National Physical Laboratory (NPL), New Delhi as Scientist. Presently he is holdin the position of Chief Scientist and Head of Organic and Hybrid Solar Cells Group at NPL. Throughout his research carrier Dr. Suresh Chand has been very creative and innovative and has made significant fundamental, applied and technological contributions in the area of polymers, selenium, polymer-selenium combinational x-ray imaging materials and devices, organic electronic materials viz. small molecules, conducting/conjugated polymers, hybrid organic-inorganic nano-composites and their application in organic solar cells. He has to his credit more than 80 international publications in highly reputed innovative international journals and a few patents. He has guided and guiding many Ph.D and M. Tech. Students. Dr. Suresh Chand is recipient of “NPL outstanding scientist award for the year 2007- 2008”. Besides this he is a member of various scientific bodies and a reviewer on various internationally reputed scientific journals. He is widely internationally travelled and has participated in various prestigious international meets and delivered invited talks. He is co-ordinating various international and national projects in the area of organic photovoltaics. He, in fact, is highly a vibrant scientist and inspiration to youth who wish to pursue a scientific career.

Andreu Cabot received his PhD from the University of Barcelona in 2003. From 2004 to 2007, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher in Prof. A. Paul Alivisatos group in the University of California at Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. In 2009 he joined the Catalonia Institute for Energy Research – IREC, where he is currently ICREA Research Professor. His research interests include the design and preparation of nanomaterials, the characterization of their functional properties and their use in energy technologies.

Dr Stefania Cacovich is currently a CNRS researcher working at IPVF. Her research activity lies in the field of the advanced characterization of hybrid and inorganic materials for photovoltaic applications by employing a multi-scale and multi-technique approach. 

Her research into hybrid devices started during her doctoral studies (2014-2018), carried out at the Department of Materials Science of the University of Cambridge (UK) under the supervision of Prof Caterina Ducati.  Her thesis focused on the study of the chemical, structural and morphological properties of hybrid organic-inorganic thin films and photovoltaic devices using advanced analytical electron microscopy techniques. In 2018, she moved to Paris for a postdoctoral research position at IPVF to work on multidimensional spectrally and time resolved photoluminescence imaging methods. From 2020-2022, she was Marie Curie Individual Post-doctoral fellow in Physics at CNRS (UMR 9006) with a project aimed at exploring the fundamental photophysical processes underlying the operation of advanced optoelectronic devices.

Born in the Netherlands,David Cahen studied chemistry & physics at the Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem (HUJ), Materials Research and Phys. Chem. at Northwestern Univ, and biophysics of photosynthesis (postdoc) at HUJ and the Weizmann Institute of Science, WIS. After joining the WIS faculty he focused on alternative sustainable energy resources, in particular various types of solar cells. In parallel he researches hybrid molecular/non-molecular systems, focusing on understanding and controlling electronic transport across (bio)molecules. He is a fellow of the AVS and the MRS. He heads WIS' Alternative, sustainable energy research initiative.

Marco Califano did his undergraduate studies at the University of Trento (Italy) and obtained his PhD. from the University of Leeds, U.K.

He was a postdoctoral fellow in Alex Zunger's Solid State Theory group, at the National Renewable Energy Lab. (Golden, CO, U.S.A.), and in the Nanoscale Theory Group, led by Prof. Tapash Chakraborty, at the University of Manitoba (Winnipeg, Canada).

In 2006 he was awarded a prestigious University Research Fellowship by the Royal Society, which he held at the University of Leeds, where he established his research group that specializes in computational modelling of semiconductor nanomaterials.

Petra Cameron is an associate professor in Chemistry at the University of Bath.

Luis M. Campos is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Columbia University. He was born on this planet, just like you. Luis grew up in Guadalajara, Mexico, and moved at the age of eleven to Los Angeles, California. He received a B.Sc. in Chemistry from CSU Dominguez Hills in 2001, and a Ph.D. from the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry at UCLA in 2006 working under the supervision of M. A. Garcia-Garibay and K. N. Houk. At UCLA, he was awarded the NSF Predoctoral Fellowship, Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship, and the Saul & Silvia Winstein Award for his graduate research in solid-state photochemistry. Switching to materials chemistry, he went to UCSB as a UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow to work under the supervision of C. J. Hawker at the Materials Research Laboratory. At Columbia, his group’s research interests lie in physical macromolecular chemistry. To date, he has co-authored over 100 articles and 13 patents; and he has received various awards, including the ACS Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award, ONR Young Investigator Award,NSF CAREER Award, 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award, I-APS Young Faculty Award, the Journal of Physical Organic ChemistryAward for Early Excellence, and the Polymers Young Investigator Award. In addition to these research accolades, Luis has been recognized for his pedagogical contributions by the Cottrell Scholar Award, Columbia University Presidential Teaching Award, and the Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award.

Mariano Campoy Quiles´s research is devoted to the understanding and development of solution processed semiconductors for energy and optoelectronic applications. He and his team have built substantial research efforts in two application areas, solar photovoltaic (light to electric) and thermoelectric (heat to electric) energy conversion based on organic and hybrid materials. He studied physics at the Univesity of Santiago de Compostela, obtained his PhD in experimental physics from Imperial College London, and since 2008 he leads his team at the Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona.

Pieremanuele Canepa is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Chemistry from the University of Torino (Italy) and a PhD from the University of Kent (UK). Prior NUS, he was a Postdoctoral fellow at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under the guidance of Prof. Gerbrand Ceder. His research contributes to the rational design of materials for clean energy technologies, including electrode materials for batteries, and electrolytes for sustainable energy storage devices. In 2021, Pieremanuele was elected as fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

I studied at the University of Parma (Italy), where I obtained by BSc, MSc and PhD in Chemistry. Here, I concluded my doctoral research in early 2018 with a thesis on the investigation of crystal structure and aperiodicity of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) by using single-crystal X-ray diffraction as a total scattering technique. I then joined Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands) to work as postdoctoral fellow in the Chemical Engineering Department, where I studied the synthesis optimisation of MOFs for electronic applications and started working on the development of single-crystal total scattering routines and their adaptation to MOF materials. In late 2019 I was awarded a FWO postdoctoral grant to move to the EMAT facility at the University of Antwerp (Belgium), aiming to extend my crystallographic studies on MOF nanocrystals by using electron diffraction. While integrating electron crystallography in my total scattering toolbox, I was offered a Max Planck Society scholarship to move to the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research (Germany) starting from January 2022. Here, I am investigating the structure complexity of flexible and defective MOFs by single crystal total scattering, and defining standard practices for extending this approach to any other type of crystalline porous framework.

 

 

 

Dr. Lei R. Cao is Professor in the Nuclear Engineering Program at The Ohio State University (OSU) and the Director of OSU-Nuclear Reactor Lab. Dr. Cao received his BS in Experimental Nuclear Physics from Lanzhou University in 1994, MS degree in Nuclear and Particle Physics in 2002, and PhD degree in Nuclear and Radiation Engineering Program, the Department of Mechanical Engineering at University of Texas at Austin in 2007. Prior to joining OSU, Dr. Cao was a research associate at the Center for Neutron Research, U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and also received a short-term training at the Positron Emission Tomography Laboratory at Harvard Medical School. At OSU, Dr. Cao founded the Nuclear Analysis and Radiation Sensor laboratory (NARS) in 2010.  

Dr. Cao's major research interests focus on applied nuclear physics and radiation science, including nuclear instrumentation and radiation detection, sensor development, radiation effects, and nuclear methods (PGAA, NDP, neutron radiography/tomography) for advanced materials characterization. Dr. Cao has published 110+ peer-reviewed journal articles and conference proceedings. Dr. Cao serves as Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science.

John A. Capobianco – Biographical sketch John A. Capobianco obtained his Ph.D. degree from l’Universite de Geneve, Switzerland. He then joined Professor David Simkin’s group at McGill University, Montreal, Canada for postdoctoral studies focused on lanthanide spectroscopy, fluorescence line narrowing and the development of tunable laser materials. During this time, he also worked on theoretical models based on crystal field theory to obtain the local environment of lanthanides in amorphous materials. Professor Capobianco joined the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Concordia University in 1986 where he is currently a Professor of Chemistry, Concordia University Research Chair in Nanoscience and Founder and Director of the Centre for Nanoscience Research. Professor Capobianco’s research is in the spectroscopy, synthesis and characterization of nanocrystals doped with lanthanide ions. His work on upconversion has attracted considerable attention due to its potential applications in cell targeting, imaging, diagnostic medicine, photodynamic therapy, drug delivery using photoswitching and forensic and security markers. He is the author or co-author of more than 220 research papers and contributed presentations at conferences and has directed more than 30 graduate and postdoctoral research projects. More than 30 visiting professors and visiting students from different Canadian and European universities have carried out research in the Capobianco group. He has held invited faculty fellowships at Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France (1992), Universita di Trento, Italy (1996), Université d’Angers, France (1998) and Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain (2009) and l'Universita di Verona.

Prof. Fabrizio Carbone graduated in quantum electronics from the University of Pavia, Italy. He worked as an industrial researcher at Pirelli Labs, Milan, until 2002 when he started his PhD at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. He obtained his PhD in condensed matter physics from the University of Geneva, Switzerland, and moved to Caltech for a Postdoc in 2007. In 2009 he moved back to Switzerland, at the EPFL, where he became assistant professor in 2010 and started the Laboratory for Ultrafast Microscopy and Electron Scattering (LUMES). During his stay at Caltech, he demonstrated the first femtosecond electron energy loss spectroscopy experiments in a transmission electron microscope, opening the field of ultrafast electron spectroscopic imaging later developed in his own laboratory at the EPFL. He is currently an associate professor at the same institution.

Researcher at the Institute of Chemistry of OrganoMetallic Compounds (ICCOM) Italian National Research Council (CNR), specialized in Solid State NMR (SSNMR) spectroscopy, Low Field and Fast Field Cycling NMR relaxometry. PhD in Chemical Sciences at University of Pisa. Post doc research fellows at University of Southampton, University of Pisa, IPCF-CNR and ICCOM-CNR, and visiting scientist at University of Warwick (UK), University of Bayreuth (Germany), Institute of Nuclear Physics (Polish Academy of Science) Krakow (Poland).

My research activity is aimed at the development and application of SSNMR spectroscopy and relaxometry for the physico-chemical characterization of different kind of materials, especially for the energy and ecological transition. My current interests include the study of materials for renewable energies (inorganic and organic photovoltaics, especially perovskites and materials for membrane technologies) and materials for the circular economy (recycling and valorization of biomass and urban waste, innovative biochar for soil treatment), polymeric and composite materials of interest for new technologies.

Alfonso J. Carrillo holds a Ph.D. in chemical engineering by Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (Spain)—research conducted at IMDEA Energy. Then, he moved to the Electrochemical Materials Laboratory, first at ETH Zurich (Switzerland), and after at MIT (USA), where he was 2018 Eni-MIT Energy Fellow. He has been awarded with the Energy and Environmental Research Grant by Fundación Iberdrola, Juan de la Cierva Formación by the Spanish Ministry of Science, and Junior Leader Fellowship by Fundación LaCaixa. He has worked at ITQ (Spain) since January 2019, with a focus on the functionalization of redox oxides for energy storage and production of renewable fuels.

Dr. Carolina Carrillo Carrión is a Tenured Scientist of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) since 2022, working at the Institute for Chemical Research (IIQ, CSIC-University of Seville). In 2023 she started her own group “NanoChemistry with Metal-Organic Frameworks (NanoChemMOFs)” at the IIQ.

Short CV: degree in Chemistry (2006), M.Sc. in Fine Chemistry (2007) and European PhD degree (2011) in the Analytical Chemistry Department of the University of Córdoba (UCO); responsible of the analytical department and R&D projects at Biomedal company (2012-2013); Humboldt postdoc Fellow (2013-2015) in @Parak Biophotonics group (Philipps-University of Marburg); Juan de la Cierva-Incorporación contract (2015-2017) at @CIC biomaGUNE; Marie Curie postdoc Fellow (2018-2020) at the CiQUS@USC; JIN/RETOS-project as PI at the University of Córdoba (09/2020-03/2021); Ramon y Cajal contract (04/2021-12/2021, University of Seville); Tenured Scientist of CSIC at IIQ (since 2022).

Research interests: Her scientific career has been focused at the interface between (bio)analytical chemistry, nanotechnology and material science, and biomedicine. She has expertise in the design, synthesis, and characterization of functional hybrid nanomaterials for (bio)applications. Since 2018 she focused her research on metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), including two main research lines: i) the study of the unique characteristic of MOFs, not found in other porous materials, such as the structural changes/transformations upon an external stimulus (e.g., light irradiation, heat treatment, high-pressure, gas/water adsorption), including thermal diffusion, gate-opening phenomena, phase-to-phase transitions; and ii) the development of MOF-based nanoplatforms for specific target applications in different fields. In the biomedical field, the most relevant examples focus on designing MOFs for light-triggered intracellular release of bioactive compounds, bioorthogonal catalysis in living cells, renal therapies (MOF-modified kidney scaffolds or enhanced adsorbents for hemodialysis), and Glyco-MOFs for improved therapies. In other research fields, MOF-based systems have been designed for biomass valorisation, sensing, and energy-related applications.

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Dr. Carla Casadevall obtained her PhD degree in chemistry in 2019 at the Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ) under the guidance of Prof. Julio Lloret-Fillol. Her PhD sought a fundamental understanding of the mechanisms involved in artificial photosynthesis, as well as the development of new sustainable methodologies to produce solar fuels and fine chemicals. Then, she joined the group of Erwin Reisner as a BBSRC postdoctoral researcher and later as a Marie Curie Individual Fellow, working on the development of hybrid-materials for the production of solar fuels and chemicals. In October 2022 she will start her independent career as Junior Group Leader at ICIQ and the University Rovira i Virgili thanks to a La Caixa Junior Fellowship. She will work on the development of microphotoreactors for the production of fuels and chemicals.

Montse Casas-Cabanas is the scientific coordinator of the Electrochemical Energy Storage Area and group leader of the Advanced Electrode Materials group at CIC energiGUNE. Her research interests focus on the design of battery materials and the understanding of phenomena that occur in energy storage devices through a multidisciplinary approach, with a focus in crystal chemistry. 

She is also author of >75 scientific publications in peer reviewed journals and has been PI of several national and european projects. She has co-authored the FAULTS software for the refinement of X-ray data of crystalline structures with planar defects. She is also actively involved in the MESC+ Erasmus Mundus master course and has recently received the 2021 Young Researcher award ("Group Leader" category) from the  Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry.

Christopher Case is the Chief Technology Officer at Oxford PV, a spin-out of Oxford University (UK) that is commercialising perovskites for tandem solar cell applications. Most recently, he was the Chief Technology Officer for Linde Electronics, a gas and equipment supplier and the former Chief Scientific Officer of The BOC Group (UK). A long time chair of the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors, he spent 10 years at AT&T Bell Labs in Murray Hill, NJ (US). He was an assistant professor of engineering at Brown University and director of the Thin Film Institute. He was a Fulbright-Hays scholar at the Université de Bordeaux and holds a Ph.D. degree in materials science from Brown University where he studied thin film chalcopyrite photovoltaic materials.

Maytal Caspary Toroker received her BA degree in molecular biochemistry (2004) and a direct-track PhD degree in theoretical chemistry (2009) at the Technion. After a postdoctoral period at Princeton University funded by the Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowship from the European Union FP7 (2010-2013) program, she joined the Department of Materials Science and Engineering as an Assistant Professor in 2013. She received several awards for excellence, including L'Oréal-Unesco-Israel Award (2010), New England Fund (2009), Sara Lee Schupf Post-Doctoral Award (2008/9), and the Levi Eshcol Scholarship (2007-9).

Felix (Phil) Castellano earned a B.A. in Chemistry from Clark University in 1991 and a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Johns Hopkins University in 1996. Following an NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Maryland, School of Medicine, he accepted a position as Assistant Professor at Bowling Green State University in 1998. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 2004, to Professor in 2006, and was appointed Director of the Center for Photochemical Sciences in 2011. In 2013, he moved his research program to North Carolina State University where he is currently the Goodnight Innovation Distinguished Chair. He was appointed as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) in 2015. His current research focuses on metal-organic chromophore photophysics and energy transfer, photochemical upconversion phenomena, solar fuels photocatalysis, energy transduction at semiconductor/molecular interfaces, photoredox catalysis, and excited state electron transfer processes.     

Andres Castellanos-Gomez is a Tenured Scientist in the Spanish National Research Council. He explores novel 2D materials and studies their mechanical, electrical and optical properties with special interest on the application of these materials in nanomechanical and optoelectronic devices. He is author of more than 100 articles in international peer review journals and 6 book chapters. He was awarded an ERC Starting Grant in 2017 and has been selected as one of the Top Ten Spanish Talents of 2017 by the MIT Technology Reviews. He has been also recognized with the Young Researcher Award (experimental physics) of the Royal Physical Society of Spain (2016).

Dr. Elizabeth Castillo MArtinez got a PhD in Inorganic Materials in 2008 at Universidad Complutense de Madrid under the supervision of Prof. Miguel Angel Alario-Franco. After post-doctoral stays at NanoTech Institute of UTDallas with Prof. Ray. H. Baughman, CIC energiGUNE with Prof. Michel Armand and the University of Cambridge with Prof. Clare P. Grey, she returned is currently Associated Professor in the Deparment of Inorganic Chemistry at Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Her research focuses on the search of high performance sustainable electrode materials for post-Li ion batteries, with a focus on Na and K-ion batteries.

Luigi Angelo Castriotta is a post-Doctoral fellow from the University of Rome Tor Vergata, focusing on flexible perovskite solar cells and modules. He joined Prof. Huang's group at UNC (USA) in June 2023, as a Global Marie-Curie Post-Doctoral Fellow and as a Principal Investigator of the "EFESO" Project. He got his Ph.D. in Electronics Engineering in 2021 from University of Rome Tor Vergata (Italy) as a Marie-Curie Fellow as part of the Innovative Training Network MAESTRO; He did his bachelor’s degree in chemistry at University of Rome Tor Vergata (Italy) and Masters’ in "Nanoscience and Nanotechnology" at Universitat de Barcelona (Spain) and in "Organic Molecular Electronics" at Technische Universitat Dresden (Germany).

Kylie Catchpole is Professor in the Research School of Engineering at the Australian National University.  She has over 100 scientific publications, with a focus on using new materials and nanotechnology to improve solar cells.  She completed her PhD at ANU and was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of New South Wales and the FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics in Amsterdam before returning to ANU in 2008.  In 2013 she was awarded a Future Fellowship from the Australian Research Council and in 2015 she was awarded the John Booker Medal for Engineering Science from the Australian Academy of Science. 

Dr. Sudip Chakraborty is leading Materials Theory for Energy Scavenging (MATES Lab) group in India’s premier theoretical research Institute Harish-Chandra Research Institute (HRI) Allahabad (Prayagraj), Department of Atomic Energy, Govt. of India. After completing his Ph.D. in collaboration between Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) and University of Pune, India, he moved to Max Planck Institute, Düsseldorf, Germany in March, 2011 as a Max Planck Postdoctoral Fellow. In February, 2013, he joined Materials Theory Division, Uppsala University, Sweden as a Førskare (Senior Researcher). Since March, 2019, he started leading his group firstly in Department of Physics of IIT Indore and later on in HRI from May, 2021 onwards. He has been awarded the Rising Stars by ACS Materials Au 2021, among 300+ nominations worldwide, while he is the sole recipient from India. He is in the Editorial Board of Journal of Physical Chemistry A/B/C (ACS), Energy Advances (RSC), Electronic Structure (IOP), Chemistry of Inorganic Materials (Elsevier) and Graphene & 2D Materials (Springer). His works are appeared in Nature Materials, PNAS, Materials Today, ACS Energy Letters, JACS, ACS Nano, ACS Catalysis, AngewChemie, Advanced Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, Chem.Mat. etc. He has 174 International publications with total 6500 citations and 45 h-index (https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=ybAcs3kAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate)

Maria Chamarro is Professor in Physics at Sorbonne University, France and member of the Paris Institute of Nanosciences (INSP). She received her PhD in Physics (Optics speciality) form Zaragoza University, Spain, in 1989. Since 2021 she is a member of the French Committee for Scientific Research (five years) a position that she already occupied in the previous years (1995-2000). From 2012 to 2014 she was member of ‘Directory of Research’ at Pierre and Marie Curie University (now Sorbonne University). Her area of expertise is the experimental study of condensed matter electronic properties. In particular, she was interested in the spectroscopy of glasses doped with transition metals or rare earths, and the optical properties and relaxation dynamics of electronic excitations in semiconductor nanostructures. She was co-head of the "Spin Dynamics" team at INSP where she worked in the optical orientation and the all-optical manipulation of electron spin confined in a semiconductor quantum dot. In this framework, she developped ultrafast optical spectroscopies based on the photo-induced Faraday and Kerr effects. Now she coordinates a research project centred on the study of perovskite nanocrystals for nanophotonics applications.

I am an assistant professor at Stanford University.

Dr. Chen received Ph. D. from the Photonic Program in EPFL Switzerland at 2009 under the supervision of Prof. Michael Graetzel. His research topic was focused on solid-state dye sensitized solar cells. Then he moved to Monash University in Australia as a post-doctoral research fellow with Prof. Udo Bach. Dr. Chen joined the Dept. of Photonic in National Cheng Kung University (NCKU, Tainan, Taiwan) in 2010 and became associate Professor and full Professor in 2014 and 2017 respectively. He was the director of the research and education division in the Center for Micro/Nano Science and technology (CMNST) in NCKU between Aug. 2017~ Jan. 2019. Currently his research interests are in the area of various photovoltaic materials and devices including dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs), hybrid organic-inorganic perovskite-based solar cells (HOIPs) and novel semiconductor compounds. Meanwhile, he also involved in developing synthetic and characterization methods for TCO material, thin film, and semiconductor materials.

Education

2011-2016  Doctor of Philosophy in National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

2008-2010  Mater of Science in National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

2004-2008  Bachelor of Science in National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

 

Professional Appointments

2018-now Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, National Chung Cheng University.

2016-2018 Postdoctoral Fellow (with Professor Wen-Chang Chen), Department of Chemical Engineering, National Taiwan University.

2015-2016 Visiting student (with Professor Alex Jen), Department of Material Science Engineering, University of Washington.

 

Research Interests: Polymer physic and engineering, Perovskite, Composite material, Electrospinning, Soft optoelectronic.

Dr. Tao Chen is now a full professor at the Department of Materials Science & Engineering, University of Science & Technology of China (USTC). He obtained his PhD degree in 2010 from Nanyang Technological University (Singapore). During his PhD study, he received the “Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad”. In 2011, he moved to the Department of Physics of the Chinese University of Hong Kong working as a Research Assistant Professor. In 2015, he joined the Department of Materials Science & Engineering at USTC under a national innovation program. Dr. Chen has published 100 papers, some of them published in Nature Energy, Nature Communications, Energy and Environmental Science, Journal of the American Chemical Society and so on, he was also invited to contribute two book chapters, and to sit on the Editorial Board Member of Journal of Semiconductors (2016-). 

Zhuoying Chen is a CNRS researcher (Chargé de recherche) working in the Laboratoire de Physique et d’Etude des Matériaux (LPEM, CNRS-UMR 8213) at ESPCI Paris, a unit of Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL) University in France. She received her Ph.D at Columbia University in the city of New York. After being a postdoc researcher in the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge University, she joined CNRS in 2010. Her main research field is on optoelectronic applications (in terms of solar cells and photodetectors) of colloidal and organic–inorganic hybrid nanomaterials synthesized from bottom-up approaches.

Dr. Yiwang Chen is a full professor of Chemistry at Nanchang University and Jiangxi Normal University. He received his Ph. D from Peking University in 1999 and conducted his postdoctoral work at Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz and Philipps-Universität Marburg in Germany as awarded an Alexander von Humboldt fellowship. He joined the Nanchang University in 2004. He has been honored by the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars in 2014. Currently he is serving as a Vice-president of Jiangxi Normal University since 2019 and director of Institute of Polymers and Energy Chemistry (IPEC) at Nanchang University since 2004. He has ever been Dean of the College of Chemistry at Nanchang University since 2009-2019. His research interests include polymer solar cells, perovskite solar cells, supercapacitor, electrocatalysis for zinc-air batteries, and intelligent elastomer. He has published more than 400 research papers and 30 invention patents as well as 4 books. His research project has been awarded “second class prize of science and technology in universities of China” in 2019.

Jiangzhao Chen is currently a professor at College of Optoelectronic Engineering in Chongqing University. He is a member of the “100 People Plan” of Chongqing University. He received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Applied Chemistry from Northeast Forestry University in July 2011 and in Optical Engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in June 2016, respectively. From September 2016 to February 2019, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher in Prof. Nam-Gyu Park’s group at School of Chemical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University. From March 2019 to November 2019, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher in Prof. Wallace C. H. Choy’s group at Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, the University of Hong Kong. He has long been engaged in the research of new thin film solar cells. Focusing on the key technical indicators of power conversion efficiency, stability, cost and other key scientific and technical issues faced by new thin film solar cells, the devices are systematically studied and explored from the aspects of material design and synthesis, device preparation and performance optimization, fine regulation of semiconductor physical properties, solvent engineering, additive molecular engineering, surface interface molecular engineering, mechanism analysis, etc. A series of technical bottlenecks faced by the commercial application of such solar cells have been broken through and a series of innovative and important research results have been achieved. Up to now, he has published 41 SCI academic papers in international well-known journals such as Science and Advanced Materials, which have been cited for more than 4000 times. h index is 19 and i10 index is 26. Among them, 35 SCI papers have been published as the first, co-first or corresponding author. 4 papers have been selected as ESI highly cited papers. 1 paper has been selected as ESI Hot Paper. The maximum number of citations in a single article exceeds 200. 9 papers have been cited more than 100 times. 19 papers have impact factors greater than 10, including Advanced Materials (4), Advanced Energy Materials (3), ACS Energy Letters (3), Nano Energy (1), Small Methods (2), Journal of Materials Chemistry A (2), Chemical Engineering Journal (3), and Green Chemistry (1). 5 invention patents have been applied. He presided over or participated in the National Natural Science Foundation of China, Chongqing Natural Science Foundation of China, Korea National Research Foundation, Fundamental Research Funds for Central Universities, Overseas Returnees Entrepreneurship and Innovation Support Plan, Chongqing University hundred Talents Plan research start-up fund and horizontal fund. He has made 10 invited reports in important academic conferences at home and abroad, such as China Materials Conference. As the chairman/co-chairman of the sub-conference, he successfully held the "National Conference on Energy Materials and Devices", "the third International Conference on Clean Energy Materials and Technology", "the third Western Conference on Materials" and other international and domestic academic conferences. He is a long-time reviewer of more than 10 international famous journals, mainly including Advanced Materials, Advanced Energy Materials, ACS Energy Letters, Advanced Functional Materials, Advanced Science, Chemical Engineering Journal, Journal of Energy Chemistry, etc. He currently serves on the editorial board of Science Frontiers and Chemistry and Chemical Research journals, guest editor of Materials Reports: Energy journal, standing member of expert Committee on Energy Materials and Devices, and project evaluation and consulting expert of Science and Technology Innovation Alliance of Chengdu and Chongqing Twin Cities Economic Circle.

Prof. Jung-Yao Chen received her Ph. D. in Chemical Engineering from National Taiwan University under the supervision of Prof. Wen-Chang Chen in 2016. She joined Prof. Alex Jen's research team at University of Washington in 2015. Currently, she is the assistant professor in Dept. of Photonics of National Cheng Kung University. Her research interests are the process design, morphology analysis and optoelectronic applications of photoactive material including conjugated polymer, phosphorescent material and perovskite. Recently, Prof. Jung-Yao Chen's research activity is focused on the developement of non-volatile photomemory on artificial synapses and photonic integrated circuits. The main objective is to explore the mechanisms behind the photo-recording functionality and develope ultrafast responsive photomemory with multi-level memory behavior.

Pascale Chenevier is a research professor (« directrice de recherche ») at CEA in Grenoble, where she designs nanomaterials for the new technologies of energy (thermoelectrics, fuel cells, hydrogen production and batteries). She acquired her expertise in nanochemistry first in nanomedicine and biophysics, during her PhD at Bordeaux and a postdoc at Cornell University. Joining CEA in Paris-Saclay in 2003, she turned to printed electronics and electrocatalysis for hydrogen production. She started developing silicon-rich anode nanomaterials for batteries after her moving to Grenoble in 2013, and participated in the creation of a start-up company, Enwires, from 2014 to 2016. She is now part of a wide research team devoted to active material development and operando battery characterization for Li-ion, Li-S and solid-state batteries.

Yi-Bing Cheng is a professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Monash University, Australia and an elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering. He specialises in inorganic materials and composites. His major research interest is in the area of solution processed solar cells. He worked in dye sensitised solar cells (DSSC) for many years and developed technologies for printing of flexible DSSC devices. His current research has been mainly focused on the development of materials and processing technologies for perovskite solar cells. He has published over 450 research papers and 20 patents. He currently also holds a Thousand Talent Professor position at Wuhan University of Technology, China and has set up a Printed Optoelectronics Laboratory in the university.

Doing my BSc/MSc in Physics and PhD in an interdisciplinary program crossing the disciplines like Chemical Engineering, Nanotechnology, and Electrochemistry made me who I am today – a scientist who enjoys the challenge of multifaceted research.

I enjoy doing basic research in order to solve applied tasks. This explains my research interest in fundamental physical chemistry, e.g. oxidation and dissolution of metals and semiconductors, electrocatalysis, and electrochemistry at modified interfaces but also electrochemical engineering, e.g. development and optimization of catalyst layers in fuel cells and water electrolyzes.

Progress in basic research is often a direct outcome of previous achievements in experimental instrumentation. Hence, a significant part of my interest is in the development of new tools, e.g. electrochemical on-line mass spectrometry, gas diffusion electrode approaches, and high-throughput screening methods.

Majed Chergui is Professor of Physics and Chemistry at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Physics and Mathematics from Chelsea College (University of London), then his Master’s degree and in 1981, his Ph.D. in Molecular Physics from the Université Paris-Sud (Orsay). Thereafter, he spent six years at the Free University of Berlin (Germany), before moving to become in 1993 full professor of Physics at the Université de Lausanne, then to the EPFL in 2003.

He is best known for developing new ultrafast spectroscopic techniques and methods, which he applied to some of the most important problems in molecular spectroscopy and dynamics. In particular, he pioneered ultrafast X-ray spectroscopy and demonstrated its power for observing chemical transformations in molecules, solutions and nanoparticles, with femtosecond temporal and sub-Ångstrom spatial resolution. This work opened a new field of research which has influenced many international groups, especially at X-ray Free electron laser centers. Parallel to these achievements, he developed new ultrafast spectroscopic tools in the deep-ultraviolet (deep-UV), and in particular, he pioneered 2-dimensional deep-UV spectroscopy, with which he addressed electron transfer in proteins and charge carrier dynamics in transition metal oxide nanoparticles and solids.

With these various tools, he solved several fundamental questions regarding photoinduced phenomena in coordination chemistry complexes, in protein dynamics and in semiconductors, such as metal oxides. Among some of the highlights of his work are the description of the spin dynamics in metal complexes, the identification of solvation changes around photoexcited solutes, the unravelling of electron transfer processes concurrent with FRET in biological systems.

Chergui is the founding editor-in-chief of “Structural Dynamics” (AIP Publishing). He was awarded the Kuwait Prize for Physics (2009), the Humboldt Research Award (2010), the 2015 Earle K. Plyler Prize for Molecular Spectroscopy & Dynamics of the American Physical Society and the 2015 Edward Stern Award of the International X-ray Absorption Society.

Professor Chi, Yun received doctoral degree under Prof. John R. Shapley from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1986. After spending one year as postdoctoral fellow with Prof. Dietmar Seyferth in M.I.T. between 1986 - 1987, he joined the chemistry department of National Tsing Hua University as associate professor and was promoted to professor in 1991. He was a three-time recipient of the Outstanding Researcher Award, sponsored by the National Science Council of Taiwan. (1990 - 1996), and was granted the Chung San Scholastic Award in 1997. He had been on the editorial board of Journal of Cluster Science (1992 - 1998) and the advisory board of Organometallics (1996 - 1998). He was awarded the Academic Award and the National Chair Professorship in 2006 and in 2011, both are administrated by the Ministry of Education of Taiwan. In 2013, he was elected as the Chair Professor in green technology of Y. Z. Hsu Memorial Foundation, and academician in the Asia Pacific Academy of Materials (APAM). His current research has focused on the photophysical and opto-electrical properties of various transition metal based materials, i.e. design of transition-metal phosphors for organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) and evaluation of organic and transition metal based sensitizers for applications relevant to the dye sensitized solar cell (DSCs). He is the coauthors of approx. 280 scientific research articles with overall H-index > 45 and holding over 20 patents.

Prof. Kyoung-Shin Choi is a professor of chemistry at University of Wisconsin-Madison. She received her B.S. and M.S. degrees from Seoul National University in South Korea in 1993 and 1995, respectively. She received a Ph.D. degree from Michigan State University in 2000, and then spent two years at the University of California, Santa Barbara as a postdoctoral researcher. She initiated her independent research career as an assistant professor at Purdue University in 2002 and joined the chemistry faculty at University of Wisconsin-Madison as a full professor in 2012. She was a visiting scholar at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in 2008.

Her research combines solid state chemistry, electrochemistry, and materials chemistry in order to address materials-related issues of electrode materials for use in photoelectrochemical and electrochemical applications She was a recipient of a 2006 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, the 2007 ACS ExxonMobil Faculty Fellowship in Solid-State Chemistry, and the 2010 Iota Sigma Pi Agnes Fay Morgan Research Award. She also received the 2008 Purdue College of Science Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award and the 2015 Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation Innovation Award. She has organized numerous symposia for the American Chemical Society (ACS) meetings and Materials Research Society (MRS) meetings as well as for the Gordon Research Conference. She is currently serving as an Associate Editor for Chemistry of Materials and a member of the Board of Directors for Materials Research Society.

Stelios A. Choulis is Professor of Material Science and Engineering at the Cyprus University of Technology (2008-present). He was the Organic Photovoltaic Device group leader of Konarka Technologies (2006-2008) and research and development (R&D) engineer of the Osram Opto-Semiconductors Inc, Organic Light Emitting Diode R&D team (2004-2006). During his PhD and first post-doc research associate (PDRA) position at Advanced Technology Institute (1999-2002, University of Surrey) he investigated the optical properties of quantum electronic materials and opto-electronic devices. In 2002 he joined the center of electronic materials and devices (Imperial College London, UK) as PDRA and work on the transport and recombination dynamics properties of molecular semiconductors (2002-2004). His current research interest focuses on the development of functional materials and devices for advanced optoelectronic applications.

is currently a professor of Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, the University of Hong Kong (HKU). Dr. Choy has published over 175 internationally peer-reviewed journal papers, contributed to one book and five book chapters, as well as a number of US and China patents. Among his publications, 12 papers have been featured as cover-story articles such as Adv. Mater., Adv Energy Mater., and Chem Comm., and 14 articles have been highlighted in research new/scholarly articles. Details of publication can be found in http://scholar.google.com.hk/citations?user=GEJf9dAAAAAJ. He was the recipient of the Sir Edward Youde Memorial Fellowship, the Croucher Foundation Fellowship, and the Outstanding Achievement Award from National Research Council of Canada and HKU Research Output Prize. He received overseas visiting fellowships from HKU to take a sabbatical leave at George Malliaras’s Group, Cornell University in 2008, a visit to Prof. Yang Yang, UCLA in summers of 2009 and 2011, Prof. Karl Leo, Institut fuer Angewandte Photophysik (IAPP), Technische Universitaet Dresden, Germany in the summer of 2010, and Prof./Sir Richard Friend, Cavendish Lab, Cambridge University, UK.

Wallace Choy is a fellow of OSA and senior member of IEEE. He has been recognized as Top 1% of most-cited scientists in Thomson Reuter’s Essential Science Indicators (ESI) three years in a row 2014, 2015 and 2016. He has been recognized as prolific researcher on organic solar cells in the index (WFC in physical sciences) in Nature Index 2014 Hong Kong published by Nature. He has been serving a technical consultant of HK-Ulvac (a member of stock-listed Ulvac Corp) since 2005. He has served as editorial board member for Nature Publishing Group of Scientific Reports and IOP Journal of Physics D, senior editor of IEEE Photonics Journal, topical editor of OSA Journal of the Optical Society of America B (JOSA founded in 1917), and guest editor of OSA Journal of Photonic Research, and Journal of Optical Quantum Electronics. He has delivered over 60 invited talks and served as a committee member in internationally industrial and academic conferences organized by various organizations such as IEEE, OSA and Plastic Electronics Foundation.

Peter C.M. Christianen received his PhD degree in 1993 at the Radboud University Nijmegen on a thesis about the ultrafast optical properties of semiconductor nanostructures. He started working at the High Field Magnet Laboratory (HFML) of the Radboud University, investigating semiconductor nanostructures using high magnetic fields and optical spectroscopy. Around 2000 he expanded his research area towards the magnetic manipulation of molecular materials, such as liquid crystals, molecular aggregates and polymers, using magnetic alignment and levitation. In September 2013 he was appointed as full professor at the HFML to investigate the properties of soft condensed matter and nanomaterials in high magnetic fields.

Giancarlo Cicero received a M.S. degree in Chemistry from the University of Torino in 1997 and obtained a Ph.D. in Physics from the Politecnico di Torino in 2003. In 2004, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where he studied the properties of water in confined media. Since October 2008, he has been working at the Politecnico di Torino, where he is now a full professor in the Structure of Matter. His research activity is devoted to ab initio simulations of surfaces, interfaces, and nanostructured materials with applications in renewable energy systems and sustainable processes.
 

Francesco Ciucci works as an Associate Professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology where he was supported by a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship and a Bechtel Fellowship. Francesco’s current research centers on solid-state energy technologies, including solid-state batteries, reversible fuel cells, and electrolyzers, with a particular emphasis on the modeling of these systems and the development of new functional materials. Francesco is also interested in the probabilistic analysis of electrochemical impedance spectroscopy through the distribution of relaxation methods. In that context, he developed several pieces of software that can be found at https://github.com/ciuccislab.