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.
Husam Alshareef is a Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (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 electronics and energy applications. His work has been recognized by over 20 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 520 papers and 80 issued patents. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, Institute of Physics (UK), and Royal Society of Chemistry, and US National Academy of Inventors. He is a Clarivate Analytics Highly-cited Researcher in Materials Science (2019, 2020, 2021, 2022).
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 Staff Scientist in the Materials Sciences Division of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and an Adjunct Full Professor in the Materials Science and Engineering Department, UC Berkeley. He is a Principal Investigator in the Electronic Materials Program and in the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (JCAP) at LBNL and in the Berkeley Educational Alliance for Research in Singapore (BEARS) where he serves as Co-Lead PI of the eCO2EP project with Cambridge University. 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 fundamental electronic and transport properties of semiconducting materials, discovery of new photoelectrochemical and electrochemical catalysts for solar to chemical energy conversion, and the development of new types of transparent conductors. Professor Ager is a frequent invited speaker at international conferences and has published over 300 papers in refereed journals. His work is highly cited, with over 30,000 citations and an h-index of 85 (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.
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).
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.
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.
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 recently a visiting Winton fellow in the group of Prof. Peidong Yang at University of California, Berkeley, 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. 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), solar fuels and redox flow batteries. She has been part-time lecturer at the materials department at UB (2014-2017) and UPC (2017-2019) and she is the author of more than 100 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. In 1997 and 1998 he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Theoretical Chemistry of the University of Oxford and from mid 1999 to mid 2000 he was research assistant at the Department of Chemistry of the Imperial College, London. His research focuses on solar cell modelling, random-walk methods applied to electron transport in nanostructured devices and disordered semiconductors, and device modeling in Dye-sensitised and perovskite solar cells
Thomas D. Anthopoulos is a Professor of Material Science and Engineering at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia, where he has been since January 2017. He received his B.Eng. and D.Phil. degrees from Staffordshire University in UK. He then spent two years at the University of St. Andrews (UK) where he worked on new materials for application in organic light-emitting diodes before join Philips Research Laboratories in The Netherlands to focus on organic transistors and printed 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 Professor of Experimental Physics. His research interests are diverse and cover the development and application of novel processing paradigms and the physics, chemistry & application of functional materials.
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.
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.
Heather is a Faraday Institution Research Fellow in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London, where she is exploring sustainable materials for energy storage. Her current work focuses on the development of engineered carbon hosts for sulfur cathodes in lithium-sulfur batteries.
Heather obtained her PhD in 2017 from Imperial College developing covalent modification strategies on carbon nanomaterials. She has held postdoctoral research positions at Queen Mary University of London and Imperial College, investigating the fundamental charge storage mechanisms in hard carbon anodes for sodium-ion batteries.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 University of Cagliari.
She authored more than 150 papers on international journals, conference proceedings, book chapters. She also holds 11 patents. Her research activity is focussed on innovative materials (in particular organic semiconductors) and devices for wearable electronics and biomonitoring.
From 2015 to 2017 she was Vice-Rector for Innovation and Territorial Strategies of the University of Cagliari. 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.)
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.
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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 a Principal Scientist at the Energy ResearchInstitute at Nanyang Technological University (ERI@N) coordinating a team working on perovskite high-efficiency solar cells and modules by thermal evaporation. Annalisa is also a tenured Scientist at 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Rachel completed her PhD in the School of Chemistry at The University of Melbourne. She moved to Germany and worked in Berlin at the Hahn Meitner Institute and then in Potsdam at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces. She returned to The University of Melbourne where she held Australian Research Council funded research fellowships and a 50% secondment at the Commonwealth Science and Industry Research Organisation. She moved to RMIT University in 2017 as Director of the Advanced Materials Enabling Capability Platform and now is a Professor in the Applied Chemistry and Environmental Science discipline within the School of Science. Her research group has investigated approaches to control the morphology and composition of inorganic materials with potential application in areas such as photocatalysis, photovoltaics and batteries.
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.
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).
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 currently leading MATES (Materials Theory for Energy Scavenging) Group, embedded in Discipline of Physics, IIT Indore as Assistant Professor of Physics. His current group consists of 6 Ph.D. and 4 Project students. After his PhD in modelling quantum dots for efficient solar cell, he moved to Max Planck Institute, Düsseldorf in early 2011 as Max Planck Postdoctoral Fellow. In early 2013, he joined Uppsala University and worked there till February, 2019 as a Senior Researcher, while 4 Ph.D students got their degree under his co-supervision, before he joined IIT Indore. He primarily work on Materials Modelling for Hybrid Perovskite Solar Cells, next generation catalytic and battery materials. He has served as potential reviewer for European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant and National Science Funding (NSF), while he was the co-chair of three consecutive European Materials Society (EMRS) Fall Meeting between 2014 and 2016. He has been invited to be the Guest Editor for two International journals: Frontiers in Chemistry and Catalysts. Presently, he has 101 International publications, having total citations of 2200 and 27 h-index, with accumulated Impact factors of 585. For more information, have a look here: https://sudiphys.wixsite.com/ceslab-sudip/research-publications
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Tzahi Cohen-Karni is an Associate Professor at the Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Materials Science engineering in Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA USA. He received both his B.Sc. degree in Materials Engineering and the B.A. degree in Chemistry from the Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, in 2004. His M.Sc. degree in Chemistry from Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, in 2006 and his Ph.D. in Applied Physics from the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge MA, USA, in 2011. He was a Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) Postdoctoral Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Boston Children’s Hospital at the labs of Robert Langer and Daniel S. Kohane from 2011 to 2013. Dr. Cohen-Karni received the 2012 International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry Young Chemist Award. In 2014, he was awarded the Charles E. Kaufman Foundation Young Investigator Research Award. In 2016, Dr. Cohen-Karni was awarded the NSF CAREER Award. In 2017, Dr. Cohen-Karni was awarded the Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering Rising Star Award, The Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award and The George Tallman Ladd Research Award. In 2018, Dr. Cohen-Karni was awarded the Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering Young Innovator Award. In 2019, Dr. Cohen-Karni was awarded the Carnegie Institute of Technology (CIT) Dean’s Early Career Fellowship.
Silvia Colella is a researcher at the National research council, CNR-NANOTEC, in Bari, Italy. She received her PhD in “Nanoscience” at National Nanotechnology Laboratory in Lecce (Italy), in 2010. She has been visiting student in the group of professor Luisa De Cola at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität of Münster (Germany), where she dealt with the synthesis and photophysical characterization of electroluminescent metal complexes. In 2010 she joined BASF – The Chemical Company (Strasbourg) with a Marie Curie fellowship as experienced researcher in the frame of the EU project ITN SUPERIOR, working on Dye Sensitized Solar Cells. She continued as post-doc researcher at the Institut de science et ingénierie supramoléculaires (ISIS) in Strasbourg, France. In 2012 she started her independent research in Lecce (Italy) at the University of Salento in collaboration with CNR-NANOTEC, the team focused on the conception and optoelectronic characterization of innovative optoelectronic devices based on hybrid halide perovskites. Many high impact publication were produced in this time interval, among them one of the first report in halide perovskite for PV exploitation (Colella et al, Chemistry of Materials, 2013 25, 4613-4618).
Silvia Colella is author of >70 peer-reviewed publications in renowned international journals (including Energy and Environmental Science, Advanced Materials, ACS Energy Letters).
Her scientific production led to >3000 total citations and a h-index of 28 (https://scholar.google.it/citations?user=S2TZd_4AAAAJ&hl=it; https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=24170650100).
Diego Colombara is Associate Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Genova (Italy).
Educational background: Master studies in Italy and UK focused on solid state chemistry and metallurgy, with emphasis on phase equilibria, crystallography and alloys microstructure. Associate researcher at an SME (Fabbricazioni Nucleari Spa, Italy) dealing with semi-industrial scale synthesis of ceramic materials for molten carbonate fuel cells. Doctoral studies in the UK devoted to the synthesis and photoelectrochemical characterization of Cu-Sb, Cu-Bi, Cu-Zn-Sn and Sn chalcogenides for photovoltaic (PV) solar cell applications by electroplating and reactive annealing, as well as by chemical vapour transport, as part of the EPSRC-funded project SUPERGEN (2008-2012). The PhD was pursued at the University of Bath under the supervision of Prof. Laurie M. Peter, pioneer of semiconductor (photo)electrochemistry.
Professional experience before his faculty appointment: 5 years of postdoctoral research, teaching and supervision within the Physics department at the Unversity of Luxembourg (UniLu), including 3 years as researcher in FP7-funded project SCALENANO and 2 years as the Principal Investigator of GALDOCHS (a 453 kEUR research project funded by the FNR), where he discovered, studied and developed a novel methodology for extrinsic doping of PV semiconductors that made it to the news, by refuting a 20-years old assumption on CIGS PV technology. 2 years of Marie Curie cofund fellowship at INL (Portugal), where he is associated researcher, and he appears as the inventor of one patent on template-free microfabrication.
He is currently the coordinator of REMAP consortium (Reusable mask patterning, EIC Pathfinder Open grant no. 101046909; total budget: ca. 4 M€). https://re-map.eu/ https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101046909
Education and Professional Positions 2012-Present: Assistant Professor University of Washington Department of Chemistry 2010-2012: NIH NRSA Postdoctoral Fellow Columbia University 2010: PhD Inorganic Chemistry Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2006: BS Chemistry California Institute of Technology Awards 2015: Sloan Research Fellowship 2015: 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award 2015: Seattle Association for Women in Science Award for Early Career Achievement 2014: University of Washington Innovation Award 2010: Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Postdoctoral Fellowship, National Institutes of Health 2010: Alan Davison Ph.D. Thesis Prize, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2009: Young Investigator Award, Division of Inorganic Chemistry, American Chemical Society
Jeanne Crassous studied at the “Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon” (ENS Lyon, France). In 1992, she passed the national exam “Concours de l’Agrégation de Sciences Physiques, option Chimie”. In1993, she obtained a DEA (“Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies”, Master degree) in Organic Chemistry from the University of Lyon 1. She received her PhD in 1996, prepared under the supervision of Prof. André collet (ENS Lyon, France), on the Absolute Configuration of Bromochlorofluoromethane (CHFClBr). After a one-year postdoctoral period studying the Chirality of Fullerenes in Prof. François Diederich’s group (ETH Zurich, Switzerland), she received a CNRS researcher position at the ENS Lyon in 1998 and then she joined the Institut des Sciences Chimiques de Rennes (University of Rennes, France) in 2005. She became Director of Research in 2010.
Her group is dealing with many fields of chirality (metal-based helicene derivatives, chiral π-conjugated assemblies, fundamental aspects of chirality such as parity violation effects) and chiroptical activity (electronic and vibrational circular dichroism, circularly polarized luminescence) with potential applications in optoelectronics, spintronics and chirality-coded systems.
She is co-author of more than 170 articles and book chapters and has presented her work in more than 60 invited lectures and 65 seminars in laboratories. She is co-author/co-editor of two monographs: « Molécules Chirales : Stéréochimie et Propriétés », Editions du CNRS, 2006 and « Helicenes - Synthesis, Properties and Applications », Wiley, 2022.
She is currently coordinating a French national network (GDR CHIRAFUN, Chirality and multifunctionality) and a European ITN Project (HEL4CHIROLEDs, Helical molecules for Chiral OLEDs). She is also currently an elected member of the Executive Board of the DCO-SCF (Division of Organic Chemistry of the French Chemical Society) and member of the Editorial Boards of Chirality and ChemPhysChem (Wiley journals).
In 2013, she was elected distinguished junior member of the French Chemical Society (SCF). In 2020, she received the National Prize of the Organic Chemistry Division of the French Chemical Society (DCO-SCF). In 2021, she was elected Member of the European Academy of Science (EurASc) and Fellow of Chemistry Europe (Class 2020/2021). In 2023, she was awarded the CNRS Silver Medal in molecular chemistry (CNRS Talent).
Lecturer in Physical Chemistry at Keele University researching sustainable electrocatalysis.
Associate Professor, Chemistry Department, University of Colorado, Boulder
Adjunct Professor, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Enrique Cánovas graduated on Applied Physics at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (2002). After that, he realized a two-years Master of Advanced Studies at Universidad de Valladolid working on the spectroscopic characterization of native and operation-induced defects in high power laser diodes. From 2004 to 2006 he made a second Master of Advanced Studies at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Institute of Solar Energy, IES); training focus was on the fabrication, characterization and optimization of solid state solar cells. In 2006 he joined the group of Prof. Martí and Prof. Luque at IES, where he completed PhD studies on the spectroscopic characterization of novel nanostructures aiming ultra-high-efficiency solar cells. His PhD studies included two placements (covering 9 months in total) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (USA - with Prof. W. Walukiewicz) and Glasgow University (Scotland - with Prof. Colin Stanley). Between 2010 and 2012 he worked as a postdoc at FOM Institute AMOLF (Amsterdam - The Netherlands, Prof. M. Bonn) on the characterization of carrier dynamics in sensitized solar cell architectures. Between 2012 to 2018 he lead the Nanostructured Photovoltaics Group at Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (Mainz, Germany). Since April 2018, Enrique Canovas works at IMDEA Nanoscience where he was appointed Assistant Research Proffesor (tenure-track). His research interests cover all aspects of photovoltaics, nanotechnology and charge carrier dynamics.
Giovanna D’Angelo is full professor in Experimental Physics at the University of Messina. Her research mainly involves the study of the influence of vibrational and structural disorder on the physical properties of condensed and soft materials. More recently her activity is devoted to the study of fundamental physics processes influencing the charge transport in 2D materials, photovoltaic devises and solar fuel systems. She has coauthered more than 150 pubblications and review articles.
Songyuan Dai is the Professor and Dean of Renewable Energy School, North China Electric Power University. He received his BS in Department of Physics from Anhui Normal University in 1987. And got his MS, and PhD degrees in Institute of Plasma Physics Chinese Academy of Sciences, in 1991, and 2001, respectively. He works as a chief scientist of National Key Basic Research Project (973 project) during 2006-2010，2011-2015, and 2016~2020. He published over 200 peer-reviewed papers regarding dye-sensitized solar cells, quantum-dot solar cell and perovskite solar cell
Keshav Dani is currently an Associate Professor at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST), Graduate University in Okinawa, Japan. He joined OIST in Nov. 2011 as a tenure-track Assistant Professor after completing a Director’s Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Keshav graduated from UC Berkeley in 2006 with a PhD in Physics, where he explored the nonlinear optical response of the quantum Hall system under the supervision of Daniel Chemla at LBNL. Prior to his PhD, he obtained a BS from Caltech in Mathematics with a senior thesis in Quantum Information Theory under John Preskill and Hideo Mabuchi. His current research interests lie in using novel time-resolved photoemission techniques (PEEM and ARPES) to understand the properties of photoexcited perovskite photovoltaic materials and two-dimensional semiconductor heterostructures.
Susan Daniel is the Fred H. Rhodes Professor of Chemical Engineering and the William C. Hooey Director of the Robert Frederick Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Cornell University. Her research team strives to understand phenomena at biological interfaces and chemically patterned surfaces that interact with soft matter – liquids; polymers; and biological materials, like cells, viruses, proteins, and lipids. Her team pioneered “biomembrane chips” to conduct cell-free, biophysical studies of mammalian, bacterial, and plant cell membranes, and recently merged this technology with organic electronic devices for expanded sensing capabilities.
Filippo De Angelis is senior research scientist and a deputy director at the CNR Institute of Molecular Sciences and Technology, in Perugia, Italy. He is the founder and leader of the Computational Laboratory for Hybrid/Organic Photovoltaics. He earned a BS in Chemistry in 1996 and a PhD in Theoretical Inorganic Chemistry in 1999, both from the University of Perugia. He is an expert in the development and application of quantum mechanical methods to the study of hybrid/organic photovoltaics and materials for energy applications. He is Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences. He has published >270 papers with > 17000 citations.
Steven De Feyter is a professor of chemistry at KU Leuven in Belgium. After completing his PhD with Prof. F. C. De Schryver at KU Leuven in 1997, he moved for a postdoctoral position to the group of Prof. Ahmed Zewail (California Institute of Technology, Pasadena). He was awarded an ERC advanced grant in 2013, and was associate editor of the RSC journal Chemical Communications for 10 years. He is elected member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts. Nano(bio)chemistry on surfaces is the core activity of his research group. To please the “seeing is believing” desire, the team uses high-resolution scanning probe microscopy techniques, sometimes combined with optical microscopy techniques, to unravel the beauty and function of multi-(bio)molecular assemblies on surfaces.
Luisa De Marco received her PhD in Nanoscience from Università del Salento in 2010 working on nanostructured semiconductors for photovoltaics. Since 2016 she is researcher at CNR NANOTEC leading a 4-person team working on the development of low-dimensional inorganic and hybrid nanomaterials. She is author of more than 60 papers that collectively have received more than 2000 citations, with an h-index of 27. Among the publications stand out Advanced Materials, Nature Nanotechnology, Energy & Environmental Science, ACS Nano and Science Advances.
Her research interests focus on the development and engineering of hybrid and inorganic low-dimensional semiconductors having specifically tailored functional properties and on design and fabrication of optoelectronic devices.
Hilmi Volkan Demir received his B.S. degree from Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, in 1998, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA, in 2000 and 2004, respectively. As Singapore’s NRF Fellow, he is currently a Professor of electrical engineering, physics and materials with Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, where he is also the Director of LUMINOUS! Center of Excellence for Semiconductor Lighting and Displays. Concurrently, he holds appointment at Bilkent University and UNAM (his alma mater). His current research interests include nanocrystal optoelectronics, semiconductor nanophotonics and lighting. His scientific and entrepreneurship activities resulted in important international and national awards, including the NRF Investigatorship Award, the Nanyang Award for Research Excellence and the European Science Foundation EURYI Award. Dr. Demir is an elected Associate Member of the Turkish National Academy of Sciences (TUBA) and a Fellow of OSA.
Professor Denison holds a joint appointment in Engineering Science and Clinical Neurosciences at Oxford, where he explores the fundamentals of physiologic closed-loop systems in collaboration with the MRC Brain Network Dynamics Unit. Tim also serves as an advisor to several governments and industry boards on the field of translational medical devices; in particular, helping define strategies for mapping scientific discovery to product development roadmaps within the regulatory and economic constraints of medical systems. Prior to Oxford, Tim was a Technical Fellow at Medtronic PLC and Vice President of Research & Core Technology for the Restorative Therapies Group, where he helped oversee the design of next generation neural interface and algorithm technologies for the treatment of chronic neurological disease. In 2015, he was elected to the College of Fellows for the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). He has a PhD from MIT in electrical engineering, and an AB in Physics and MBA from the University of Chicago.
Dr. Deutsch has been studying photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting since interning in Dr. John A. Turner’s lab at NREL in 1999 and 2000. He performed his graduate studies on III-V semiconductor water-splitting systems under the joint guidance of Dr. Turner and Prof. Carl A. Koval in the Chemistry Department at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Todd officially joined NREL as a postdoctoral scholar in Dr. Turner’s group in August 2006 and became a staff scientist two years later. He works on identifying and characterizing appropriate materials for generating hydrogen fuel from water using sunlight as the only energy input. Recently, his work has focused on inverted metamorphic multijunction III-V semiconductors and corrosion remediation strategies for high-efficiency water-splitting photoelectrodes. Todd has been honored as an Outstanding Mentor by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science nine times in recognition of his work as an advisor to more than 30 students in the Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internship (SULI) program at NREL.
Dawei Di is a MIT Technology Review 'Innovator Under 35' (global, 2019) and 'Innovator Under 35, China' (2018). He has joined the College of Optical Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University as a Principal Investigator. He is currently a visiting researcher at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK. Dawei Di obtained a PhD (in Engineering) from the University of New South Wales, Australia and a second PhD (in Physics) from the University of Cambridge, UK. His doctoral supervisors include renowned scientists in optoelectronics and semiconductor physics, Professor Sir Richard H. Friend (FRS, FREng, FIEE, FInstP, Kt) (Cavendish Professor of Physics), and Scientia Professor Martin A. Green (FRS, AM, FIEEE, FAA, FTSE). Dawei Di’s research interests span from the exciton spin dynamics in organic light-emitting molecules, to the physics of record-breaking organic and perovskite optoelectronic devices (LEDs and solar cells). He published more than 40 papers in leading scientific journals including Science, Nature Photonics (cover article), Joule, Nature Communications, Advanced Materials, Nano Letters, ACS Energy Letters, Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters and Progress in Photovoltaics. These include 8 papers in Science/Nature/Cell family journals. He filed 4 international patents, wrote 1 book chapter, and translated 3 textbooks. His work has been featured in research news and highlights in high-profile journals such as Nature, Nature Materials and Nature Reviews Chemistry.
Aldo Di Carlo is Director of the Institute of Structure of Matter of the National Research Council and Full Professor of Optoelectronics and Nanoelectronics at the Department of Electronics Engineering of the University of ROme "Tor Vergata". His research focuses on the study and fabrication of electronic and optoelectronic devices, their analysis and their optimization. Di Carlo founded the Center for Hybrid and Organic Solar Cells (CHOSE) which nowadays involve more than40 researchers dealing with the development of III generation solar cells (DSC, OPV and Perovskite) and on scaling-up of these technologies for industrial applications. CHOSE has generated 6 spin-off companies and a public/private partnership. Di Carlo is author/coauthor of more than 500 scientific publications in international journals, 13 patents and has been involved in several EU projects (three as EU coordinator)
Dr. Francesco Di Stasio obtained a Ph.D. in Physics at University College London (UK) in 2012. He then worked as a research Scientist at Cambridge Display Technology (Sumitomo Chemical group, UK) until he undertook postdoctoral research at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT, Italy). In 2015 he was awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship at the Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO, Spain). Since 2020 he is Principal Investigator of the Photonic Nanomaterials group at IIT after being awarded an ERC Starting grant. Francesco is a materials scientist with more than 10 years of research experience in optoelectronics.
Current research interests and methodology: Nanomaterials for classical and non-classical light-sources: This research activity focuses on the investigation of synthetic routes to obtain highly luminescent semiconductor colloidal nanocrystals and exploit such material in light-emitting diodes (LEDs). Here, we study how chemical treatments of colloidal nanocrystals can promote enhanced performance in devices, and physico-chemical properties of nanocrystals (e.g. self-assembly and surface chemistry) can be exploited to fabricate optoelectronic devices with innovative architectures. Novel methods and materials for light-emitting diodes: The group applies materials science to optoelectronics by determining which fabrication parameter lead to enhanced performance in LEDs. In order to transition from classical to non-classical light-sources based on colloidal nanocrystals, the group is developing novel methods for controlling the deposition and positioning of an individual nanocrystals in the device. Both “top-down” and “bottom-up” approaches are investigated.
Eric Wei-Guang Diau received his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, in 1991. Before joining at Department of Applied Chemistry, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, as a faculty member since 2001, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Emory University (1993-1995), University of Queensland (1995-1996), Stanford Research Institute, International (1996-1997) and California Institute of Technology (1997-2001). He is interested on studying relaxation kinetics in condensed matters, in particular interfacial electron transfer and energy transfer dynamics in many solar energy conversion systems. His current research is focusing on the developments of novel functional materials for next-generation solar cells, including perovskite solar cells (PSC). He received “Outstanding Research Award” from MRS Spring Meeting & Exhibit on April, 2014 and “Sun Yat Sen Academic Award” from Sun Yat Sen Academic and Cultural Foundation on October, 2014. He has published over 180 peer-reviewed papers with H-index 51. He has been granted over 14 patents. He is currently Distinguished Professor at Department of Applied Chemistry and Science of Molecular Science, National Chiao Tung University.
Dr. Eric Wei-Guang Diau has received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, in 1991, and has been a faculty member in the Department of Applied Chemistry, National Chiao Tung University since 2001. He is interested in the understanding of interfacial electron transfer, light capture energy transfer and light energy conversion kinetic systems. His current research focuses on the development of novel functional materials for photovoltaic and photocatalytic applications such as perovskite solar cells and CO2 reduction.
Name: Kazunari DOMEN Affiliation: The University of Tokyo Adjunct affiliation: Department of Chemical System Engineering, School of Engineering, Education: 1976 B.E. The University of Tokyo 1979 M.E. The University of Tokyo, School of Science 1982 Ph.D. The University of Tokyo, School of Science Professional experience: 1982-1990 Associate Researchers at Tokyo Institute of Technology 1990-1996 Associate Professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology 1996-2004 Professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology 2004-present Professor, The University of Tokyo, Japan (Visiting Scientist at IBM Almaden Research Center from 1985 to 1986.) Academic interests: Development of Photocatalysts for Water Splitting Study on Heterogeneous Catalysis Reactions by Infrared Spectroscopy Surface Reaction Dynamics by Nonlinear Laser Spectroscopy Development of New Functional Materials for Catalysis Academic/social contribution: 1. Editorial Board, Journal of Catalysis 2. Associate Editor, Catalysis Today 3. Director, The Chemical Society of Japan 4. Director, Catalysis Society of Japan 5. Member, The Engineering Academy of Japan
Robert Dominko is a Research Professor at the National Institute of Chemistry and a Professor at the University of Ljubljana. He is the head of the battery group at the National Institute of Chemistry and deputy director of the ALISTORE-ERI network. He obtained his Ph.D. in Materials sciences in 2002 from the University of Ljubljana. Since his Ph.D. study, his research interests are in the field of materials science and electrochemical systems for energy storage, with main activities in the field of modern battery systems. Between 2009 and 2010 he worked in UPJV, Amiens, where he started the development of Li-S batteries. He was the coordinator of two large-scale EU projects focused on the development of Li-S batteries. His current research interests are focused on different types of multivalent batteries and the implementation of smart functionalities in battery cells. He is strongly connected with the Battery 2030+ initiative and with Batteries Europe, where he is one of the co-leaders of the task force preparing a strategy on the education level. He is involved in the MESC master program (https://mesc-plus.eu/) and in the doctoral school DESTINY (https://www.destiny-phd.eu/). He is a member of the Slovenian Academy of Engineering.
Dr. Renhao Dong leads a research group at Faculty of Chemistry and Food Chemistry and Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden (cfaed), Technische Universität Dresden. He received his Bachelor's degree in chemistry in 2008 and then doctor's degree in physical chemistry in 2013 in Shandong University (Jinan, China). He joined the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (Mainz, Germany) as a research associate in July 2013. In 01/2017, he was appointed as a research group leader of organic 2D (O2D) materials in the Chair of Molecular Functional Materials. His current scientific interests focus on chemistry of synthetic 2D materials and functions, including (1) Development of interface-assisted synthesis methodology; (2) 2D conjugated polymers (2D polymers/covalent organic frameworks): chemistry and functions for electronics and energy; (3) Metal-organic framework (MOF) electronics: conductive 2D MOFs for opto-electronics, magnetics, electrocatalysis, energy storage device and sensing; (4) Novel van der Waals and lateral heterostructures and exotic physical and chemical properties.
Claudia Draxl is Einstein Professor at the Humbold-Universität zu Berlin, Germany. She received her PhD at the University of Graz, was awarded a honorary doctorate of Uppsala University, Sweden (2000), and was full professor at the Montanuniversität Leoben (2006-2011). Her research interests cover theorectical concepts and methodology, the development of computer codes, and their application to answer questions related to a variety of materials and their properties. A particular focus of the group concerns the quantum-based description of radiation-matter interaction based on many-body perturbation theory and time-dependent DFT, covering various types of excitations, like photoemission, optical and X-ray absorption, electron-loss spectroscopy, and Raman scattering. A recent research focus is on data-driven science, within the NOMAD (Novel Materials Discovery) Centre of Excellence.
Prof. Dr. Matthias Driess
Born: 1961 – Eisenach, Germany
Affiliation: Department of Chemistry, TU Berlin, Straße des 17 Juni 135, 10623 Berlin
Telephone: +49 (0) 30 314–22265
Email: matthias.driess@tu-berlin.de
https://www.tu.berlin/en/metallorganik
Scientific vita:
2005– Professor of Inorganic Chemistry (Metalorganics and Inorganic Materials), TU Berlin 1996–2004 Professor of Inorganic Chemistry (Cluster and Coordination Chemistry), U Bochum 1996 Professor at the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, U Freiburg
1993 Habilitation in Inorganic Chemistry, U Heidelberg
1990–1996 Junior Scientist at the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, U Heidelberg 1988–1989 Postdoc, Department of Chemistry (R. West), Madison, WI, USA
1988 PhD Chemistry (W. Siebert), Metalorganic Chemistry, Boron Chemistry 1985 Diploma in Chemistry, U Heidelberg
Fields of interest:
Molecular models of heterogeneous catalysts and bioinspired homogeneous catalysts; Molecular approach to heterogeneous catalysts for efficient light-driven and electrocatalytic energy conversion (e.g., overall water-splitting); Organometallic precursors for low-temperature synthesis of nanoscaled metal oxides; Coordination chemistry for activation of small molecules and homogeneous catalysis; Development of multifunctional, low-valent silicon-based strong s-donor ligands in homogeneous catalysis
Awards (selection):
2016 Davison Lecture of the Inorganic Chemistry Division of the MIT (USA) 2016 Visiting Professor, ETH Zürich (Switzerland)
2014 Member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities 2013 Member of the German National Academy of Sciences, Leopoldina
2011 WACKER Silicone Award
2010 Alfred-Stock-Memorial Award of the German Chemical Society
Industry cooperations:
BASF SE; Wacker AG
Organizational activities (selection):
2016– Vice coordinator of the Einstein Center of Catalysis 2012– Scientific Director of the UniCat-BASF Jointlab (BasCat) 2007–2018 Spokesperson of the Cluster of Excellence UniCat
2017- Scientific Director of the Chemical Invention Factory (CIF, John Warner Center for start-ups in Green Chemistry)
2019- Deputy of the Cluster of Excellence UniSysCat
Publications (selection):
N. J. Lindenmaier, S. Wahlefeld, E. Bill, T. Szilvási, C. Eberle, S. Yao, P. Hildebrandt, M. Horch, I. Zebger, M. Driess, An S-oxygenated [NiFe] complex modelling sulfenate intermediates of an O2- tolerant hydrogenase, Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2017, 56, 2208–2211.
Y. Wang, A. Kostenko, S. Yao, M. Driess, Divalent Silicon-Assisted Activation of Dihydrogen in a Bis(N-heterocyclic silylene)xanthene Nickel(0) Complex for Efficient Catalytic Hydrogenation of Olefins, Journal of the American Chemical Society 2017, 139, 13499-13506.
A. Indra, P. W. Menezes, K. Kailasam, D. Hollmann, P. StrasserM. Schröder, A. Thomas, A. Brückner, M. Driess, Nickel as a co-catalyst for photocatalytic hydrogen evolution on graphitic-carbon nitride (sg-CN): what is the nature of the active species?, Chem. Commun. 2016, 52, 104-107.
Yao, F. Meier, N. Lindenmaier, R. Rudolph, B. Blom, M. Adelhardt, J. Sutter, S. Mebs, M. Haumann, K. Meyer, M. Kaupp, M. Driess, Biomimetic [2Fe-2S] clusters with extensively delocalized mixed-valence iron centers, Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2015, 53, 12185.
T. Mätsenen, D. Gallego, T. Szilvasi, M. Driess, M. Oestreich, Peripheral mechanism of a carbonyl hydrosilylation catalysed by an SiNSi iron pincer complex, Chemical Science 2015, 6, 7143–7149.
P. W. Menezes, A. Indra, N. R. Sahraie, A. Bergmann, P. Strasser, M. Driess, Cobalt–manganese- based spinels as multifunctional materials that unify catalytic water oxidation and oxygen reduction reactions, ChemSusChem 2015, 8, 164–171.
P. W. Menezes, A. Indra, O. Levy, K. Kailasam, V. Gutkin, J. Pfrommer, M. Driess, Using nickel manganese oxide catalysts for efficient water oxidation, Chemical Communications 2015, 51, 5005– 5008.
P. W. Menezes, A. Indra, D. González-Flores, N. R. Sahraie, I. Zaharieva, M. Schwarze, P. Strasser, H. Dau, M. Driess, High-performance oxygen redox catalysis with multifunctional cobalt oxide nanochains: Morphology-dependent activity, ACS Catalysis 2015, 5, 2017–2027.
G. Tan, T. Szilvási, S. Inoue, B. Blom, M. Driess, An elusive hydridoaluminum(I) complex for facile C–H and C–O bond activation of ethers and access to its isolable hydridogallium(I) analogue: Syntheses, structures, and theoretical studies, Journal of the American Chemical Society 2014, 136, 9732.
B. L. Tran, B. Li, M. Driess, J. F. Hartwig, Copper-catalyzed intermolecular amidation and imidation of unactivated alkanes, Journal of the American Chemical Society 2014, 136, 2555.
Dr. Mao-Hua Du is a Senior R&D Staff in the Materials Sciences and Technology Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He received his B.S. in Physics at Fudan University, China, in 1998 and Ph. D in Physics at the University of Florida in 2003. He was a postdoctoral associate at National Renewable Energy Laboratory (Golden, Colorado, 2004-2006) and a National Research Council Research Associate at Naval Research Laboratory (Washington, DC, 2006-2007). He joined Oak Ridge National Laboratory in 2007. His research focuses on electronic structure, optical properties, and defect physics in electronic and optical materials (with applications in photovoltaics, energy efficient lighting, radiation detection, etc.).
James Durrant is Professor of Photochemistry in the Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London and Ser Cymru Solar Professor, University of Swansea. His research addresses the photochemistry of new materials for solar energy conversion targeting both solar cells (photovoltaics) and solar to fuel (i.e.: artificial photosynthesis. It is based around employing transient optical and optoelectronic techniques to address materials function, and thereby elucidate design principles which enable technological development. His group is currently addressing the development and functional characterisation of organic and perovskite solar cells and photoelectrodes for solar fuel generation. More widely, he leads Imperial's Centre for Processable Electronics, founded the UK�s Solar Fuels Network and led the Welsh government funded S�r Cymru Solar initiative. He has published over 500 research papers and 5 patents, and was recently elected a Fellow of the Royal Society
Radiation expert at ONERA since 1989 with first area of research in radiation effect in electronics (testing and prediction approach for single event). Since 2012, leads materials activities which encompass ageing of thermal coatings, optics, PVA materials including solar cells (radiative environment .i.e UV, electrons and protons in synergy with temperature and vacuum), but also erosion by atomic oxygen (testing, modeling and detection).
Contribution to several on-board experiments (MIR, SAC-C, ISS, nanosats …). Principal Investigator of MEDET (ISS/EuTEF module
in 2009-2010, ONERA-ESA-CNES-UoS collaboration).
Author or co-author of over 60 scientific publications (about 40 in peer-reviewed journals)
Professor Vladimir Dyakonov holds the Chair of Experimental Physics (Energy research) on the Faculty of Physics and Astronomy of Julius-Maximilian University of Würzburg, Germany since 2004 and he is the Scientific Director of the Bavarian Centre of Applied Energy Research (ZAE Bayern) since 2005. He studied physics at the University of St. Petersburg and received his doctorate at the A. F. Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute in 1996. Since 1990, he has been a visiting researcher at the universities of Bayreuth (Germany), Antwerp (Belgium) and Linz (Austria). He finished his habilitation in experimental physics at the University of Oldenburg (Germany) in 2001. In 2007-2009 he was the Vice-dean of the Faculty of Physics and Astronomy, in 2010-2011 the managing director of Institute of Physics and in 2013-2015 he was the Dean of the Faculty of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Würzburg. Dyakonov’s main research interests are in the fields of thin-film photovoltaics, semiconductor spectroscopy and functional energy materials, in general.
Yuval Elani is a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow and Lecturer in Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London.
- PhD in Physics, University of Basel, Switzerland - Post-Doctoral Research Assistant, BASF AG, Ludwigshafen, Germany: Molecular Science - Maitre d’Enseignement et de Recherche, Univ. Geneva, Switzerland - Biological Molecules - Team-leader, Institute of Quantum Electronics, ETH Zurich, Switzerland - Habilitation & vein legendi in Physics, University of Basel, Switzerland, 1998 - Since 1998: Full Professor in Photophysics / Nano-Optics / Nano-Physics at TU Dresden, School of Science Profile: Nanoscale research of quantum nanostructures: magnetic, optical. electronic, molecular; application to magnetic textures, charged domain walls, near-field metamaterials, etc.
Vida Engmann obtained her Dr. rer. nat in 2014 from the Ilmenau University of Technology under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Gerhard Gobsch. In 2014 she joined the OPV group at Mads Clausen Institute of University of Southern Denmark as a postdoctoral researcher. In 2017 she was appointed assistant professor and in 2020 as associate professor, with the focus on degradation and additive-assisted stabilization of organic solar cells. Her international research stays include Uppsala University, University of Colorado Boulder / NREL, and Russian Academy of Sciences Chernogolovka. She authored numerous publications in high-impact journals such as Nature Energy, Energy & Environmental Science, Advanced Energy Materials, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, and one chapter in a scientific book, as well as edited the World Scientific Reference of Hybrid Materials - Vol. 2. For her research, she has been awarded the postdoctoral fellowship by the Independent Research Fund Denmark (IRFD), EU COST action MP1307, I-CAM fellowship, as well as the Thuringian State Graduate stipend, and she is currently co-PI on a Villum Foundation research project on mechanical stabilization of organic solar cells and the PI on the IRFD Research Project 1 on nanoparticle based organic solar cells. In 2020 she was awarded the Carlsberg Young Researcher Grant. In 2019 she received the Danish UNESCO-L'Oréal For Women in Science award and in 2020 the UNESCO L'Oréal International Rising Talent award.
Lioz Etgar obtained his Ph.D. (2009) at the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology and completed post-doctoral research with Prof. Michael Grätzel at EPFL, Switzerland. In his post-doctoral research, he received a Marie Curie Fellowship and won the Wolf Prize for young scientists. Since 2012, he has been a senior lecturer in the Institute of Chemistry at the Hebrew University. On 2017 he received an Associate Professor position. Prof. Etgar was the first to demonstrate the possibility to work with the perovskite as light harvester and hole conductor in the solar cell which result in one of the pioneer publication in this field. Recently Prof. Etgar won the prestigious Krill prize by the Wolf foundation. Etgar’s research group focuses on the development of innovative solar cells. Prof. Etgar is researching new excitonic solar cells structures/architectures while designing and controlling the inorganic light harvester structure and properties to improve the photovoltaic parameters.
Radicals have unpaired electrons, leading to unusual physics that could be utilised in next-generation organic electronics. My research explores novel functionality that arises from the combination of luminescence, magnetism and spin properties in these materials.
Jacky Even was born in Rennes, France, in 1964. He received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Paris VI, Paris, France, in 1992. He was a Research and Teaching Assistant with the University of Rennes I, Rennes, from 1992 to 1999. He has been a Full Professor of optoelectronics with the Institut National des Sciences Appliquées, Rennes,since 1999. He was the head of the Materials and Nanotechnology from 2006 to 2009, and Director of Education of Insa Rennes from 2010 to 2012. He created the FOTON Laboratory Simulation Group in 1999. His main field of activity is the theoretical study of the electronic, optical, and nonlinear properties of semiconductor QW and QD structures, hybrid perovskite materials, and the simulation of optoelectronic and photovoltaic devices. He is a senior member of Institut Universitaire de France (IUF).
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Francisco Fabregat Santiago (B.Sc. in Physics at Universitat de Valencia and University of Leeds in 1995 , Ph.D. from Universitat Jaume I in 2001) joined Universitat Jaume I in 1998 where he is currently full Professor at Physics Department and active member Institute of Advanced Materials (INAM). Among others he made several research stays at Uppsala University, Imperial College, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. He authored more than 100 peer reviewed papers and 5 book chapters, that accumulate more than 11000 cites with an h-index of 54. Prof. Fabregat-Santiago is an expert in electro-optical characterization of devices and particularly known by his works in the use of the impedance spectroscopy to model, analyze and interpret the electrical characteristics (charge accumulation, transfer reactions and transport) of films and devices including ZnO and TiO2 nanostructured films (nanocolloids, nanorods and nanotubes), dye sensitized solar cells, perovskite solar cells, electrochromic materials and liquid and solid state hole conductors. His current interests are focused in the in the analysis of the fundamental properties of nano and bio materials for their application in solar cells, water decontamination, bio-energy, sensors and in the (photo)electrochemical production of added value chemicals.
Antonio Facchetti obtained his Laurea degree in Chemistry cum laude and a Ph.D in Chemical Sciences from the University of Milan. In 2002 he joined Northwestern University where he is currently an Adjunct Professor of Chemistry. He is a co-founder and currently the Chief Technology Officer of Flexterra Corporation. Dr. Facchetti has published more than 450 research articles, 12 book chapters, and holds more than 120 patents (H-index 93). He received the 2009 Italian Chemical Society Research Prize, the team IDTechEx Printed Electronics Europe 2010 Award, the corporate 2011 Flextech Award. In 2010 was elected a Kavli Fellow, in 2012 a Fellow of the American Association for the Advanced of Science (AAAS), in 2013 Fellow of the Materials Research Society, in 2015 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, and in 2016 a Fellow of the ACS Polymeric Materials Science and Engineering. In 2010 he was selected among the "TOP 100 MATERIALS SCIENTISTS OF THE PAST DECADE (2000-2010)" by Thomson Reuters and in 2015/2016/2017/2018 recognized as a Highly Cited Scientist. In 2016 he has been elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors and was awarded the 2016 ACS Award for Creative Invention. In 2017 he was awarded the Giulio Natta Gold Medal from the Italian Chemical Society for his work on polymeric materials.
Prof. Gianluca Maria Farinola
Professor of Organic Chemistry
Pro-Rector for Research and Innovation
Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy
Adjunct Professor Department of Biomedical Engineering
Tufts University
Boston (Medford), USA
Vice President of The Italian Chemical Society (2020-2022)
Elected President of the Italian Chemical Society (2023-2025)
Chemistry Europe Fellow
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Gianluca M. Farinola completed his PhD in 1996. He was Assistant Professor from 1996, Associate Professor from 2003 and from 2015 he is Full Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Bari Aldo Moro.
He has been visiting researcher at the University of Muenster, Germany (2009), invited visiting professor at the University of Strasbourg , France (Institut de Science et d’Ingégnerie Supramoléculaire – ISIS) (2013 and 2014) and at the University of Angers and CNRS, France (2015) and visiting scholar at the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Tufts University, US (2017 and 2018), where he was appointed as Adjunct Professor in 2019.
Roles in Scientific Societies and other appointments
From 2017 to 2019 he was the President of the Organic Chemistry Division of the Italian Chemical Society, and from 2018 to 2021 the President of the Division of Organic Chemistry of EuChemS.
He is presently Vice-President (2020-2022) and elected President (2023-2025) of the Italian Chemical Society.
From 2016 to 2018 he has been Consultant of one of the Italian Parliamentary Commissions.
He is member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Chemistry and Materials Science Department of CNR (Italian National Research Council) (2019-2022).
He is member of the Chemistry Europe Council.
He is also member of the International Advisory Board of the European Journal of Organic Chemistry.
He is co-founder of a spin-off company SYNCHIMIA s.r.l. of the University of Bari started in November 2008.
Research
Gianluca Farinola is a synthetic organic chemistry who sets up new methods to produce photo- and electro- active molecules, supramolecular structures and materials for applications ranging from organic photonics and electronics to biology.
In the last ten years his research has opened intriguing directions by exploiting photosynthetic microorganisms (e.g. algae and bacteria) and biological polymers (e.g. melanin, fibroin, lignin, biosilica) as sources of sustainable materials for future optoelectronics and biomedicine.
He is author of about 200 publications and 110 invited lectures in national and international conferences and schools, in Universities and Research Institutes.
He is PI of many national, international and industrial research projects.
He is recipient of the Ciamician Medal of the Italian Chemical Society and of the “Innovation in Organic Synthesis Award” of the Interuniversitary Consortium CINMPIS.
He has been appointed Chemistry Europe Fellow in 2019.
Patricio Farrell is a mathematician, specializing in numerical methods for science and engineering. He heads the research group "Numerical methods for innovative semiconductor devices" at WIAS Berlin and works as a journalist.
Sascha is a Research Group Leader & Rowland Felllow at Harvard University's Rowland Institute for Science.
His group studies light-matter interactions to improve the efficiencies of solar cells, displays, and quantum applications for a sustainable energy future.
Dr. Fellinger is a nanostructure and molecular scientist by training (diploma at University of Kassel, DE), who received his PhD in colloid chemistry (with summa cum laude) at the University of Potsdam/DE under the direct supervision of Prof. Markus Antonietti in 2011. After a short postdoctoral stays at the Tokyo Institute of Technology (Prof. Ichiro Yamanaka) he was a research group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam-Golm (2012-2017). In 2016/17 he was an awarded Researcher-in-Residence at Chalmers Institute of Technology in Gothenburg (Prof. Anders Palmqvist), followed by one term as W2-substitute professor for inorganic chemistry at the University of Applied Science Zittau/Görlitz. Afterwards until 2020 he joined Prof. Hubert Gasteiger´s Chair for Technical Electrochemistry (Technical University Munich) with a fuel cell project. In 2020 Dr. Fellinger´s group joined the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM) in Berlin. Dr. Fellinger received the Donald-Ulrich Award 2017 of the International Sol-Gel Society and the Ernst-Haage Award for Chemistry of the Max-Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion. His research interests are the synthetic chemistry of novel materials and their usage in energy-related applications with a focus on different carbon-based materials like nitrogen-doped carbons, M-N-C catalysts or hard carbon anodes. He has published >50 articles in peer-reviewed journals (>6000 citations, H-index: 39).
Since Aug. 2014:
Professor for “Inorganic Functional Materials” and head of the NANOMATERIAL group at the IAAC of the Ludwigs-Universität-Freiburg
2009 – 2014:
Group Leader within the framework of UniCat (DFG Exzellenz Cluster), Technische Universität Berlin, Institut für Chemie
Research on "Nanostructured electrodes for (bio)-electrocatalysis“
2008 – 2009:
Post-Doc at the MPIKG, Department of Biomaterials, Golm, Germany
2005 – 2008:
Dissertation at the Max-Planck-Institute of Colloids and Interfaces (MPIKG), Golm, Germany
“Synthesis of nanostructured metal nitrides through reactive hard-templating“
2000 – 2005:
Education in chemistry, Paris, France
Roland A. Fischer, Prof. Dr. rer. nat., Dr. phil. h.c., holds the Chair of Inorganic and Metal-Organic Chemistry at the Technical University Munich (TUM) and is Director of the TUM Catalysis Research Centre. Previously he was Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at Ruhr-University Bochum (1997-2015) and Heidelberg University (1996-1997). He has been elected Vice President of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) in 2016. He is member of the Award Selection Committee of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the German Chemical Industry Fund and was elected member of the European Academy of Sciences. His research interest focuses on functional molecular materials for advanced applications in energy conversion, catalysis, gas storage and separation, chemical sensing, photonics and microelectronics. To illustrate, metal-rich complexes, atomic precise clusters, nanoparticles and nanocomposites can substitute rare noble metals for important catalytic transformation of small molecules. In addition, the combinatorial building-block principle of coordination network compounds such as metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) yields ample opportunities for the manipulation and design of the chemistry of coordination space in pores and channels accessible to guest molecules. The goal is to integrate chemical and physical multifunctionality in photo-active, electrical conductive, catalytic and stimuli-responsive MOFs. Currently, he is steering the DFG Priority Program 1928 “Coordination Networks: Building Blocks for Functional Systems”.
He obtained a Ph.D. (cum laude) in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, University of Valencia (Spain), 2017. He has over 6 years of experience in third generation photovoltaics, obtained at internationally recognized institutions. He joined Saule Technologies in 2017, and since July 2018 he is the Director Of Knowledge Management. He is leading a team involved in a broad range of activities such as; Business Development, Marketing, IP and Project Management and currently has a particular focus on product development for IoT applications.
Alicia Forment-Aliaga (Valencia, 1976) is a researcher at the Molecular Science Institute (ICMol) and a senior lecturer in the School of Chemistry at the University of Valencia (UVEG), Spain. She graduated in Chemistry and carried out her PhD on molecular magnetism at the UVEG, supervised by Prof. E. Coronado and Prof. F.M. Romero. Between 2004-2008 she joined Prof. K. Kern’s group as a postdoctoral researcher at Max-Planck Institute for Solid Sate Research in Stuttgart, Germany. During this period, she was awarded with different competitive postdoctoral grants for developing her research on molecular electronics. Since July 2008 she works at ICMol at the UVEG, in Prof. E. Coronado’s group. This period comprises a postdoctoral Juan de la Cierva contract and a tenure-track Ramón y Cajal contract, both competitive contracts granted by the Spanish Government, and her current position as senior lecturer. At the ICMol she has developed a line of research in molecular surface engineering and in the last years, she has also started working on 2D materials. Particularly, she has driven her research into four specific goals: (1) Non-conventional lithographies for the organization of molecular systems; (2) formation of self-assembled monolayers for molecular spintronics; (3) scanning force microscopies for surface modification and characterization and (4) 2D materials, targeting their exfoliation, molecular functionalization and application in different areas.
Dr Marina Freitag is currently a Reader in Energy Materials and a Royal Society University Research Fellow at Newcastle University. She is developing new light-driven technologies that incorporate coordination polymers to solve the most important challenges in the research area, including issues of sustainability, stability and performance of hybrid PV. The development of such highly innovative concepts has given Marina international recognition, including recipient of the prestigious 2022 Royal Society of Chemistry Harrison-Meldola Memorial Prize 2022.
Her research into hybrid molecular devices, began during her doctoral studies (2007-2011, Rutgers University, NJ, USA) where she was awarded an Electrochemical Society Travel Award and Dean Dissertation Fellowship 2011. Dr Freitag moved to Uppsala University (2013-2015) for a postdoctoral research position, which focused on the implementation of alternative redox mediators, leading to a breakthrough today known as “zombie solar cells”. Dr Freitag was invited to further develop this work at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) with Prof. Anders Hagfeldt ( 2015-2016). From 2016-2020 she was appointed as Assistant Professor at Uppsala University, Sweden, where she received the Göran Gustaffsson Young Researcher Award 2019.
My research interests focus on bridging redox proteins with novel electrode materials for application in biosensing, biophotophotovoltaics and biofuels. I use the tools of electrochemistry and spectroscopy to discern mechanistic and kinetic infromation for developing improved biocatalytic systems. I thrive off interdisciplinary research, combing my own diverse background in material science, biology and electrochemistry with leading experts in molecular biology, redox polymer chemistry, and biophysical spectroscopy in an attempt to solve a complex problem: exploiting nature to produce renewable energy. My greatest passion lies not only in developing novel high performance biocatalytic system, but applying a rigourous systematic approach to discern fundamental mechanisms that underpin macroscopic performance.
Current Position (Feb 2019): Postdoctoral Researcher at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Awardee of the NWO-Applied Sciences and Engineering - VENI grant Project # 16866
Richard Friend holds the Cavendish Professorship of Physics at the University of Cambridge. His research encompasses the physics, materials science and engineering of semiconductor devices made with carbon-based semiconductors, particularly polymers. His research advances have shown that carbon-based semiconductors have significant applications in LEDs, solar cells, lasers, and electronics. His current research interests are directed to novel schemes – including ideas inspired by recent insights into Nature’s light harvesting – that seek to improve the performance and cost of solar cells.
Education
2000: Ph.D. from Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt, Medical School. Supervisor: Prof. Wolf Singer, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt, Germany.
1998: M.D. from Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt, Medical School, Frankfurt, Germany.
Professional experience
Since 2009: Director of the Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) for Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max Planck Society, Frankfurt, Germany.
Since 2008: Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society. Since 2008 Professor of Systems Neuroscience, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
2001 - 2009: Principal Investigator, F.C. Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
1999 - 2001: Postdoctoral Research Fellow with Dr. Robert Desimone, Laboratory of Neuropsychology, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland.
1998 - 1999: Postdoctoral Research Fellow with Prof. Wolf Singer, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Department of Neurophysiology, Frankfurt, Germany.
1998 - 1999: Residency at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt, Medical School, Department of Psychiatry, Frankfurt, Germany.
Dr. Fan Fu is a group leader at Empa-Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees in materials science from the Wuhan University of Technology in 2010 and 2013, respectively. He joined Prof. Ayodhya N. Tiwari's group as a Ph.D. student in 2014 and earned his Ph.D. degree from ETH Zürich with distinction in 2017. His doctoral thesis on perovskite-CIGS thin-film tandem solar cells was awarded ETH Medal. From January 2018 to May 2019, he worked as a postdoc researcher in Prof. Christophe Ballif's group at EPFL. In June 2019, he joined Empa as a group leader. He is currently leading a research team investigating novel perovskite semiconductors for energy and optoelectronics applications. In particular, his group's recent research efforts focus on upscaling high-performance perovskite-based tandem solar cells and mini-modules on flexible substrates.
Dr. Moritz H. Futscher obtained his PhD in physics from the University of Amsterdam in January 2020 for his work performed at the research institute AMOLF. His PhD thesis focused on degradation channels related to ion migration and performance limitations of metal halide perovskites. After completing his PhD, he joined the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa) as a postdoctoral researcher and Rubicon Fellow working on metal halide perovskites and thin-film solid-state batteries. His main interest lies in understanding and harnessing the mixed ionic-electronic conductivities of different materials for novel applications related to renewable energy conversion and storage.
Wulfram Gerstner is Director of the Laboratory of Computational Neuroscience LCN at the EPFL. He studied physics at the universities of Tubingen and Munich and received a PhD from the Technical University of Munich. His research in computational neuroscience concentrates on models of spiking neurons, the dynamics of spiking neural networks and spike-timing dependent plasticity. More recently, he got interested in generalizations of Hebbian learning in the form of multi-factor learning rules and in the role of surprise for learning. He currently has a joint appointment at the School of Life Sciences and the School of Computer and Communications Sciences at the EPFL. He teaches courses for Physicists, Computer Scientists, Mathematicians, and Life Scientists. He is the recipient of the Valentino Braitenberg Award for Computational Neuroscience 2018 and a member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz (Germany).
Benjamin Grévin is a graduate of the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG) and of the former University Joseph Fourier Grenoble I (University Grenoble Alpes, UGA). He received the Ph.D. degree in 1998 under the supervision of Dr. Y. Berthier. His doctoral work dealt with NMR investigations of high Tc superconductors and related cuprates. After a postdoctoral stay at the Condensed Matter Research Department of Geneva University in the group of Prof. Ø. Fisher, he joined in 2000 the UMR5819 joint research center (CEA-CNRS-UGA). He was awarded the bronze medal of CNRS in 2005 and obtained the accreditation to direct research (Habilitation à diriger les recherches, HdR) in 2006. His current research projects as CNRS Research Director deal with the development of advanced scanning probe microscopy techniques (nc-AFM/KPFM, time-resolved surface photo-voltage imaging), for local investigations of the opto-electronic properties of model organic (donor-acceptor BHJ and molecular self-assemblies), hybrid perovskites and 2D TMDC materials.
Dr. Christine Gabardo is the Co-Founder and Director of Technology for CERT Systems Inc. She received her B.Eng ('11) and PhD ('16) from McMaster University, then went on to complete an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Toronto focused on developing efficient and scalable electrochemical CO2 reduction devices. In 2019, she co-founded CERT Systems Inc. and led the research team in the finals of the NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE competition. She has published over 30 scientific articles in the field of CO2 electrocatalysis and was recently recognized with a 2022 Clean50 Emerging Leader Award.
Dr. Galian received her Ph.D in Chemistry at the National University of Cordoba, Argentina in 2001. Then, she was a postdoc researcher at the Polythecnic University of Valencia, University of Valencia and University of Ottawa. During those years, she has studied photosensibilization processes by aromatic ketones using laser flash photolysis techniques and was involved in photonic crystal fiber/semiconductor nanocrystal interaction projects. In 2007, Dr. Galian came back to Spain with a Ramon y Cajal contract to study the surface chemistry of quantum dots and since 2017 she has a permanent position at the University of Valencia. Her main interest is the design, synthesis and characterization of photoactive nanoparticles and multifunctional nanosystems for sensing and electroluminescent applications.
Daniel R. Gamelin received his B.A. in chemistry from Reed College, spent a year as a visiting scientist at the Max-Planck-Institut für Strahlenchemie, and earned his Ph.D. in chemistry from Stanford University working with Edward I. Solomon in the fields of inorganic and bioinorganic spectroscopies. Following a postdoctoral appointment working with Hans U. Güdel (University of Bern) studying luminescent inorganic materials, he joined the chemistry faculty at the University of Washington, Seattle (2000), where he presently holds the Harry and Catherine Jaynne Boand Endowed Professorship in Chemistry. His research involves the development of new inorganic materials with unusual electronic structures that give rise to desirable photophysical, photochemical, magnetic, or magneto-optical properties. He is presently an Associate Editor for the Royal Society of Chemistry journal Chemical Communications.
Dr. Mahesh Gangishetty is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Rowland Institute at Harvard University. He earned his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Saskatchewan, Canada and M.Sc. in Chemistry from the Indian Institute of Technology in Roorkee. His research is focused on employing variety of optoelectronic materials for energy conversion applications.
Jinwei Gao is currently Professor of South China Academy of Advanced Optoelectronics at South China Normal University. He received his Ph.D degree from South China University of Technology. Meanwhile, he has been a visiting Ph.D student in Department of Mechanical Engineering of MIT, supervised by Professor Gang Chen from September 2007 to April 2010, supported by China Scholarship Council (CSC). He was an associate professor at South China Normal University from 2010, and was promoted to a full professor in 2015.
Germà Garcia-Belmonte (1964) received his Ph.D. degree at UNED, 1996. He worked (1988-1992) at CIEMAT, Madrid, on experimental and theoretical research in the area of digital processing of nuclear signal. He joined the Universitat Jaume I, Castelló, in 1992 and currently works as a Full Professor of Applied Physics (2010) at the Institute of Advanced Materials. He published 198 papers in research journals, and has 12.000 citations and h-index 54 (WOS). He is recognized as 2018 Highly Cited Research (Clarivate Analytics) in the cross-field category. He studied intercalation processes in oxides and polymer films by impedance methods. He follows researches in various areas within the field of Organic Electronics and photovoltaics as electronic mechanisms in organic light-emitting diodes, organic photovoltaics, and plastic and thin-film solar cells. He is currently conducting researches in the topic of perovskite-based solar cells. Also of interest is the electrochemical kinetics of electrodes for batteries. Device physics using impedance spectroscopy (including modeling and measuring) is his main subject.
Elena received her PhD in Intelligent Sensor Systems in 2000 (Coventry University); she was awarded a Professorship in Pervasive Computing, at the same university in 2009. Over the course of her career, Elena has accrued a sturdy academic reputation in the area of Cyber Physical Systems - specifically smart sensing systems, wireless sensor networks (WSNs) and the Internet of Things (IoT). She routinely engages with national and international advisory and grant awarding bodies in the areas of sensing and distributed energy solutions. She chaired (2007–2013) the UK Wireless Intelligent Sensing Interest Group (WiSIG) within the Electronics, Sensors, Photonics Knowledge Transfer Network and is an expert reviewer and assessor for the European Commission (EC), Leverhulme trust, UK Research Councils, Finland Academy of Science and other international funders. She is a full member of the UK’s EPSRC College of Peers and the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships Peer Review College and serves on the British Council and the REF2020 Panels. She is an EPSRC affiliated member of the Women’s Engineering Society (WES) and was named as one of the Top50 Women in Engineering in the Guardian and WES awards. She is actively involved with the European Commission and regional government organizations to promote the knowledge transfer from academia to industry and society at large, particularly focusing on the use of sensing technologies for reducing poverty, increasing health, enabling social mobility, and towards the adoption of wireless technologies, Artificial Intelligence and the Internet to tackle global energy challenges. Her work is sponsored by the EPSRC, Innovate UK, Royal Society, European Programmes, British Council, Singapore- MIT Alliance and benefitted from direct sponsorship from industry (Jaguar Land Rover, Orbit Housing Association, NP Aerospace, Meggitt Ltd, etc).
Dr. Camélia Matei Ghimbeu is a Research Director at Material Science Institute in Mulhouse (IS2M), CNRS, France. She received in 2007 her PhD from University of Metz, France and TU Delft, The Netherlands and her Habilitation in 2015 from University of Haute Alsace, France. She was awarded in 2017 the CNRS Bronze Medal, in 2018 the Award "Solid-State Chemistry Division" (French Chemistry Society) and in 2019 the award Guy Ourisson (Gutenberg Cercle), for her research works devoted to the design of carbon-based materials with controlled characteristics for energy storage and environmental applications. Author of more than 100 articles and about 150 communications, she is leading the “Carbon and Hybrid Materials” group at IS2M, and she is member of French network of Electrochemical Storage of Energy (RS2E).
Sixto Giménez (M. Sc. Physics 1996, Ph. D. Physics 2002) is Associate Professor at Universitat Jaume I de Castelló (Spain). His professional career has been focused on the study of micro and nanostructured materials for different applications spanning from structural components to optoelectronic devices. During his PhD thesis at the University of Navarra, he studied the relationship between processing of metallic and ceramic powders, their sintering behavior and mechanical properties. He took a Post-Doc position at the Katholiek Universiteit Leuven where he focused on the development of non-destructive and in-situ characterization techniques of the sintering behavior of metallic porous materials. In January 2008, he joined the Group of Photovoltaic and Optoelectronic Devices of University Jaume I where he is involved in the development of new concepts for photovoltaic and photoelectrochemical devices based on nanoscaled materials, particularly studying the optoelectronic and electrochemical responses of the devices by electrical impedance spectroscopy. He has co-authored more than 80 scientific papers in international journals and has received more than 5000 citations. His current h-index is 31.
Dr. Maria Gimenez is Principal Investigator at CiQUS, Ramon y Cajal at the University of Santiago de Compostela and Honorary Associate Professor at the University of Nottingham. In 2006 she received her PhD from the University of Valencia working under the supervision of Prof Eugenio Coronado and Dr. Francisco M. Romero on multifunctional materials of interest in molecular magnetism. She then joined the Supramolecular Chemistry and Chemical Nanosciences Group of Prof. Neil Champness working as postdoctoral research fellow for almost three years. In 2009 she was awarded with a two-year Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship in the Nanocarbon Group of Prof. Andrei Khlobystov at the University of Nottingham. In 2011, she started her independent career as Royal Society Research Fellow and in 2015 she became Assistant Professor of Materials Chemistry in Nottingham. In 2018 she joined the CiQUS, launching her project ERC-STG NANOCOMP supported by the Oportunius Program (Xunta Galicia). She is currently coordinator of a strategic research group on Condensed Matter & Functional Materials (MAT2). The research in her group is currently focused on the development and functional characterisation of hybrid metal-carbon nanostructures for spintronics and energy-related applications.
In the last 10 years her studies have included a number of firsts, including (i) the first demonstrations of a molecular rhombus tiling (Nat. Chem. 2012), a supramolecular bilayer at a surface (Nat. Chem. 2011) and unusual nanoribbons inside carbon nanotubes (Nat. Mater. 2011); (ii) the encapsulation of single molecule magnets (Nat. Commun. 2011); (iii) the controlled assembly of preformed magnetic nanoparticles (Angew. Chem., 2013,) and exploitation of electrochemical nanoparticles (Adv. Mater. 2016, ChemSusChem 2021) in hollow carbon nanostructures. She has discovered a new type of supramolecular fluid (PCT/ES2021/070659, ES2797556 Angew.Chem. 2021) and established a new catalyst technology (PCT/ES2021/070649, ES2796448) offering a unique opportunity to address recyclability & sustainability for cost-effective electrochemical technologies. She has directed four doctoral thesis at the University of Nottingham and 12 MSc theses. She has participated in 15 research projects (11 as PI).
During these years she has been granted different fellowships and awards: Spanish Ministry of Education and Science Undergraduate Fellow, Extraordinary award for highest Degree in Chemistry, Regional Government Fellowship for Doctoral Studies, Marie Curie Intra-European Research Fellowship, Royal Society DH Research Fellowship, ERC Starting Grant-NANOCOMP, Ramon y Cajal contract and a ERC PoC Grant-ZABCAT. In recognition of her multidisciplinary achievements, Maria was awarded in 2012 with a very prestigious prize (Emerging Investigator Award 2012) by the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry for outstanding and novel research (covered in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2012, 51, 51). In 2016 and 2017 she became Emerging Talent SRUK/CERU Award finalist for the impact of her studies on the development of materials chemistry using carbon nanostructures.
I am Principal Investigator at the International School of Advanced Studies (SISSA) of Trieste, Italy.
I was born in [Genova](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genoa) (Italy) in 1974, I received my *scientific* high-school diploma in 1992, and I graduated summa cum laude in *Electronic Engineering* in 1997 at the [Univ. of Genova](http://www.unige.it) (Italy), specializing in *Biomedical* *Engineering*. In 2001, after I received a [PhD in *Bioengineering*](http://www.dottorato.polimi.it/corsi-di-dottorato/corsi-di-dottorato-attivi/bioingegneria/), with a thesis in Computational Neuroscience by the Polytechnic of Milan (Italy), I decided to move abroad to continue my academic training.
In the same year, I received an award from the [Human Frontiers Science Program Organization](http://www.hfsp.org) to pursue postdoctoral training in experimental Electrophysiology and Neurobiology at the [Inst. of Physiology](http://www.physio.unibe.ch) of the Univ. of Bern (Switzerland),
where I had the opportunity to work with Prof. Hans-Rudolf Luescher and [Prof. Stefano Fusi](http://neuroscience.columbia.edu/profile/stefanofusi). In 2005, I moved to the [Brain Mind Institute](http://bmi.epfl.ch) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne where I joined the experimental lab of [Prof. Henry Markram](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Markram) as junior group leader.
Three years later, in 2008, I was appointed faculty member at the [University of Antwerp](https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/) (Belgium), taking over the
Theoretical Neurobiology lab as a successor of [Prof. Erik De Schutter](https://loop.frontiersin.org/people/132/bio), to extend its scope to
interdisciplinary research in experimental Neuroscience and Neuroengineering. During the period 2013-2015, I was also visiting scientist at the [Neuroelectronics Flanders Institute](http://www.nerf.be) at IMEC, Leuven (Belgium). Over the years, I received visiting appointments at the [Department of Computer Science](https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/dcs) of the University of Sheffield (UK) and at the Brain Mind Institute of the EPFL (Switzerland). In 2012, I received my [tenure](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_tenure) and later, in 2016,
I was promoted to full professor.
From 2008 until 2019, I directed the Laboratory for Theoretical Neurobiology and Neuroengineering, founding in 2017 a new research unit on Molecular, Cellular, and Network Excitability research.
In 2019, I moved to the International School of Advanced Studies (SISSA) of Trieste, where I became faculty in the Neuroscience Area and I started the Neuronal Dynamics Laboratory.
Feliciano Giustino is Full Professor or Materials at the University of Oxford. He holds an M.Sc. in Nuclear Engineering from Politecnico di Torino and a Ph.D. in Physics from the Ecole Polytechnique F\'ed\'erale de Lausanne. Before joining the Department of Materials at Oxford he was a postdoc at the Physics Department
of the University of California at Berkeley. He specialises in electronic structure theory and the atomic-scale design of advanced functional materials for solar energy harvesting. He is author of ~100 research papers and one book on Materials Modelling using Density Functional Theory. He is Associate Editor of Computational Materials Science, and the recipient of a Leverhulme Research Leadership Award. In 2017 he was elected the 2017/18 the Mary Shepard B. Upson Visiting Professor in Engineering within the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Cornell University.
November 2021, Jan Christoph Goldschmidt has started as professor of Physics of Solar Energy Conversion at the University of Marburg, Germany.
Before, he has been Head of Group "Novel Solar Cells Concepts" at Fraunhofer ISE, Freiburg, Germany since 2010. In 2012/2013 he visited Imperial College, London, UK and the MCC Berlin, Germany for research stays.
He received his PhD from the University of Konstanz, Germany for his work at Fraunhofer ISE. He studied Physics at the Albert-Ludwigs University Freiburg and the UNSW, Sydney, Ausstralia.
Gabriel Gomila has got a PhD in Physics from the University of Barcelona (1997) with a thesis based on the theoretical modelling of electron transport at semiconductor interfaces. Later on, he was post-doctoral researcher at three different universities in Italy, France and Spain where he specialized in the theoretical modelling of nanoescale electronic devices. In 2001 he moved to the Department of Electronics at the University of Barcelona thanks to a Ramon y Cajal fellowship, where he expanded his research interests towards the merge of electronics and biological fields, thus focusing on microsystems for biological applications on-a-chip and on Atomic Force Microscopy for the electrical study of biological samples. In 2005 he became Associate Professor at the University of Barcelona and in 2008 Group Leader at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalunya (IBEC). In 2014 and 2022 he was awarded with the ICREA Academia prize, which recognizes and promotes the research excellence of the university staff of Catalonia. Since 2017 he is Full Professor at the Department of Electronics of the University of Barcelona. His current research interests are centred on the understanding of the bioelectrical phenomena at the nanoscale. He combines research activities with teaching on Nanobiotechnology, Scanning Probe Microscopy, Bioelectricity and Nanomedicine at the University of Barcelona.
Juan Carlos Gonzalez-Rosillo obtained holds a M.Sc. in Materials Science and Nanotechnology and a PhD in Materials Science from the University Autonomous of Barcelona. He performed his MSc and PhD research (2011-2017) at the Materials Science Institute of Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC), where he studied the relation of the resistive switching properties of metallic perovskite oxides with their intrinsic metal-insulator transitions for memristive devices and novel computation paradigms. He also was a visiting researcher at the University of Geneva (CH) and Forschungszentrum Jülich (DE). Then he joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA) for a postdoctoral position (2017-2020) working on the memristive properties of lithium-based oxides for neuromorphic computing and processing of next-generation solid-state electrolyte thin films for All-Solid-State Batteries and Microbatteries. Juan Carlos has been awarded with a Tecniospring postdoctoral fellowship to join IREC and to develop thin film microbattery architectures to power micro- and nanodevices for the Internet of Things revolution
Andrew is a Professor of Materials Chemistry and a University Research Professor at the University of Oxford. His main interests are in the dual roles of flexibility and disorder in functional materials.
Dr. Gustav Graeber is the principal investigator of the Graeber Lab for Energy Research (GER) at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in the Department of Chemistry. He earned his B.Sc. degree in Mechanical Engineering from TU Berlin; his M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from RWTH Aachen University; and his PhD from ETH Zurich. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa) from 2019-2021 and a postdoctoral researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 2021-2023. He joined Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in March 2023 as the principal investigator of GER. His research interests range from thermodynamics, to functional materials and electrochemistry with the goal to increase performance of energy conversion processes.
Professor of Physical Chemistry at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Michael Graetzel, PhD, directs there the Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces. He pioneered research on energy and electron transfer reactions in mesoscopic systems and their use to generate electricity and fuels from sunlight. He invented mesoscopic injection solar cells, one key embodiment of which is the dye-sensitized solar cell (DSC). DSCs are meanwhile commercially produced at the multi-MW-scale and created a number of new applications in particular as lightweight power supplies for portable electronic devices and in photovoltaic glazings. They engendered the field of perovskite solar cells (PSCs) that turned our to be the most exciting break-through in the recent history of photovoltaics. He received a number of prestigious awards, of which the most recent ones include the RusNANO Prize, the Zewail Prize in Molecular Science, the Global Energy Prize, the Millennium Technology Grand Prize, the Samson Prime Minister’s Prize for Innovation in Alternative Fuels, the Marcel Benoist Prize, the King Faisal International Science Prize, the Einstein World Award of Science and the Balzan Prize. He is a Fellow of several learned societies and holds eleven honorary doctor’s degrees from European and Asian Universities. According to the ISI-Web of Science, his over 1500 publications have received some 230’000 citations with an h-factor of 219 demonstrating the strong impact of his scientific work.
Giulia is Associate Professor at Physical Chemistry Unit at University of Pavia, leading the PVsquared2 team, and running the European Grant ERCStG Project “HYNANO”aiming at the development of advanced hybrid perovskites materials and innovative functional interfaces for efficient, cheap and stable photovoltaics. Within this field, Giulia contributed to reveal the fundamental lightinduced dynamical processes underlying the operation of such advanced optoelectronic devices whose understanding is paramount for a smart device development and for contributing to the transition of a green economy.
Giulia received an MS in Physical Engineering in 2008 and obtained her PhD in Physics cum laude in 2012 at the Politecnico of Milan. Her experimental thesis focused on the realisation of a new femtosecond-microscope for mapping the ultrafast phenomena at organic interfaces. During her PhD, she worked for one year at the Physics Department of Oxford University where she pioneered new concepts within polymer/oxide solar cell technology. From 2012-2015, she was a post-doctoral researcher at the Italian Institute of Technology in Milan. In 2015, she joined the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) with a Co-Funded Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship. From 2016 to 2019, she has been awarded by the Swiss Ambizione Energy Grant providing a platform to lead her independent research group at EPFL focused on the developemnt of new generation hybrid perovskite solar cells.
She is author of 90 peer-reviewed scientific papers bringing her h-index to 44 (>13’000 citations), focused on developement and understanding of the interface physics which governs the operation of new generation solar cells.
Recently, she received the USERN prize in Physical Science, the Swiss Physical Society Award in 2018 for Young Researcher and the IUPAP Young Scientist Prize in Optics. She is currently USERN Ambassador for Italy and board member of the Young Academy of Europe.
More can be found at https://pvsquared2.unipv.it.
Weblink: https://people.epfl.ch/giulia.grancini?lang=en
Dr. Daniel Grave is an assistant professor in the Department of Materials Engineering at Ben Gurion University, Israel.
Dr Matthew Griffith develops bio-functional electronic inks and crafts new tools to print functional devices with applications in biosensing, energy and interact with human body. He has created soft functional materials that can replace traditional hard electronics, solving longstanding biocompatibility problems that restrict adoption of electronic devices in healthcare.
His achievements include creating biocompatible inks for a printed artificial retina with the potential to restore colour vision, flexible X-ray detectors that are revolutionizing radiotherapy treatment for cancer, and a series of material and technological developments that enabled the first commercial installation of printed solar cells in Australia. His work is published in the top 5% of journals in materials science and has been commercialised through multiple industry partnerships. The bioprinting tools he developed enable a globally unique translation of innovation from the lab to industrial scale roll-to-roll manufacture, leading to their inclusion in the Australian National Fabrication Facility.
Matthew has been awarded $6M+ in prestigious grants and fellowships, half secured as lead researcher. He has authored 45 publications, cited in 160 journals by authors in 68 countries across 19 different subject areas. His outreach includes direct patient engagement, creating a podcast for Australia’s leading chemistry society, and frequent media interactions.
Antonio Guerrero is Associate Professor in Applied Physics at the Institute of Advanced Materials (Spain). His background includes synthesis of organic and inorganic materials (PhD in Chemistry). He worked 4 years at Cambridge Dispaly Technology fabricating materiales for organic light emitting diodes and joined University Jaume I in 2010 to lead the fabrication laboratory of electronic devices. His expertise includes chemical and electrical characterization of several types of electronic devices. In the last years he has focused in solar cells, memristors, electrochemical cells and batteries.
Prof. Guerrero-Pérez (ORCID 0000-0002-3786-5839) is full professor of chemical engineering, being her expertise focused in the design of catalytic processes and catalytic materials, specially for waste reutilization and for environmental protection. She has participated in several international and national research projects, and as a result, she has published more than 80 research articles in the most important journals of chemical engineering, materials science, and environmental. From 2014 to 2018 she coordinated an Erasmus Mundus project between 11 universities from Europe and Asia, in which more than 50 students and researchers participated in an exchange program in Materials Science and Catalysis.
Dr. Guichuan Xing received his bachelor Degree from Fudan University (China) in 2003 and PhD in physics from National University of Singapore (Singapore) in 2011. From 2009 to 2016, he worked as a research fellow in Prof. Tze Chien Sum group at Nanyang Technological University. Dr. Xing joined the Institute of Applied Physics and Materials Engineering (IAPME), University of Macau in 2016 as an assistant Professor. His research interest includes developing and applying ultrafast nonlinear spectroscopic techniques to probing, understanding and controlling the fundamental charge and energy carrier generation, transport and relaxation processes in novel optoelectronic systems for energy conversion/storage and light emission applications.
Philippe Guyot-Sionnest is a professor of Physics and Chemistry at the University of Chicago since 1991. His group developed original aspects of colloidal quantum dots and nanoparticles, including single dot PL microscopy, the luminescent core/shell CdSe/Zns, intraband spectroscopy, charge transfer doping, electrochemical and conductivity studies, the "solid state ligand exchange", and mid-infrared quantum dots. Prior work includes the development of surface infrared-visible sum-frequency generation and the early applications to interfacial and time resolved vibrational spectroscopy of adsorbates.
Current Position:
2020-Present – Senior Lecturer of Chemistry – Institute of Chemistry and The Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Research Objectives:
Research and development of novel soft-semiconductors for light emission and X-ray detection
Research of novel soft-semiconductor materials and development of functional devices based upon them
Study fundamental processes and basic properties of functional materials – optical and electrical spectroscopy and microscopy
Development of composite semiconductors and devices based upon them
Education:
2016-2020 – Post-doctoral scholar – "Research and Development of Low-Cost and Air-Stable Solar Cells, Detectors and Light Emitting Devices" – Prof. Mercouri Kanatzidis Lab, Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University (Evanston, IL, USA)
2011–2016 – Ph.D. – Physical Chemistry – "Dimensionality Effects in Semiconductor Nanorods – Optical Study from Single Particles to Ensemble" – under the supervision of Prof. Uri Banin, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (IL)
2010-2011 – M.Sc. (within the direct Ph.D. track) – Exact Science, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (IL)
2006-2009 – B.Sc. – Exact Science (Physics and Chemistry), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (IL)
Dr. Hadjipanayi is a research scientist at the Photovoltaic Technology group in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Cyprus working on the investigation of the optoelectronic characteristics and photovoltaic performance of novel solar cell devices and her latest work focuses on the characterization of perovskite-based PV and measurement protocol development.
She has received her BSc in Physics (2001) from the University of Cyprus and her DPhil (PhD) in Condensed Matter Physics (2006) from the University of Oxford. Her employment record includes a Post-Doctoral Research Associate position at the Quantum Information Processing Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration (QIP IRC), Department of Physics, University of Oxford (2006-2009) and an Associate Research Scientist post at the Energy, Environment and Water Research Centre of the Cyprus Institute (2009-2012). Her research interests lie within the area of fundamental and applied physics of novel materials which are promising for future energy-efficient technological applications, especially in the field of solar energy. More specifically and more recently, these include: Investigation of optoelectronic properties and degradation mechanisms of novel solar cell devices including multi-junction solar cells, nanostructured silicon cells, perovskites; Development of accurate standardized and non-standardised testing protocols for new solar cell technologies.
Maria has over 10 years’ experience in national and European research projects as a partner and as a Coordinator covering the full project life-cycle involvement: from initiation to implementation, monitoring and reporting. She led the efforts to attract funds and develop a new strategic infrastructure unit at the University of Cyprus, the DegradationLab, which focuses in the accurate characterization of new and emerging solar cells, and is currently the Head of this new lab (https://fosscy.eu/laboratories/degradation-lab/).
Anders Hagfeldt is Professor in Physical Chemistry at EPFL, Switzerland. He obtained his Ph.D. at Uppsala University in 1993 and was a post-doc with Prof. Michael Grätzel (1993-1994) at EPFL, Switzerland. His research focuses on the field of mesoporous dye-sensitized solar cells, specifically physical chemical characterization of mesoporous electrodes for different types of optoelectronic devices. He has published more than 370 scientific papers that have received over 35,000 citations (with an h-index of 90). He was ranked number 46 on a list of the top 100 material scientists of the past decade by Times Higher Education. In 2014, 2015 and 2016 he was on the list of Thomson Reuter’s Highly Cited Researchers. He is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala, and the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences in Stockholm. He is a visiting professor at Uppsala University, Sweden and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Donhee Ham, Ph.D., is Gordon McKay Professor of Harvard University and Samsung Fellow. https://www.donheehamlab.org
Assistant Professor 2008-present Michigan State University Postdoctoral Fellow 2006-2008 Northwestern University Ph.D., Chemistry 2006 California Institute of Technology Research Interests: Inorganic chemistry, renewable energy technology, investigations of homogeneous and heterogeneous electron-transfer reactions, synthesis of novel nanostructured materials, development and investigations of photovoltaic and photoelectrochemical cells
Dr. Hongwei Han is Professor at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) / Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics (WNLO), and Distinguished Professor of ‘ChangJiang Scholars Program’. He obtained his bachelor degree from the College of Chemistry and Molecular Science in 2000 and his doctor degree from the School of Physics and Technology in 2005 at Wuhan University. And then, Dr. Han continued his research work at Monash University of Australia as Postdoc. After that he joined HUST and WNLO in 2008 and began to establish his group of Printable Mesoscopic Photovoltaics & Optoelectronics. Since 2000, Dr. Han has worked on the fully printable mesoscopic solar cells. The characteristic of such device is to print nanocrystalline layer, spacer layer and counter electrode layer on a single conductive substrates layer-by-layer, and then sensitized with dye and filled with electrolyte (or filled with perovskite materials directly). In 2015 his group fabricated 7m2 fully printable mesoscopic perovskite solar module. His more than 60 peer-reviewed publications in Science、 Nature Chemistry、 Nature Communications、J. Am. Chem. Soc.、Energy Environ. Sci. et al. have been published and 15 Patents have been applied within past five years.
Dr. Liyuan Han is the managing researcher of Center for Green Research on Energy and Environmental Materials, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS). He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Osaka Prefecture in 1988. He worked at SHARP Corporation since 1993, and started on the research of dye-sensitized solar cells. He has renewed the world record efficiency of dye-sensitized solar cells (cell and module) for several times. On 2008, he moved to NIMS, and established a research on next generation solar cells. Recently, he moved to research perovskite solar cells and achieved the first certified efficiency of 15% with cell area larger than 1 cm2. He is an inventor in more than 100 patents and an author in ca 200 scientific publications such as Science, Nature Energy, Advanced Materials in the field of next generation solar cells. His current research interests involve fundamental research in perovskite solar cells, dye-sensitized solar cells, and organic solar cells.
Yael Hanein is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at Tel Aviv University, VP of scientific affairs at Nano Retina and CTO and founder at X-trodes. In the past she conducted research at the Weizmann Institute (MSc and PhD in Physics), Princeton University (visiting student), and at the University of Washington as a post-doc fellow. Her research field is neuro-engineering, focusing on developing wearable electronics and bionic vision.
Thomas Hannappel is W3 full professor (physics) at Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany, department ‘Photovoltaics’, since 2011. Before, he was provisional head of the Institute “Materials for Photovoltaics” at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin and lecturer at the Free University Berlin, where he received his state doctorate in 2005. At Technical University Berlin he obtained his PhD in Physics with studies on ultrafast dynamics of photo-induced charge carrier separation in dye solar cells, he performed at Fritz-Haber-Institute Berlin of the Max-Planck-Society. In 2003/04 he conducted research on silicon/III-V-interfaces at National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Colorado. His current investigations are focused on high-performance solar cells and critical interfaces and he is a key player in the fields solar energy conversion and reactions of critical semiconductor interfaces including silicon/ and germanium/III-V-interfaces, and nano- and quantum-structures.
I am currently a joint project researcher between Malmö University and the Nanomax beamline at MAX IV, my current projects focus on Bragg Coherent Diffraction Imaging (BCDI) of nanoparticles in the electrochemical environment and in situ grazing incidence XAFS. I am also actively involved in the development of in situ high-energy surface x-ray diffraction, performing experiments and writing software for data treatment.
I got my Ph.D. in 2016 from the University of Liverpool where my thesis focused on using surface x-ray diffraction to investigate fundamental electrocatalysis. Afterwards I was a postdoc at Lund university, where I focused on combining various synchrotron techniques with anodisation, corrosion, and electrodeposition. I then continued another two years at Lund and worked on in situ high-energy surface x-ray diffraction and some in-situ AP-XPS measurements. Afterwards I did another postdoc at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, in the Nano-electrochemistry group.
One of my goals is to use synchrotron-based techniques to establish structure-function relationships for model electrocatalysts that will hopefully lead to the development of new catalysts, and a sustainable future. Also it's fun to learn new things, "stupid" experiments sometimes take us to unexpected places.
Marta Hatzell is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. Prior to starting at Georgia Tech in August of 2015, she was a Post-Doctoral researcher in the Department of Material Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois - Urbana-Campaign. During her post doc, she worked in the Braun Research group on research at the interface between colloid science and electrochemistry. She completed her PhD at Penn state University in the Logan Research Group. Her PhD explored environmental technology for energy generation and water treatment. During graduate school she was an NSF and PEO Graduate Research Fellow.
Currently her research group focuses on exploring the role photochemistry and electrochemistry may play in future sustainable systems. She is an active member of the American Chemical Society, the Electrochemical Society, ASEEP, AICHE, and ASME. Dr. Hatzell has also been awarded the NSF Early CAREER award in 2019, the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship in Chemistry in 2020, the ONR Young Investigator Award in 2020, the ECS Toyota Young Investigator award in 2021, and the Moore Inventor Fellow in 2021.
Dr. Hatzell is an assistant professor at Princeton university in the Andlinger Center for Energy and Environment and department of Mechanical and aerospace engineering. Hatzell’s group primarily work on energy storage and is particularly interested at using non-equilibrium x-ray techniques to probe batteries during operando experimentation.
Dr. Hatzell earned her Ph.D. in Material Science and Engineering at Drexel University, her M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Pennsylvania State University, and her B.S./B.A. in Engineering/Economics from Swarthmore College. Hatzell’s research group works on understanding phenomena at solid|liquid and solid|solid interfaces and works broadly i9n energy storage and conversion. Hatzell is the recipient of several awards including the ORAU Powe Junior Faculty Award (2017), NSF CAREER Award (2019), ECS Toyota Young Investigator Award (2019), finalist for the BASF/Volkswagen Science in Electrochemistry Award (2019), the Ralph “Buck” Robinson award from MRS (2019), Sloan Fellowship in Chemistry (2020), and POLiS Award of Excellence for Female Researchers (2021).
Sophia Haussener is a Professor heading the Laboratory of Renewable Energy Science and Engineering at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL). Her current research is focused on providing design guidelines for thermal, thermochemical, and photoelectrochemical energy conversion reactors through multi-physics modelling and experimentation. Her research interests include: thermal sciences, fluid dynamics, charge transfer, electro-magnetism, and thermo/electro/photochemistry in complex multi-phase media on multiple scales. She received her MSc (2007) and PhD (2010) in Mechanical Engineering from ETH Zurich. She was a postdoctoral researcher at the Joint Center of Artificial Photosynthesis (JCAP) and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) between 2011 and 2012. She has published over 70 articles in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings, and 2 books. She has been awarded the ETH medal (2011), the Dimitris N. Chorafas Foundation award (2011), the ABB Forschungspreis (2012), the Prix Zonta (2015), the Global Change Award (2017), and the Raymond Viskanta Award (2019), and is a recipient of a Starting Grant of the Swiss National Science Foundation (2014).
The author was graduated from Osaka University in 1978 and received Ph.D from Osaka University in 1983. He joined R&D Center in Toshiba from 1978 to 2000, during which the author was engaged in development of ULSI lithography, solar cells direct methanol fuel cells, and polysilane. He joined polysilane research in Robert West group of Wisconsin University (US) from 1988 to 1990. He was a professor of Kyushu Institute of Technology (National Institute) since 2001. From 2019, the author is a professor in The University of Electro-Communications in Japan. His research interest is printable solar cells.
Professor Peter Head CBE FREng FRSA Chairman and Founder of Resilience Brokers Ltd, Visiting Professor University of Bristol in sustainable systems engineering.
Peter is a civil and structural engineer who has become a recognised world leader in major bridges, advanced composite technology and in sustainable development in cities and regions.
In 2008 he was named by the Guardian Newspaper as one of 50 people that could ‘save the planet’.
He was cited by Time magazine in 2008 as one of 30 global eco-heroes and has been one of CNN’s Principle Voices.
In 2011 he was awarded the CBE in the New Year’s Honours List for services to Civil Engineering and the Environment.
In April 2011 he left Arup to set up The Ecological Sequestration Trust, a Charity which has brought together the world’s top scientists, engineers, economists, financiers, health, ecology and other specialists to create, demonstrate and scale a CHEER (Collaborative Human-Ecological-Economics-Resource systems) GIS platform to enable regions all over the world to plan, design and implement inclusive resilient growth using low carbon urban-rural development approaches which are energy, water and food secure. The first prototype was tested in Accra Ghana in 2016 and Peter is now leading a plan in Resilience Brokers Ltd with global partners to develop it fully and roll it out to 200 city region demonstrators in most countries by 2025.
Peter was a member of SDSN Thematic Group 9 that wrote and lobbied successfully for an urban SDG, SDG11.
Peter was one of the authors of the Planetary Health Commission 2015 Report on Safeguarding Human Health in the Anthropocene Era. He was also one of the authors of the Royal Society Report on Resilience to Extreme Weather 2015. He was editor of Roadmap 2030 an action plan for financing SDG delivery in cities including the key role of the Faiths. This was presented at Habitat III in Quito as the New Urban Agenda was launched.
He is a member of the UNDRR GAR 19/22 Advisory Board and a member of the Global Risk Assessment Framework GRAF working group.
Peter was a member of the Swansea University SPECIFIC advisory board until 2019 when he became the Chair of the associated SUNRISE Advisory Board.
Peter is a champion of sustainable development. He established the Ecological Sequestration Trust in 2011. He advocates that changing the way we invest public and private money in the built environment could be made very much more effective if the public and private sectors adopt sustainable development principles.
Peter is a civil and structural engineer who has become a recognised world leader in major bridges (he received an OBE for successfully delivering the Second Severn Crossing as Government Agent), advanced composite technology and now in sustainable development in cities and regions. He has won many awards for his work including the Award of Merit of IABSE, the Royal Academy of Engineering’s Silver Medal and the Prince Philip Award for Polymers in the Service of Mankind.
He joined Arup in 2004 to create and lead their planning and integrated urbanism team which by 2011 had doubled in size. He directed work on the Dongtan Eco City Planning project which was voted by Chinese developers in 2005 as the most influential development project in China.
In July 2008 he was awarded an honorary doctorate in engineering at Bristol University, where he is a visiting Professor in Sustainable Systems Engineering.
In May 2011 he was appointed as a visiting professor in eco-cities at Westminster University. In 2009 he was awarded the Sir Frank Whittle medal of the Royal Academy of Engineering for a lifetime contribution to the well-being of the nation through environmental innovation.
In 2008 he was named by the Guardian Newspaper as one of 50 people that could ‘save the planet’.
He was cited by Time magazine in 2008 as one of 30 global eco-heroes and has been one of CNN’s Principle Voices.
In 2011 he was awarded the CBE in the New Year’s Honours List for services to Civil Engineering and the Environment.
Awarded the CEMEX global lifetime achievement award in 2016
In 2011 he founded The Ecological Sequestration Trust and in 2016 the operating company Resilience Brokers. In 2020 he co-founded Pivot Projects.
He chairs Groundwork South Trustee Board and SUNRISE Advisory Board.
Martin Heeney is a Professor of Organic Materials Chemistry and Royal Society Wolfson Fellow at Imperial College London. He is a graduate of the University of East Anglia and received his PhD from the same institution in 1999 under the supervision of Prof. Michael Cook. Following eight years in industry, he joined the Materials Department at Queen Mary University of London as a senior lecturer in 2007 before moving to Imperial in 2009. His research interests include the design, synthesis and characterisation of solution processed materials for a variety of applications. He has published over 250 research papers, 5 book chapters and over 100 patents. In 2013 he was awarded the RSC Corday-Morgan Medal for most meritorious contributions to chemistry by a scientist under the age of 40. For the last five years, he has been named by Thomson Reuters as a HighlyCited researcher in the field of Materials Science.
Thomas Heine graduated in physics from TU Dresden under the guidance of Gotthard Seifert, with research stages in Montréal (Dennis R. Salahub) and Exeter (Patrick Fowler). After postdoctoral stages in Bologna (Francesco Zerbetto) and Geneva (Jacques Weber) he obtained the venia legendi in Physical Chemistry at TU Dresden. In 2008 he was appointed as Associated Professor of Theoretical Physics/Theoretical Materials Science at Jacobs University and was promoted to Full Professor in 2011. From 2015-2018 he held the Chair of Theoretical Chemistry at University of Leipzig, Germany. Since 2018 is professor of theoretical chemistry at TU Dresden in joint appointment with Helmholtz-Center Dresden-Rossendorf. His research interests include molecular framework compounds, two-dimensional materials, theoretical spectroscopy, and the development of methods and software for materials science.
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Prof. Z. Hens received his PhD in applied physics from Ghent University in 2000, worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Utrecht University and was appointed professor at the Ghent University department of inorganic and physical chemistry in 2002. His research concerns the synthesis, processing and characterization of colloidal nanocrystals.
Laura Herz is a Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford. She received her PhD in Physics from the University of Cambridge in 2002 and was a Research Fellow at St John's College Cambridge from 2001 - 2003 after which she moved to Oxford. Her research interests lie in the area of organic and organic/inorganic hybrid semiconductors including aspects such as self-assembly, nano-scale effects, energy-transfer and light-harvesting for solar energy conversion.
Eva Herzig’s research interest focuses on the possibilities and limitations in the characterization of nanostructures in functional materials as well as how such nanostructures form and change as functions of external parameters. The examined materials range from organic molecules to nanostructured hybrid and inorganic systems. We examine processing-property relationships and the influence of external fields to investigate how the fundamental self-assembly processes influence the final material performance. To this end we exploit various scattering techniques to observe and control structure and function relationships in the examined materials in-situ. Using grazing incidence x-ray scattering we are particularly sensitive to nanostructures on flat surfaces and within thin films.
Professor Dr. Renate Hiesgen, born on 18.08.1958 in Germany, is Professor for Experimental Physics at the University of Applied Sciences, Department of Basic Science in Esslingen, Germany.
She studied Physics at the University of Münster and received her PhD with electron microscopy studies under the supervision of Prof. L. Reimer in 1989.
Her work on in-situ characterization of interfaces by scanning tunneling microscopy started at the Institute for Solar Energy Research in Hannover in 1998. After continued research with scanning tunneling and atomic force microscopy at the Research Center Jülich GmbH and the Technical University Munich, she became Professor for Experimental Physics at the University of Applied Sciences Esslingen in 2000. Main topics of her group are characterization of materials and interfaces for energy applications. In addition to battery materials and semiconductors for solar energy conversion, a focus of her work in recent years has been the investigation of ionomers and electrodes for applications in fuel cells and electrolysis with material-sensitive and conductive studies. She has authored or coauthored more than 80 publications and was recipient of the f-cell award 2007 in the category research.
Hugh Hillhouse is the Rehnberg Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Washington. Hugh earned a Master’s degree in Physics and a Doctorate in Chemical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts. After an NSF International Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Kavli Institute for Nanoscience at Delft University in the Netherlands working with Teun Klapwijk on organic semiconductors, he started as an Assistant Professor at Purdue University in 2002 working on semiconductor nanocrystals and photovoltaics. He later spent a year on sabbatical at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden Colorado working with Matt Beard and Art Nozik on multiple exciton generation and quantum dot solar cells before moving to the University of Washington in 2010 as the Endowed Rehnberg Chair Professor. He was the Thin Film Photovoltaics thrust leader for the Bay Area Photovoltaic Consortium (BAPVC) and has organized symposia for the National Academy of Engineering’s Frontiers of Engineering along with MRS and E-MRS. He has been on the editorial or conference advisory boards for Chemistry of Materials and the International Conference on Ternary and Multinary Compounds. He has published ~100 peer-reviewed articles that have been cited ~8,800 times with an h-index of 42. His research interest lies at the nexus of materials chemistry and solar energy conversion. His most recent efforts focus on perovskite stability and data science/machine learning.
Dr. Andreas Hinsch holds a Fellow position at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems in Freiburg. In 1992 he made his PhD in physics at University of Freiburg. He has worked as post-doc, project leader and senior scientist in Switzerland (EPFL-Lausanne, Glas Trösch), Japan (NIRIN) and the Netherlands (ECN) on dye and organic solar cells. In 2001 he had established a group at Fraunhofer ISE on the topic and has been the coordinator in several European and national projects in the field. From 2007 on he has been involved in the development of building integrated dye solar modules. Since 2013 he is coordinating activities in national and international projects on perovskite solar cells. His scientific interest is highly interdisciplinary research on emerging new types of solar cells and solar converters based on nanostructured materials. He regards the reduction of the energy pay-back time of solar technologies as most essential for the sustainable installation of solar energy sources in the future.
Dr. Anita Ho-Baillie is an Associate Professor at the School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering. She is also the Program Manager for the Perovskite Solar Cell Research at the Australian Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics. Her research interests inlucde PV device (design, fabrication, characterisation, modelling, cost analysis) for high performance Si solar cells; tandem solar cells such as III-V/Si and perovskite/Si; perovskite solar cells (solution process, vapour assisted deposition, dual source evaporation, spray assisted deposition), inorganic perovskites and lead free perovskites.
Assoc. Prof. Nejc Hodnik graduated and later received his PhD from the Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at the University of Ljubljana. During his doctorate, he was employed as a young researcher at the National Institute of Chemistry (NIC) under the direction of Dr. Stanko Hočevar, who led the research into fuel cells. In 2014, on the basis of an individual prestigious Marie-Curie Scholarship (now Marie Skłodowska-Curie), he completed his postdoctoral training in Düsseldorf, Germany, at the Max-Planck Institute; his mentor was Prof. Dr. Karl Mayrhofer. In 2016, he returned to Slovenia and began working at the Department of Catalysis and Chemical Reaction Engineering at the NIC. Among other things, he obtained a postdoctoral project from the Slovenian Research Agency (ARRS) and in 2017, with the ARRS scholarship, worked for three months with the Head of an ERC project in Italy. In 2019, he was appointed associate professor at the University of Nova Gorica where he works in the Materials doctoral programme (tertiary study). Based on the acquired ERC StG project (123STABLE) in 2019, a new research Laboratory for electrocatalysis was set up in 2020 at NIC. His main topics are fuel cell and electrolyzer catalyst's activity and stability.
Jennifer A. Hollingsworth is a Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Fellow and Fellow of the American Physical Society, Division of Materials Physics, and The American Association for the Advancement of Science. She currently serves as Councilor for the Amercan Chemical Society Colloid & Surface Chemistry Division. She holds a BA in Chemistry from Grinnell College (Phi Beta Kappa) and a PhD degree in Inorganic Chemistry from Washington University in St. Louis. She joined LANL as a Director’s Postdoctoral Fellow in 1999, becoming a staff scientist in 2001. In 2013, she was awarded a LANL Fellows’ Prize for Research for her discovery and elaboration of non-blinking “giant” quantum dots (gQDs). In her role as staff scientist in the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT; http://www.lanl.gov/expertise/profiles/view/jennifer-hollingsworth), a US DOE Nanoscale Science Research Center and User Facility, she endeavors to advance fundamental knowledge of optically active nanomaterials, targeting the elucidation of synthesis-nanostructure-properties correlations toward the rational design of novel functional materials. Her gQD design has been extended to multiple QD and other nanostructure systems, and several are being explored for applications from ultra-stable molecular probes for advanced single-particle tracking to solid-state lighting and single-photon generation. A recent focus of her group is to advance scanning probe nanolithography for precision placement of single nanocrystals into metasurfaces and plasmonic antennas.
Dr Natalie Holmes leads a research team at the University of Sydney Faculty of Engineering developing nanostructured materials for organic electronics and biomedical devices. Materials engineering for these fields has been the focus of her research over the past decade, and takes her each year to international synchrotron facilities to measure the precise nanostructure of these cutting-edge functional materials. Natalie holds a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Newcastle (2016), and is an Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) scholar. She has led research projects in nanostructuring materials for eco-friendly coated solar cells at Karlstad University (Sweden) and nanostructured thin-film devices for electronic biosensors and solar cells at the University of Newcastle.
Michael Hope is a Marie Skłodowska Curie fellow at EPFL, Switzerland, in the group of Prof. Lyndon Emsley. He specialises in the use of solid state NMR and DNP methods to study functional materials, with a focus on the advanced characterisation of hybrid perovskites for photovoltaic applications. Dr. Hope obtained his PhD from the University of Cambridge, UK, in the group of Prof. Clare Grey on "Solid State NMR of Metallic and Paramagnetic Systems".
Dec. 2006 - Sept. 2008 Post Doc., University of California, Los Angeles, United States
Sept. 2001 - Nov. 2006 Ph. D. Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Sept. 1997 - Aug. 2001 B.S. University of Science and Technology, Beijing, China
Oct. 2010 - Present Professor, State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Sept. 2011 - Present Professor, School of Chemistry and Biological Engineering, University of Science and Technology, Beijing, China
Oct. 2009 - Sept. 2010 CTO, Solarmer Materials Inc. Beijing, China
Oct. 2008 - Sept. 2010 Director of Research, Solarmer Energy Inc., El Monte, CA, US
Dr. Hou’s research focuses on organic photovoltaic materials. Two of his major interests: (a) Design and synthesis of new conjugated polymers towards the applications in highly efficient polymer solar cells; (b) Improving photovoltaic performance of polymer solar cells by morphology control and device engineering. He has co-authored 170+ papers in peer-reviewed journals and published 15 patents, and these works have been cited more than 20,000 times.
Arjan Houtepen obtained his PhD Cum Laude under supervision of prof. Vanmaekelbergh at Utrecht University and subsequently became tenure track assistant professor in Delft. In 2009/2010 he was a visiting scientist in the group of prof. Feldmann in Munich. At present he is associate professor in the optoelectronic materials section at Delft University.
Libai Huang is currently a Professor of Chemistry at Purdue University. She received her B.S. from Peking University in 2001 and her Ph.D. from University of Rochester in 2006. She joined the Purdue faculty in 2014. Her research program is aimed at directly imaging energy and charge transport with femtosecond time resolution and nanometer spatial resolution to elucidate energy and charge transfer mechanisms. www.chem.purdue.edu/huang
Haowei Huang graduated and received his Ph.D. in Bioscience Engineering from the Centre for Membrane Separations, Adsorption, Catalysis and Spectroscopy for Sustainable Solutions, KU Leuven (Belgium), in 2020, where he studied metal halide perovskite photocatalysis. After that, he continued his postdoctoral research with financial support from the Belgium government (FWO) with Prof.Maarten Roeffaers at KU Leuven and Prof. Peidong Yang at UC Berkeley. His research focuses on the development of optically active materials and their application on photo(electro)catalysis.
Sven Huettner currently holds a position as a Juniorprofessor for Organic and Hybrid Electronics at the University of Bayreuth, Germany. Before he joined the department of Macromolecular Chemistry I at Bayreuth, he worked as a Research Associate at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge in the group of Prof. Sir Richard Friend. His Research is concered with novel materials based on conjugated polymers and hybrid semiconductors for applications in solar cells and transistors.
Dr. Bryan D. Huey is a Professor and the Department Head of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Connecticut (arrived 2004). This followed 18 months as an NRC fellow at NIST, 3 years as a postdoc at Oxford, a PhD at UPenn (1999), and a BS at Stanford, all working in the field of materials science emphasizing nanoscale materials property measurements. His research focuses on the development and application of advanced variations of AFM especially for measuring and mapping electronic, piezoelectric, photovoltaic, and mechanical properties at the nanoscale. He has nearly 150 publications, including articles in Science, Nature, and PNAS over the past 5 years. Huey was one of 5 co-organizers for the ~7000 attendee Fall 2019 MRS annual meeting, one of 3 co-organizers for the 2017 US-Japan Piezoelectrics and Dielectrics Symposium, and previously served as the Chair of the 1200+ member Basic Science Division of the American Ceramic Society. Huey is presently the 2nd Vice-Chair for the University Materials Council, the organization of MSE department heads in North America, in line to become the Chair in 2023.
Taeghwan Hyeon received his B. S. (1987) and M. S. (1989) in Chemistry from Seoul National University (SNU), Korea. He obtained his Ph.D. in Chemistry from U. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1996), and conducted one-year postdoctoral research at the Catalysis Center of Northwestern University. Since he joined the faculty of the School of Chemical and Biological Engineering of Seoul National University in 1997, he has focused on the synthesis and applications of uniform-sized nanoparticles and related nanostructured materials, and published > 400 papers in prominent international journals (> 61,000 citations and h-index of > 125). He is a SNU Distinguished Professor. In September 2020, he was selected as 2020 Citation Laureate (known as Nobel Prize watch list) in Chemistry by Clarivate Analytics/Web of Science. In 2011, he was selected as “Top 100 Chemists” of the decade by UNESCO&IUPAC. Since 2014, he has been chosen as “Highly Cited Researcher” in Chemistry and Materials Science areas by Clarivate Analytics. Since 2012, he has been serving as a Director of Center for Nanoparticle Research of Institute for Basic Science (IBS). He is Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) and Materials Research Society (MRS). He received many awards including the Korea S&T Award from the Korean President (2016), Hoam Prize (2012, Samsung Hoam Foundation), POSCO-T. J. Park Award (2008), and the IUVSTA Prize for Technology (International Union for Vacuum Science, Technique and Applications, 2016). From 2010 to 2020, he served as an Associate Editor of Journal of the American Chemical Society. He has been serving as editorial (advisory) board members of ACS Central Science, Advanced Materials, Nano Today, and Small.
Maria Ibáñez was born in La Sénia (Spain). She graduated in physics at the University of Barcelona, where she also obtained her PhD in 2013, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Cabot and Prof. Dr. Morante. Her PhD thesis was qualified Excellent Cum Laude and awarded with the Honors Doctorate by the University of Barcelona. Her PhD research was funded by a Spanish competitive grant (FPU) which supported her to conduct short-term research stays in cutting-edge laboratories. In particular she worked at CEA Grenoble (2009), the University of Chicago (2010), the California Institute of Technology (2011), the Cornell University (2012) and the Northwestern University (2013). In 2014, she joined the group of Prof. Dr. Kovalenko at ETH Zürich and EMPA as a research fellow where in 2017 she received the Ružička Prize. In September 2018 she became an Assistant Professor (tenure-track) at IST Austria and started the Functional Nanomaterials group.
Giacomo Indiveri is Professor of Neuromorphic Cognitive Systems at the University of Zurich and ETH Zurich. He holds an MSc degree in electrical engineering and a PhD degree in computer science. His interests lie in the design of mixed signal neuromorphic electronic systems and learning circuits.
Shogo Ishizuka is currently the group leader of the Compound Thin-Film Materials Group (CTFM) of the Research Institute for Energy Conservation (iECO), the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Tsukuba in 2003, working with Prof. Katsuhiro Akimoto on the growth of oxide semiconductor thin films for solar cell applications, and started working on Cu(In,Ga)Se2 (CIGS) thin film solar cells as a post doc at AIST. In 2004, he joined the Research Center for Photovoltaics (RCPV), AIST, as a research scientist and continued studying CIGS solar cells. From 2011-2012, he worked for the National Center For Photovoltaics (NCPV), National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), USA, as a visiting scientist for one year. He became a senior researcher in 2010, a chief senior researcher in 2017, and the group leader in 2020. His research background is applied physics and materials science based on thin film technologies including film growth, device fabrication and characterizations. His current research interests include chalcogenide materials for thin-film photovoltaics and related applications.
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Seigo Ito received his Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo (Japan), with a thesis that was the first to discuss Graetzel-type dye-sensitized solar cells in Japan. He worked in the Laboratory of Professor Shozo Yanagida (Osaka University, Japan) for two years, and in the Laboratory of Professor Michael Graetzel, at the Swiss federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in Lausanne as a postdoctoral scientist for over three years, where his efforts focused on the progress of high-efficiency dye-sensitized solar cells. He is currently professor at University of Hyogo, making new printable cost-effective solar cells.
Grigorios Itskos obtained a B.Sc. in Physics in 1997 from University of Thessaloniki, Greece and carried out his PhD studies at SUNY at Buffalo, USA (Ph.D. in Physics 2003), under the supervision of Prof. Athos Petrou within the newly-born field of semiconductor spintronics. He worked as postdoctoral researcher (Imperial College London, 2003-2007) under the supervision of Profs. Donal Bradely and Ray Murray, focusing on photophysical studies of hybrid organic-inorganic semiconductors. In September 2007 he was hired as a faculty member at the Department of Physics, University of Cyprus (Lecturer 2007-2011, Assistant Professor 2011- 2017, Associate Professor 2017- now). His group research activities focus on optical studies of inorganic, organic and hybrid solution-processed semiconductors, with recent emphasis on the characterization and optoelectronic applications of semiconductor nanocrystals.
Dr. Xabier Iturbe received his MSc degree in Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering from the University of the Basque Country (Spain) in 2007 and his PhD in Electronics Engineering from the University of Edinburgh (UK) in 2013. He is a senior research engineer and EU project coordinator at Ikerlan (Spain), where he currently coordinates the Centre’s research activities in neuromorphic and AI hardware design with a focus on applicability to industry customers. He is also the coordinator of the Horizon Europe research project NimbleAI. In 2014, he received a Marie Curie research fellowship to conduct research at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (USA) and Arm (UK), exploring techniques to enhance fault-tolerance in Arm Cortex-R CPUs and make them suitable for space use. From 2016 to 2018 he was the Arm University Program EMEA manager.
Seiichiro Izawa is an associate professor in Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan, since 2023. He received his Ph.D. from Department of Applied Chemistry in the University of Tokyo in 2015 and worked at RIKEN in Japan and University of California, Santa Barbara as a postdoctoral fellow, and Institute for Molecular Science in Japan as an assistant professor. His research interests are optoelectronic properties at organic semiconductor interface for efficient organic electronics devices such as photovoltaics and light-emitting diodes.
Dr Jordi Jacas obtained his PhD in Materials at Sheffield University, working on the electrical and electrochemical characterisation of electrode materials for Li-ion batteries. During his postdoc at ISIS neutron spallation source and Stockholm University, he developed new tools to characterise batteries in-situ using neutron diffraction. Dr Jacas is currently a leading researcher for the battery section at the Catalonia Institute for Energy Research. His research aims to develop new electrode materials for next-generation batteries, including Co-free, Li-S and solid-state batteries. Since 2020, he has been the coordinator of the COBRA project (H2020-875568) devoted to fabricating generation 3b Li-ion batteries for electric vehicles.
Prof. Dr. Wolfram Jaegermann: Curriculum Vitae Wolfram Jaegermann, born 1954, studied Chemistry at the University of Dortmund and got his Ph.-D. in Inorganic Chemistry from the University of Bielefeld, Germany. Afterwards he started his scientifc career as a Post-Doc at the Hahn-Meitner-Institute in Berlin in Photoelectrochemistry. He spent one year as DuPont Guest Scientist in Wilmington, Deleware, before he got his Habilitation in Physical Chemistry at the Free University of Berlin. Afterwards he was appointed Head of Department of Interfaces at the Hahn-Meitner-Institute, before in 1997 he became Full Professor with the chair of Surface Science, in the newly founded Department of Materials Science, TU Darmstadt. His main research fields are: Surface Science, Photovoltaic Converters, Intercalation Batteries, Inorganic/Organic Composites, Semiconductor Interfaces, Photoelectrochemistry.