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.
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).
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 600 papers and 80 issued patents. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, IEEE, Institute of Physics (UK), 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, 2023).
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 and the Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology at UB in 2020. Her research is focused on the development of materials and reactors for emerging technologies for hydrogen generation and carbon dioxide conversion (photoelectrochemistry, heterogeneous catalysis and plasma-catalysis). She is the author of more than 130 scientific publications and 4 patents.
Denis Andrienko is a project leader at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research working on the development of multiscale simulation techniques for charge and exciton transport in conjugated polymers as well as small molecular weight organic semiconductors. After completing his Masters degree in the University of Kiev he obtained his first PhD in optics/structural transitions in liquid crystals from the Institute of Physics, Ukraine (group of Prof. Reznikov) and his second PhD on computer simulations of complex fluids from the University of Bristol, UK (group of Prof. M. P. Allen). He joined MPIP as a Humboldt Fellow doing theoretical studies of the slippage effect, mechanical properties of polyelectrolyte microcapsules, and effective interactions in colloidal systems. Dr. Andrienko has published over eighty journal articles and four book chapters.
Corina Andronescu received her B.Sc. and M.Sc. from the University Politehnica of Bucharest (Romania) in 2009 and 2011, respectively. Her Ph.D. title she received from the same university in 2014. In 2016 she joined the group of Prof. W. Schuhmann (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany) first as postdoctoral researcher and later as group leader. December 2018, she was appointed Junior Professor at the University of Duisburg-Essen, where she is currently leading the group of Electrochemical Catalysis in the Faculty of Chemistry. Her research interests include development of hybrid electrocatalysts for the CO2 electroreduction reaction, alcohol electrooxidation as well as investigation of electrocatalysts at nanoscale using Scanning Electrochemical Cell Microscopy.
Juan A. Anta is Full Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University Pablo de Olavide, Seville, Spain. He obtained a BA in Chemistry in the Universidad Complutense of Madrid, Spain and carried out his PhD research at the Physical Chemistry Institut of the National Research Council of Spain. 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 Royal Society University Research Fellow in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London.
She obtained her PhD in 2017 from Imperial College developing covalent modification strategies on carbon nanomaterials. She was a postdoctoral research associate at Queen Mary University of London and Imperial College, where her research interests shifted to investigating charge storage mechanisms in sodium-ion battery anodes, and later a Faraday Institution Research Fellow, working on the development of engineered carbon hosts for sulfur cathodes in lithium-sulfur batteries.
Heather was awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship in 2023, allowing her to establish an independent research team exploring sustainable materials for structural energy storage.
Christophe Aucher holds a doctorate in Energy and Material Sciences from both the University of Québec at Montréal (Canada, UQAM) and the Material Institute of Nantes (France, IMN). He is developing his career in the LEITAT R&D department since 2011. LEITAT is a private Technological Centre based in Barcelona and dedicated to R&D activities in the areas of biomedicine, biotechnologies, environment, surface treatments, material science, nanotechnology and energies with deep knowledge and experience in technological transfers to several industrial sectors. Christophe is leading the Energy Storage team working on solid state, lithium sulfur, metal air and lithium recovery. His team is currently involved in National and European initiatives for electrical mobility, stationary, printed electronic and batteries recycling.
Dr. Takeru Bessho is a Project Lecture at the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST) at the University of Tokyo, Japan, who was granted Doctor of Engineering in 2009 from the Shibaura Institute of Technology as developments of optoelectronic device properties with organic-inorganic hybrid materials. His affiliations were SONY Corporation as a Researcher at
Advanced Materials Laboratories from 2011 to 2015, and École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne as a Research Associate at laboratory of Prof. Michael Grätzel from 2009 to 2011. His main interest is on device engineering with organic-inorganic materials and its improvement of energy conversion efficiency as solar cells.
Udo Bach is a full professor at Monash University in the Department of Chemical Engineering; the Deputy Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Exciton Science and an ANFF-VIC Technology Fellow at the Melbourne Centre of Nanofabrication (MCN). He received his PhD from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL, Switzerland) working in the research group of Prof Michael Grätzel and worked for 3 years in a technology start-up company in Dublin (Ireland). Subsequently he spent 15 months as a postdoc in the group of Prof. Paul Alivisatos in UC Berkeley (USA) before moving to Monash University in November 2005 to establish his own research group.
Prof Bach has a strong background in the area of photovoltaics and nanofabrication. He is involved in fundamental and applied research in the area of perovskite and dye-sensitized solar cells. He has additional research activities in the area of nanofabrication, DNA-directed self-assembly, nanoprinting, plasmonics for sensing, photovoltaic applications and combinatorial photovoltaic materials discovery.
Gerd Bacher actually holds the chair of electronic materials and nanostructures at the Faculty of Engineering at Duisburg-Essen University. His research career started at Stuttgart University in the 1990s working on optical spectroscopy on epitaxially grown quantum wells, which was then extended to nanotechnology and nanodevice fabrication for optoelectronic applications at Würzburg University and Tokyo Institute of Technology. Being full professor since 2003, he is currently working on a wide diversity of nanomaterials, including 2D materials and nanocrystals, for applications in optoelectronics, information science and energy science. He is author or co-author of more than 250 articles in peer-reviewed journals.
Julien Bachmann studied chemistry at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, and graduated with a Diplôme de chimiste in 2001 (with Carlo Floriani). He then joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the USA to obtain his Ph. D. in inorganic chemistry (with Dan Nocera, 2006). He moved with a Humboldt Fellowship to the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics in Germany to learn the chemistry and physics of solids (with Ulrich Gösele) and worked as a postdoc at the University of Hamburg (with Kornelius Nielsch). He started as an Assistant Professor position (‘Juniorprofessur’, W1) in physics and chemistry in Hamburg in 2009 and was appointed as an Associate Professor (W2) of Inorganic Chemistry at the Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg in 2012. In 2017, he was promoted to the Full Professor (W3) status in the framework of the Cluster of Excellence ‘Engineering of Advanced Materials’, and he now leads the Chair for ‘Chemistry of Thin Film Materials’ at FAU.
Prof. Bachmann obtained several teaching prizes. He was awarded by the European Research Council an ERC Consolidator Grant (2015) and a Proof of Concept Grant (2022). He used to hold an adjunct position as a Full Professor at Saint Petersburg State University (2017 to February 2022) and was invited to the Danish Technical University as an Otto Mønsted Guest Professor (2021). He is also a co-founder and director of the company Atlant 3D Nanosystems.
Dowon Bae received his BSc and MSc (Honors) from the Russian State Technological University named after K.E. Tsiolkovsky (current - Moscow Aviation Institute). After research activities within solar cells at the LG Innotek (South Korea; 2008 – 2012), he joined the VILLUM Center for the Science of Sustainable Fuels and Chemicals at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), where he conducted his PhD study and Postdoc under the supervision of Prof. Ib Chorkendorff. His research has focused on PEC (photoelectrochemical) device design for solar-fuel applications. From 2018 to 2020, he has worked as a Postdoc at the Delft University of Technology with LEaDing Fellowship (Marie-Curie COFUND) support. He has held academic appointment as an Assistant Professor at Heriot-Watt University from 2020. His research concerns PEC devices and rechargeable flow-battery systems.
Peter Bäuerle received his Ph.D. in organic chemistry from the University of Stuttgart (Germany, 1985) working with Prof. F. Effenberger. After a post-doctoral year at MIT, Boston (USA, 1986), in the group of Prof. M.S. Wrighton, he completed his habilitation (1994) at the University of Stuttgart. After being Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Würzburg (Germany, 1994-95), he became Director of the Institute for Organic Chemistry II and Advanced Materials at the University of Ulm (Germany, since 1996). Current research interests of the group include development of novel organic semiconducting materials, in particular, conjugated poly- and oligothiophenes, structure-property relationships, self-assembling properties, and their applications in electronic devices, in particular organic solar cells. Results have been published in more than 280 peer-reviewed scientific papers, 8 book chapters and 12 patents. For his work in the field of plastic electronics he was awarded with the René Descartes Prize of the European Union (2000) and the Nozoe Memorial Lecture at ISNA-14 (USA, 2011). Guest Professorships at the University of Osaka (Japan, 2002), Université Rennes 1 (France, 2004), Melbourne (Australia, 2008), Shanghai (China, 2010), and Gainesville (USA, 2012) followed. He is co-founder of Heliatek GmbH, Dresden/Ulm, a spin-off company devoted for the production of organic solar cells (2006).
Dr. Chris Baeumer is Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) for Electrochemistry of Nanostructures in the Inorganic Materials Science group at the University of Twente and associate research group leader at Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany. His research focuses on model electrochemical materials and interfaces with precisely controlled, single-crystalline surfaces, and their operando X-ray characterization to reveal the atomic details of complex oxide electrode materials at the solid/liquid interface. For this work, he was awarded the ERC Starting Grant. Before moving to the University of Twente, he was a Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellow at Stanford University and RWTH Aachen University.
Dr. Bag is currently an assistant professor of Department of Physics and an adjunct faculty of Centre of Nanotechnology at Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India. He got his Bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering from Jadavpur University and Master degree in Physics from University of Pune in 2003 and 2006 respectively. After completing PhD from Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, India in the field of Material Science in 2011 he did few years of postdoctoral work at University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA and at Lund University, Sweden before joining to IIT Roorkee in 2016.
Dr. Bag has worked on multi-disciplinary projects during PhD and postdoctoral works with multiple research groups. His expertise varies from device fabrication to various characterization including theoretical modelling and simulations. He has been working in the field of organic electronics for last fourteen years and hybrid perovskite-based materials for energy harvesting for last six years. His current research laboratory known as Advanced Research in Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (AREIS) at IIT Roorkee is focusing on the impedance spectroscopy measurement of various kinds of optoelectronic materials along with the fabrication and optimization of large area thin film based solar cells and LEDs.
Academic Career
Since May 2020: W3 Associate Professor at the Department of Physics, TUM.
2014 - 2020: W2 Assistant Professor at the Department of Physics, TUM.
2010 - 2014: Group leader ("Adsorption and Electrocatalysis") at the Center for Electrochemical Sciences (CES) at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany.
2008 - 2010: Post-doc, Department of Physics, Technical University of Denmark.
2006 - 2008: Post-doc, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Twente, the Netherlands.
2002 - 2005: PhD in Physical and Solid State Chemistry, Belarusian State University, Minsk, Belarus.
Awards
• The German National Ernst Haage Award for the research in the field of chemical energy conversion (2016)
• Hans-Jürgen Engell Award of the International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE Prize for Electrochemical Materials Science) for the research on electrocatalysis and in situ characterisation of the electrode–electrolyte interface (2013)
Professor Uri Banin is the incumbent of the Larisch Memorial Chair at the Institute of Chemistry and the Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HU). Dr. Banin was the founding director of the Harvey M. Kreuger Family Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (2001-2010) and led the program of the Israel National Nanotechnology Initiative at HU (2007-2010). He served on the University’s Executive Committee and on its board of managers and was a member of the board of Yissum. He served on the scientific advisory board of Nanosys. In 2009 Banin was the scientific founder of Qlight Nanotech, a start-up company based on his inventions, developing the use of nanocrystals in display and lighting applications. Since 2013, Banin is an Associate Editor of the journal Nano Letters. His distinctions include the Rothschild and Fulbright postdoctoral fellowships (1994-1995), the Alon fellowship for young faculty (1997-2000), the Yoram Ben-Porat prize (2000), the Israel Chemical Society young scientist award (2001), the Michael Bruno Memorial Award (2007-2010), and the Tenne Family prize for nanoscale science (2012). He received two European Research Council (ERC) advanced investigator grant, project DCENSY (2010-2015), and project CoupledNC (2017-2022). Banin’s research focuses on nanoscience and nanotechnology of nanocrystals and he authored over 180 scientific publications in this field that have been extensively cited.
Olivier joined ICPEES as independent young researcher (Chargé de Recherche) in February 2023. His interests are in understanding the chemical and electrochemical doping mechanisms of highly anisotropic and porous organic semiconductors for bioelectronic and thermoelectric applications. A physicist by training, he obtained his MSc in Nanoscience and Engineering Physics at the Grenoble Institute of Technology (Phelma, France) in partnership with Imperial College London (UK). To better understand the molecular design of the materials he was studying, he completed a PhD at Université Grenoble Alpes/CEA Grenoble (France) with Dr. Renaud Demadrille from 2016 to 2019. He focused on the organic synthesis of n-type polymers and their doping for thermoelectric and photovoltaic applications. From 2020 to 2023, he developed his skills in time-resolved spectroscopy and data analysis during a post-doctoral stay in the FemtoMat group of Prof. Natalie Banerji at the University of Bern. Notably, he improved the electronic performance of organic electrochemical transistors (OECTs) and identified energetical and morphological factors limiting the (de)doping kinetics of the polymer channel during device operation.
Alex Barker is a researcher in the groups of Annamaria Petrozza and Guglielmo Lanzani at the Center for Nanoscience and Technology in Milan, Italy. He received his PhD from Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand). His core research interests focus on ultrafast spectroscopy of hybrid organic perovskites and organic photovoltaics.
Jesús Barrio Hermida received his Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Madrid, Spain) in 2014, where he got in touch for the first time with chemical research whilst working in the synthesis and characterization of Fe and Cu coordination polymers in the Inorganic Chemistry department.
In 2016, he obtained his Master in Nanoscience and Molecular Nanotechnology from the same institution. His Master Thesis, carried out at the IMDEA Nanoscience Institute entailed the formation of controlled assemblies of plasmonic building blocks and was directed by Dr. Beatriz H. Juárez and Prof. Félix Zamora.
Due to a scholarship in the Erasmus program, he moved to the Max Planck Institute for Colloids and Interfaces (Potsdam, Germany) for pursuing his doctoral studies, and in September 2016, he joined the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (Beer-Sheva, Israel) along with his PhD supervisor, Prof. Menny Shalom, where he obtained his PhD in May 2020. His doctoral thesis focused on the design of metal-free carbon nitride materials for photo-electrocatalytic applications.
In June 2020 he joined the Materials Department at Imperial College as a Research Associate for working along with Dr. Ifan Stephens and Prof. Magda Titirici in the design of hybrid metal-carbon composites for different electrochemical applications. In August 2023 he started his independent career as an Imperial College Research Fellow at the Chemical Engineering Deaprtment of Imperial. His research covers the synthesis of carbon-based materials for different energy-related scenarios.
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.
Prof. Laurent Billon gained his PhD in 1996 from the Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour, France (UPPA) and his habilitation in 2005. He is a Professor of exceptional class and was deputy director of the Institute of Analytical Sciences and Physico-Chemistry for Environment and Materials IPREM (CNRS UMR 5254) from 2028 to 2022. He is now leader of the Bio-inspired Materials Group at the UPPA.
Prof. Billon is the coordinator and principal investigator of a large series of national and international research projects such as the coordinator of the H2020 ITN EJD eSCALED Project (european SChool on Artificial Leaf: Electrodes & Devices) with 10 partners from 8 European countries. He has authored 155 scientific publications in highly impact journals, 4 book chapters & 1 book editor, 35 invited lectures at international conferences and 20 patents. From 2016 to 2022, he was invited Professor at the University Immersion Program of Sichuan University (Chengdu, China).
His research activities cover 1) Synthesis of macromolecular designs by controlled radical polymerizations (NMP, RAFT and ATRP) or "click" chemistry; 2) Synthesis of organic colloids in a dispersed medium; 3) Surface chemistry and functionalization; 4) Development of macromolecular systems 5) Stimuli-triggered self-assembly in aqueous solution and self-assembly in bulk and thin film directed by the process for hierarchically structured materials; 6) Multi-scale characterization: from the local scale to the macroscopic scale, through the mesoscopic scale and the (sub) micrometric scale and 7) Biomimicry and bio-inspired materials/processes. The main applications of his research are dedicated to bio-inspired materials for cosmetic/healthcare (Christian DIOR, L’OREAL, CHANEL, Pierre FABRE, Yves ROCHER, SEPPIC) and since many years to energy solutions (CO2 reduction and green H2 evolution)
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.)
Dr Juliane Borchert is the head of the junior research group “Optoelectronic Thin Film Materials” at the University of Freiburg as well as the head of the research group “Perovskite Materials and Interfaces” at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems. She studied physics in Berlin, Groningen, and Halle (Saale). Her PhD research was conducted at the University of Oxford where she focused on co-evaporated perovskites for solar cells. She continued this research as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cambridge and AMOLF research institute in Amsterdam. Now she leads a team of researchers and technicians who are on a mission to develop the next generation of solar cells combining novel metal-halide perovskite semiconductors and established silicon technology into highly efficient tandem solar cells.
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.
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.
Prof. Jung-Yao Chen received her Ph. D. in Chemical Engineering from National Taiwan University under the supervision of Prof. Wen-Chang Chen in 2016. She joined Prof. Alex Jen's research team at University of Washington in 2015. Currently, she is the assistant professor in Dept. of Photonics of National Cheng Kung University. Her research interests are the process design, morphology analysis and optoelectronic applications of photoactive material including conjugated polymer, phosphorescent material and perovskite. Recently, Prof. Jung-Yao Chen's research activity is focused on the developement of non-volatile photomemory on artificial synapses and photonic integrated circuits. The main objective is to explore the mechanisms behind the photo-recording functionality and develope ultrafast responsive photomemory with multi-level memory behavior.
Pascale Chenevier is a research professor (« directrice de recherche ») at CEA in Grenoble, where she designs nanomaterials for the new technologies of energy (thermoelectrics, fuel cells, hydrogen production and batteries). She acquired her expertise in nanochemistry first in nanomedicine and biophysics, during her PhD at Bordeaux and a postdoc at Cornell University. Joining CEA in Paris-Saclay in 2003, she turned to printed electronics and electrocatalysis for hydrogen production. She started developing silicon-rich anode nanomaterials for batteries after her moving to Grenoble in 2013, and participated in the creation of a start-up company, Enwires, from 2014 to 2016. She is now part of a wide research team devoted to active material development and operando battery characterization for Li-ion, Li-S and solid-state batteries.
Yi-Bing Cheng is a professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Monash University, Australia and an elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering. He specialises in inorganic materials and composites. His major research interest is in the area of solution processed solar cells. He worked in dye sensitised solar cells (DSSC) for many years and developed technologies for printing of flexible DSSC devices. His current research has been mainly focused on the development of materials and processing technologies for perovskite solar cells. He has published over 450 research papers and 20 patents. He currently also holds a Thousand Talent Professor position at Wuhan University of Technology, China and has set up a Printed Optoelectronics Laboratory in the university.
Doing my BSc/MSc in Physics and PhD in an interdisciplinary program crossing the disciplines like Chemical Engineering, Nanotechnology, and Electrochemistry made me who I am today – a scientist who enjoys the challenge of multifaceted research.
I enjoy doing basic research in order to solve applied tasks. This explains my research interest in fundamental physical chemistry, e.g. oxidation and dissolution of metals and semiconductors, electrocatalysis, and electrochemistry at modified interfaces but also electrochemical engineering, e.g. development and optimization of catalyst layers in fuel cells and water electrolyzes.
Progress in basic research is often a direct outcome of previous achievements in experimental instrumentation. Hence, a significant part of my interest is in the development of new tools, e.g. electrochemical on-line mass spectrometry, gas diffusion electrode approaches, and high-throughput screening methods.
Majed Chergui is Professor of Physics and Chemistry at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Physics and Mathematics from Chelsea College (University of London), then his Master’s degree and in 1981, his Ph.D. in Molecular Physics from the Université Paris-Sud (Orsay). Thereafter, he spent six years at the Free University of Berlin (Germany), before moving to become in 1993 full professor of Physics at the Université de Lausanne, then to the EPFL in 2003.
He is best known for developing new ultrafast spectroscopic techniques and methods, which he applied to some of the most important problems in molecular spectroscopy and dynamics. In particular, he pioneered ultrafast X-ray spectroscopy and demonstrated its power for observing chemical transformations in molecules, solutions and nanoparticles, with femtosecond temporal and sub-Ångstrom spatial resolution. This work opened a new field of research which has influenced many international groups, especially at X-ray Free electron laser centers. Parallel to these achievements, he developed new ultrafast spectroscopic tools in the deep-ultraviolet (deep-UV), and in particular, he pioneered 2-dimensional deep-UV spectroscopy, with which he addressed electron transfer in proteins and charge carrier dynamics in transition metal oxide nanoparticles and solids.
With these various tools, he solved several fundamental questions regarding photoinduced phenomena in coordination chemistry complexes, in protein dynamics and in semiconductors, such as metal oxides. Among some of the highlights of his work are the description of the spin dynamics in metal complexes, the identification of solvation changes around photoexcited solutes, the unravelling of electron transfer processes concurrent with FRET in biological systems.
Chergui is the founding editor-in-chief of “Structural Dynamics” (AIP Publishing). He was awarded the Kuwait Prize for Physics (2009), the Humboldt Research Award (2010), the 2015 Earle K. Plyler Prize for Molecular Spectroscopy & Dynamics of the American Physical Society and the 2015 Edward Stern Award of the International X-ray Absorption Society.
Prof. Kyoung-Shin Choi is a professor of chemistry at University of Wisconsin-Madison. She received her B.S. and M.S. degrees from Seoul National University in South Korea in 1993 and 1995, respectively. She received a Ph.D. degree from Michigan State University in 2000, and then spent two years at the University of California, Santa Barbara as a postdoctoral researcher. She initiated her independent research career as an assistant professor at Purdue University in 2002 and joined the chemistry faculty at University of Wisconsin-Madison as a full professor in 2012. She was a visiting scholar at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in 2008.
Her research combines solid state chemistry, electrochemistry, and materials chemistry in order to address materials-related issues of electrode materials for use in photoelectrochemical and electrochemical applications She was a recipient of a 2006 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, the 2007 ACS ExxonMobil Faculty Fellowship in Solid-State Chemistry, and the 2010 Iota Sigma Pi Agnes Fay Morgan Research Award. She also received the 2008 Purdue College of Science Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award and the 2015 Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation Innovation Award. She has organized numerous symposia for the American Chemical Society (ACS) meetings and Materials Research Society (MRS) meetings as well as for the Gordon Research Conference. She is currently serving as an Associate Editor for Chemistry of Materials and a member of the Board of Directors for Materials Research Society.
Stelios A. Choulis is Professor of Material Science and Engineering at the Cyprus University of Technology (2008-present). He was the Organic Photovoltaic Device group leader of Konarka Technologies (2006-2008) and research and development (R&D) engineer of the Osram Opto-Semiconductors Inc, Organic Light Emitting Diode R&D team (2004-2006). During his PhD and first post-doc research associate (PDRA) position at Advanced Technology Institute (1999-2002, University of Surrey) he investigated the optical properties of quantum electronic materials and opto-electronic devices. In 2002 he joined the center of electronic materials and devices (Imperial College London, UK) as PDRA and work on the transport and recombination dynamics properties of molecular semiconductors (2002-2004). His current research interest focuses on the development of functional materials and devices for advanced optoelectronic applications.
is currently a professor of Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, the University of Hong Kong (HKU). Dr. Choy has published over 175 internationally peer-reviewed journal papers, contributed to one book and five book chapters, as well as a number of US and China patents. Among his publications, 12 papers have been featured as cover-story articles such as Adv. Mater., Adv Energy Mater., and Chem Comm., and 14 articles have been highlighted in research new/scholarly articles. Details of publication can be found in http://scholar.google.com.hk/citations?user=GEJf9dAAAAAJ. He was the recipient of the Sir Edward Youde Memorial Fellowship, the Croucher Foundation Fellowship, and the Outstanding Achievement Award from National Research Council of Canada and HKU Research Output Prize. He received overseas visiting fellowships from HKU to take a sabbatical leave at George Malliaras’s Group, Cornell University in 2008, a visit to Prof. Yang Yang, UCLA in summers of 2009 and 2011, Prof. Karl Leo, Institut fuer Angewandte Photophysik (IAPP), Technische Universitaet Dresden, Germany in the summer of 2010, and Prof./Sir Richard Friend, Cavendish Lab, Cambridge University, UK.
Wallace Choy is a fellow of OSA and senior member of IEEE. He has been recognized as Top 1% of most-cited scientists in Thomson Reuter’s Essential Science Indicators (ESI) three years in a row 2014, 2015 and 2016. He has been recognized as prolific researcher on organic solar cells in the index (WFC in physical sciences) in Nature Index 2014 Hong Kong published by Nature. He has been serving a technical consultant of HK-Ulvac (a member of stock-listed Ulvac Corp) since 2005. He has served as editorial board member for Nature Publishing Group of Scientific Reports and IOP Journal of Physics D, senior editor of IEEE Photonics Journal, topical editor of OSA Journal of the Optical Society of America B (JOSA founded in 1917), and guest editor of OSA Journal of Photonic Research, and Journal of Optical Quantum Electronics. He has delivered over 60 invited talks and served as a committee member in internationally industrial and academic conferences organized by various organizations such as IEEE, OSA and Plastic Electronics Foundation.
Giancarlo Cicero received a M.S. degree in Chemistry from the University of Torino in 1997 and obtained a Ph.D. in Physics from the Politecnico di Torino in 2003. In 2004, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where he studied the properties of water in confined media. Since October 2008, he has been working at the Politecnico di Torino, where he is now a full professor in the Structure of Matter. His research activity is devoted to ab initio simulations of surfaces, interfaces, and nanostructured materials with applications in renewable energy systems and sustainable processes.
Francesco Ciucci works as an Associate Professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology where he was supported by a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship and a Bechtel Fellowship. Francesco’s current research centers on solid-state energy technologies, including solid-state batteries, reversible fuel cells, and electrolyzers, with a particular emphasis on the modeling of these systems and the development of new functional materials. Francesco is also interested in the probabilistic analysis of electrochemical impedance spectroscopy through the distribution of relaxation methods. In that context, he developed several pieces of software that can be found at https://github.com/ciuccislab.
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.
M. Ibrahim Dar is a Royal Society University Research Fellow in the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge. From 2018 to 2020, he was an Advanced Swiss National Science Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellow in the group of Professor Sir Richard Friend, University of Cambridge. Prior to this, he worked as a Post-Doctoral Scientist with Professor Michael Graetzel at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Switzerland (2014-2018). For his postdoctoral research at EPFL, he was awarded the prestigious Zeno Karl Schindler-EPFL Prize for particular excellence in the field of sustainability and was twice awarded a special prize by the School of Basic Sciences, EPFL, Switzerland. During his PhD, he was awarded the Swiss Government Excellence Research Scholarships for two consecutive years (2012-2014), which allowed him to work in Professor Graetzel’s group as a guest PhD student. Ibrahim’s interdisciplinary research combines solid-state chemistry, physics, and materials science to design and understand new functional materials with desired structural and optoelectronic properties for energy-oriented applications.
Federico got his M.Sc. in Physics at the University of Turin in 2017, with a thesis on photoelectrochemical cells carried out at Chalmers University of Technology. In 2020, he got his Marie Skłodowska Curie Ph.D. in Chemical Science and Technology at the Rovira i Virgili University within the project ELCoREL (GA-722614) under the co-supervision of Prof. Núria López and Dr. Rodrigo García-Muelas. After one-year post-doc fellowship at the Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia, from March 2022 he is a postdoctoral researcher in the CREST group at the Polytechnic of Turin under the supervision of Prof. Simelys Hernández. His research focuses on modeling electrochemical CO2 and CO reduction on transition metal catalysts.
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 6-person team working on the development of low-dimensional inorganic and hybrid nanomaterials. She is author of more than 70 papers that collectively have received more than 2600 citations, with an h-index of 31. 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.
Since the 1st of October 2023, Sonia Dsoke holds a Professorship for “Electrochemical Energy Carriers and Storage” at the department of sustainable systems engineering (INATECH), University of Freiburg, she leads a group “Innovative Battery Materials” at Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE) and she is member of the Freiburger material center (FMF).
At international level, she is “chair elected” for Division 3 (electrochemical energy conversion and storage) of the International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE) one of the largest electrochemical community in the world.
From 2017 until September 2023 Sonia Dsoke was the leader of a multidisciplinary group at the Institute for Applied Materials – Energy Storage Systems (KIT, Germany). In the same period, she was the deputy director of the platform CELEST and a spokesperson for Research Unit A (electrode materials) in the Cluster of Excellence POLiS dealing with “post-lithium” battery research. Previously she led an independent young research group focused on designing novel electrodes for Hydrid Battery-Supercapacitors at ZSW-Ulm (Germany). She also had industrial experience at an Italian battery manufacturing company FAAM (in 2009) and she was a researcher at the University of Camerino (Italy), where she also obtained her PhD in the field of Li-ion batteries.
Sonia Dsoke was honoured with the Brigitte-Schlieben-Lange Programm Grant (2017-2019, Ministry of Science and Culture, Baden-Württemberg) and a Young Investigator Group Grant (2012-2016, Federal Ministry of Education and Research) within the framework “Energy Storage Initiative” she is author of more than 80 peer-reviewed papers (h-index:26, according to Google scholar) 1 patent and 2 book chapters.
Her actual main research subjects are the development of novel advanced functional materials for supercapacitors, lithium and post-lithium ion batteries, with special focus on tackling challenges of novel battery concepts such as Na, K, Mg, Ca and Al batteries.
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.
Guillermo Díaz-Sainz received his Degree in Chemical Engineering (2015) from the University of Cantabria and his MSc. in Chemical Engineering (2017) delivered from the University of Cantabria (UC) and the University of the Basque Country. In 2021, he completed his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, Energy and Processes focused on the development of processes for CO2 electrocatalytic reduction to formate. He is currently integrated into the Research Group DePRO (Development of Chemical Processes and Pollution Control), and at present, he is Assistant Professor in the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department. Currently, the research activity and mid/long term interests of Dr. Diaz-Sainz are mainly focused on the development of an innovative process for the CO2 capture and photo/electrochemical conversion in products of interest, and at the same time, the production of green hydrogen by electrolyzers.
Bruno Ehrler is leading the Hybrid Solar Cells group at AMOLF in Amsterdam since 2014 and is also a honorary professor at the University of Groningen since 2020. His group focuses on perovskite materials science, both on the fundamental level, and for device applications. He is recipient of an ERC Starting Grant and an NWO Vidi grant, advisory board member of the Dutch Chemistry Council, recipient of the WIN Rising Star award, and senior conference editor for nanoGe.
Before moving to Amsterdam, he was a research fellow in the Optoelectronics Group at Cambridge University following post-doctoral work with Professor Sir Richard Friend. During this period, he worked on quantum dots, doped metal oxides and singlet fission photovoltaics. He obtained his PhD from the University of Cambridge under the supervision of Professor Neil Greenham, studying hybrid solar cells from organic semiconductors and inorganic quantum dots. He received his MSci from the University of London (Queen Mary) studying micro-mechanics in the group of Professor David Dunstan.
2022 Science Board member Netherlands Energy Research Alliance (NERA)
2021 Member steering committee National Growth fund application Duurzame MaterialenNL
2021 Member advisory board Dutch Chemistry Council
2020 Honorary professor Universty of Groningen for new hybrid material systems for solar-cell applications
2020 ERC starting Grant for work on aritifical synapses from halide perovskite
2019 Senior conference editor nanoGe
2018 WIN Rising Star award
2017 NWO Vidi Grant for work on metal halide perovskites
since 2014 Group Leader, Hybrid Solar Cell Group, Institute AMOLF, Amsterdam
2013 – 2014 Trevelyan Research Fellow, Selwyn College, University of Cambridge
2012-2013 Postdoctoral Work, University of Cambridge, Professor Sir Richard Friend
2009-2012 PhD in Physics, University of Cambridge, Professor Neil Greenham
2005 – 2009 Study of physics at RWTH Aachen and University of London, Queen Mary College, MSci University of London
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 Head of the Division 3.6 Electrochemical Energy Materials at the German Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM). He 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 ~60 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.
Professor Maria Forsyth AM is an elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Sciences and the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering. She is an Alfred Deakin Professo at Deakin University and an Ikerbasque Visiting Professorial Fellow at the University of the Basque Country, Spain. She has worked at the forefront of energy materials research since her Fulbright Research Fellowship in 1990 and has consistently made breakthrough discoveries in next-generation lithium and sodium battery technologies. Recognising a critical need for facilities to test new energy materials, Forsyth led the establishment of Deakin University’s Battery Research and Innovation Hub, a unique pre-commercial battery prototyping facility that supports over $20M R&D across a range of local and international industries. She has supervised over 100 PhD students and is a co-author of over 900 journal and conference publications that attracted more than 40000 citations.
Prof. Marina Freitag is a Professor of Energy 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 as Scientist Researcher at the University of Valencia. Her main interest is the design, synthesis and characterization of photoactive nanoparticles and multifunctional nanosystems for sensing, electroluminescent applications and photocatalysis.
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.
Postdoctoral Research Associate.University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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).
Carolina Gimbert Suriñach obtained her PhD from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) under the supervision of Prof. A. Vallribera, working on the development of organocatalytic processes. After one year as assistant professor at the same university, she moved to the University of New South Wales (UNSW) to undertake postdoctoral research in the field of bioinorganic chemistry with Prof. S. B. Colbran. Afterwards, she started a second postdoctoral position at the Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ) in Prof. A. Llobet group. During this time, she developed hydrogen evolution and water oxidation (photo)catalytic systems. Three years later she was promoted to scientific group coordinator in the same group and her research focused on implementing molecular catalysis into water splitting devices. After a short stay in the University of Barcelona (UB) as Serra Húnter professor in 2020, she started her current position as Ramón y Cajal fellow and CatSyNanoMat Group co-leader in the Chemistry Department of UAB early 2021. Her scientific interests are in the field of photocatalysis as well as organic and hybrid materials with application to artificial photosynthesis.
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.
Our group focus on physical chemistry, materials science, and the application of materials for energy production, studying the synthesis-structure-property relationship of functional materials for energy production. We emphasize developing novel syntheses for advanced materials and devices for solar energy into useful forms of sustainable energy & fuels. Our research lies at the intersection between innovative approaches, fundamental studies, and applying advanced materials for solar energy conversion.
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 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.
Eric Gros-Daillon joined CEA-Leti in 2006 as a research engineer after a Master degree in detection physics and a Ph.D. on gamma-ray semiconducting detectors for SPECT. His research covered a large range of detectors technologies such as semiconductor detectors working in spectrometric and counting mode (CdTe and GaAs) and scintillator detectors (LYSO and CsI). He also worked on the CMOS readout circuits which are coupled to these detectors. He has supervised 14 PhD and post-doctorant students and is the author of 24 scientific papers and holds 10 patents. Two detectors developed by Dr Gros-Daillon have been successfully transferred to the industry. His present scientific focus is on perovskite detectors for X-ray medical radiography and he is the coordinator of the European project Peroxis.
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.
Saiful Islam is Professor of Materials Science at the University of Oxford. He grew up in London and obtained his Chemistry degree and PhD from University College London. He then worked at the Eastman Kodak Labs, New York, and the Universities of Surrey and Bath.
His current research focuses on understanding atomistic and nano-scale processes in perovskite halides for solar cells, and in new materials for lithium batteries. Saiful has received several awards including the 2022 Royal Society Hughes Medal and 2020 American Chemical Society Award in Energy Chemistry. He presented the 2016 BBC Royal Institution Christmas Lectures on the theme of energy and is a Patron of Humanists UK.
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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.
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. 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.
Prashant K. Jain earned his PhD in physical chemistry working with M. A. El-Sayed at Georgia Tech, following which he was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University. After a Miller Fellowship at UC Berkeley, he joined the faculty of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where he is the G. L. Clark Professor of Physical Chemistry, a Professor in the Department of Chemistry, and a Professor in the Materials Research Laboratory. He is also a University Scholar and an Affiliate Faculty Member of Physics and the Illinois Quantum Information Science and Technology (IQUIST).
Prof Jain’s lab studies nanoscale light–matter interactions and energy conversion. His noteworthy contributions are discoveries of plasmon resonances in quantum dots and plasmonic redox catalysis. His collective work has been published in over 115 papers and cited over 32,000 times. He has been listed among Highly Cited Researchers by Clarivate Analytics and Elsevier Scopus.
Prashant is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and a Kavli Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences. He serves on the editorial advisory boards of the Journal of the American Chemical Society and the Journal of Chemical Physics and has previously been an advisory board member of the Journal of Physical Chemistry and a member of Defense Science Study group (DSSG).
His work has been recognized, among other awards, by a Presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Leo Hendrik Baekeland award, the ACS Kavli Emerging Leader in Chemistry award, the ACS Akron Award, the ACS Unilever Award the Beilby medal, a Sloan Fellowship, an NSF CAREER award, and selection as MIT TR35 inventor and a Beckman Young Investigator.
Dr. Jasna Jankovic is a Professor in the Materials Science and Engineering Department at the University of Connecticut (UConn) since 2018. Prior to joining UConn, she completed her Ph.D. at the University of British Columbia, Department of Chemical Engineering, followed by a 7 years employment as a Senior Research Scientist at the Automotive Fuel Cell Cooperation in Burnaby, Canada, a joint venture between Ford Motor Company and Daimler. Dr. Jankovic’s research focus is in advanced characterization of fuel cells, electrolyzers and batteries using microscopy and spectroscopy techniques, fabrication of novel electrodes for electrochemical devices, as well as Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) and clean energy education. She has more than 25 years of experience in clean energy sector, more than 50 publications and 2 patents. Dr. Jankovic is a recipient of several Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) awards in Canada, and a number of National Science Foundation (NSF) awards and Department of Energy (DOE) sub-awards in the US.
René Janssen is university professor at the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). He received his Ph.D. in 1987 from the TU/e for a thesis on electron spin resonance and quantum chemical calculations of organic radicals in single crystals. He was lecturer at the TU/e since 1984, and a senior lecturer in physical organic chemistry since 1991. In 1993 and 1994 he joined the group of Professor Alan J. Heeger (Nobel laureate in 2000) at the University of California Santa Barbara as associate researcher to work on the photophysical properties of conjugated polymers. Presently the research of his group focuses on functional conjugated molecules and macromolecules as well as hybrid semiconductor materials that may find application in advanced technological applications. The synthesis of new materials is combined with time-resolved optical spectroscopy, electrochemistry, morphological characterization and the preparation of prototype devices to accomplish these goals. René Janssen has co-authored more than 600 scientific papers. He is co-recipient of the René Descartes Prize from the European Commission for outstanding collaborative research, and received the Research Prize of The Royal Institute of Engineers and in The Netherlands for his work. In 2015 René Janssen was awarded with the Spinoza Prize of The Dutch Research Council.
Dr. Quentin Jeangros received a PhD in Materials Science from EPFL in 2014 for his work on solid oxide fuel cells degradation pathways. After a postdoc between the University of Basel and the Photovoltaics and Thin Film Electronics Laboratory (PV-Lab) of EPFL on transparent conductive oxides, Quentin has overseen the "Perovskite Cells for Tandem Applications" activities at EPFL PV-Lab since early 2018. Within the laboratory headed by Prof. C. Ballif, his team consists of 6 PhD students and postdocs dedicated to the development of high-efficiency perovskite/silicon solar cells. His research activities focus on the use and development of advanced electron microscopy characterisation methods to understand and optimise the nanostructure of solar materials materials, with the aim of improving efficiency and reliability.
Professor Alex Jen obtained his Ph. D. degree from the Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania in 1984. He is currently the Boeing-Johnson Chair Professor and Department Chair of the Materials Science & Engineering at the University of Washington, Seattle. He is also serving as the Chief Scientist of the Clean Energy Institute established by the governor of the Washington State. Dr. Jen’s research interest is focused on utilizing molecular, polymeric and biomacromolecular self-assembly to create ordered arrangement of organic and inorganic functional materials for photonics, opto-electronics, nanomedicine, and nanotechnology. He has co-authored more than 500 publications, given over 400 invited presentations, and has more than 20,000 citations and a H-index of 72. He is also a co-inventor for more than 50 patents and invention disclosures. For his pioneering contributions in organic photonics and electronics, he was elected as Fellow by several professional societies including the MRS Fellow of the Materials Research Society, ACS Fellow of the American Chemical Society, the AAAS Fellow by American Association of the Advancement of Science, the OSA Fellow of Optical Society of America, SPIE Fellow of the International Society of Optical Engineering, and PMSE Fellow of the American Chemical Society’s Polymeric Materials Science & Engineering Division. He was also elected as an Academician of the Washington State Academy of Sciences.
Kwang Seob Jeong is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Korea University. He obtained his B.S. in chemistry at Korea University and Ph.D. in chemistry at the Pennsylvania State University in 2013. He worked at the University of Chicago as a JFI post-doctoral scholar from 2013 to 2015 before joining the chemistry department at Korea University. In 2018, he was nominated as 2018 emerging investigators by the Chemical Communications of Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) and won the POSCO TJ Park Science Fellow in 2019. His research focuses on the infrared colloidal nanocrystals.
I graduated from the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands (1995) and obtained my PhD in metalloproteins under the supervision of Prof. G.W. Canters at Leiden University (2001). After my PhD, I moved to the United Kingdom to work with Prof. F.A. Armstrong at the University of Oxford (2000-2002) on the electrochemical characterisation of metalloproteins.
I was awarded a BBSRC David Phillips 5-year fellowship which I took up at the School of Physics & Astronomy at the University of Leeds (2002-2007) to work on the modification and characterisation of electrode surfaces for bioelectrochemistry, for which I received the British Biophysical Society (BBS) Young Investigator Award in 2006. In 2007 I moved to the School of Biomedical Sciences at Leeds, where after an ERC fellowship (2012-2016) I became Professor in Molecular Biophysics.
Dr. Rohit Abraham John is an ETH Fellow at the Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zurich. He is a recipient of the prestigious ETH Fellowship (2020-22). He obtained his bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Cochin University of Science and Technology, India (2011) and Masters in Microelectronics from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore (2014). He continued his doctoral studies at NTU (2015-19) in the area of neuromorphic electronics, investigating novel materials and devices such as halide perovskites, transition metal dichalcogenides and metal oxide semiconductors for computing. His expertise lies in the physics of semiconducting materials and devices, and his primary research interest is focussed on optoelectronic configurations for emerging memory and computing applications, including transistors and memristors. His research work has been published (30 publications) in several high impact factor journals such as Nature Communications, Advanced Materials, ACS Nano, Advanced Energy Materials, etc. For his outstanding research and academic excellence, he has received numerous prestigious awards such as the Young Researcher Award- EMRS Spring Meeting (2021), MRS Graduate Student Award- Silver Medal (2019), Research Excellence Award- Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Postgraduate Award 2019 and multiple poster and speaker awards at Materials Research Society (MRS) conferences.
Lee Johnson received his first degree from Newcastle University, after which he completed a PhD and post-PhD Fellowship in physical chemistry and electrochemistry at the University of Nottingham. He then joined the research group of Prof Sir P.G. Bruce FRS at the University of Oxford, where he studied the elementary processes taking place within the lithium-O2 battery. In 2017, he was awarded a Nottingham Research Fellowship, University of Nottingham, followed by an EPSRC Fellowship in 2018, both to support study of next-generation batteries. In 2019 he was promoted to Associate Professor in the School of Chemistry. His current research interests focus on understanding interfacial reactions, degradation, and charge transfer, in electrochemical energy devices.
Ana was born in the Canary Islands, Spain. After finishing her degree in Chemistry (2004), she moved to Barcelona to conduct a PhD in Materials Science at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and the Institute of Materials Science, being awarded a Prize for an outstanding PhD thesis (2009). From 2011 to 2016 she worked as a PDRA at UCL in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Departments, where she researched metal-free energy materials for photocatalysis, batteries and water electrolysers. In 2016, she took up a position as Academic Fellow at QMUL. In 2019 Ana became a Lecturer and shortly after, Senior Lecturer in 2019 and Reader in Sustainable Energy Materials in 2021. Ana's group studies the design of high-performing sustainable electroactive materials using easy-to-scale processing techniques for application in energy storage and conversion. She is a member of the UK Redox Flow Battery Committee, STFC Battery Steering Committee and Director of the London Energy Materials & Devices Hub.
Dr Beatriz Julián-López was born in 1977. She obtained her B.Sc. degree in chemistry in 1999 at the Jaume I University of Castellón (Spain), where she also received her Ph.D. in Chemistry of Materials (2003). Her first work was focused on the synthesis of ceramic pigments by nonconventional methods, but during her Ph.D. she specialized in the synthesis and characterization of sol–gel hybrid organic–inorganic materials for optical applications. In 2004 she moved to Paris for a post-doctoral formation at Prof. C. Sanchez’s Laboratory (University of Pierre and Marie Curie), addressed to get expertise on the synthesis of mesoporous and nanostructured materials. In 2007 she came back to Jaume I University with a “Ramon y Cajal” junior research contract, where she is nowadays Assistant Professor (2011). Her main interest is the development of novel multifunctional inorganic and hybrid organic–inorganic materials, textured at different scales, for optical, energy, ceramics and biomedical applications.
Oana Jurchescu is a Baker Professor of Physics at Wake Forest University (WFU) and a Fellow of the Royal Scoety of Chemistry. She received her PhD in 2006 from University of Groningen, the Netherlands, and was a postdoctoral researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, MD, until 2009, when she joined the Physics Department at Wake Forest University as an Assistant professor. Her expertise is in charge transport in organic and organic/inorganic hybrid semiconductors, device physics and semiconductor processing. She published over 100 peer-reviewed articles, 4 invited book chapters, 3 patents and gave over 50 invited or plenary talks at conferences. She won the National Science Foundation CAREER award, the 2022 Pegram Award from APS Southeastern Section (SESAPS) for excellence in teaching and mentoring, several university awards for excellence in research, teaching and mentoring. She served in a variety of capacities, including program chair and co-chair, for over 30 international conferences and workshops such as MRS, APS, SPIE, etc.
Dr Brett Kagan is the Chief Scientific Officer at Cortical Labs, a Melbourne based start-up committed to building a new generation of Synthetic Biological Intelligence by integrating living brain cells with silicon and leveraging their computational power. Dr Kagan has previously completed a PhD at the Florey Institute through the University of Melbourne in stem cell therapy for neonatal brain injury. Prior to this, he has conducted research with a medical education consortium focusing on primary health care objectives and received numerous grants and awards supporting this work. Before joining Cortical Labs, Dr Kagan worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute and engaged in scientific and regulatory affairs consulting work in the biotechnology and nutraceutical industries. Dr Kagan has a strong interest in the fundamentals of intelligence along with the philosophical and scientific interface which drives investigations in this area. He is a strong advocate for improving general scientific literacy and the involvement of empirical evidence in policy development.
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Prashant V. Kamat is a Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Senior Scientist at Radiation Laboratory, and Concurrent Professor of Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Notre Dame. He earned his doctoral degree (1979) in Physical Chemistry from the Bombay University, and postdoctoral research at Boston University (1979-1981) and University of Texas at Austin (1981-1983). He joined Notre Dame in 1983 and initiated the project on utilizing semiconductor nanostructures for light energy conversion. His major research interests are in three areas : (1) catalytic reactions using semiconductor and metal nanoparticles, nanostructures and nanocomposites, (2) develop advanced materials such as inorganic-organic hybrid assemblies for energy conversion, and (3) environmental remediation using advanced oxidation processes and chemical sensors. He is currently serving as a Deputy Editor of Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters and A/B/C and a member of the advisory board of scientific journals, Langmuir, Research on Chemical Intermediates, Electrochemistry and Solid State Letters, and Interface. He has written more than 400 peer-reviewed journal papers, review articles and book chapters with more than 40000 citations and carries an h-index of 109. He has edited two books in the area of nanoscale materials. He was a fellow of Japan Society for Promotion of Science during 1997 and 2003 and was awarded Honda-Fujishima Lectureship award by the Japanese Photochemical Society in 2006 and Langmuir Lectureship Award in 2012. He is a Fellow of the Electrochemical Society, American Chemical Society and AAAS.
Patanjali Kambhampati. BA Carleton College USA (1992), PHD University of Texas (USA) 1998, PDF University of Texas (USA) 1999 - 2001. Professor of Chemistry McGill University (2003 - present). Research focus of semiconductor nanostructures and femtosecond laser spectroscopy.
Kazuhide Kamiya received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Tokyo and became an assistant professor at the same university in 2013. He then joined Research Center for Solar Energy Chemistry of Osaka University as an assistant professor in April 2016. He was promoted to associate professor at the same center in 2018. He was a researcher of the PRESTO project of JST from 2014 to 2018. His current research interests include the design of efficient electrocatalysts and electrolysis systems for CO2 valorization.
Sung-Mo “Steve” Kang is a Distinguished Chair Professor Emeritus of the Jack Baskin School of Engineering, UC Santa Cruz, Chancellor Emeritus of UC Merced, and President Emeritus of KAIST. He has published over 500 journal and conference papers, and ten books, and holds 16 patents. Before returning to academia in 1985, he led the development of the world’s premier fully-CMOS 32-bit VLSI microprocessor chipsets for telecommunication and computing applications as a technical supervisor of AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey.
He has received honors, including a multitude of best paper awards, the Silicon Valley Engineering Hall of Fame induction, Alexander von Humboldt Senior US Scientists Award, IEEE Millennium Medal, IEEE Mac Van Valkenburg Circuits and Systems (CAS) Society Award, IEEE CAS Society Technical Excellence Award, the US Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) Technical Excellence Award, IEEE Leon K. Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Technical Field Award, IEEE CAS Society John Choma Education Award, Chang-Lin Tien Education Leadership Award, and distinguished alumnus awards from UC Berkeley, The University at Buffalo, Fairleigh Dickinson University, and Yonsei University. He served three full years in the Korean Air Force (the class of 111-gi) before entering and studying electronics for three years at Yonsei University. Under a student exchange program, he transferred to Fairleigh Dickinson University in 1969.
Dr. Kang is a Fellow of the IEEE, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He is a life member of the Korean Academy of Science and Technology and a foreign member of the National Academy of Engineering, Korea. He received his B.S. degree from Fairleigh Dickinson University, Teaneck, New Jersey, in 1970, an honorary B.S degree from Yonsei University, an M.S. degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1972, and a Ph.D. degree from the University of California at Berkeley in 1975, all in electrical engineering. His research interest includes modeling and simulation of semiconductor devices, memristors and memristive systems, low-power VLSI circuit design, nano-bioelectronic circuits, and neuromorphic computing.
Head of the Laboratory of Solar Fuels at the Centrum Nowych Technologii Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego. She obtained a PhD in Biological sciences in 1999 from the University of Warwick, UK. Postdoctoral research conducted in the group of James Barber at Imperial College London, UK led to several discoveries of novel molecular mechanisms of photosynthetic adaptation to changing environment (e.g. dissecting the molecular components of state transitions) and refining the crystallographic structure of the PSII oxygen evolving complex. Habilitation in 2009 from the University of Warsaw (UW). Since 2011 Associate Professor having established an independent research group at the UW. In 2011 Prof. Kargul established a node for solar fuels research in Poland and has led several projects on application of robust natural light-harvesting molecular nanomachines for construction of biohybrid solar cells and solar-to-fuel devices. She has extensive experience and success in leading several national and international initiatives (e.g. Founding Partner of ESF EuroSolarFuels and H2020 SUNRISE consortia; Member of Scientific Executive Board of SUNERGY large-scale R&I initiative) as well coordinating the international projects (e.g. bilateral Polish-Turkish consortium POLTUR/GraphESol and Polish/German/French/Turkish consortium Solar driven chemistry 2/SUNCOCAT) which have been focused on natural and semi-artificial solar energy conversion systems. She serves as the International Ambassador of the British Biochemical Society and serves on several editorial and strategic executive boards, e.g., as member of the Scientific Advisory Board of European Society for Photobiology, as Senior Editor of the International Journal of Biochemicstry and Cell Biology, member of the Grants Committee of the Biochemical Society (UK), expert of the NAWA programme of the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education, expert in NZ1 Panel of the National Science Centre, member of the Advisory Board of the European Green Deal, member of KIS4 Workgroup of Poland’s Ministry of Economic Development and Technology. Prof. Kargul’s highly interdisciplinary research spans structural biology, biochemistry, and plant physiology with electrochemistry, biophysics and material science. In her current research she focuses on structural and mechanistic aspects of the function and adaptation of the natural photosynthetic apparatus in extremophilic biophotocatalysts. She and her group apply this fundamental knowledge for the rational construction of biomolecular solar-to-fuel devices for optimised solar conversion, incorporating photoenzymes and various materials decorated with plasmonic nanoparticles.
Ivan Kassal is an Associate Professor in the School of Chemistry at the University of Sydney. He graduated from Stanford University in 2006 and completed his PhD in Chemical Physics at Harvard University in 2010. He is a theorist working at the intersection of quantum science, chemistry, biophysics, and materials science. He pioneered some of the first applications of quantum computers to chemistry, showing they could dramatically accelerate difficult chemical calculations. He has also unravelled ways that photosynthetic organisms use quantum effects to improve their light harvesting, and is using those lessons to better understand next-generation materials, especially organic solar cells. He is a recipient of a DECRA fellowship, a Westpac fellowship, and the Le Fèvre Medal of the Australian Academy of Science for “outstanding basic research in chemistry”.
Claudine Katan (born Hoerner) received her Ph.D. in physics (nonlinear optics) from the University of Strasbourg (ULP), France in 1992. She subsequently served as a lecturer in physics at the University of Rennes (UR1), France, before being appointed as a CNRS Research Investigator in the Physics Department at Rennes in 1993. Until 2003, her research interests concerned the properties of molecular charge-transfer crystals and the topology of electron densities mainly through approaches based on density functional theory (e.g. the CP-PAW code by P. E. Blöchl, IBM-Zurich). She then joined the Chemistry Department at Rennes and turned her research interests toward the structural, electronic and linear/nonlinear optical properties of molecular and supramolecular chromophores using various theoretical approaches—from modeling to state-of-the-art electronic structure calculations (e.g. CEO methodology by S. Tretiak, LANL) . Since the end of 2010, her research has also been devoted to 3D and 2D crystalline materials of the family of halide perovskites based on solid-state physics concepts. Overall, her theoretical work is closely related to the experimental research developed in-house and through international collaboratorations.
Eugene A. Katz received his MSc degree (1982) in Semiconductor Materials Science and Ph. D. (1990) in solid state physics from the Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys. In 1995, he joined the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and has been working in the Department for Solar Energy and Environmental Physics ever since (now as a full professor). His research interests include a wide range of photovoltaic materials and devices, such as organic and perovskite-based photovoltaics, concentrator solar cells operated at ultra-high solar concentration (up to 10,000 suns), etc. He has published more than 120 peer-reviewed papers on these topics. In 2018 Prof. Katz was awarded the IAAM Medal (by the International Association of Advanced Materials) for the outstanding research in the field of New Energy Materials & Technology.
Heading, ECOFIRST, A Tata Enterprise, subsidiary of Tata Consulting Engineers (TCE) since last 8 years. Chitranjan has played an instrumental role in the growth of the company and in its regional and sectoral spread. Ecofirst has delivered more than 600 sustainable projects and has grown 5 times in revenue and employee strength in last 5 years only.
Chitranjan is an individual who make a difference by deepening self awareness in relation to the world around. In doing so, adopt new ways of seeing, thinking and interacting that result in innovative, sustainable solutions. His vision is to deliver superior quality sustainable products and services to the community through innovations, leadership and partnerships. Chitranjan is convinced that technology is the primary driver of change, however, the change may not be limited to technologies / newer (futuristic) technologies, but also largely attributes from human behaviour, new innovations, political, socio-cultural or economic activities, which all shall lead to sustainable future for all.
Chitranjan is an intrepid person who can take calculated risks, more focused on execution and ground realities, optimistically pursue new opportunities, little bit thick skinned but not insensitive. Always prefer to prepare for future in professional and personal life, pragmatically inclusive and comfortable with variety of people. Good at team building capabilities and managing multicultural teams. Chitranjan has won Prof Wil Segeren Award in UNESCO-IHE as recognition for international co-operation amongst representation of participants from sixty countries.
Chitranjan is a Civil Engineer and member of Institution of Engineers in India. He has done master’s in water resources (Hydroinformatics) from UNESCO-IHE. Chitranjan has widespread experience ranging from working with government for over 10 years, for land development and Knowledge outsourcing works for North America and India. He is the key person at the inception of Ecofirst, which is the firm established in 2008 to push clean tech and sustainable development. Ecofirst is founder member of Indian Green Building council and Chitranjan is member of the Executive Committee. Chitranjan cherish a dream of making a sustainable Senior Citizen home along with child care and Autistic child care home at same place as mutual support for sustainable life and society building. He is freemason and love reading history and philosophy.
Professor Emma Kendrick, CChem FIMMM FRSC FIMMM - Chair of Energy Materials, School of Metallurgy and Materials, University of Birmingham.
Prof Kendrick’s career to date has included industrial and academic roles leading to her current role as Chair of Energy Materials, where in addition to group lead of the energy materials group (EMG), she is co-director of the Centre for Energy Storage (BCES) and part of Birmingham Energy institute (BEI) and Birmingham Centre for Strategic Elements and Critical Materials (BCSECM). The EMG investigates sustainability in novel battery technologies from materials, manufacturing, performance and parameterisation, and recycling. Her recent work has led to a 2021 joint UoB - Imperial College London (ICL) spin out company, based around the methods of experimental parameterisation of applied multi-physics cell models, called About:Energy, for which she is founder and director.
Prior to UoB, she spent two years as Reader in WMG, University of Warwick. Before academia, she led innovations in the battery industry, latterly as Chief Technologist in Energy Storage at SHARP Laboratories of Europe Ltd (SLE) and prior to that for two lithium-ion battery SMEs, Fife Batteries Ltd and Surion Energy Ltd.
She is fellow of the Royal Society of chemistry (RSC) and Institute of Metals, Mining and Materials (IoM3). Recently, she has been recognised through several awards; 2021 Faraday Institution (FI) Researcher Development Champion, RSC 2021 Environment, Sustainability and Energy Division Mid-Career Award, and the 2019 Hothersall Memorial Award for outstanding services to Metal Finishing.
Prof Kendrick holds a PhD from Keele University, obtained as part of a postgraduate transfer partnership (PTP) scheme with CERAM Research, a MSc in new materials from the University of Aberdeen and a BSc in chemistry from the University of Manchester.
Rhiannon Kennard investigates structure-property relationships in novel functional materials. She completed her PhD in the group of Prof. Michael Chabinyc at UC Santa Barbara, where she investigated strain, light emission, ferroic properties and ion mobility in 2D and 3D perovskites. Following this, she moved to the University of Sheffield, to work on novel cathodes for Na batteries with Prof. Serena Cussen
Lyes Khacef is a PostDoc in the Bio-Inspired Circuits and Systems group at University of Groningen. He received the M.Sc. in electrical engineering and embedded systems from the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis (France). He pursued a PhD at Université Côte d’Azur (France) in brain-inspired computing where he worked on understanding and modeling the local computations behind the self-organization capabilities of the brain. He proposed a new model for multimodal unsupervised learning based on local structural and synaptic plasticity rules, implemented then on FPGA-based cellular neuromorphic hardware. Dr. Lyes Khacef developed a multi-disciplinary expertise in computational neuroscience, machine learning and hardware design. He is currently working on the modeling and hardware prototyping of spike-based synaptic plasticity rules, for learning spatio-temporal patterns using neuromorphic vision, audio and tactile sensors.
Dion Khodagholy is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University in New York City.
He received his Master’s degree from the University of Birmingham (UK) in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering. This was followed by a second Master’s degree in Microelectronics at the Ecole des Mines. He attained his PhD in Microelectronics at the Department of Bioelectronics (BEL) of the Ecole des Mines (France). His postdoctoral research at New York University, Langone Medical Center was focused on large-scale cortical acquisition and analysis.
His research explores the interface of electronics and the brain in the context of both applied and discovery sciences, with the ultimate goal of new innovations in device engineering and neuroscience methods to improve diagnosis and treatment of neuropsychiatric disease.
Dr. Andrei Kholkin received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Physics from the St. Petersburg State University and Ph.D. degree from the A. F. Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute, Russia. In consequent years, he held research positions in IFW (Dresden, Germany), EPFL (Lausanne, Switzerland) and Rutgers University (USA). He is currently a research coordinator and head of the laboratory of advanced microscopy of nanomaterials in the University of Aveiro (Portugal). His group develops multifunctional materials (including ferroelectrics and multiferroics) and scanning probe microscopy techniques. He is a coauthor of more than 500 technical papers in this area including numerous reviews and book chapters. He was a coordinator of three European projects on multifunctional materials and serves as an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control (TUFFC) and member of editorial boards of several scientific journals. He is a member of the Ferroelectric Committee of IEEE and was a recipient of the “Excellency” award from the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology. He has been a Technical Committee member of several international conferences and cofounded a new conference series on Piezoresponse Force Microscopy. He was a guest editor of the special issues on ferroelectrics in TUFFC, Journal of Applied Physics and Materials Research Society Bulletin. Dr. Kholkin is a Fellow of IEEE (class 2012), and member of IEEE, Materials Research Society and Portuguese Materials Society.
Ji-Seon Kim is Professor of Solid State Physics and Director of the Plastic Electronics Centre for Doctoral Training (https://www.imperial.ac.uk/plastic-electronics/) at Imperial College London. She has previously taken up an EPSRC Advanced Research Fellowship at the University of Cambridge, obtained a PhD in Physics in 2000. Her research focuses on the basic science and technology of Nanoscale Functional Materials such as organics, organic/ inorganic hybrids, nanomaterials and their related applications, as well as developing novel Nanometrology for these functional materials (http://www.imperial.ac.uk/nanoanalysis-group).
Dr. Yunseok Kim is an associate professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Korea. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Materials Science and Engineering from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Korea, in, respectively, 2004 and 2007. From 2008 to 2010, he was awarded the Humboldt research fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt foundation which allowed him to work as a postdoctoral researcher at Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics, Germany. Then, from 2011 to 2012, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA. In 2012, he joined the School of Materials Science and Engineering, SKKU, Korea. His research interests include scanning probe microscopy studies of electromechanical, ferroelectric, transport, and ionic phenomena at the nanoscale.
Ji-Seon Kim is a Professor of Solid State Physics and Director of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Plastic Electronic Materials (https://www.imperial.ac.uk/plastic-electronics-cdt/) at Imperial College London (UK). She also holds an Invited Professorship at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japan) and held an Invited Visiting Professorship at KAIST (South Korea). She has previously taken up an EPSRC Advanced Research Fellowship at the University of Cambridge, obtained a PhD in Physics in 2000 at Cambridge.
Her research focuses on the basic science and technology of Soft Electronic Materials and Devices (organic semiconductors, organic/inorganic hybrids and bio-nanomaterials), exploring fundamental scientific issues related to using these materials for new optoelectronic applications (energy, display and healthcare).
Tae-il Kim is currently working as an associate professor in School of Chemical Engineering at Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Korea. He earned his BS and Ph.D degree from the SKKU and Seoul National University, respectively. He moved to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) for postdoctoral research with Prof. John A. Rogers, working on the bio-integrated optoelectronic devices and their optogenetic applications from 2009 to 2012. His current researches are based on flexible, bioinspired and bio-integrated electronics fabricated by unconventional lithographical method and advanced materials.
Do Hwan Kim is currently a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Hanyang University, South Korea. He received his PhD in Chemical Engineering from Pohang University of Science and Technology in 2005. From 2006 to 2010, he worked at the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology as a senior researcher. He also worked at Stanford University, United States, as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Chemical Engineering (2011–2012) and worked as an Assistant Professor at Soongsil University, South Korea (2012–2017). His research interests are in the field of organic optoelectronics, electronic skins, and multimodal synaptic devices.
He studied electrical engineering in Stuttgart and started working on Si solar cells in 2004 under the guidance of Uwe Rau at the Institute for Physical Electronics (ipe) in Stuttgart. After finishing his undergraduate studies in 2006, he continued working with Uwe Rau first in Stuttgart and later in Juelich on simulations and electroluminescence spectroscopy of solar cells. After finishing his PhD in 2009 and 1.5 years of postdoc work in Juelich, Thomas Kirchartz started a three year fellowship at Imperial College London working on recombination mechanisms in organic solar cells with Jenny Nelson. In 2013, he returned to Germany and accepted a position as head of a new activity on hybrid and organic solar cells in Juelich and simultaneously as Professor for Photovoltaics with Nanostructured Materials in the department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at the University Duisburg-Essen. Kirchartz has published >100 isi-listed papers, has co-edited one book on characterization of thin-film solar cells whose second edition was published in 2016 and currently has an h-index of 38.
Distinguished Professor, Member of Japan Academy, Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry,
Honorary Member of Chemical Society of Japan, Honorary Member of Japan Society of Coordination Chemistry
The Honorary Fellowship of the Council of the Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI)
Education:
1975-1979 Kyoto University, Graduate School, Hydrocarbon Chemistry, PhD degree 1971-1974 Kyoto University, Undergraduate course, Hydrocarbon Chemistry
Professional Appointments:
2017-Present Distinguished Professor, PhD
2013-Present Director, Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences, Kyoto University
2007-2012 Deputy Director, Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences, Kyoto University
1998-2016 Professor, Department of Synthetic Chemistry & Biological Chemistry, Kyoto University 1992-1998 Professor, Department of Chemistry, Tokyo Metropolitan University
1988-1992 Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Kinki University 1986-1987 Visiting Scientist, Department of Chemistry, Texas A & M University
F. A. Cotton Laboratory
1983-1988 Lecturer, Department of Chemistry, Kinki University
1979-1983 Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Kinki University
Research interests:
Chemistry of Coordination Space, Porous Materials, Porous Coordination Polymers (PCPs), Metal-organic Frameworks (MOFs)
Award:
2022 Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher
2021 Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher
2020 Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher
2019 Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher
2019 Emanuel Merck Lectureship Award (Darmstadt, Germany)
2018 Grand Prix of the Fondation de la maison de la chimie, France
2018 2018 Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher
2017 Chemistry for the Future Solvay Prize
2017 2017 Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher 2017 The 58th Fujihara Award
2016 1st Air Liquide Awards on Essential Small Molecules
2016 Fred Basolo Medal for Outstanding Research in Inorganic Chemistry (American Chemical Society, Northwestern University)
2016 2016 Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher 2016 Japan Academy Prize
2015 Marco Polo della Scienza Italiana Award
2015 2015 Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher
2014 2014 Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher
2013 The 10th Leo Esaki Prize
2013 The de Gennes Prize（Royal Society of Chemistry）
2013 Kyoto University Shi-Shi Award
2011 Kyoto Shimbun Award Culture Academic Award
2011 The Medal with Purple Ribbon 2011 (The Japanese Government)
2011 Research Category, Prizes for Science and Technology, The Commendation for
Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and
Technology
2010 Thomson Reuters Citation Laureate (Chemistry)
2009 The Chemical Society of Japan Award
2008 Humboldt Research Award, Germany
2007 The Japan Society of Coordination Chemistry Award
2002 The Chemical Society of Japan Award for Creative Work
Dr. Christopher Kley leads the Helmholtz Young Investigator group "Nanoscale Operando CO2 Photo-Electrocatalysis" at the Helmholtz Center Berlin for Materials and Energy and the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society. Previously, he was working at the Department of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley (Postdoc), Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (PhD), Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion (master), and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (study of physics). His research group focuses on deciphering the structural, electrical and catalytic properties of materials under liquid phase reaction conditions by in situ scanning probe microscopy based approaches paired with electrochemical and spectroscopic characterization as well as material synthesis.
Victor I. Klimov is a Fellow of Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Director of the Center for Advanced Solar Photophysics of the U.S. Department of Energy. He received his M.S. (1978), Ph.D. (1981), and D.Sc. (1993) degrees from Moscow State University. He is a Fellow of both the American Physical Society and the Optical Society of America, and a recipient of the Humboldt Research Award. His research interests include optical spectroscopy of semiconductor and metal nanostructures, carrier relaxation processes, strongly confined multiexcitons, energy and charge transfer, and fundamental aspects of photovoltaics.
Christian Klinke studied physics at the University of Karlsruhe (Germany) where he also obtained his diploma degree in the group of Thomas Schimmel. In March 2000 he joined the group of Klaus Kern at the Institute of Experimental Physics of the EPFL (Lausanne, Switzerland). Then from 2003 on he worked as Post-Doc at the IBM TJ Watson Research Center (Yorktown Heights, USA) in the group of Phaedon Avouris. In 2006 then he became member of the Horst Weller group at the Universitiy of Hamburg (Germany). In 2007 he started as assistant professor at the University of Hamburg. In 2009 he received the German Nanotech Prize (Nanowissenschaftspreis, AGeNT-D/BMBF). His research was supported by an ERC Starting Grant and a Heisenberg fellowship of the German Funding Agency DFG. Since 2017 he is an associate professor at the Swansea University and since 2019 full professor at the University of Rostock.
Dr. Evelyne Knapp is a research associate at the Institute of Computational Physics at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences in Winterthur, Switzerland. She holds a Diploma and Ph.D. degree in Computational Science and Engineering from ETH Zurich.
After graduating in physics from University of Cologne, Germany he obtained a Ph.D. in semiconductor physics at the IHP institute (Innovations for High Performance Microelectronics) in Frankfurt-Oder, Germany in 1997. Afterwards taking a post-doc position at University of California, Berkeley, US, working on the characterization of GaN thin films for device applications.
In 1998 he joined Siemens Semiconductor, now Infineon, working on CMOS technology development from 0.25µm down to 40nm and beyond with the focus on embedded memories for automotive microcontroller, smartcard and IoT applications. With the Qimonda memory spin off he worked on 4x ... 3x nm multilevel NAND Flash technology for SSD applications. In the recent years he followed the various emerging memory concepts like PCRAM, RRAM or MRAM, again for embedded microcontrollers.
Since 2019, with the start of the new development center in Dresden, he focused on research of hardware concepts for AI acceleration. New concepts like analogue or spiking neuromorphic are key for a power efficient and secure edge-AI. Currently he is leading a group working on spiking neural network algorithms and hardware for radar processing in automotive.
Marc T.M. Koper is Professor of Surface Chemistry and Catalysis at Leiden University, The Netherlands. He received his PhD degree (1994) from Utrecht University (The Netherlands) in the field of electrochemistry. He was an EU Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow at the University of Ulm (Germany) and a Fellow of Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) at Eindhoven University of Technology, before moving to Leiden University in 2005. His main research interests are in fundamental aspects of electrocatalysis, proton-coupled electron transfer, theoretical electrochemistry, and electrochemical surface science.
Brian A. Korgel is the Rashid Engineering Regents Chair Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin (USA) and works in the field of nanomaterials chemistry and complex fluids. He is Director of the Energy Institute at UT Austin. He received his PhD from UCLA in 1997 and was a post-doctoral fellow at University College Dublin, Ireland until 1998 before joining the faculty at UT Austin. He has been Visiting Professor at the University of Alicante in Spain as a Senior Fulbright Fellow, Visiting Professor at the Université Josef Fourier in France and Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing. He directs the Industry/University Cooperative Research Center for a Solar Powered Future, has co-founded two companies, Innovalight and Piñon Technologies, and serves as an Associate Editor for Chemistry of Materials. He has published more than 220 papers and has received various honors including the Professional Progress Award from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) and the ISHA Roy-Somiya Medal, and is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
I am currently an Full Professor at the University of Bonn (Germany), Department of Chemistry. My overarching motivation is to discover and implement the chemistry necessary to transition to a sustainable energy-based society. Specifically, I am developing materials to convert electrical energy to fuels and chemicals.
Jan Anton Koster received his PhD in Physics from the University of Groningen in 2007. After his PhD, he worked as a postdoc at the universities of Cambridge and Eindhoven. Having obtained a VENI grant for organic solar cell modelling, he moved back to Groningen to continue his work on organic semiconductors. In 2013 he became a tenure-track assistant professor and was promoted to associate professor (with ius promovendi) at the University of Groningen in 2017. Currently, his main research interests include hybrid perovskite solar cells, organic solar cells and organic thermoelectrics.
Maksym Kovalenko has been a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at ETH Zurich since July 2011 and Associate professor from January 2017. His group is also partially hosted by EMPA (Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology) to support his highly interdisciplinary research program. He completed graduate studies at Johannes Kepler University Linz (Austria, 2004-2007, with Prof. Wolfgang Heiss), followed by postdoctoral training at the University of Chicago (USA, 2008-2011, with Prof. Dmitri Talapin). His present scientific focus is on the development of new synthesis methods for inorganic nanomaterials, their surface chemistry engineering, and assembly into macroscopically large solids. His ultimate, practical goal is to provide novel inorganic materials for optoelectronics, rechargeable Li-ion batteries, post-Li-battery materials, and catalysis. He is the recipient of an ERC Consolidator Grant 2018, ERC Starting Grant 2012, Ruzicka Preis 2013 and Werner Prize 2016. He is also a Highly Cited Researcher 2018 (by Clarivate Analytics).
The Kraus groups studies the basic mechanisms of the formation and the properties of colloidal particles and their interfaces. At INM - Leibniz Institute for New Materials, it uses such mechanisms to join molecules, polymers, and colloidal particles in order to form materials. (Link)
We study how the properties of composite and hybrid materials depend on their microstructures and how to change them. To this end, we systematically vary size, geometry, chemical composition, and arrangement of the materials’ constituents. We observe how microstructure and interfaces form and affect material properties to create transparent conductive layers of metal nanoparticles for electronics, composites of conductive polymers with optically active particles for sensors and supraparticles that contain optically active nanoparticles, for example. We see particles as the basis of future “active nanocomposites” that can interface with electronics and change their properties whenever required.
Simon Krause is a chemist working at the intersection of organic, inorganic, physical, and materials chemistry. He studied chemistry at the University of Nottingham (UK) and Technische Universität Dresden (Germany). In 2019 he obtained his PhD at TU Dresden in the field of negative gas adsorption of flexible metal-organic frameworks. From 2019-2020 he worked in the group of Prof Ben Feringa at the University of Groningen (Nl) on light-driven molecular motors and switches as a Feodor Lynen post-doctoral research fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt foundation. Since 2021 he is a group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart (Ger) supported by a Liebig Fellowship and CZS Nexus Award researching in the field of framework-embedded molecular machines and dynamic phenomena in solids. If not in the lab you can find him on a lacrosse field, slamming about science or behind a camera.
Dr. Anurag Krishna is an R&D Project Leader at Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre (IMEC) and EnergyVille, Belgium, where his research activities focus on developing perovskite module technology. Previously, he has been a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow in the laboratory of Prof. Anders Hagfeldt and Prof. Michael Graetzel at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland. He obtained Ph.D. from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. The noble mission of his research is to facilitate sustainable and affordable low-carbon and green technology solutions for the world. On the fundamental side, his research interests focus on developing hybrid materials suitable for photovoltaic, optoelectronic, and nanoelectronic devices
Emmanuel Kymakis is Full Professor at the Electrical & Compurter Engineering Department of the Hellenic Mediterranean University, where he heads the Emerging Nanomaterials and Devices group. He received the B.Eng. (First Class Honors) degree in Electrical Engineering & Electronics from Liverpool University in 1999 and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Cambridge University in 2003. He and Prof. Gehan Amaratunga are the inventors of the polymer-nanotube solar cell. Before joining HMU, he was a technical consultant offering engineering and consultancy services in the field of photovoltaic and solar thermal power plants for various Greek and international investors and private companies. His technological interests are in the synthesis and solution processing of novel carbon nanomaterials and their incorporation into organic electronic devices. His research topics presently include investigation of the opto-electronic properties of graphene, carbon nanotubes, layered crystals and inorganic-organic hybrids for the development of low cost next generation flexible photovoltaic devices, compatible with roll-to-roll large area manufacturing methods. He has over 100 SCI publications with over 7.500 citations (h-index=43) on these topics and has given 40 invited lectures. He has been selected as an honorary lecturer in the UConn, and was a recipient of an Isaac Newton and an EPSRC studentship during his PhD studies in Cambridge. Prof. Kymakis was recently named by RSC as a 2014 ChemComm Emerging Investigator and has won the Excellence Award for young scientists by the Greek General Secretariat of Research & Technology. He is currently the deputy dealer of the WP Energy Generation of the Graphene Flagship and elected member of the General Assembly of the Greek Foundation for Research and Innovation (ELIDEK).
Professor Anna Köhler holds a chair of experimental physics at the University of Bayreuth. She received her PhD in 1996 from the University of Cambridge, UK, where she continued her research funded through Research Fellowships by Peterhouse and by the Royal Society. In 2003 she was appointed professor at the University of Potsdam, Germany, from where she moved in 2007 to the University of Bayreuth, Germany. Her research is concerned with photophysical processes in organic and hybrid semiconductors. She focusses in particular on the processes of energy and charge transfer in singlet and triplet excited states, the exciton dissociation mechanism and intermolecular/interchain interactions.
Philippe Leclère received a PhD in Physics from the University of Liège (Belgium) in 1994. He joined the group of Jean-Luc Brédas at the University of Mons in 1995 as a research fellow. From 2000 to 2004, he worked as research associate and served as research coordinator at the Materia Nova Research Center. During this period, he spent 4 months (in 1999) in the group of Jean-Pierre Aimé at the University of Bordeaux (France) and one year (2003) in the group of E.W. (Bert) Meijer at the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) in the Netherlands. In October 2004, he became Research Associate of the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research (FRS - FNRS) in the group of Roberto Lazzaroni at the University of Mons. In October 2014, he became Senior Research Associate of the FRS - FNRS. Since 2003, he is still visiting scientist at the Institute of Complex Molecular Systems at TU/e. His research interests mostly deal with the characterization by means of scanning probe microscopy techniques of the morphology and the nanoscale mechanical, electrical properties of organic and hybrid supramolecular (nano)structures, build by self-assembly of functional (macro)molecules. He is (co)author of over 160 chapter books and papers in international peer-reviewed journals. Hirsch Factor : 38
Markus Lackinger currently leads a research group at the Deutsches Museum – one of Germany’s largest research museums and member of the Leibniz Association, in close collaboration with the Technische Universität München.
He studied physical engineering at the University of Applied Sciences in Munich and received his Ph.D. in experimental physics from Chemnitz University of Technology in 2003. During his graduate studies, he had a research stay at Columbia University with Prof. George W. Flynn, and afterwards he did a Postdoc with Prof. Wilson Ho at the University of California, Irvine. In 2006 he became a junior research group leader and later on substitute professor at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich.
He has been scientifically socialized in surface science and always had a keen interest in molecular structures. In this context, the development of protocols and novel approches for the synthesis of ever more extended 2D polymers on solid surfaces and the thorough characterization of their structures and properties now consitutes one of his major reasearch interests and goals.
Wolfgang Langbein (ResearcherID B-1271-2010) was born in Würzburg, Germany, in 1968. He received his Diplom in physics from the University of Kaiserslautern in 1992, and his PhD degree in physics from the University of Karlsruhe in 1995. From 1995 to 1998, he was assistant research professor at the Mikroelektronik Centret, Denmark. From 1998 to 2004, he was with the University of Dortmund, where received his Habilitation in 2003. In 2004 he was appointed senior lecturer in the School of Physics, Cardiff University, promoted to Reader in 2006 and to Personal Chair in 2007. His current research interests are (i) characterization and ultrafast spectroscopy of semiconductor nanostructures, microcavities, and quantum-dot optical amplifiers. (ii) application of optical spectroscopy and imaging to life-science, including the techniques of coherent Raman scattering microscopy and label-free optical biosensors using microcavities or plasmonics.
Dr Luis Lanzetta is a Postdoctoral Fellow at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST, KSA). He obtained his PhD in Chemistry at Imperial College London (UK) in 2020, where he focused on developing eco-friendly, tin-based perovskites for photovoltaic and light-emitting applications. His research focuses on next-generation materials for energy harvesting. Specifically, his expertise lies in the chemical degradation and stabilisation mechanisms of halide perovskite solar cells, aiming to provide design rules towards more efficient and stable technologies. He is additionally interested in molecular doping approaches for narrow-bandgap perovskites, as well as the spectroscopic and surface characterisation of this class of materials.
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Professor Kwanghee currently leads research and development program of organic solar cells in Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST) as a director of the Research Institute of Solar and Sustainable Energies (RISE). He is also appointed as a “Distinguished Professor” of the School of Materials Science and Engineering of GIST. Dr. Lee started his professorship at Pusan National University in 1997 after finishing his Ph.D. and Post-Doc at the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB). Then he moved to GIST in 2007 and have organized and acted as a co-director of the Heeger Center for Advanced Materials (HCAM) together with the director, Professor Alan J. Heeger, who is a 2000 year Nobel Laureate in Chemistry. Now Dr. Lee is a leading scientist in the area of “plastic electronics” including organic solar cells, polymer LEDs, and organic FETs. Dr. Lee finished his B.S. in Nuclear Engineering at Seoul National University and M.S. in Physics at KAIST. Then he earned his Ph.D. in Physics at UCSB (USA) under the guidance of Prof. Heeger with a subject of metallic and semiconducting polymers.
Tae-Woo Lee is an associate professor in Materials Science and Engineering at the Seoul National University, Korea. He received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the KAIST, Korea in 2002. He joined Bell Laboratories, USA as a postdoctoral researcher and worked at Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology as (2003-2008). He was an associate professor in Materials Science and Engineering at the Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Korea until August 2016. His research focuses on printed flexible electronics based on organic, carbon, and organic-inorganic hybrid perovskite materials for displays, solar cells, and bio-inspired neuromorphic electronics.
Prof. Lee is an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology at Taipei Tech. He received his Ph.D. degree in Chemical Engineering from National Taiwan University in 2009. Prior to joining Taipei Tech, he continued his postdoc research at Stanford University from 2012 to 2014. He is devoted to the field of soft electronic materials. His present research interests covered stretchable polymer-based field-effect transistors, e-Skin, artificial synapses, non-volatile memory, and wearable electronics.
Tomas obtained his PhD at Oxford for his work understanding degradation mechanisms and photophysical processes in dye sensitized and perovskite solar cells. He was a Marie Curie fellow at Stanford, where he co-developed the first all-perovskite tandem solar cells and helped develop the perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells that became the first points on the NREL chart for these tandems. He then carried that research further at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory as a Staff Scientist. He is a co-founder and the chief technical officer of Swift Solar, which is developing and commercializing perovskite tandem PV.
Leite is an Associate Professor in Materials Science and Engineering at UC Davis. Her group investigates materials for energy harvesting and storage, from their nano-scale structural, electrical, and optical properties to their implementation in devices. Before joining UC Davis, Leite was an associate professor at the University of Maryland, she worked for two years at NIST and was a post-doctoral scholar at Caltech (Department of Applied Physics and Materials Science). She received her PhD in physics from Campinas State University in Brazil and the Synchrotron Light Source Laboratory. Leite's work has been recognized on the cover of ~30 scientific journals, by the presentation of >140 invited talks, by the 2016 APS Ovshinsky Sustainable Energy Fellowship from the American Physical Society (APS) and the 2014 Maryland Academy of Sciences Outstanding Young Scientist Award. Leite’s research has been funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Army Research Office (ARO), the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), etc.
Emmanuel Lhuillier has been undergraduate student at ESPCI in Paris and then followed a master in condensed matter physics from university Pierre and Marie Curie. He was then PhD student under the mentorship of Emmanuel Rosencher at Onera in the optics department, where he work on transport in quantum well heterostructure. As post doc he moved to the group of Philippe Guyot-Sionnest in the university of Chicago, and start working on infrared nanocrystal. Then he moved back to ESPCI for a second post in the group of Benoit Dubertret working on optoelectronic properties of colloidal nanoplatelets. Since 2015 he is a CNRS researcher at Institute for nanoscience of Paris at Sorbinne université. His research activities are focused on optoelectronic properties of confined Nanomaterial with a special interest on infrared system. He receive in 2017 an ERC starting grant to investigate infrared colloidal materials.
Emmanuel is an ESPCI engineer and hold a master degree from universite Pierre and marie Curie in condensed matter physics. He did his PhD under supervision of Emmanuel Rosencher on the transport properties of superlattices used as infrared detector. He then did post doc in the group of Guyot Sionnest and Dubertret, working on the optoelectronic properties of nanocrystals. Since 2015 he is a CNRS researcher at Insitute for Nanoscience at Sorbonne Université. His team is dedicated to optoelectronic of confined nanomaterials
Yongfang Li is a professor in Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ICCAS) and in Soochow University. He received his Ph. D. degree in department of Chemistry from Fudan University in 1986, and did his postdoctoral research at ICCAS from 1986 to 1988. He became a staff in 1988 and promoted to professor in 1993 in ICCAS, and elected as member of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2013. He did his visiting research in Institute for Molecular Science, Japan from 1988 to 1991 and in University of California at Santa Barbara from 1997 to 1998. His present research interests are photovoltaic materials and devices for polymer solar cells. He has published more than 600 papers and the published papers were cited by others for more than 28000 times with h-index of 86.
Kangming Li is a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at University of Toronto. He received his PhD in Physics from Université Paris-Saclay, where he was a CEA-NUMERICS Fellow funded under the Marie Curie Actions. He was awarded the Dalla Torre Medal by the French Society for Metallurgy and Materials for his PhD work on finite-temperature magnetic effects in concentrated alloys. Currently he is using machine learning and high-throughput first principles calculations to accelerate the discovery of novel inorganic materials.
Tianquan (Tim) Lian received his PhD degree from University of Pennsylvania (under the supervision of Prof. Robin Hochstrasser) in 1993. After postdoctoral training with Prof. Charles B. Harris in the University of California at Berkeley, Tim Lian joined the faculty of chemistry department at Emory University in 1996. He was promoted to associate professor in 2002, full professor in 2005, Winship distinguished research Professor in 2007, and William Henry Emerson Professor of Chemistry in 2008. Tim Lian is a recipient of the NSF CAREER award and the Alfred P. Sloan fellowship. Tim Lian research interest is focused on ultrafast dynamics in photovoltaic and photocatalytic nanomaterials and at their interfaces.
Jaehoon Lim is an associated professor in the Department of Energy Science at Sungkyunkwan University in South Korea. He obtained his M.S. (2007) and Ph.D. (2013) degrees in chemical engineering from Seoul National University. Following his doctoral studies, he served as a postdoctoral researcher at the Inter-university Semiconductor Research Center at Seoul National University (2013–2014) under the supervision of Prof. Changhee Lee, and later at the Chemistry Division of Los Alamos National Laboratory (2014–2018) under the guidance of Dr. Victor I. Klimov. From 2018 to 2020, he held the position of assistant professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Ajou University. His research primarily focuses on the development of nanomaterials, spectroscopic characterization, and their applications in pioneering light-emitting diodes.
Bernabé Linares-Barranco received the B. S. degree in electronic physics in June 1986 and the M. S. degree in microelectronics in September 1987, both from the University of Seville , Sevilla , Spain . From September 1988 until August 1991 he was a Graduate Student at the Dept. of Electrical Engineering of Texas A&M University. He received a first Ph.D. degree in high-frequency OTA-C oscillator design in June 1990 from the University of Seville, Spain, and a second Ph.D deegree in analog neural network design in December 1991 from Texas A&M University , College-Station, USA.
Since June 1991, he has been a Tenured Scientist at the "Instituto de Microelectrónica deSevilla" , (IMSE-CNM-CSIC) Sevilla , Spain , which since 2015 is a Mixed Center between the University of Sevilla and the Spanish Research Council (CSIC). From September 1996 to August 1997, he was on sabbatical stay at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the Johns Hopkins University . During Spring 2002 he was Visiting Associate Professor at the Electrical Engineering Department of Texas A&M University , College-Station, USA. In January 2003 he was promoted to Tenured Researcher, and in January 2004 to Full Professor. Since February 2018, he is the Director of the "Insitituto de Microelectrónica de Sevilla".
He has been involved with circuit design for telecommunication circuits, VLSI emulators of biological neurons, VLSI neural based pattern recognition systems, hearing aids, precision circuit design for instrumentation equipment, VLSI transistor mismatch parameters characterization, and over the past 20 years has been deeply involved with neuromorphic spiking circuits and systems, with strong emphasis on vision and exploiting nanoscale memristive devices for learning. He is co-founder of two start-ups, Prophesee SA (www.prophesee.ai) and GrAI-Matter-Labs SAS (www.graimatterlabs.ai), both on neuromorphic hardware.
Dr. Linares-Barranco was corecipient of the 1997 IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems Best Paper Award for the paper "A Real-Time Clustering Microchip Neural Engine", and of the 2000 IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems Darlington Award for the paper "A General Translinear Principle for Subthreshold MOS Transistors". He organized the 1995 Nips Post-Conference Workshop "Neural Hardware Engineering ". From July 1997 until June 1999 he has been Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems Part II , and from January 1998 until December 2009 he was also Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks . Since April 2010 he is Associate Editor for the new journal "Frontiers in Neuromorphic Engineering", as part of the open access "Frontiers in Neuroscience" journal series (http://www.frontiersin.org/). Since Jan. 2021 he is Specialty Chief Editor of "Frontiers in Neuromorphic Engineering".
He is co-author of the book "Adaptive Resonance Theory Microchips ". He was Chief Guest Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks Special Issue on 'Hardware Neural Networks Implementations '. He is an IEEE Fellow since January 2010. He is listed among the Stanford top 2% most world-wide cited scientist in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (top 0.62% world-wide, 8th in Spain, 2nd in Andalucía, 1st in CSIC).
Prof. Magalí Lingenfelder is a PI with an excellent track record and a passion for atomically controlled interfaces. Her work contributes to the design of new materials by elucidating chemical processes by Scanning Probe Microscopies and Surface Sensitive Spectroscopies, including dynamic (bio) molecular recognition processes at the liquid/solid interface.
She created and led for over 10 years the Max Planck-EPFL laboratory for Molecular Nanoscience at EPFL campus in Switzerland, and has recently joined the Basque Center for Materials as Ikerbasque Professor.
She studied physical and biological chemistry at the National University of Córdoba in Argentina. In 2003, she finished her MSc thesis at the Max Planck Institute for the Solid State Research (MPI-FKF in Stuttgart, Germany) with seminal contributions to the field of metal-organic coordination networks on solid surfaces. She continued with her doctoral studies in Physics, and received the Otto Hahn medal of the Max Planck Society in 2008 for the microscopic understanding of the chiral recognition process with submolecular resolution. In her quest to study molecular recognition going from 2D to 3D complex systems, she made postdoctoral stays at the Institute of Materials Sciences in Barcelona, and at the Molecular Foundry of the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab in the US.
She is a committed mentor who directed 4 MSc theses, 5 PhD theses, and 5 postdocs. She advocates for problem-oriented interdisciplinary research, by pioneering the emerging field of BioNanoarchitectonics. She led 5 international research consortiums, delivered over 50 invited presentations, and organized 9 conferences and 4 doctoral schools. She and her team had received multiple awards and international recognitions for their creative and rigurous work on molecular recognition, chirality and operando studies at catalytic interfaces. In 2018, the Royal Society of Chemistry included her work in the first collection “Celebrating Excellence in Research: 100 Women of Chemistry”.
Darren J. Lipomi earned his bachelor’s degree in chemistry with a minor in physics as a Beckman Scholar at Boston University in 2005. He earned his PhD in chemistry at Harvard University in 2010, with Prof. George M. Whitesides, where he was supported by a fellowship from the ACS Organic Division. From 2010 – 2012, he was an Intelligence Community Postdoctoral Fellow in the laboratory of Prof. Zhenan Bao at Stanford University. He is now a Professor in the Department of NanoEngineering and Program in Chemical Engineering at the University of California, San Diego. His research interests include the chemistry of organic materials, especially the mechanical properties of pi-conjugated polymers for flexible solar cells, biomechanical sensors, and phenomena that occur at the intersection of materials chemistry with human perception and cognition. He is the recipient of the NSF BRIGE award, the AFOSR Young Investigator Program award, the NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, and the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. He hosts a podcast, “Molecular Podcasting with Darren Lipomi” and associated YouTube channel (Darren_Lipomi) that together have >10,000 subscribers. These venues serve as a resource to students, postdocs, and other early-career researchers. His research website is lipomigroup.org.
Prof. Mónica Lira-Cantú is Group Leader of the Nanostructured Materials for Photovoltaic Energy Group at the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (www.icn.cat located in Barcelona (Spain). She obtained a Bachelor in Chemistry at the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, ITESM Mexico (1992), obtained a Master and PhD in Materials Science at the Materials Science Institute of Barcelona (ICMAB) & Autonoma University of Barcelona (1995/1997) and completed a postdoctoral work under a contract with the company Schneider Electric/ICMAB (1998). From 1999 to 2001 she worked as Senior Staff Chemist at ExxonMobil Research & Engineering (formerly Mobil Technology Co) in New Jersey (USA) initiating a laboratory on energy related applications (fuel cells and membranes). She moved back to ICMAB in Barcelona, Spain in 2002. She received different awards/fellowships as a visiting scientist to the following laboratories: University of Oslo, Norway (2003), Riso National Laboratory, Denmark (2004/2005) and the Center for Advanced Science and Innovation, Japan (2006). In parallel to her duties as Group Leader at ICN2 (Spain), she is currently visiting scientist at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL, CH). Her research interests are the synthesis and application of nanostructured materials for Next-generation solar cells: Dye sensitized, hybrid, organic, all-oxide and perovskite solar cells. Monica Lira-Cantu has more than 85 published papers, 8 patents and 10 book chapters and 1 edited book (in preparation).
Emil List-Kratochvil graduated from the Napier University Edinburgh with a first class BSc (Hons) in Applied Physics in 1996, followed by a first class Master Degree in 1998 and a first class degree of a Doctor Technicae in 2000, both from Graz University of Technology (TU Graz).
He received his Habilitation (Venia Docendi) in Solid State Physics in 2003 at TU Graz. At that time, he was a Christian-Doppler-Society funded Research Associate (2000-2007), directing a laboratory for “Advanced Functional Materials” focusing on an applied research agenda in collaboration with Industry. In 2004 he was appointed Associate Professor in Solid State Physics at TU Graz. In 2004 Professor List-Kratochvil was awarded the Fritz Kohlrauschpreis (ÖPG) and the Basic Research Nanotechnology Award (Province of Styria).
In 2006 he got the offer to found the NanoTecCenter Weiz Forschungsgesellschaft mbH, which he directed as Scientific Managing Director until 2015, in parallel to his appointment at TU Graz.
In 2015 he joined Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin as full professor (W3) at the Departments of Physics and Chemistry as well as a member of the Integrative Research Institute for the Sciences (IRIS Adlershof).
In August 2018 he also accepted the offer of Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin to found and lead a Joint Laboratory as well as Joint Helmholtz Research Group on “Generative Manufacturing Processes for Hybrid Devices”.
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Yao-Hong Liu is currently Scientific Director in imec. He is a recipient of a European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator grant and is the principal investigator of “Intranet of Neurons.” His research focus is high-capacity and minimally-invasive wireless technology for implantable brain-computer interfaces.
Dr. Liu received his Ph.D. degree from National Taiwan University, Taiwan, in 2009. He was with Terax, Via Telecom (now Intel), and Mobile Devices, Taiwan, from 2002 to 2010, developing Bluetooth, WiFi and cellular wireless SoC products. Since 2010, he joined imec, the Netherlands, and is leading the research of the ultra-low power wireless ASIC design for IoT and implantable applications. He served as a technical program committee of IEEE ISSCC, and currently serves in IEE RFIC symposium. He was a recipient of ISSCC 2020 Best System Demonstration Award.
Antoni Llobet is Professor of Chemistry at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) and Group Leader at Catalan Institute for Chemical Research (ICIQ) in Tarragona, Spain. He carried out his PhD at UAB on coordination chemistry of first raw transition metals. He then did one post-doct at the University of North Carolina with Thomas J. Meyer on redox properties of Ru complexes and second post-doct at Texas A&M University with Arthur E. Martell and Donald T. Sawyer on redox catalysis. He has now established a group at ICIQ that deals broadly on topics related to artificial photosynthesis with special focus on light harvesting and on oxidative and reductive catalysis. He has published over 125 research papers. In 2000 he received the Distinction Award from Generalitat de Catalunya for Young Scientists and recently he has been awarded the Bruker-Inorganic Chemistry prize of the Spanish Royal Chemical Society.
Antoni Llobet was born in Sabadell (Barcelona) in 1960.
He obtained his PhD at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) with Prof. Francesc Teixidor in July 1985, and then moved to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for a postdoctoral stay with Prof. Thomas J. Meyer, until the end of 1987.
After a short period again at UAB and at University of Sussex-Dow Corning (UK) he then become a Scientific Officer for the Commission of the European Communities, based in Brussels, Belgium (1990-1991).
Then he was appointed Senior Research Associate at Texas A&M University in College Station (USA) from 1992 till 1993, working with the groups of Prof. Arthur E. Martell and Donald T. Sawyer. From 1993 till 2004 he joined the faculty of the Universitat de Girona where he was promoted to Full Professor in 2000. At the end of 2004 he joined the faculty of UAB also as Full Professor.
In September 2006, he was appointed as Group Leader at the Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ) in Tarragona.
His research interests include the development of tailored transition metal complexes as catalysts for selective organic and inorganic transformations including the oxidation of water to molecular dioxygen, supramolecular catalysis, the activation of C-H and C-F bonds, and the preparation low molecular weight complexes as structural and/or functional models of the active sites of oxidative metalloproteins.
In 2000 he received the Distinction Award from Generalitat de Catalunya for Young Scientists. In 2011 he was awarded the Bruker Prize in Inorganic Chemistry from the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry (RSEQ) and in 2012 he has been awarded with the “Hermanos Elhuyar-Hans Goldschmidt” lecture jointly by RSEQ and the German Chemical Society (GDCh).
At present he is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of “Catalysis Science and Technology” from the Royal Society of Chemistry, “Inorganic Chemistry” from the American Chemical Society and “European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry” from Wiley-VCH.
Prof. Julio Lloret-Fillol graduated in Chemistry from the Universidad de Valencia in 2001 where he also obtained his PhD in 2006, working under the supervision of Prof. P. Lahuerta and Prof. J. Pérez-Prieto. After his PhD he moved to the University of Heidelberg to the group of Prof. L. H. Gade as a postdoctoral MEyC fellow and postdoctoral Marie Curie fellow. Since 2010 he has been working as an independent research leader at Universitat de Girona (Ramón y Cajal program). In 2014 he obtained a position as Young Research Group Leader at the Institut de Química Computational i Catàlisi (UdG). In November 2014 he move to the Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ) as a junior group leader and in 2020 promoted to his actual position of Senior group leader.
I am a physiologist with more than 10 years of experience in cardiovascular research. I graduated in Biotechnology in 2007 and received my PhD in Physiology and Neuroscience at the University of Pavia in 2012. I then joined IRCCS ICS Maugeri in Pavia and later the Center for Nano Science and Technology (IIT@PoliMI) based in Milan. Currently, I act as an associate professor in Physiology at the University of Milano-Bicocca. I have developed a strong interest in biophysics and acquired a hands-on experience in both basic and translational research. My main goal is to solve problems in physiology and medicine of the cardiovascular system through multidisciplinary and ground-breaking approaches.
Stephen Loeb is a Professor of Chemistry and the Canada Research Chair in Supramolecular Chemistry and Functional Materials at the University of Windsor. Steve is a world-renowned expert in supramolecular chemistry and its applications in inorganic chemistry. Over the past 30 years, he has made significant contributions to the areas of mechanically interlocked molecules, anion recognition and metal-organic framework (MOF) materials. He is widely recognized for pioneering the use of MOFs to support molecular dynamics in the solid-state – publishing a pair of landmark articles in Nature Chemistry showing that the large amplitude rotation and translational motion of macrocycles in interlocked molecules can be made to operate in inside porous solid-state materials. His impact on inorganic chemsitry in Canada was recognized with the 2012 Rio Tinto Alcan Award from the Chemical Society of Canada and in 2017 he was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
Maria Antonietta Loi studied physics at the University of Cagliari in Italy where she received the PhD in 2001. In the same year she joined the Linz Institute for Organic Solar cells, of the University of Linz, Austria as a post doctoral fellow. Later she worked as researcher at the Institute for Nanostructured Materials of the Italian National Research Council in Bologna Italy. In 2006 she became assistant professor and Rosalind Franklin Fellow at the Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials of the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. She is now full professor in the same institution and chair of the Photophysics and OptoElectronics group. She has published more than 130 peer review articles in photophysics and optoelectronics of nanomaterials. In 2012 she has received an ERC starting grant.
Marcelo Lozada-Hidalgo is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) and Royal Society University Research Fellow at the University of Manchester. His research group studies the permeability of two-dimensional materials to ions and gases. Key interests include ion selective membranes, proton transport processes, photo-assisted ion transport and isotope selectivity. He was awarded an M.Sc. in Physics by the National Autonomous University of Mexico (2012) and a PhD in Physics by The University of Manchester (2015). Since then, he built his independent research direction with support of an Early Career Fellowship by the Leverhulme Trust (2016); a Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw Fellowship by the University of Manchester (UoM) (2019); a University Research Fellowship by the Royal Society (2020); and an ERC Starting Grant (2021).
Dr. Eric Lukosi received hi PhD in Nuclear Engineering in 2012 from the University of Missouri. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Nuclear Engineering Department at the University of Tennessee and is affiliated with the Joint Institute for Advanced Materials. Dr. Lukosi's expertise is in radiation sensor development and application in fields ranging from high energy physics to nuclear security. Dr. Lukosi specializes in the development of semiconductor detectors, such as lithium indium diselenide, diamond, and methylammonium lead tribromide.
Dr. Qun LUO received her Bachelor degree in Material Science and Engineering in 2006 from Zhengzhou University, and Ph. D degree in Materials Physics and Chemistry in 2011 from Zhejiang University in China. She had a research experience in the field of photoluminescence properties of rare earth materials. During Jan, 2011 to July, 2011, she did research work in Rennes-1 University of France as a joint Ph.D student in the field of photoelectrochemical properties of sulfide. From Nov. 2011, she started research work of printable electronic inks and printing organic and perovskite solar cells as a post-doctor in Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. From May, 2015, she jointed Suzhou Institute of Nano-Tech and Nano-Bionics, Chinese Academy of Sciences as an associate professor. Now, her research interests are printable metal oxides semiconductor inks & printing thin films photovoltaics. She has published more than 60 papers on organic/perovskite photovoltaics and photovoltaic interface engineering.
Joseph M. Luther obtained B.S. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from North Carolina State University in 2001. At NCSU he began his research career under the direction of Salah Bedair, who was the first to fabricate a tandem junction solar cell. Luther worked on growth and characterization high-efficiency III-V materials including GaN and GaAsN. His interest in photovoltaics sent him to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) to pursue graduate work. He obtained a Masters of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Colorado while researching effects of defects in bulk semiconductors in NREL�s Measurements and Characterization Division. In 2005, He joined Art Nozik�s group at NREL and studied semiconductor nanocrystals for multiple exciton generation for which he was awarded a Ph.D. in Physics from Colorado School of Mines. As a postdoctoral fellow, he studied fundamental synthesis and novel properties of nanomaterials under the direction Paul Alivisatos at the University of California and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. In 2009, he rejoined NREL as a senior research scientist. His research interests lie in the growth, electronic coupling and optical properties of colloidal nanocrystals and quantum dots.
Jodie L. Lutkenhaus is holder of the Axalta Chair and Professor in the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&M University. Lutkenhaus received her B.S. in Chemical Engineering in 2002 from The University of Texas at Austin and her Ph.D in Chemical Engineering in 2007 from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Current research areas include polyelectrolytes, redox-active polymers, energy storage, and composites. She has received recognitions including World Economic Forum Young Scientist, Kavli Fellow, NSF CAREER, AFOSR Young Investigator, 3M Non-tenured Faculty Award. She is the past-Chair of the AICHE Materials Engineering & Sciences Division. Lutkenhaus is the Deputy Editor of ACS Applied Polymer Materials and a member of the U.S. National Academies Board of Chemical Sciences & Technology.
Dr. Rebeca Marcilla received her PhD in Chemistry in 2006 from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) in the field of ionic liquids and polymers with application in electrochemistry and nanotechnology. After a postdoctoral stay at the University College London she joined CIDETEC (Centro de Tecnologías Electroquímicas, Donostia-San Sebastian). In 2010 she moved to the Unit of Electrochemical Processes IMDEA Energy (Madrid) and in 2015 she became Senior Researcher. During her fruitful scientific career, she has acquired proven experience in advanced materials for energy storage (eg. ionic liquids, polymer electrolytes, redox-active polymers, etc) and in next-generation batteries including organic batteries and redox flow batteries). As a result, she has co-authored 7 patents (1 of them licensed to a private company) and published more around 120 articles, achieving an h-index of 46. She has supervised 12 PhD thesis (6 presented+6 on-going) and several postdoctoral researchers. In 2017, she was awarded with a ERC Consolidator Grant to develop Membrane-free Redox Flow Batteries. Dr. Marcilla is member of the Governing Board of the Electrochemistry Group of the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry (GEE-RSEQ) and Editor of Journal Power Sources.
Bening pursued his PhD degree at Interdisciplinary Graduate School, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. Specifically, he spent four years working at Energy Research Institute @ NTU (ERIAN) under supervisions of Assoc Prof Leong Wei Lin and Assoc Prof Andrew Grimsdale with the aim to improve interfacial and bulk stabilities of perovskite solar cells.
Bening obtained MSc degree in polymer materials science and engineering from The University of Manchester and BSc (Hons) in Chemistry and Biological Chemistry with Minor in Physics from NTU. Currently, he works as Research Associate in Emerging Photovoltaics at Energy Materials Lab, Newcastle University, UK.
Dr Ma is a professor of chemistry and PhD supervisor at Kyushu Institute of Technology, in Japan Since 2013-present. She works at the Graduate School of Life Science and Systems Engineering. Japan. Professor Ma spent 25 years researching new concept solar cell and photocatalyst and energy storage in Japan and abroad. Professor Ma is also a council member of the following organizations: Japan Society for Chemistry: Materials Research Society US, China Energy Society, China Solar Energy, and so on. She leads her research teams studying dye-sensitized solar cells and perovskite solar cells, also including development of electrochemistry catalysts, hydrogen production, fuel cell, and metal batteries. She has published over 300 papers and 10 books.
Shengqian Ma obtained his B.S. degree from Jilin University, China in 2003, and graduated from Miami University (Ohio) with a Ph.D. degree under the supervision of Hong-Cai Joe Zhou (currently at Texas A&M University) in 2008. After finishing two-year Director’s Postdoctoral Fellowship at Argonne National Laboratory, he joined the Department of Chemistry at University of South Florida (USF) as an Assistant Professor in August 2010. He was promoted to an Associate Professor with early tenure in 2015 and to a Full Professor in 2018. In August 2020, he joined the Department of Chemistry at University of North Texas (UNT) as the Robert A. Welch Chair in Chemistry.
Dr. Ji Ma is the research group leader in the Chair of Molecular Functional Materials at Faculty of Chemistry and Food Chemistry, Technische Universität Dresden. He received his Master's degree in Polymer Chemistry in July 2015 from Fudan University, China. In August 2015, he joined the group of Prof. Xinliang Feng in Technische Universität Dresden as a PhD student, and received his doctorate degree in Synthetic Chemistry in November 2019. After that, he was appointed as a research group leader for the synthetic carbon subgroup in the Chair.
Nicolò holds a tenure-track professorship and is the head of the ‘Ultrafast Nanophotonics and Advanced Functional Materials’ Group at the Department of Physics, Umeå University (Sweden) supported by the Swedish Research Council, the European Innovation Council, the Faculty of Science and Technology and the Kempe Foundations. Currently, he is also a visiting researcher and group leader at the Department of Physics and Materials Science, University of Luxembourg. He is author of more than 50 scientific papers in renowned international journals (including Physical Review Letters, Nature Communications, Advanced Optical Materials and Nano Letters) and co-author of an international patent on metamaterials for nanophotonic applications. He has more than 100 contributions at international conferences, international symposia, and colloquia, more than 25 as invited speaker.
Nicolò studied Physics at the University of Ferrara (Italy) from 2007 to 2012, and earned his PhD in Physics of Nanostructures and Advanced Materials (grade: outstanding cum laude) from the University of the Basque Country and CIC nanoGUNE (Spain) in 2016. As Predoctoral researcher in the Nanomagnetism Group at CIC nanoGUNE, he studied the optical properties of nanostructured magnetic materials, under the supervision of Prof. Paolo Vavassori. In 2015, he received the “Piero Brovetto” Award from the Italian Physical Society for “his contributions in the fields of nanomagnetism and nanooptics and the study of the physical properties of magnetoplasmonic nanoantennas and their application in bio-sensing”. During his PhD, he was Visiting Scientist at the Department of Applied Physics at Aalto School of Science (Finland) in 2014, and at the Department of Physics at Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden) in 2015.
From 2017 to 2018, he was Research Associate at the Italian Institute of Technology in Genoa (Italy) in the Plasmon Nanotechnologies Unit led by Dr. Francesco De Angelis, working on plasmonic nanostructures to control fundamental light-matter interactions, such as absorption and scattering of light, at the nanoscale. Concurrently, he contributed to the design and development of plasmonic nanoarchitectures for single protein sequencing through fluorescence and energy transfer mechanisms enhancement in collaboration with Dr. Denis Garoli, as well as for cell’s membrane and nucleus investigations through surface enhanced spectroscopy in collaboration with Dr. De Angelis.
From 2019 to 2021, he was a Junior Group Leader at the University of Luxembourg in the Ultrafast Phenomena in Condensed Matter Group led by Prof. Daniele Brida, leading a research team working on the FNR CORE Project ‘Ultrafast coherent hybridization of photons and spins in multi-functional magnetoplasmonic metamaterials’ (2020-2022) and the European H2020 FET-Open Project ‘Ultrafast Raman Technologies for Protein Identification and Sequencing’ (2020-2024). Here, he also developed a research line focused on the study of ultrafast phenomena in magnetoplasmonic nanostructures, and on the development of an ultrafast magneto-optical pump-probe spectroscopy setup working in different configurations (e.g., Faraday effect, polar and longitudinal Kerr effect, etc..), in a broad spectral range (from the visible to the mid infrared) and based on the use of few-optical cycle light pulses. In 2019 he was also Visiting Scientist in the Group of Prof. Alfred Leitenstorfer at the University of Konstanz.
In December 2021, he moved to Umeå University (Sweden) to start his own research group. In November 2021 he was awarded a prestigious Starting Grant from the Swedish Research Council aiming at studying nonthermal charge and spin dynamics in magnetoplasmonic nanostructures with sub-10 fs time resolution, and a Horizon Europe EIC-Pathfinder Project aiming at studying molecular structure by using advanced computational tools and ultrafast spectroscopy techniques together with international partners from Germany, Italy, France, Luxembourg and Sweden. Until now, he was able to collect more than 2.5 M€ (>25M SEK, including start-up packages) to fund his own research as Principal Investigator. In 2022, he became a Fellow of the Young Academy of Europe, an independent pan-European initiative of top young scientists for networking, scientific exchange and science policy.
Nicolò’s research span a broad range of fundamental and applied aspects of natural sciences, with a special focus on both the fundamental and applied aspects of light-matter interactions in advanced and multifunctional nano- and meta-materials for opto-electronics and information processing, photochemistry and biotechnology, by using frequency- and time-resolved (magneto-)optical spectroscopy, finite-element computational methods and bottom-up/top-down nanofabrication techniques (for a brief introduction on nano- and meta-materials, you can see his TEDx talk entitled Metamaterials matter: smart material of future).
From 2018 to 2021 Nicolò has been an Early Career Editorial Board Member of 'Nano Letters' (published by the American Chemical Society). Currently, he is an Associate Editor of 'Advanced Photonics Nexus' (published by SPIE and Chinese Laser Press) and a Young Editorial Board Member of 'Ultrafast Science', a Science partner journal published by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and distributed by the American Associations for Advances in Science (AAAS).
Finally, Nicolò is a certified Research Integrity trainer in the framework of the European Project VIRT2UE, aiming to provide the knowledge and skills to conduct virtue-based ethical research and to foster reflection on scientific virtues in researchers, in line with the European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity. From 2019 until 2021, he was a Research Coach and a pro-bono consultant at the Luxembourg Agency for Research Integrity.
Charles Machan (muh-hahn) was born in Madison, WI and grew up in Wauwatosa, WI where he attended Marquette University High School before going to Washington University in St. Louis (WashU). While at WashU he played football for four years as a defensive tackle and majored in Chemistry and German (B.A. 2008). Charles attended Northwestern University for graduate school and completed a Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry (2012) under the supervision of Chad A. Mirkin. At Northwestern he served as President of the Alpha Gamma Chapter of Phi Lambda Upsilon, a co-ed chemistry honors fraternity, and received the Edmund W. Gelewitz Award for Outstanding Senior Graduate Student (2012). From 2013-2016 he was a postdoctoral researcher with Clifford P. Kubiak at the University of California, San Diego. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Virginia.
I am a research officer based in the Centre for Innovative Ageing (CIA) and I am currently working on the Active Building Centre (ABC) project. This project aims to combine solar and low/zero carbon technologies with building design and operation to transform the construction and energy sectors. Our centre is involved with the ABC project to examine the impact of Active Builds on older people. We want to understand older people’s motives and the decision-making processes around moving to an ‘active’ home. I am particularly interested in public involvement and engagement in the research process and this is central to our research. We will be working with older people to devise and conduct the research. I retain an active role in the SUNRISE project (Strategic University Network to Revolutionize International Solar Energy and was involved in piloting arts based approaches to involvement and engagement in India (this blog has further details) as part of my role within the Centre for Ageing and Dementia Research (CADR) Cymru. I have also recently been awarded my PhD on the role of social support networks in the dementia literacy of older adults in Wales.
Morten Madsen, Professor wsr at the University of Southern Denmark, SDU NanoSYD.
My field of expertise is thin-film growth, integration and devices for energy conversion and storage applications. In 2010-2011, I worked with high performance transistors from III-V nanoscale membranes at the Javey research lab, UC Berkeley, California. In 2011, I established the OPV group at SDU NanoSYD, where we work on improving the performance and stability of organic and hybrid solar cells, including thin film synthesis, metal oxide interlayers and interfaces, organic and hybrid active layers as well as film and device degradation. Since 2016, we also have a focus on device up-scaling through Roll-to-Roll (R2R) printing technology at the SDU R2R facility. Vist out site for more details:
https://www.sdu.dk/en/om_sdu/institutter_centre/c_nanosyd/forskningsomrader/organic+solar+cells
Wouter Maes got his PhD in Chemistry with Professor Wim Dehaen at the Katholieke Universiteit (KU) Leuven (Belgium) in 2005. After post-doctoral stays at the KU Leuven (postdoc of the Research Foundation – Flanders, FWO; with Professor Wim Dehaen), the Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris (with Professor Eric Rose) and Oxford University (with Professor Harry Anderson), he became Assistant Professor at Hasselt University in 2009, where he was promoted to Associate Professor in 2014 and Professor (Hoogleraar) in 2018. His research activities deal with the design and synthesis of organic semiconducting materials (with an emphasis on conjugated polymers) and their application in organic electronic devices (organic solar cells, photodetectors, transistors, light-emitting diodes) and advanced healthcare, pursuing rational structure-property relations (see https://www.uhasselt.be/DSOS). These activities are generally combined with more in-depth material and device physics studies within the framework of the Institute for Materials Research (IMO-IMOMEC) of Hasselt University.
Benoit Mahler is a CNRS researcher at the ILM (Light and Matter Institute) in Lyon (France). His research interests include the colloidal synthesis of semiconductor nanostructures and heterostructures, the growth of two-dimensional materials and their applications for light harvesting applications.
Agnès Maître obtained in 1994 the grade of Doctor of the Ecole Polytechnique for her work performed in the domain of non linear optics and atomic physics: in Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, she used to study “self generated transverse optical instabilities in rubidium vapor”. She became in 1995 assistant professor of University Denis Diderot and laboratoire Kastler Brossel. She used to work in the fields of continuous variable quantum optics and quantum imaging. She used to study temporal and spatial quantum correlations for beams emitted by an optical parametric oscillator. Since 2005, she has a position of professor at Sorbonne university and works in the Institut des NanoSciences de Paris. She is now involved in nanophotonics. More specifically, she is studying plasmonic nanoantenna, single photon sources, and emission of a single emitter in a highly confined nanostructured environment. She is author of over 70 publications in peer reviewed international journals and co-inventor of 2 patents.
Lorenzo obtained his PhD in Chemistry in 2003 and since 2008 is Assistant Professor at the Chemistry Department of the University of Pavia. In 2021 he was appointed Full Professor in the same department. He was the recipient of the Young Scientist Award for outstanding work in the field of perovskites at the International Conference on Perovskites held in late 2005 in Zürich, of the “Alfredo di Braccio” Prize for Chemistry 2008 of Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei awarded to distinguished under 35-year-old chemists and contributed the Journal Materials Chemistry and Chemical Communications“Emerging Investigator” issues in 2010 and 2011. He is working in several areas of solid state chemistry with particular interest in the investigation of structure–properties correlation in different kinds of functional materials, in particular electrolyte materials for clean energy, hybrid organic-inorganic perovskites and catalysis materials. He is author of more than 200 papers on international peer-reviewed journals. Since 2018 he is member of Academic Senate and Vice-Director of the Chemistry Department. He is Director of the INSTM Reference Center “PREMIO” devoted to the synthesis of innovative materials and member of the Directive Board of INSTM. Since 2014 he is member of the Academic Board of the PhD in Chemistry of Pavia University. He is Editor of Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids.
Prof. Dr. Jean V. Manca is full professor experimental Physics at Universiteit Hasselt (Belgium). From 2001 to 2014 he was group leader of the research group ONE2 (‘Organic and Nanostructured Electronics & Energy Conversion’) at the Institute of Materials Research (IMO-IMOMEC) of Universiteit Hasselt and IMEC (Belgium). He has been Dean of the Faculty of Sciences (2009-2013), visiting scientist in Stanford University (2013) and MIT (2014) and co-founder of the spin-off company LUMOZA on large area printed electroluminescent displays. In 2015 he founded the cross-disciplinary research group “X-LAB” (www.x-lab.be) and started with the yearly X-FESTIVAL (www.x-festival.be). Activities of X-LAB involve the cross-disciplinary investigation (bio-)photovoltaics, bio-electricity and the exploration of novel (bio-inspired) concepts/ materials for energy conversion, sensing and next generation electro-optical applications towards a creative and sustainable future on earth and in space.
Bio Professional Preparation M.S. in Chemistry, with Honours, University of Bari, Italy, 1996 Ph.D. in Chemistry, University of Bari, Italy, 2001 Research interests Prof. L. Manna is an expert of synthesis and assembly of colloidal nanocrystals. His research interests span the advanced synthesis, structural characterization and assembly of inorganic nanostructures for applications in energy-related areas, in photonics, electronics and biology.
PhD in planning and public policies for transition (energy, ecology and urban future). Research and Development interests in next generation batteries, circular economy, sustainable value chains to address multiple risks and impacts of BEVs.
Salvo Marcuccio, PhD, is Associate Professor of Space Systems and head of the Space Systems Laboratory at the Dept. of Civil and Industrial Engineering, University of Pisa. His main research interests include small and micro-satellite systems design, space mission analysis, electric propulsion and stratospheric platforms. In 1999 he co-founded and managed Alta SpA, an SME dedicated to space propulsion, plasma technologies and space systems, now part of SITAEL SpA. He is member of the board of ToscanaSpazio, the regional association of aerospace companies and reserarch institutions, and member of the scientifc committee of GATE 4.0, the aerospace district of Tuscany.
Seth R. Marder obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1985. He completed his postdoctoral research at the University of Oxford and at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory California Institute of Technology. He joined the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2003 where he is currently a Regents’ Professor of Chemistry and Materials Science and Engineering (courtesy) and the Georgia Power Chair in Energy Efficiency. His research interests are in the development of materials for nonlinear optics, applications of organic dyes for photonic, display, electronic and medical applications, and organometallic chemistry.
Eduardo C Marino graduated as a Bachelor in Physics in 1975. He has got a MSc and a PhD degrees, respectively in 1978 and 1980, both in Quantum Field Theory (QFT). He was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Harvard University, from 1981 to 1983. By this time he became interested in applicatiions of QFT in Condensed Matter Physics (CMP) and, subsequently, introduced this new area of research in Brazil. He was a visiting Professor at Princeton Universty from 1991 to 1993 and again from 2007 to 2008. He was awarded the State Academic Prize for students graduating in the year of 1975 with the 10 best academic records in all areas of knowledge. In 2000 he became an elected member of the Brazilian National Academy of Sciences. In 2005 he was awarded the National Order of Scientific Merit by the President of Brazil. He has been invited to deliver talks in International Conferences, as well as colloquia and seminars in more than 15 countries. He is Profesor of Physics at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, since 1994 and his research interests are still in applications of QFT to CMP, more specifically in graphene, Transition Metal Dichalcogenides, High-Tc Superconductivity, Topological Insulators, Weyl semi-metals, Topological Quantum Computation, Topological effects in CMP, among other subjects.
Daniela Marongiu is associate professor at the Department of Physics of University of Cagliari (Italy). She obtained a PhD in Nanostructure and Nanotechnology in 2011 from the University of Milano-Bicocca, then she moved to University of Sassari and later in 2013 to Cagliari where she has been an associate professor since 2021. She studied a variety of nanomaterial-related topics and now her main scientific interests involve the growth and characterization of hybrid and all-inorganic halide perovskites in the form of thin films and single crystals for energy applications. Recently she also focused on the synthesis of inorganic double-perovskite micro and nanocrystals with a high photoluminescence quantum yield in the visible range including the doping with rare earths such as Yb and Er for highly efficient NIR emitters and stable phosphors.
Dr. Roland Marschall obtained his PhD in Physical Chemistry from the Leibniz University Hannover in 2008, working on mesoporous materials for fuel cell applications. After a one year postdoctoral research at the University of Queensland in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Functional Nanomaterials, he joined in 2010 the Fraunhofer Institute for Silicate Research ISC as project leader. In 2011, he joined the Industrial Chemistry Laboratory at Ruhr-University Bochum as young researcher. From 07/2013 to 08/2018, he was Emmy-Noether Young Investigator at the Justus-Liebig-University Giessen. Since 08/2018, he is Full Professor at the University of Bayreuth, Germany. His current research interests are heterogeneous photocatalysis, especially photocatalytic water splitting and nitrogen reduction using semiconductor mixed oxides, and synthesis of oxidic mesostructured materials for energy applications.
Dr. Beatriz Martín-García received her Ph.D. in Chemical Physics (Cum Laude) from University of Salamanca (Spain) in 2013. Then, she joined Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (Italy) under the Graphene Flagship project working during almost 6 years on the modulation of optoelectronic properties of different materials (nanocrystals, 2D materials and hybrid metal-halide perovskites) by chemical-design and surface-functionalization strategies for their integration in solar cells, photodetectors and memories. She is currently an Ikerbasque researcher and Ramón y Cajal fellow at CIC nanoGUNE BRTA, leading a research line developing tailor-made low-dimensional materials and studying them by Raman and photoluminescence spectroscopy techniques to drive the selection of desired properties for their integration in optoelectronic and spintronic devices.
Juan P. Martínez-Pastor, Full Prof. at the University of Valencia. PhD in Physics, 1990. Three years of postdoctoral experience at the European Laboratory of Non-Linear Spectroscopy (Florence, Italy) and at the École Normale Supérieure (Paris, France). Prof. Martínez-Pastor is expert in Semiconductor Physics, particularly optical properties and exciton recombination dynamics in quantum wells, wires and dots based on III-V semiconductors and other compounds since 1990. This research line continues nowadays focused on quantum light produced by quantum dot semiconductors and its management for quantum communications. After 2006 he has leaded/co-leaded several research lines in nanoscience and nanotechnology regarding the development of several types of nanomaterials (metal and quantum dots, multi-functional nanocomposites) and applications to photonics and plasmonics. In the last three years, he focuses his research in optical properties, exciton recombination dynamics and applications in photonics of two-dimensional semiconductors and metal halide perovskites. He has supervised 16 PhD theses and is author/co-author of 220 peer-reviewed publications, other than seven patents and promotor of a spin-off company.
I am working at the Institute of Advanced Materials of the University Jaume I. My research is focused in the development of advanced hybrid materials for energy conversion and storage based on catalytic transformations. The hybrid materials are developed from well-defined organometallic complexes. The approach for such applications is divided on three different research lines: i) Organometallic chemistry: design, characterisation and properties of new catalysts ii) Catalytic applications in processes related to hydrogenation and dehydrogenation. iii) New materials: study of the properties and applications of organometallic compounds and metal nanoparticles supported in graphene derivatives for energy conversion and storage. Research Lines:
Ad. Mat. for catalysis
Rationale design of catalytic materials derived from organometallic complexes.
Development of stable metal nanoparticles as improved catalytic systems.
Ligand design for the immobilization of metal complexes and nanoparticles.
Fundamental and applied study of catalytic hydrogenation and dehydrogenation processes.
Ad. Mat. for energy storage
Development of systems for the storage of hydrogen in the liquid form using “Liquid Organic Hydrogen Carriers (LOHCs).
Development of Hydrogen Storage technologies for transport and uses of hydrogen.
Industrial Innovation and Technology Transfer
The group is involved in industrial projects on Hydrogen Storage, depolymerization processes and catalyst development in connection with a regional funding program (AVI).
Sanjay Mathur is a Chair Professor and Director of the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Cologne in Germany. He is also the Director of the Institute of Renewable Energy Sources at the Xian Jiao Tong University, Xian, China and a World Class University Professor at the Chonbuk University in Korea. He is a Visiting Professor in the Institute of Global Innovation Research at TUAT, Japan and a SPARC Faculty at IIT Madras, India. His research interests focus on application of nanomaterials and advanced ceramics for energy technologies. He holds 11 patents and has authored/ co-authored over 500 original research publications (h index, 63) and has edited several books. He serves as the Editor for Journal of Electroceramics, and for NanoEnergy. He is an Academician of the World Academy of Ceramics and Fellow of the American Ceramic Society and ASM International. He was awarded the Honorary Doctorate of the Vilnius University in 2016. He is an Academician of the World Academy of Ceramics and Fellow of the American Ceramic Society. Since 2018, he chairs the Academic Affairs Committee of the Materials Research Society. He was awarded the R C Mehrotra Lifetime Achievement Award of Indian Science Congress Association in January 2020. He is the President-elect of the American Ceramic Society. He was elected to the European Academy of Science in 2020.
-2005, Ph.D LIOS (Linz institute for organic solarcells), J. Kepler University,Linz, Austria. Head: Prof. N.S. Sariciftci 2006-10, Post-doc, Institute for Semiconductor and Solid-State Physics, J. Kepler University, Austria, Head: Prof. G. Bauer 2011- Senior researcher, I-Meet, Erlangen, Germany. Head. Prof. C.J. Brabec.
Alessandro Mattoni, received a master degree in physics at the University of Perugia and a PhD in solid state physics at the University of Padova. He is staff researcher of the Italian National Research Council (CNR) and in charge of the unit of Cagliari of the Istituto Officina dei Materiali, where he coordinates the theory group on the multiscale modeling of nanomaterials. A. Mattoni is author of more than 100 papers on international journals and coordinator of several projects on hybrid materials for photovoltaics and energy; he has been the principal investigator of several high-performance computing projects. A.M. developed the first interatomic force-field for classical molecular dynamics of hybrid perovskites.
Research Interests: Theoretical and computational methods for atomistic and multi-scale modeling of functional hybrid nanomaterials. Classical molecular dynamics, electronic structure methods including semi-empiricial tight binding and ab initio methods.
Hedi Mattoussi is a Distinguished Resaerch Professor at the Florida State University, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry; he joined FSU in August 2009. Prior to that, he spent 12 years working as a senior Research Scientist at the US Naval Research Laboratory (Washington, DC). He earned a Ph.D. in Condensed Matter Physics from Sorbonne University, Paris (formerly know as the University of Pierre & Marie Curie, Paris VI) in 1987, and a Habilitation to direct Research in Materials Physics (also from Sorbonne University) in 1994. His research experiences include postdoctoral stays at the Polymer Science Department, University of Massachusetts Amherst, and at MIT, Center for Materials Science. His group presently focuses on the development of inorganic nanoparticles and clusters (including semiconductor QDs, metallic and magnetic nanocrystals and fluorescent metal clusters such as those made of Au and Ag), their structural and optical characterization, and the development of effective schemes to interface them with biological receptors. His group has also been exploring the use of those materials in sensor development and live cell imaging. He is a fellow of the Materials Research Society, the Royal Society of Chemistry, the American Physical Society and the American Chemical society. He is also a board member of Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics and Materials Horizons. Homepage: http://www.chem.fsu.edu/~mattoussi/
Matthias May studied physics in Stuttgart, Grenoble, and Berlin, with a focus on condensed matter and computational physics. In his diploma thesis (2010), he investigated charge-density wave phase transitions using photoelectron spectroscopy. For his PhD studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin on III-V semiconductors for solar water splitting, he won a scholarship of Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes. He received his PhD end of 2014 and worked in his first postdoctoral position on high-efficiency water splitting. From 2016 to 2018, he was postdoctoral fellow at the Chemistry Department of the University of Cambridge, funded by the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, modelling optical properties of solid-liquid interfaces. His main scientific interests lie in the area of highly correlated electron systems and semiconductor-interfaces, both from an experimental and modelling perspective.
Matthew T. Mayer is presently leader of a Helmholtz Young Investigator Group at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, studying electrochemical and photoelectrochemical conversion of carbon dioxide. He earned his Ph.D. in chemistry from Boston College, and performed postdoctoral studies at the Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in the Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces.
Iain McCulloch holds positions as Professor of Chemical Science within the Division of Physical Sciences and Engineering of KAUST, and a Chair in Polymer Materials within the Chemistry Department at Imperial College. He is also a co-founder and director of Flexink Limited. He is co-inventor on over 60 patents and co-author on over 300 papers with a current h-index of 68. His papers have been cited over 19000 times, including two papers with over 1000 citations. He was cited in Thompson Reuters “Global Top 100 Materials Scientists, 2000-10, Ranked by Citation Impact” at number 35 globally and number 2 in the UK, and was listed on ISI Highly Cited Researchers List 2014, based on ESI Highly Cited Papers 2002-2012. He was awarded the 2009 Royal Society of Chemistry, Creativity in Industry Prize, the 2014 Royal Society of Chemistry Tilden Prize for Advances in Chemistry and a 2014 Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award.
Iain McCulloch holds positions as Professor of Chemical Science within the Division of Physical Sciences and Engineering of KAUST, and a Chair in Polymer Materials within the Chemistry Department at Imperial College. He is also a co-founder and director of Flexink Limited. He is co-inventor on over 60 patents and co-author on over 300 papers with a current h-index of 68. His papers have been cited over 19000 times, including two papers with over 1000 citations. He was cited in Thompson Reuters “Global Top 100 Materials Scientists, 2000-10, Ranked by Citation Impact” at number 35 globally and number 2 in the UK, and was listed on ISI Highly Cited Researchers List 2014, based on ESI Highly Cited Papers 2002-2012. He was awarded the 2009 Royal Society of Chemistry, Creativity in Industry Prize, the 2014 Royal Society of Chemistry Tilden Prize for Advances in Chemistry and a 2014 Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award.
Mike McGehee is a Professor in the Chemical and Biological Engineering Department at the University of Colorado Boulder. He is the Associate Director of the Materials Science and Engineering Program and has a joint appointment at the National Renewable Energy Lab. He was a professor in the Materials Science and Engineering Department at Stanford University for 18 years and a Senior Fellow of the Precourt Institute for Energy. His current research interests are developing new materials for smart windows and solar cells. He has previously done research on polymer lasers, light-emitting diodes and transistors as well as transparent electrodes made from carbon nanotubes and silver nanowires. His group makes materials and devices, performs a wide variety of characterization techniques, models devices and assesses long-term stability. He received his undergraduate degree in physics from Princeton University and his PhD degree in Materials Science from the University of California at Santa Barbara.
Dr. Tyler Mefford is a Senior Staff Research Scientist in the Department of Materials Science & Engineering at Stanford University. He has a B.S. in Chemistry from Stanford University (2012), a Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry from the University of Texas at Austin (2016), and did postdoctoral research in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Stanford University (2016-2020). His research is focused on developing advanced electrocatalysts for green chemical production through atomically-controlled synthesis, operando electrochemical scanning probe, X-ray, and electron microscopies, and first principles/microkinetic modeling approaches.
Simone Meloni is researcher at the Department of Chemistry and Pharmaceutilcal Sciences at the University of Ferrara. He works on applications of computational atomistic simulation to fundamental and technological problems, especially related to the energy technologies: solar energy, energy scavenging, etc. He developed special techniques for chemical reactions and non-equilibrium problems.
Research Scientist at the CNR- Institute for Organic Synthesis and Photoreactivity, (ISOF-CNR, Bologna).
MM research focuses on the design and synthesis of functional molecular materials, graphene related materials and composites.
Target applications of the newly developped materials are thin film devices (i.e. OFET), sensors for biosensing and water monitoring, membranes and sorbents for water purification from emerging contaminants.
MM is currently Leader of the Advanced Materials Synthesis group of ISOF,
Member of the Body of Knowledge of the EIT-Climate KIC- Water scarcity and pollution,
Deputy Leader of the spearhead project of the Graphene Flagship ‘Graphil- graphene enhanced filters for water purification’,
Coordinator of the Flagera project GO-FOR-WATER and PI of the project LIFE-Remembrance.
She is also Scientific manager of industrial collaboration aimed at market exploitation graphene materials (i.e. Tetrapak, Culligan, Medica, Hera)
Professor Adélio Mendes (born 1964) received his PhD degree from the University of Porto in 1993.
Full Professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto. Coordinates a large research team with research interests mainly in dye sensitized solar cells and perovskite solar cells, photoelectrochemical cells including water splitting and solar redox flow batteries, photocatalysis, redox flow batteries, electrochemical membrane reactors (PEMFC, H-SOFC, chemical synthesis), methanol steam reforming, membrane and adsorbent-based gas separations and carbon molecular sieve membranes synthesis and characterization.
Professor Mendes authored or co-authored more than 300 articles in peer-review international journals, filled 23 families of patents and is the author of a textbook; received an Advanced Research Grant from the ERC on dye-sensitized solar cells for building integrated of ca. 2 MEuros and since 2013 he is partner in 4 more EU projects and leads one EU project. Presently he is the leader of a FET Open project, GOTSolar, on perovskite solar cells. He received the Air Products Faculty Excellence 2011 Award (USA) for developments in gas separation and Solvay & Hovione Innovation Challenge 2011 prize, the Prize of Coimbra University of 2016, and the prize of Technology Innovation - 2017 by the University of Porto. Presently, he is the Coordinator of CEner-FEUP, the Competence Center for Energy of the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Porto.
Nicolas Mercier (Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry, 1994 -Le Mans-) is Professor at the University of Angers (France). His major interests is the synthesis, crystallography, and structure−property relationships of organic-inorganic materials including coordination complexes/polymers and hybrid perovskites (HP). He started working in the field of HP in 2002, showing the key role of organic cations to tune the band gap of 2D HPs and the potential of such hybrids in the field of SHG switchable materials and in the field of ferroelectrics. Recently, he has discovered a new family of lead and iodide deficient hybrid perovskites (3D d-HP) for PSC and PeLED applications.
Professor Meredith is the Sêr Cymru Research Chair in Sustainable Advanced Materials at Swansea University Department of Physics in the United Kingdom where he also leads the newly established Centre for Integrative Semiconductor Materials. He is an Honorary Professor at the University of Queensland in Australia, and formerly an Australian Research Council Discovery Outstanding Researcher Award Fellow. He was educated in the UK at Swansea, Heriot-Watt and Cambridge Universities, and also spent six years as a senior scientist at Proctor and Gamble. His current research involves the development of new high-tech materials for applications such as optoelectronics and bioelectronics. He has particular interests and expertise in next generation semiconductors, functional surface coatings, solar energy systems, sensing and photodetection. Professor Meredith has published >250 papers and 29 patents and is co-founder of several start-up companies including XeroCoat and Brisbane Materials Technology. He is the recipient of numerous awards including the Premier of Queensland’s Sustainability Award (2013), is a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales, a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and is widely recognised for his contributions to innovation and the promotion of renewable energy. He has served on several advisory bodies and boards including the Queensland Renewable Energy Target Public Enquiry Expert Panel and the ARENA Solar R&D Program Technical Advisory Board. In 2020 he received an OBE for services to materials research and innovation and was also appointed to the EPSRC’s Strategic Advisory Network in 2021.
Subodh Mhaisalkar is the Tan Chin Tuan Centennial Professor in the School of Materials Science & Engineering at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. Subodh is also the Executive Director of the Energy Research Institute @ NTU (ERI@N), a pan-University multidisciplinary research institute for innovative energy solutions. Prior to joining NTU in 2001, Subodh has over 10 years of research and engineering experience in the microelectronics industry and his areas of expertise and research interests includes semiconductor technology, perovskite solar cells, printed electronics, and energy storage. Subodh received his Bachelors’ degree from IIT-Bombay and his MS/Ph.D. degrees from The Ohio State University.
Dr. Jovana V. Milić obtained her PhD in the Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences at ETH Zurich in July 2017. Her research interests encompass (supra)molecular engineering of bioinspired organic materials with the aim of developing functional nanotechnologies. Since October 2017, she has worked as a scientist with Prof. Michael Graetzel in the Laboratory for Photonics and Interfaces at EPFL in Switzerland on the development of novel photovoltaic materials, with the focus on dye-sensitized and hybrid perovskite solar cells. In September 2020, she has taken on a position of a Group Leader in the Soft Matter Physics Group of the Adolphe Merkle Institute at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. For more information, refer to her LinkedIn profile (linkedin.com/in/jovanavmilic), ORCID 0000-0002-9965-3460, and Twitter (@jovana_v_milic).
Jie Min obtained his PhD degree from the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nurnberg in 2015. After obtaining his PhD degree, he worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Materials for Electronics and Energy Technology, Erlangen, Germany (2016–2017). In 2017, he joined Wuhan University as a full professor. His current research interests relate to the reduction of the efficiency-stability-cost gap of organic photovoltaics. He also aimed to explore the emerging applications of building integrated photovoltaics. For more information, please see the lab website: http://jie min.whu.edu.cn/.
Dr Laura Miranda Perez is the Head of Materials Research and Characterisation at Oxford PV, a spin-out of Oxford University that is commercialising perovskites for photovoltaic applications. Laura has a strong background in materials synthesis and characterisation. Prior to joining Oxford PV she was a fellow at the University of Oxford, where her work focused on perovskites and carbon materials. Before this, Laura held a fellowship in perovskite thin film materials at the College du France in Paris. Laura undertook her PhD in Madrid, Spain and Sheffield, UK, in the screening of new families of hexagonal perovskite materials.
David Mitzi received a B.S.E. in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University in 1985 and a Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Stanford University in 1990. In 1990, he joined the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center and initiated a program examining structure-property relationships, low-cost thin-film deposition techniques and device applications for a variety of electronic materials (e.g., oxides, halides, chalcogenides, organic-inorganic hybrids). Between 2009 and 2014 he managed the Photovoltaic Science and Technology department at IBM, with a focus on developing solution-processed high-performance inorganic semiconductors for thin-film photovoltaic (PV) devices. In July 2015, Dr. Mitzi moved to the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at Duke University as a professor. He holds a number of patents and has authored or coauthored more than 250 papers and book chapters.
Tsutomu (Tom) Miyasaka received his Doctor of Engineering from The University of Tokyo in 1981. He joined Fuji Photo Film, Co., conducting R&Ds on high sensitivity photographic materials, lithium-ion secondary batteries, and design of an artificial photoreceptor, all of which relate to electrochemistry and photochemistry. In 2001, he moved to Toin University of Yokohama (TUY), Japan, as professor in Graduate School of Engineering to continue photoelectrochemistry. In 2006 to 2009 he was the dean of the Graduate School. In 2004 he has established a TUY-based company, Peccell Technologies, serving as CEO. In 2005 to 2010 he served as a guest professor at The University of Tokyo.
His research has been focused to light to electric energy conversion involving photochemical processes by enhancing rectified charge transfer at photo-functional interfaces of semiconductor electrodes. He has contributed to the design of low-temperature solution-printing process for fabrication of dye-sensitized solar cells and solid-state hybrid photovoltaic (PV) cells. Since the discovery of the organic inorganic hybrid perovskite as PV material in 2006 and fabrication of high efficiency PV device in 2012, his research has moved to R&Ds of the lead halide perovskite PV device. He has promoted the research field of perovskite photovoltaics by organizing international conferences and by publishing many papers on enhancement of PV efficiency and durability, overall citation number of which is reaching more than 5,000 times. In 2009 he was awarded a Ministry of Science & Education prize on his achievements of green sustainable solar cell technology. In 2017 he received Chemical Society of Japan (CSJ) Award. He is presently directing national research projects funded by Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).
We are a multidisciplinary and collaborative research team with the overarching goal to establish structure-function relationships by understanding and advancing the fundamental knowledge rooted in the physics, chemistry and engineering of next generation materials for optoelectronics, sustainable, energy conversion, quantum computing, sensing and environmental preservation. Our philosophy is to develop creative and out-of-the-box approaches to solve fundamental scientific problems and apply this knowledge to demonstrate technologically relevant performance in devices.
From 2019, A.M. serves as Associate Professor in Condensed Matter Physics at Department of Materials Science. His research is focused on the development of advanced hybrid functional nanomaterials for applications in photonics and theranostics in collaboration with several national and international universities and research institutes. He started his research by working on hybrid organic/inorganic light NIR emitters based on lanthanides ions and photonic crystals for lighting and telecom, in the framework of several national and international project and networks. The topic of the current research is the design and study of advanced materials and nanostructured materials for photon managing and scintillation applications. The experimental activity is centered on CW and ultrafast TRPL photoluminescence spectroscopy, transient absorption spectroscopy, confocal imaging, IR and FT-IR spectroscopy to tackle both fundamental and applicative aspects aimed at the development of materials to implemented real-world technologies.
Professor of Materials Physics at Karlstad University, Sweden, since 2011. Research interests: morphology of conjugated polymer thin films, photodegradation of OPV materials, energy level allignment in organic and perovskite multilayer structures. Employed at Karlstad university since 2000. Previously Research Scientist at Cambridge Display Technology in Cambridge,UK, and Research Assistant at University of Cambridge. Post-doc at EPFL Lausanne (1996-98) and TU Delft (1995-1996). PhD degree from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel.
Iván Mora-Seró (1974, M. Sc. Physics 1997, Ph. D. Physics 2004) is researcher at Universitat Jaume I de Castelló (Spain). His research during the Ph.D. at Universitat de València (Spain) was centered in the crystal growth of semiconductors II-VI with narrow gap. On February 2002 he joined the University Jaume I. From this date until nowadays his research work has been developed in: electronic transport in nanostructured devices, photovoltaics, photocatalysis, making both experimental and theoretical work. Currently he is associate professor at University Jaume I and he is Principal Researcher (Research Division F4) of the Institute of Advanced Materials (INAM). Recent research activity was focused on new concepts for photovoltaic conversion and light emission based on nanoscaled devices and semiconductor materials following two mean lines: quantum dot solar cells with especial attention to sensitized devices and lead halide perovskite solar cells and LEDs, been this last line probably the current hottest topic in the development of new solar cells.
I obtained my PhD degree in applied physics at Ghent University in 2009, studying near-infrared lead salt quantum dots. This was followed by a postdoc on quantum dot emission dynamics at Ghent University in collaboration with the IBM Zurich research lab. In 2012 I joined the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, where I led the Nanocrystal Photonics Lab in the Nanochemistry Department. In 2017 I returned to Ghent University as associate professor, focusing mostly on 2D and strained nanocrystals. The research in our group ranges from the synthesis of novel fluorescent nanocrystals to optical spectroscopy and photonic applications.
Shigehiko Mori belongs to Toshiba Corporate Research & Development Center. He finished the doctoral program without a doctoral degree of Nihon University in 2008. He joined Toshiba Corporate Research & Development Center in 2008 and engaged in the development and research of plasmonic waveguide and near-field photolithography from 2008 to 2011. Then he engaged in the development and research of organic photovoltaics from 2011 to 2015. From 2015 to present, his work focuses on the development and research of perovskite solar cells. His current research interests are perovskite solar cells, film-based optoelectronic devices.
Maria is researcher at the Instituto de Nanociencia y Materiales the Aragón (Spain). Her research interests are focused on the synthesis and smart functionalization of nanoparticles (NPs) with different biomolecules to create highly active NP-biomolecules that can be used to develop innovative biomedical applications.
Maria did her PhD at the Institute of Nanoscience of Aragon (Spain), in the frame of a prestigious project Consolider Ingenio, working on the synthesis, and multi-functionalization of magnetic NPs for biomedical applications. She was then hired as a postdoctoral fellow for the ERC Starting Grant project Nanopuzzle to develop an innovative methodology for controlled drug release using magnetic hyperthermia.
In 2015 her project Hyheat was awarded with a prestigious Marie Curie Fellowship and moved to the Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems in Naples (Italy) to start a project that involved the use of an invertebrate model organism to screen the molecular effects mediated by NPs and hyperthermia. This model is ideal for toxicological and regenerative purposes and also provides worthy data before reaching vertebrate animals, without posing ethical issues. In 2018, she started at the Aragón Materials Science Institute a new research line focusing on the activation of intracellular signallings for regeneration, using magnetic NP. This research line has been awarded with a ERC Starting Grant.
Amanda Morris is a Professor of Inorganic and Energy Chemistry at Virginia Tech. Her research education conducted at Penn State University (B.S.), Johns Hopkins University (Ph.D.), and Princeton University (Postdoctoral) has been focused on addressing critical environmental issues with fundamental science including water remediation, solar energy harvesting and storage, and carbon dioxide conversion. As her publication record shows, Morris is a classically trained photo-electrochemist with demonstrated success utilizing various techniques (cyclic voltammetry, spectroelectrochemistry, and pulsed-laser spectroscopy) to explore new frontiers in renewable energy. Her research group’s current focus is on light-matter interactions and catalysis. She has received numerous awards for her research pursuits listed below. In addition to her academic pursuits, Morris has a demonstrated record in service including the recruitment and retention of minority chemists. In recognition of this work, she has received the Alan F. Clifford Service Award and College of Science Diversity Award. She currently serves as an American Chemical Society Expert in the area of Sustainable Energy and through this effort has worked to communicate science to the broader national audience with interviews on NPR, newspaper editorials, and press conferences. She also serves as an Associate Editor of Chemical Physics Reviews and sits on the Editorial Advisory Boards for ACS Applied Energy Materials and EnergyChem.
Prof. Dr. Tobias Moser is a neuroscientist, otologist, and audiologist at the Göttingen Campus in Germany. He heads the Institute for Auditory Neuroscience at the University Medical Center Göttingen and leads research groups at the German Primate Center and the Max-Planck-Institutes for Biophysical Chemistry and Experimental Medicine. His main areas of research are synaptic coding and processing of auditory information as well as innovative approaches to the restoration of hearing in the deaf such as the optogenetic cochlear implant
Victor Mougel completed his Bachelor's and Master's degree in Chemistry at the ENS of Lyon, and obtained his PhD at the University of Grenoble under the supervision of Prof. Marinella Mazzanti. He then joined ETH Zürich as an ETH/Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow before starting his independent career as a CNRS associate researcher at Collège de France in 2016. Since December 2018, he is a tenure track assistant professor at the Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences at ETH Zürich.
Eve Mozur is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the Seshadri Group at the University of California Santa Barbara where she studies the effect of strain on the magnetism of intermetallics. Dr. Mozur obtained her PhD from Colorado State University, where she was adviced by Professor James Neilson. Her dissertation investigated the links between structure, local dyamics, and optoelectronic properties in hybrid halide perovskites.
Karen Mulfort is a Chemist in the Solar Energy Conversion Group at Argonne National Laboratory in the USA. She earned her B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Minnesota in 2001 and Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 2008, followed by a Director's Postdoctoral Fellowship at Argonne. Karen was promoted to Assistant Chemist in the Division of Chemical Sciences and Engineering at Argonne in 2010 and Chemist in 2015. Her current research program investigates molecular and supramolecular architectures in systems for artificial photosynthesis. Karen and her work have been recognized with a 2009 Young Investigator Award from the Inorganic division of the American Chemical Society, the 2018 Rising Star Award from the Women Chemists Committee of the American Chemical Society, and the 2018 Early Career Research Program from the U.S. Department of Energy.
I am Professor of Microbiology at Queen Mary, University of London, UK. My research interests are on the cell biology of cyanobacteria, including photosynthesis, membrane biogenesis, light perception and signal transduction, motility and multicellularity.
Loreta Angela Muscarella was born in Palermo, Italy. In 2012, she moved to Rome where she started a bachelor in chemistry at Sapienza - University of Rome. During her Master’s studies, she spent seven months at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) under the supervision of Dr. René Williams to write her thesis on the effect of metallic ions in mixed-halide perovskites to improve the stability and optoelectronic properties. She received her MSc degree in inorganic and physical chemistry cum laude (with honors). In 2018, Loreta joined the group of Prof. Dr. Bruno Ehrler at AMOLF as a PhD student. Here, she investigated the relation between structure and optoelectronic properties of 3D and layered 2D lead-halide perovskites by monitoring the optoelectronic properties of mechanically compressed perovskites. In 2022, she joined the group of Dr. Eline Hutter (Utrecht University) as a postdoc to study photochemistry processes using lead-free perovskites. Since January 2024, she is assistant professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam where her group will combine spectroscopy and compositional engineering of perovskite-based materials to investigate on the external stimuli response of the emerging perovskite-based materials.
Perovskite solar cells and sensors. Defects in semiconduciors and charge recombiantion.
Hernán Míguez (born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1971) is Research Professor of the Spanish Research Council (CSIC) in the Institute of Materials Science of Seville. He studied Physics in the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and did his PhD in the Institute of Materials Science of Madrid. After a postdoctoral stay at the University of Toronto in the group of Prof. Ozin, he returned to Spain and joined the CSIC in 2004. He leads the group of Multifunctional Optical Materials, whose activities are devoted to the development, characterization and modeling of new photonic architectures for applications in different fields, among them solar energy conversion and light emission. He has received an ERC starting grant (2012, Consolidator Modality) and the “Real Sociedad Española de Física-Fundación BBVA 2017” Prize in the modality of “Physics, Innovation and Technology”.
Professor Peter Müller-Buschbaum carries out research in the field of functional materials, with a particular focus on energy materials, e.g. solar cells and batteries.
He studied physics in Kiel including his doctorate. Then he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the MPI for Polymer Research in Mainz and as visiting scientist at the ILL and the ESRF in Grenoble, France. He acquired his postdoctoral teaching qualification (Habilitation) in 2002 and headed the Chair of Functional Materials at the TUM Department of Physics, before his appointment in 2018 as full professor and scientific director of the Forschungs-Neutronenquelle FRM-II and of the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Zentrums MLZ. Since 2011, he has been the German representative at the European Polymer Federation and, since 2012, Associate Editor of the journal ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. He also heads the Bavarian key laboratory TUM.solar and the Network for Renewable Energies (NRG) of the Munich Institute of Integrated Materials, Energy and Process Engineering (MEP).
Co founded Gram Oorja Solutions in 2008. We are a renewable energy company that focuses on energy access in remote rural communities in India. We have recently started projects in Africa and aim to be in parts of South Asia soon.
Prior to Gram Oorja, I have worked in Banking and Software industries for 15 years
Dr. Md. K. Nazeeruddin received M.Sc. and Ph. D. in inorganic chemistry from Osmania University, Hyderabad, India. His current research focuses on Dye-sensitized solar cells, Hydrogen production, Light-emitting diodes and Chemical sensors. He has published more than 400 peer-reviewed papers, nine book chapters, and inventor of 49 patents. The high impact of his work has been recognized with invitations to speak at over 100 international conferences. He appeared in the ISI listing of most cited chemists, and has more than 10000 citations with an h-index of 93. He is directing, and managing several industrial, national, and European Union projects on Hydrogen energy, Photovoltaics (DSC), and Organic Light Emitting Diodes. He was awarded EPFL Excellence prize in 1998 and 2006, Brazilian FAPESP Fellowship in 1999, Japanese Government Science & Technology Agency Fellowship, in 1998, Government of India National Fellowship in 1987-1988. Recently he has been appointed as World Class University (WCU) professor for the period of March 1, 2009 ~ December 31, 2012 by the Korea University, Jochiwon, Korea.
Nate Neale received his B.A. degree in chemistry from Middlebury College in 1998, where he studied radical substitution reactions at activated arenes and the binding mode of cisplatin, a common commercial anti-cancer drug, to a model DNA fragment. His scientific training continued as a graduate student under Prof. T. Don Tilley at the University of California, Berkeley, investigating the mechanism by which a transition-metal catalyst facilitates the polymerization of stannanes to polystannanes, a class of inorganic polymers with unique optical and electronic properties. As a postdoctoral researcher at NREL, he worked on controlling the synthesis and surface chemistry of TiO2 nanostructures for dye-sensitized solar cells in the laboratories of Dr. Arthur J. Frank. After a brief stint at the University of Colorado, Boulder, during which time he worked in collaboration with Dr. Frank, Dr. Arthur J. Nozik, and Prof. David Jonas on photoelectrodes for photoelectrochemical water splitting, he returned to NREL as a staff scientist in 2008. His current research interests are focused on tailoring the chemical structure and photophysics of nanostructured inorganic semiconductors and catalysts for photovoltaics, solar fuels, batteries, and related energy conversion and storage concepts.
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Prof. Dieter Neher studied physics at the University of Mainz. In 1990 he gained his PhD with Prof. G. Wegner. From 1990-1992 he was a research associate at the Optical Sciences Centre, Tucson, Arizona and at the Centre for Research in Electrooptics and Lasers, Orlando, Florida with Prof. G. Stegeman. 1992 he joined again Prof. G. Wegner at the MPI-P, heading the group Electrooptical Phenomena in Polymers. Following his habilitation in November 1998, he became Professor of Soft Matter Physics at the Institute for Physics and Astronomy at the University of Potsdam. Current research interests are electrical, optical and optoelectronic processes in conjugated materials.
Jenny Nelson is a Professor of Physics at Imperial College London, where she has researched novel varieties of material for use in solar cells since 1989. Her current research is focussed on understanding the properties of molecular semiconductor materials and their application to organic solar cells. This work combines fundamental electrical, spectroscopic and structural studies of molecular electronic materials with numerical modelling and device studies, with the aim of optimising the performance of plastic solar cells. She has published around 200 articles in peer reviewed journals, several book chapters and a book on the physics of solar cells.
George Alexandru Nemnes is a professor at the Department of Electricity, Solid State and Biophysics, Faculty of Physics, University of Bucharest (UB). He obtained his B.Sc. degree in 2003 from University of Bucharest and the Ph.D. degree in 2008 from Chemnitz University, Germany. His research focuses on material physics and optoelectronic devices, in particular perovskite solar cells, the physics of many body systems and the application of machine learning techniques in condensed matter.
Martin Neukom studied System Engineering at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland. After a research experience at its Institute of Computational Physics, he joined the spin-off company Fluxim which develops and distributes the simulation software setfos. He is experienced in numerical simulation and transient electrical characterization of organic solar cells. Currently he is a student in the photovoltaics master program at Albert-Ludwigs University Freiburg, Germany. Beside that he is politically engaged as Member of Parliament in the canton of Zurich.
Thuc-Quyen Nguyen is a professor in the Center for Polymers and Organic Solids and the Chemistry & Biochemistry Department at University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). She received her Ph.D. degree in physical chemistry from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 2001 under the supervision of Professor Benjamin Schwartz. Her thesis focused on photophysics of conducting polymers. She was a research associate in the Department of Chemistry and the Nanocenter at Columbia University working with Professors Louis Brus and Colin Nuckolls on molecular self-assembly, nanoscale characterization and molecular electronics. She also spent time at IBM Research Center at T. J. Watson (Yorktown Heights, NY) working with Richard Martel and Phaedon Avouris. Her current research interests are structure-function-property relationships in organic semiconductors, electronic properties of conjugated polyelectrolytes, interfaces in optoelectronic devices, charge transport in organic semiconductors and biological systems, and device physics. Recognition for her research includes the 2005 Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, the 2006 NSF CAREER Award, the 2007 Harold Plous Award, the 2008 Camille Dreyfus Teacher Scholar Award, the 2009 Alfred Sloan Research Fellows, the 2010 National Science Foundation American Competitiveness and Innovation Fellows, the 2015 Alexander von Humboldt Senior Research Award, the 2016 Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, and the 2015, 2016, and 2017 World’s Most InfluentialScientific Minds; Top 1% Highly Cited Researchers in Materials Science by Thomson Reuters and Clarivate Analytics. Her current research interests are electronic properties of conjugated polyelectrolytes, doping in organic semiconductors, charge transport in organic semiconductors and biofilms, bioelectronics, and device physics of organic solar cells, ratchets, transistors, and photodetectors.
Dr Adrian Nightingale is a NERC Industrial Innovation fellow whose research broadly focusses on the design and application of droplet microfluidic technology. Adrian uses the enhanced mixing and reaction control offered by droplet microfluidics in two ways: firstly within assay-based chemical sensors for monitoring chemical concentrations in natural waters with enhanced temporal response and efficiency; and secondly as robust reactors for reliable quality-assured manufacturing of nanomaterials.
Anders Nilsson received a PhD in physics at Uppsala University, Sweden (1989) in the laboratory created by Kai Siegbahn. He is a professor in Chemical Physics at Stockholm University and visiting professor in Chemical Engineering at Stanford University. He received the Lindbomska Award at the Swedish Royal Academy of Science, the Royal Oscar Award at Uppsala University in 1994, the Shirley Award in Berkeley 1998, the Humboldt Award for senior scientist in 2010 and was awarded honorable doctor at Denmarks Technical University in 2015. His research interests include synchrotron radiation and x-ray laser spectroscopy and scattering, chemical bonding and reactions on surfaces, ultrafast science heterogeneous catalysis, electrocatalysis in fuel cells, photocatalysis for converting sunlight to fuels, structure of water and aqueous solutions.
Daniel G. Nocera is the Patterson Rockwood Professor of Energy at Harvard University. He is widely recognized in the world as a leading researcher in renewable energy. His group has pioneered studies of the basic mechanisms of energy conversion in biology and chemistry with a particular focus on multielectron transformations and the coupling of protons to electron transfer (i.e., proton-coupled electron transfer). A recent focus in the group has been to exploit this mechanistic knowledge for the generation of solar fuels.He has accomplished the solar process of photosynthesis – the splitting of water to hydrogen and oxygen using light from neutral water, at atmospheric pressure and room temperature at efficiencies of greater than 10%. This discovery, called artificial leaf, was named by Time magazine as Innovation of the Year for 2011. He has since elaborated this invention to accomplish a complete artificial photosynthetic cycle. To do so, he created the bionic leaf, which is a bio-engineered bacterium that uses the hydrogen from that artificial leaf and carbon dioxide from air to make biomass and liquid fuels. The bionic leaf, which was named by the World Economic Forum as the Breakthrough Technology for 2017, performs an artificial photosynthesis that is ten times more efficient than natural photosynthesis. Extending this approach, Nocera has achieved a renewable and distributed synthesis of ammonia (and fertilizer) at ambient conditions by coupling solar-based water splitting to a nitrogen fixing bioorganism, which is powered by the hydrogen produced from water splitting. These science discoveries set the stage for a storage mechanism for the large scale, distributed, deployment of solar energy and distributed food production and thus are particularly useful to the poor of the world, where large infrastructures for fuel and food production are not tenable.Other areas of interest in the group include the development of proton-coupled electron transfer and its application to radical enzymology, the development of new cancer therapies by creating nanocrystal chemosensors for metabolic tumor profiling, the creation of spin frustrated materials, which has culminated in the discovery of the quantum spin liquid, and the invention of molecular tagging velocimetry technique for the measurement of highly turbulent fluid flows.
Bachelor in Chemistry from University of São Paulo (USP) in 1996, Master's Degree in Chemistry from University of Campinas (UNICAMP) in 1998 and Doctorate in Chemistry from UNICAMP in 2001 under the guidance of Prof. Marco-Aurelio De Paoli. Performed an internship during the Doctorate at Imperial College in London under the supervision of Prof. James R. Durrant. After completing his doctorate he also held a post-doctorate position at Imperial College in the same research group. In 2003, he held another postdoctoral program at USP under the supervision of Prof. Henrique Toma. He is currently Professor of the Chemistry Institute of UNICAMP. He has experience in the field of Chemistry, with emphasis in the application of nanomaterials in Solar Energy Conversion, working mainly in the following subjects: inorganic nanoparticles of chalcogenides and perovskite (quantum dots) in light emitting diodes (LED); photocatalytic oxide / graphene nanocomposites for the generation of hydrogen and direct conversion of CO2 into solar fuels; emerging solar cells (in particular TiO2 / dye cells and perovskite solar cells). In 2017 he held a sabbatical at SLAC-Stanford in the field of application of Synchrotron light in the characterization of materials for energy conversion. Published more than 115 papers, 3 patents, 1 book and 7 book chapters. She is the leader of the reserach on emerging photovoltaics in Latin America.
Yong-Young Noh is Chair Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang, Republic of Korea. He received his PhD in 2005 from GIST, Republic of Korea, and then worked at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, UK, as a postdoctoral associate. Afterwards, he worked at ETRI as a senior researcher, Hanbat National University as assistant professor, Dongguk University-Seoul as associate professor. He has won Merck Young Scientist Award (2013), Korea President Award (2014), IEEE George E. Smith Award (2014), and as selected this month Scientist from Korea Government (September. 2016). He has published over 360 papers in international journals in the field of materials for electronics and optoelectric devices, in particular, OFETs, OLEDs, Metal Halide, perovskites, carbon nanotube 2D layered materials and oxide TFTs.
David J. Norris received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Chemistry from the University of Chicago (1990) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1995), respectively. After an NSF postdoctoral fellowship with W. E. Moerner at the University of California, San Diego, he led a small independent research group at the NEC Research Institute in Princeton (1997). He then became an Associate Professor (2001–2006) and Professor (2006–2010) of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at the University of Minnesota, where he also served as Director of Graduate Studies in Chemical Engineering (2004–2010). In 2010, he moved to ETH Zurich where he is currently Professor of Materials Engineering. From 2016 to 2019 he served as the Head of the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering. He has received the Credit Suisse Award for Best Teacher at ETH, twice the Golden Owl Award for Best Teacher in his department, the Max Rössler Research Prize, an ERC Advanced Grant, and the ACS Nano Lectureship Award. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and an editorial board member for ACS Photonics and Nano Letters. His research focuses on how materials can be engineered to create new and useful optical properties.
Fabrice Odobel (1966) received his Ph.D. in 1994 at Strasbourg University under the supervision of Prof. Jean-Pierre Sauvage. After postdoctoral research with Prof. Ronald Breslow, Columbia University (New York, USA), he joined CNRS as a full-time researcher in 1995. He currently leads the research group in CEISAM laboratory at Nantes University. His research interests include the development of new materials for photovoltaic devices and artificial photosynthesis.
Joon Hak OH is a professor of School of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Seoul National University, Korea. He received his B.S, M.S, Ph.D degrees from Seoul National University. He worked as a senior engineer at Samsung Electronics. He then continued his postdoctoral research at Stanford University. He was a faculty at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST, 2010-2014) and Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH, 2014-2018), before moving to Seoul National University in 2018. His research focuses on synthesis of organic and polymeric nanomaterials and carbon nanomaterials, enhancement of their electrical and optical functions by controlling the physical and chemical features, and applications to flexible electronic devices and energy devices, such as organic field-effect transistors, chemical/bio/physical sensors, and organic solar cells.
Hideo Ohkita is a Professor in the Department of Polymer Chemistry at Kyoto University. He obtained a Doctoral degree in 1997 at Kyoto University. He became an Assistant Professor in 1997, was promoted to Associate Professor in 2006, and to Professor of Department of Polymer Chemistry at Kyoto University in 2016. He concurrently worked as an academic visitor with Professor Durrant at Imperial College London from 2005 to 2006, and as a researcher in the Precursory Research for Embryonic Science and Technology (PRESTO) program “Photoenergy Conversion Systems and Materials for the Next Generation Solar Cells”, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), from 2009 to 2015. His research interests include studying photophysics and photochemistry in polymer systems. His current research focuses on spectroscopic approach to polymer solar cells.
Dr. Ayokunle Olanrewaju is an Acting Assistant Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Washington. He received undergraduate and master’s degrees in Electrical Engineering at the University of Alberta and completed a Ph.D. in Biological and Biomedical Engineering at McGill University in 2017 with his dissertation focused on 3D-printed capillary microfluidic circuits for self-powered and self-regulated bioassays. He worked as a MITACS industrial postdoctoral fellow with Sensoreal – a startup that aimed to commercialize microchips for rapid diagnosis of urinary tract infections in infants. He then completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Washington focused on measuring drug concentrations and medication adherence in Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) care. His current research is focused on developing point-of-care diagnostics for precision medication dosing to improve health outcomes in global health settings. His awards include the University of Washington Center for AIDS Research New Investigator Award, the Mistletoe Research Fellowship, and the Québec Étudiant-Chercheur étoiles (Star Student Research) Award.
Dr. Selina Olthof studied Physics at the University Stuttgart (Germany) and wrote her master thesis in the group of Klaus Kern at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Physics. In 2010, Dr. Olthof received her Ph.D. from the University of Dresden (Karl Leo), followed by a two year postdoctoral research stay at Princeton University with Antoine Kahn. Currently, she is head of the Surafe Science Research Group at the University of Cologne in the Department of Chemistry. Her research is centered around enhancing the understanding of the electronic structure of novel semiconducting materials, with a focus on organic semiconductors and hybrid perovskites.
Dr. Nagore Ortiz-Vitoriano (https://cicenergigune.com/en/nagore-ortiz-vitoriano) is an Ikerbasque Research Associate, who has been spearheading metal-air research at CIC energiGUNE (Spain) since 2016, of which she became research line manager in 2018.
She obtained her doctorate in 2011 for her work on solid oxide fuel cells (University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU, Spain), during the course of which she undertook research stays at Risø DTU (Denmark) and Imperial College London (UK). In 2013 she was awarded a Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowship from the European Union, enabling her to join the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge (USA) where she worked with both lithium and sodium-air batteries. In 2015, she continued this fellowship at CIC energiGUNE, where she conducted research stays at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (USA), Deakin University (Australia) and Chalmers University (Sweden). Recently, she has been promoted to Ikerbasque Research Associate and granted the Ramon y Cajal fellowship financed by the European Commission's European Social Fund through the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation.
Dr. Ortiz-Vitoriano has focused on both rational design of electrode and electrolyte materials for energy storage (e.g., solid oxide fuel cells, electrocatalysis, Na-ion and metal-air batteries), as well as fundamental research focused on elucidating key processes (by establishing relevant physiochemical models) in order to facilitate rapid future developments at both the material and system levels.
Luis Otero, Profesor de la Universidad nacional de Río Cuarto (UNRC) e Investigador Científico Independiente del Consejo Nacional de investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), es Doctor en Ciencias Químicas (1994) y Director del Grupo de Optoelectrónica Orgánica de la UNRC, compuesto por nueve investigadores y estudiantes de postgrado. Dirige en la actualidad tres proyectos financiados por la UNRC, el CONICET y la Agencia Nacional de Promoción Científica y Técnica (ANPCYT) sobre la temática general: "Investigación y desarrollo de nuevos materiales con propiedades optoelectricas y bioactivas". Ha dirigido cinco tesis doctorales, estando otras tres en ejecución. Ha dirigido y codirigido 26 proyectos de investigación (8 de cooperación internacional con España, Japón y Alemania). Es autor de 54 trabajos científicos y árbitro revisor de 15 revistas científicas internacionales. El grupo ha desarrollado trabajos de investigación sobre la generación de efectos fotoeléctricos, a través del proceso de sensibilización espectral de electrodos semiconductores que involucraron una serie de moléculas orgánicas sintéticas. Por otra parte, se ha estudiado el comportamiento electroquímico de películas y dispositivos electrocrómicos formados por varios polímeros con el objetivo de construir dispositivos totalmente plásticos. Se ha demostrado que por medio de la ingeniería molecular se puede modular las propiedades optoelectrónicas de nuevos materiales. Todas estas características dan a los nuevos materiales una alta potencialidad para su aplicación en optoelectrónica orgánica.
Prof. Michal Otyepka, Ph.D. (*1975) is professor of physical chemistry and Head of CATRIN-RCPTM research division under roof of Palacký UniversityOlomouc and Head of Nanolab at IT4I Supercomputer center at Ostrava. His research interests cover physical-chemical properties and reactivity of graphene derivatives and 2D materials, non-covalent interactions to 2D materials. He has been developing chemistry of fluorographene (2D chemistry, 2Dchem.org) toward graphene derivatives, which can be applied in (bio)sensing, catalysis and energy storage. He specializes also in molecular dynamics of biomolecules, nanomaterials, and complex molecular systems, force field development and multiscale methods and their applications. He is principal investigator of ERC – Consolidator and Proof of Concept projects. He is the author or co-author of more than 300 papers in international journals, three book chapters and one book.
Jonathan Owen received a B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a Ph.D. in Chemistry from CalTech. As a graduate student in the lab of Professor John Bercaw he studied the kinetics and mechanism of methane C-H activation. In 2005 he joined the lab of Professor Paul Alivisatos as a Petroleum Research Fund Alternative Energy Fellow to study the crystallization and derivatization of colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals. In 2009 he joined the faculty at Columbia University as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry where his group continues to study the synthesis and surface chemistry of colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals. For this work, he has received early career awards from the Department of Energy, the National Science Foundation, 3M, and DuPont.
Róisín M. Owens is Professor of Bioelectronics at the Dept. of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology in the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Newnham College. She received her BA in Natural Sciences (Mod. Biochemistry) at Trinity College Dublin, and her PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Southampton University. She carried out two postdoc fellowships at Cornell University, on host-pathogen interactions of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in the dept. of Microbiology and Immunology with Prof. David Russell, and on rhinovirus therapeutics in the dept. of Biomedical Engineering with Prof. Moonsoo Jin. From 2009-2017 she was a group leader in the dept. of bioelectronics at Ecole des Mines de St. Etienne, on the microelectronics campus in Provence. Her current research centers on application of organic electronic materials for monitoring biological systems in vitro, with a specific interest in enhancing the biological complexity and adapting the electronics to be fit for purpose. She has received several awards including the European Research Council starting (2011), proof of concept grant (2014) and consolidator (2016) grants, a Marie Curie fellowship, and an EMBO fellowship. She currently serves as co-I and co-director for the EPSRC CDT in Sensor Technologies, renewed in 2019. She is a 2019 laureate of the Suffrage Science award. From 2014-2020, she was principle editor for biomaterials for MRS communications (Cambridge University Press), and she serves on the advisory board of Advanced BioSystems and Journal of Applied Polymer Science (Wiley). In 2020 she became Scientific Editor for Materials Horizons (RSC). She is author of 100+ publications and 2 patents and her work has been cited more than 6000 times.
Kelly Owens is the director of education and outreach at the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research. In 2017, after fifteen years of active Crohn’s disease and inflammatory arthritis, and failing almost two dozen medications, she and her husband moved to Amsterdam for six months to participate in a revolutionary clinical trial run by SetPoint Medical using vagus nerve stimulation, a part of the emerging field of bioelectronic medicine. Within two months, she was deemed in clinical remission. Nowadays, her mission is to expand access to more patients suffering from inflammatory diseases and advance research.
Patients who are interested in learning more about bioelectronic medicine should email Kelly at kowens4@northwell.edu. She can share a variety of resources to learn about the science, clinical trials so far, and can add patients to the Feinstein Institutes’ patient database to be contacted for future trials.
Pablo P. Boix, Ph.D. in Nanoscience, is a Research Scientist at Instituto de Tecnologia Química (CSIC). He led a pioneer perovskite research team at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore (2012-2016) with relevant contributions to materials and devices’ development (such as the first use of formamidinium cation in perovskite solar cells). His track record has more than 100 publications, which resulted in his selection as a Highly Cited Researcher in 2020 (Cross-Field) by Clarivate Web of Science, with an h index of 57. Dr. Boix is the co-inventor of 3 patents in the field of perovskite optoelectronics. Prior to his current position, he worked as a research group leader in a perovskite solar cell company (Dyesol Ltd, Switzerland), focusing on product R&D, and at Universitat de València. Currently, he is the PI of 2 research projects and the coPI of 3, including regional, national, and European funding.
Dr. Deepak Pant is a Senior Scientist at the Flemish Institute for Technological Research (VITO), Belgium. His research focuses on bioenergy, specifically, the design and optimization of bio-electrochemical systems for energy recovery from wastewater and microbial electrosynthesis for production of value-added chemicals through electrochemically driven bio-processes. He has 3 books (on Springer, Elsevier and CRC Press), 4 Patents, 125 peer-reviewed publications with >9300 citations (h-index 55) and 28 book chapters to his credit. He is a member of scientific communities like ISMET, ISE, BES, BRSI, IFIBiop and AMI. He is an Editorial board member for ‘Bioresource Technology’, ‘Electronic Journal of Biotechnology’, ‘Biofuel Research Journal’, ‘Heliyon’ and ‘Frontiers in Environmental Science’ and Editor for the new Elsevier Journal “Bioresource Technology Reports”.
-Ph.D. Chemistry, University of Cambridge
-MS. Chemistry, POSTECH
-BS. Chemistry, Sogang University
Research interests
- Synthesis of smart conducting small molecules and polymers
- Development of energy devices and laser spectroscopic techniques
- Study in energy transfer at the interface between semiconductor and organic materials
Professional Experience
2014-2015 : Visiting Research Fellow, LG Chem. Research Park, Daejeon, Korea
2007–present: Assistant, Associate, Full Professor, Chemical Engineering, Adjunct Professor of Department of Chemistry, School of Interdisciplinary Bioscience and Bioengineering (i-Bio), and Division of Advanced Materials Science, POSTECH
2003–2007: Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Chemistry, UIUC, USA
1992–1999: Researcher/Senior researcher/Team leader, LG Chem. Research Park, Daejeon, Korea
Dr. Pramod Pillai is an Associate Professor and a Physical Chemist in the Department of Chemistry at Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Pune, India. Dr. Pillai obtained his Ph.D. in Chemistry in 2008 under the supervision of Prof. K. George Thomas at National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology (NIIST) Trivandrum, India. Prior to joining IISER Pune in June 2014, Dr. Pillai was a postdoctoral fellow in the group of Prof. Bartosz A. Grzybowski at Northwestern University, Evanston, USA (2011-2014), and an Alexander von Humboldt postdoctoral Fellow at Technische Universität in Dortmund, Germany with Prof. Christof M. Niemeyer (2008-2010). Currently Dr. Pillai’s research at IISER Pune is focused on controlling the interplay of forces to improve and impart newer properties at the nanoscale. Some of the properties of interest includes light harvesting, catalysis and self-assembly in hybrid nanomaterials.
Ungyu Paik is a distinguished HYU professor of Department of Energy Engineering at Hanyang University, Korea. He received his Ph.D. degree from Department of Ceramic Engineering at Clemson University in 1991. Prior to starting his professor position at Hanyang University in 1999, he conducted postdoctoral research at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA. His research interest is the synthesis and engineering of nanomaterials for the applications in energy devices. He has abundant academic achievement with more than 390 SCI papers and hold 88 patents. With his knowledge, expertise, and insight, he served as a minister in the ministry of trade, industry, and energy of Korea from 2017 to 2018. Now he is back on an academic career. He was selected in highly cited researchers as part of the “Crossfield” arena in 2020 ~ 2022 by Clarivate Analytics.
Last update: 31/07/2022
Born on January 7, 1988.
During my undergraduate studies I had the chance to carry out two short-term research projects on nanomaterials at Tohoku University (Japan; 2010) and Université de Sherbrooke (Canada; 2011). I then obtained my Master of Science in Nanoscale Engineering and my PhD on Materials Science from Ecole Centrale de Lyon (France; 2011 and 2014). From 2015 until December 2017 I was a post-doctoral researcher in the Nanochemistry Department of the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia of Genova (Italy). In 2017 I was awarded a "Marie Sklodowska Curie Actions" fellowship to develop my project PerovSAMs in the Instituto de Ciencia Molecular (ICMol) at the Universidad de Valencia, where I continued working with a "Juan de la Cierva incorporación" fellowship until 2021. In 2022 I joined Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena (UPCT) as a "Ramón y Cajal" fellow.
Throughout my career I have worked in the fields of materials' chemistry, colloidal inorganic nanocrystals, surface analysis and halide perovskites' optoelectronic devices among others. My publications and bibliometric indicators can be found elsewhere (e.g. Google Scholar or Scopus).
Aside from research I have also maintained a teaching activity throughout my career with lectures and practical courses in chemistry and chemical engineering at undergraduate level (Ecole Centrale de Lyon, 2011-2014 and 2020-2021; Universidad de Valencia and Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, 2018-2019; Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena, 2022-present) as well as specific courses in surface analysis techniques for PhD students (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia; 2015-2017). I have supervised one Master of Science thesis, one PhD thesis and I currently supervise two other PhD theses.
Eventually, I am also involved in the "Federación de Jóvenes Investigadores" where we strive for a better spanish scientific and academic system, especially fighting against the precarity of young or junior researchers.
Dr. Lalit Pant is an assistant professor in Sustainable Energy Engineering at IIT Kanpur. Previously, he was a postdoctoral fellow in Energy Technologies Area at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, USA. He received his B. Tech. in mechanical engineering from IIT Delhi, and his M.S., and Ph.D. from University of Alberta (Canada). His research primarily involves study and optimization of electrochemical energy systems such as fuel cells and electrolyzers using physics-based modeling, numerical modeling, x-ray imaging and statistical reconstructions. He has published 17 journal articles and has presented at several conferences on the topics of fuel cells and transport phenomena.
Anna-Maria Pappa is currently Asst Professor at the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Khalifa University and Visiting scholar at Cambridge University. She holds a PhD in Bioelectronics from the University of Lyon (2017). Prior to her appointment in KU she was the Oppenheimer research fellow at the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology at Cambridge University and the Maudslay-Butler Research Fellow in Engineering at Pembroke College, Cambridge. In 2017 she received the L’Oreal-UNESCO Women in Science award for developing an innovative platform that can be used to test the efficacy of newly synthesized antibiotics and in 2019 she was listed on the Innovators under 35 MIT technology review. Anna-Maria is an SPIE and MRS member as well as a Maudslay Society member. She is also affiliated with Pembroke College, Cambridge. She is an editor in Frontiers in Electronics, Scientific Reports and Biosensors, Mdpi. During her independent career she has served as Visiting Scholar in Cornell University (USA) and in the Institure of laser processes in FORTH Crete, Greece. In KU Anna-Maria is a member of the Healthcare Engineering Innovation Center, leading a team in biomicrofluidics and biosensors. Her current research interests lie in bio-integrated electronics, using polymeric semiconductors and synthetic biology to develop hierarchically organized biological models for point-of-care sensors. She has (co)authored more than 40 peer-reviewed articles, 3 book chapters, and has 1 full patent. She has delivered more than 32 presentations in international conferences (12 invited ones) and has given 10 seminars in leading Universities. Other professional activities include: expert evaluator of projects for EU-ERC, organization/chairing conferences (i.e., MRS Spring 2021), ad-hoc university committees and journal reviewing (RSC, ACS, Wiley) .
Nam-Gyu Park is professor and SKKU-Fellow at School of Chemical Engineering and adjunct professor at Department of Energy Science, Sungkyunkwan University. He got Ph.D. in Inorganic Solid State Chemistry from Seoul National University in 1995. He worked at ICMCB-CNRS, France, from 1996 to 1997 and at National Renewable Energy Laboratory, USA, from 1997 to 1999 as postdoctoral researchers. He worked as Director of Solar Cell Research Center at Korea Institute of Science and Technology from 2005 to 2009 and as a principal scientist at Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute from 2000 to 2005 before joining Sungkyunkwan University in 2009. He has been doing researches on high efficiency mesoscopic solar cells including perovskite solar cell and dye-sensitized solar cell since 1997. He is pioneer in solid state perovskite solar cell, which was first developed in 2012. He received awards, including Scientist Award of the Month (MEST, Korea), KyungHyang Electricity and Energy Award (KEPCO, Korea), KIST Award of the Year (KIST, Korea) and Dupont Science and Technology Award (Dupont Korea), SKKU fellowship, and MRS Outstanding Research Award (MRS, Boston) and WCPEC Paper Award (Kyoto, Japan). He published over 230 scientific papers, including Science, Nature Materials, Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Energy and Nature Communications, 80 patent applications and 8 book chapters. He received H-index of 67 as of May, 2017.
Jong Hyeok Park is professor at Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering in Yonsei university, Republic of Korea. His research focuses on solar-to-hydrogen conversion devices, Li & Na ion batteries, perovskite solar cells.
He received his Ph.D. in chemical engineering from KAIST, Republic of Korea, in August 2004. Then, he joined University of Texas at Austin, USA, as a postdoctoral researcher in 2004 (under Prof. Allen J. Bard). He is an author and a co-author of 320 papers and 100 patents (h-index: 78).
He has received various prestige awards such as PBFC Award (2012) from The Korean Electrochemical Society, SKKU Young Fellowship (2012) from SKKU, Horace G. Underwood Fellowship (2018) from Yonsei University, Award of Excellence (2017) from Korean Academy of Science and Technology, S-Oil Next Generation Researcher Award (2021).
Onur Parlak earned his PhD in Bioelectronics from Linköping University in 2015. He then received a Fellowship from The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation (KAW) and started postdoctoral research at Stanford University, focusing on wearable bioelectronics. After spending three years, he turned back to Sweden and joined the Karolinska Institutet to translate his engineering skills into medical settings with KAW starting grant.
He has been recently awarded by KI Strategic Funding as an Assistant Professor and research group leader as a part of the KI investment program to recruit and support leading junior researchers with particularly outstanding scientific merits and future potential. Since 2021, Dr. Parlak has been acting as Assistant Professor at the Department of Medicine, Solna, Dermataology and Venereology Unit in Karolinska Institutet where he specializes in personalized diagnostics and wearable bioelectronics.
Dr Pedesseau is an Associate Professor at the INSA Rennes (FOTON Institute - CNRS) whose work is aimed at the understanding of physical processes in the III-V semiconductor nanostructures for silicon photonics, the hybrid perovskites and novel materials for photovoltaics, and optoelectronic device simulations for optical-communications. His recent scientific interests include: 1) polar surface and interface energies of semiconductors; 2) first principles simulation (including the spin-orbit effect) of mechanical stability, electronic, and optical properties of 3D and 2D semiconductors; 3) electronic structure theory beyond the DFT such as hybrid functionals (HSE), many-body corrections GW, and DFT-1/2; 4) HPC technology for exotic and highly demanding simulations in terms of the large memory footprint and extensive CPUs communications (thousands).
Angélica was born in Mexico City, Mexico. She received the M.S. degree in biomedical engineering from the Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City and the Ph.D. degree in neuroscience from the University of Geneva, Switzerland, in 1999 and 2006, respectively. She first worked as doctoral student and research assistant at the Ophthalmology Clinic of the Geneva University Hospitals. In 2011 she joined the team at the Western Switzerland University Cochlear Implants Center, and became its head of engineering in 2013. Currently, she is also leads the laboratory of Audiology of the Division of ENT and Head-and-Neck Surgery of the Geneva University Hospitals. Angélica became lecturer for the University of Geneva in 2015 and senior lecturer in 2018.
The focus of her research is sensory perception evoked by electrical neuroprostheses (retinal implants, cochlear implants, and vestibular implants). Her early scientific work was devoted to investigating the fundamental theoretical psychophysical aspects of visual prostheses and retinal implants. Later, she had the opportunity to investigate these aspects in humans, during one of the first human clinical trials of retinal prostheses. Currently, she leads the research group at the University of Geneva performing the first in-human trial of a vestibular implant to rehabilitate patients with bilateral vestibular deficits (www.vestibularimplant.org). The main focus of this research is the investigation of the effects of electrical stimulation of vestibular nerve afferents in human subjects and the clinical significance of the rehabilitation that a vestibular implant could provide to patients suffering from a bilateral vestibular loss.
CCVV. Alejandro P�rez Rodr�guez Alejandro P�rez-Rodr�guez (Phys. Deg. 1984, PhD 1987) is Full Professor in the Department of Electronics of the University of Barcelona. In 2005-2009 he was Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Physics of the University, where he coordinated the installation of a new Laboratory of Micro and Nanotechnologies. Since October 2009 he is ascribed to the Catalonia Institute for Energy Research (IREC) as Head of the Solar Energy Materials & Systems Group in the Department of Advanced Materials for Energy. His research activities and interests are centred on Optical and structural assessment of processes in semiconductor technologies and on the development of new technologies for high efficiency low cost solar cells based on compound chalcogenide semiconductors and third PV device generation. He has coordinated up to 20 research projects in the National Spanish R+D+i programs, as well as 11 International projects funded by different European programmes (four of them as General Coordinator of the Project, from Human Capital and Mobility, FET-IST and, more recently FP7 NMP-Energy 2011, Marie Curie (IAPP 2011, IEF 2013) and SOLARERANET programmes), 5 bilateral cooperative actions between France and Spain and Germany and Spain, and 4 industrial projects. He is co-author of 318 scientific publications (including 160 papers in ISI international journals and 9 invited reviews), with an h factor of 29, and an average of 456 citations per year in the last 4 years and has supervised 8 Master Thesis and 10 Doctoral Thesis.
Lara Perrin is Associate Professor at University Savoie Mont Blanc (France) since 2006, in the GUIDE team (Genesis, Usage of Durable Interfaces for Energy) of the LEPMI laboratory (Laboratory of Electrochemistry and Physical chemistry of Materials and Interfaces). This team is part of the National Institute of Solar Energy and is located at Le Bourget du Lac. She is a specialist in the chemistry of materials with specific properties, and her work combines chemistry, physical chemistry and physics. Her current research activities are mainly focused on materials for energy (third generation solar cells: organic and perovskite, electric cables, fuel cells ...). Her work focuses on both the Genesis and the Sustainability of these different systems.
Laurie Peter received his B.Sc. and Ph.D. from the University of Southampton (UK). After a period working at the Fritz Haber Institute in Berlin in the group of the late Heinz Gerischer, he returned to the Southampton before moving to the University of Bath, where he has been Professor of Physical Chemistry since 1993. He partially 'retired' in 2009 and is currently spending 6 months at the Ludwig Maximillian University in Munich working in the group of Professor Thomas Bein. Laurie Peter's interest sinclude fundamental studies of dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs), research into inorganic thin film solar cells based on sustainable materials such a copper zinc tin sulfide and photoelectrochemical water splitting. He has developed a number of experimental techniques such as intensity modulated photocurrent spectroscopy (IMPS) and charge extraction that are used to characterize DSCs and water splitting systems. He has also developed in situ microwave methods for investigating photoelectrochemical reactions. At present he is attempting to understand the kinetics and mechanisms of light-driven oxygen evolution at iron oxide electrodes.
Annamaria Petrozza received her PhD in Physics from the University of Cambridge (UK) in 2008 with a thesis on the study of optoelectronic processes at organic and hybrid semiconductors interfaces under the supervision of Dr. J.S. Kim and Prof Sir R.H. Friend. From July 2008 to December 2009 she worked as research scientist at the Sharp Laboratories of Europe, Ltd on the development of new market competitive solar cell technologies (Dye Sensitized Solar cells/Colloidal Quantum Dots Sensitized Solar cells). Since January 2010 she has a Team Leader position at the Center for Nano Science and Technology -IIT@POLIMI. She is in charge of the development of photovoltaic devices and their characterization by time-resolved and cw Photoinduced Absorption Spectroscopy, Time-resolved Photoluminescence and electrical measurements. Her research work mainly aims to shed light on interfacial optoelectronic mechanisms, which are fundamental for the optimization of operational processes, with the goal of improving device efficiency and stability.
Giulia Pezzin graduated from Politecnico di Torino, Italy, with a Master’s Degree in Environmental and Land Engineering (2022).
Currently, she is a Research Fellow at Politecnico di Torino (Turin, Italy), where she is part of the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) research group.
- PhD in Heidelberg, Germany (Heidelberg University and Technical University Braunschweig): Advanced methods in electron microscopy for visualization of morphology of organic semiconductors - Since beginning 2014: Post doc at EMAT (Electron Microscopy for Materials Science), University of Antwerp, Belgium, with Sara Bals and Gustaaf van Tendeloo, working on even more advanced methods within the Sunflower programme
Christof Pflumm studied Physics at the University of Karlsruhe, where he also received his PhD. As a postdoc, he investigated the feasibility of electrically pumped organic lasers by device simulations in Uli Lemmers group in Karlsruhe. After a postoc year at Imperial College he joined Merck in 2006. In his time there he worked on the development of different material classes and is now heading a group dedicated to improve the understanding of OLEDs.
Barbara Piętka received a doctorate at the University of Warsaw in Poland and at the Université Joseph Fourier in Grenoble, France as part of international co-tutelle. She gained professional experience working in France, Switzerland and Germany. She has built a research group focused on the study of non-equilibrium Bose-Einstein condensates of exciton-polaritons at the Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw in Poland, where she has been working since 2010.
The main topic of her interests are quantum phenomena occurring in the regime of nonlinear light-matter coupled systems. She is concentrated on semiconductor materials, two-dimensional layered materials, perovskites and dielectric structures. The most important recent success is the demonstration of a device composed of a dielectric cavity filled with liquid crystal and perovskite demonstrating a tunable non-zero Berry curvature and chiral lasing. She is looking for efficient, room-temperature solutions for non-linear information processing, single-photon computing, and photonic accelerators.
Sudhagar Pitchaimuthu is an Associate Professor at the School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University. His research expertise is designing nanoscale light and electron-driven catalyst electrodes for solar-to-hydrogen fuel generation and recovering energy from wastewater treatment. Sudhagar is a recipient of the JSPS Post Doctoral Fellowship and Ser Cymru-II Rising Star Fellowship award.
Paulina Plochocka, Directrice de recherché de 2e classe (DR2) in Laboratoire National des Champs Magnétiques Intenses (LNCMI), CNRS in Toulouse.
P. Plochocka obtained her PhD cum-laude in 2004 at the University of Warsaw working on the dynamics of many-body interactions between carriers in doped semi-magnetic quantum wells (QW). During her first post doc at Weizmann Institute of science, she started working on the electronic properties of a high mobility 2D electron gas in the fractional and integer quantum Hall Effect regime. She continued this topic during second post doc in LNCMI Grenoble, where she was holding individual Marie Curie scholarship. At the same time, she enlarged her interest of 2D materials towards graphene and other layered materials as TMDCs or black phosphorus. In 2012 she obtained permanent position in LNCMI Toulouse, where she created the Quantum Electronics group, which investigates the electronic and optical properties of emerging materials under extreme conditions of high magnetic field and low temperatures. Examples include semiconducting layer materials such as transition metal dichalcogenides, GaAs/AlAs core shell nanowires and organic inorganic hybrid perovskites.
Nicolas Plumeré started his undergraduate studies at the University of Strasbourg, France, and after two years switched to Glasgow, UK, where he graduated with a honours degree in Chemistry in 2004 with a first class distinction. He continued his studies as a PhD student at the University of Tübingen, Germany, where he obtained his PhD with Summa cum Laude in 2009. After a short fellowship position as researcher at the company NECi, in the USA, Nicolas Plumeré became a group leader at the Center for Electrochemical Sciences, Faculty for Chemistry and Biochemistry, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany in 2010. Here, he has built up his own research group and was promoted to a tenured professorship in analytical chemistry in 2017. He was awarded the prestigious ERC Starting Grant in 2016, followed by an ERC Proof-of-Concept Grant in 2018. He currently serves as one of the PIs of the Excellence Cluster RESOLV from the German Research Foundation that started in 2019. He is strongly invested in his scientific community notably by acting on the council of the Bioelectrochemical Society and as an advisory board member of Chemical Science, the flagship journal of the Royal Society of Chemistry. He was awarded the 2019 Luigi Galvani prize (which is awarded biannually to a scientist under the age of 45 who has shown excellence in the field of bioelectrochemistry). In 2018, he co-founded the company Silverbear specialized in point-of-use sensing for smart agriculture.
The Plumeré lab at the Ruhr-University Bochum has specialized in interfacing biocatalytic systems and electrodes for application in energ conversion and energy conversion schemes.. The expertise of the group includes organic chemistry for synthesis of redox interfaces, electrochemistry for quantification of electron transfer pathways, mathematical modeling for predicting photocurrent and electrochemical microarrays for biomolecule screening. Notable achievements include electrochemical sensing for aplications in precision agriculture and electrocatalytic processes for biophotovoltaics and biofuel cells
Prof. Kyriaki Polychronopoulou is currently a Full Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Khalifa University, and Visiting Professor at ETH-Zurich. She is also the Founding Director of the Catalysis and Separation Center (CeCaS) at KU, the first of its kind in the United Arab Emirates. CeCaS is actively supporting the vision of the UAE towards alterative fuels (hydrogen, biofuels), decarbonization though CO2 conversion to useful fuels and hydrocarbon exploitation. She is regular member of the Mohammed Bin Rashid Academy of Scientists (MBRAS, https://mbras.ae).
She holds a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Cyprus (2005). Before her appointment at Khalifa University she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Northwestern University (IL, USA) and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (IL, USA). During her independent career, she has also worked as a Research Fellow in the National Physical Laboratory (UK), Texas A&M (USA), and KAIST (Korea).
Dr. Polychronopoulou's research contribution is focused on experimental and computational catalysis both from fundamental and applied perspective. She focuses her research on unlocking the reaction mechanisms and understanding of surface phenomena and their association with catalytic material microstructure. Processes of primary focus are: hydrogen (H2) production, CO2 conversion, biofuels production.
Giuseppe Portale is associate professor at the Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, University of Groningen, the Netherlands. He received his Ph.D. degree in Chemistry from the University La Sapienza, Rome and he carried out postdoc research at the ESRF in Grenoble. From 2009 to 2015 he was beamline responsible at the ESRF and in 2015 he was appointed as professor at the University of Groningen. He is the head of the Polymer Physics group, focusing on the study of structure-property relationship in polymer-based materials and on the influence of processing conditions on the final structure of polymer specimens and devices.
A/Prof. Pozo-Gonzalo is an ARAID fellow, funded by the Aragon government, working at the Carboquimica Institute-CSIC on sustainable energy storage materials and technologies. She attained her Degree and honours at the University of Zaragoza (Spain). After graduating, she received her PhD degree in Chemistry from the University of Manchester (United Kingdom) working with Prof. Peter J. Skabara on the electrochemical synthesis of Conducting Polymers. From 2004, she joined the Centre for Electrochemical Technologies in San Sebastian, (Spain) as the Head of Electrooptical unit where she stayed for 7 years. After moving to Australia, she has been working with Prof. Alan Bond at Monash University and in 2012 she joined Deakin University where she has been working in reversible metal air battery with advanced electrolytes, ionic liquids funded by ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science (ACES).
. Since 2018, she has been focusing on circular economy in energy materials, working on the recovery of critical raw materials from end of life devices using sustainable methods, as well as redesign of materials for energy. At Deakin University, she is also a theme champion for energy materials as part of the University’s Circular Economy mission pillar. She is a board member of the Journal Sustainable Chemistry and Associate Editor of RSC sustainability. During her research career, she has authored and co-authored 98 peer-review international publications, 3 book chapters and holds 4 patents, in the areas of electrochemistry, circular economy and energy storage. She has supervised 11 Postdoctoral Research Fellows, 13 PhD students (7 to completion, 5 current), and 11 undergraduate students. She has led a total of 36 projects, 14 of them with industry partners, and 5 prestigious European funded projects within different calls STRP-FP6, FP7-NMP, RISE generating a total income of more than AU$4M.
1993-1997 PhD, U Texas at Austin 1997-1998 Postdoc, Yale U 1998-2010 Prof, U Washington at Seattle 2010-2014 Prof, U Rochester, NY 2014-current Prof. U. Southern California
Ferry Prins is a tenure-Track Group leader at the Condesed Matter Physics Center (IFIMAC) of the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid. Ferry obtained an MSc in Chemistry from Leiden University (2007) and a PhD in Physics from the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience at Delft University of Technology (2011). After completion of his PhD, he joined the the group of Prof. Will Tisdale at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). There, he started exploring the optical properties of nanomaterial assemblies with an emphasis on excitonic energy-transfer interactions. In 2014 he moved to ETH Zurich for a postdoc with Prof. David Norris at the Optical Materials Engineering Laboratory. With support from the Swiss National Science Foundation, he started an independent group at ETH in 2015. In Spring 2017 he joined he Condensed Matter Physics Center (IFIMAC) at the Autonoma University of Madrid where he directs the Photonic Nanomaterials and Devices Lab. His group specializes in the development of light-management strategies for semiconductor nanomaterials.
Agnieszka Pron studied chemistry at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poland and at Lund University in Sweden. She completed her Ph.D. in 2011 under the supervision of Prof. Klaus Muellen at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz. She then joined the group of Prof. Mario Leclerc at Laval Univeristy, Quebec City, Canada, as a post-doctoral fellow. There she investigated structure-property relationships of new pi-conjugated systems for solar cell applications. Since 2013, she is working in Merck Chemicals Ltd as a research scientist in organic photovoltaics team.
Mary Pryce is a Professor at the School of Cehmical Sciences at Dublin City Universirty, Ireland. Prior to joining DCU in 1997, she was employed as a postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Milan, Italy. She obtained her PhD from Dublin City University in the area of organometallic photochemistry (in 1995). Current research projects within her research group focus on designing new materials (polymers, organometallic compounds or organic dyes) for energy applications such as hydrogen generation, or CO2 conversion. Another aspect of research focuses on antimicrobial materials. Central to both of these research areas is understanding the photophysical properties using time resolved techniques.
Prof. Yabing Qi is Unit Director of Energy Materials and Surface Sciences Unit at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (https://groups.oist.jp/emssu). He received his B.S., M.Phil., and Ph.D. from Nanjing University, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and University of California Berkeley, respectively. Prof. Qi has published 70+ research articles (30+ articles on perovskite solar cells) and is the inventor for 11 patents/patent applications. His research interests include perovskite solar cells, surface/interface sciences, lithium-ion batteries, organic electronics, energy materials and devices.
Professor Wendy L. Queen received her Ph.D. from Clemson University (USA) in 2009. Afterwards, she accepted a postdoctoral fellowship from the National Research Council, which was carried out at the NIST Center for Neutron Research (USA). In 2012, she took a scientific position at the Molecular Foundry at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and in 2015 she accepted an Assistant Professorship in the Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland. Her research is focused on the synthesis and characterization of novel porous adsorbents, namely metal-organic frameworks, that are of interest in a number of host-guest applications. The ultimate goal of her research is to contribute knowledge towards solving globally relevant problems, like reducing energy consumption, cutting CO2 emissions, and water purification. Her desire is to help train a new generation of researchers that have the knowledge and scientific skill set necessary to become future frontrunners in energy-related research.
Dr. Monika Rai is a senior researcher and group leader at IMO-IMOMEC, University of Hasselt, Belgium. She received her doctoral degree from the Banaras Hindu University (BHU), India in 2017. Before she joined IMOMEC, she worked as an Alexander von Humboldt research fellow at the University of Stuttgart from 2021 to 2022, and a post doctoral fellow at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore from 2017 to 2021. She was also a Visiting Researcher at the Hebrew University Jerusalem, Israel in 2018. Dr. Monika Rai has worked on different projects including perovskite solar cells and modules, transparent conducting oxides and printing technologies with expertise in solar cell devices and their optoelectronic characterizations. Her current research interests include strectchable electronics and energy harvesting devices.
Dr Alex Ramadan is a Lecturer in the Department of Physics at the University of Sheffield. Alex did her PhD research at Imperial College London exploring the structure-property relationships of molecular semiconductor thin films. Following this she moved into perovskite semiconductor research for her postdoctoral work at the University of Oxford. At Sheffield she leads the New and Emerging Semiconductor Group and their research looks to develop and understand new semiconductor materials for next generation optoelectronic and devices.
Dr. Daniel Ramirez obtained his PhD in Materials Engineering at the University of Antioquia, Colombia, in December 2018. His research interests are focused on synthesis of nanostructured semiconductors and nanocomposites for energy applications. Since March 2019 he works as assitant professor in the Department of Materials Engineering and the Center for Research, Innovation and Development of Materials-CIDEMAT at the University of Antioquia, where he has focused on developing Perovskite Solar Cells and devices for producing Green Hrydrogen using solar energy. For more information, refer to her LinkedIn profile (https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-estiben-ramirez-zora-042006a8/) and Twitter (@derz93).
Prof. Erin Ratcliff in an Associate Professor of Chemical and Environmental Engineering at the University of Arizona, with courtesy appointments in Materials Science and Engineering and Chemistry and Biochemistry. She also holds a joint appointment at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. At UArizona, Prof. Ratcliff is the Director of the Laboratory for Interface Science of Printable Electronic Materials and co-Director of the Institute for Energy Solutions. She received a PhD in Physical Chemistry at Iowa State University in 2007, where she established her love of electrochemical methods and interface science. Her research focuses on mechanisms of electron transfer and transport across interfaces, including semiconductor/electrolyte interfaces and durability of printable electronic materials, including organic semiconductors and metal halide perovskites.
Sandheep Ravishankar is currently a postdoctoral researcher in Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany. He investigates the physics of operation of perovskite solar cells and photoanodes for water splitting. His work involves the development of analysis methods for improved device characterisation and parameter estimation. His areas of expertise include time domain (transient photovoltage and photocurrent measurements (TPV and TPC)) and frequency domain small-perturbation methods (impedance spectroscopy (IS), intensity-modulated photocurrent and photovoltage spectroscopy (IMPS and IMVS), transient photoluminescence (tr-PL) measurements and drift-diffusion simulations.
Alex Redinger is an associate professor at the University of Luxembourg in the Physics and Materials Science Research Unit.
His research interests are:
Thin film solar cells such as Cu(In,Ga)Se2 , kesterites and hybrid perovskites
Scanning Probe microscopy methods (STM, STS, KPFM)
Alex Redinger studied Physics at the RWTH Aachen in Germany. He carried out his PhD in Aachen and Cologne where he studied ion-surface interactions with scanning tunneling microscopy. As a Postdoc he worked at the University of Luxembourg and at the Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin. The overarching topic of his postdoctoral stays where the fabrication and characterization of kesterite solar cells.
In 2016, he was granted with an FNR ATTRACT Consolidator grant, which allows him to build up a scanning probe microscopy group to study the surfaces and interfaces of thin film solar cells.
Since 03.2017 Alex is building up his new group at the University of Luxembourg.
Professor Erwin Reisner received his education and professional training at the University of Vienna (PhD in 2005), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (postdoc from 2005-2007) and the University of Oxford (postdoc from 2008-2009). He joined the University of Cambridge as a University Lecturer in the Department of Chemistry in 2010, became a Fellow of St. John’s College in 2011, was appointed to Reader in 2015 and to his current position of Professor of Energy and Sustainability in 2017. He started his independent research programme on artificial photosynthesis (solar fuels) with the support of an EPSRC Career Acceleration Fellowship (2009-2015), which also received substantial early support by the Christian Doppler Laboratory for Sustainable SynGas Chemistry (2012-2019). In 2016, he received a European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant to develop the field of semi-artificial photosynthesis (biohybrid systems for solar fuel synthesis) and has recently been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant (now funded by the UKRI underwrite scheme) on semi-biological domino catalysis for solar chemical production. He is the academic lead (PI) of the Cambridge Circular Plastics Centre (CirPlas; since 2019), where his team develops solar-powered valorisation technologies for the conversion of solid waste streams (biomass and plastics) to fuels and chemicals. He has acted as the academic lead of the UK Solar Fuels Network, which coordinates the national activities in artificial photosynthesis (2017-2021) and is currently a co-director of the Centre for Doctoral Training in Integrated Functional Nano (nanoCDT) in Cambridge as well as a member of the European research consortia ‘Sofia’ and ‘solar2chem'.
Peter Reiss is researcher at the Interdisciplinary Research Institute of Grenoble (IRIG), France, and Head of the Laboratory Synthesis, Structure and Properties of Functional Materials (STEP). He graduated from University of Karlsruhe (Germany), and earned his PhD in Inorganic Chemistry under the supervision of Prof. Dieter Fenske (2000). His research activities focus on the synthesis and properties of colloidal semiconductor quantum dots and metal halide perovskites (nanoparticles and thin films). The studied applications range from biological imaging / detection over LEDs and displays to new strategies for energy conversion (photovoltaics, thermoelectrics, photocatalysis) and storage. Dr. Reiss acts as Associate Editor for Nanoscale Research Letters and Frontiers in Materials - Energy Materials, and is Editorial Board Member of Scientific Reports. He co-organizes the biennial conference NaNaX – Nanoscience with Nanocrystals (cf. http://nanax.org).
Dr. Marine Reynaud is a Chemical Engineer from Chimie ParisTech (France) and Doctor in Materials Sciences. She completed her PhD in 2013 under the direction of Prof. Tarascon, Dr. Chotard and Dr. Rousse. Then, she joined the group of Dr. Montse Casas-Cabanas at CIC energiGUNE, where she is has recently been appointed Research Team Leader. Her research is focused on the design and development of electrode materials for Li-ion and Na-ion batteries. She is expert in inorganic syntheses and materials characterizations, looking for determining correlation between compositions, (micro)structure and electrochemical properties. For the last few years, she has been developing innovative strategies to accelerate the discovery of new battery materials.
She is author of c.a. 40 scientific publications in peer reviewed journals. She has been PI of several industrial projects and competitive national and European research projects. She has supervised 5 PhD students and currently leads a team of 12 researchers. She has recently received the first BRTA award from the Basque Research and Technology Alliance, recognizing young researchers’ passion, talent and ambition.
Dr. Andreas Riedinger received his Diploma in chemistry from the Philipps-University Marburg. He did his thesis on the synthesis and functionalization of gold nanoparticles with analyte-sensitive fluorophores with Prof. Wolfgang Parak (Physics Department, Philipps-University Marburg), where he first came in touch with nanotechnology. He then moved to the Italian Institute of Technology (Genoa, Italy) where he did his PhD in Nanoscience in the group of Prof. Liberato Manna and Dr. Teresa Pellegrino. Central points of his dissertation were the synthesis und functionalization of magnetic, plasmonic and fluorescent nanocrystals with stimuli-responsive molecules and polymers, and the measurement of nanometric temperature profiles around magnetic nanocrystals under alternating magnetic field excitation. Later he joined the Optical Materials Engineering Laboratory of Prof. David J. Norris at the ETH Zürich (Switzerland) as a postdoc, working on the synthesis and doping of colloidal nanocrystals and the formation mechanisms of quasi-2D nanocrystals. In 2017 he joined the MPIP as group leader in the physical chemistry of polymers department.
G.-M. Rignanese is Professor at the Ecole Polytechnique de Louvain (EPL) and Research Director at the F.R.S.-FNRS. He received his Engineering degree from the Université catholique de Louvain in 1994 and Ph.D. in Applied Sciences from the Université catholique de Louvain in 1998.
During his Ph.D., he also worked as a Software Development Consultant for the PATP (Parallel Application Technology Project), collaboration between CRAY RESEARCH and Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in the group of Prof. Roberto Car. He carried his postdoctoral research at the University of California at Berkeley in the group of Prof. Steven Louie. In 2003, he obtained a permanent position at the Université catholique de Louvain. In 2022, he was appointed as Adjunct Professor at the Northwestern Polytechnical University in Xi'an (China).
In 2019, he was named APS Fellow for original efforts developing free license software in the field of electronic structure calculations, and high-throughput calculations in a broad range of materials types.
Marc Robert was educated at the Ecole Normale Supérieure (Cachan, France) and gained his Ph.D. in 1995 from Paris Diderot University under the guidance of Claude Andrieux and Jean-Michel Savéant. After one year as a postdoctoral fellow at Ohio State University (USA), working alongside Matt Platz, he joined the faculty at Paris Diderot University as Associate Professor. He was promoted to full Professor in 2004, and distinguished Professor in 2019 at Université de Paris. He became a junior Fellow of the University Institute of France (IUF) in 2007 and a senior Fellow in 2017. He was a JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) research Fellow (2015). Among various distinctions, Marc Robert received the first International Prize Essential Molecules Challenge from Air Liquide (2016) and the Chemistry and Energy Research Prize from the French Chemical Society (2019). His interests include electrochemical, photochemical, and theoretical approaches of electron transfer reactions and reactivity in chemistry, as well as catalytic activation of small molecules, mainly CO2 and N2.
Sean T. Roberts received his BS in Chemistry from the University of California Los Angeles in 2003 and his PhD in Physical Chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute in Technology in 2010 for work using multidimensional infrared spectroscopy to study proton transport in liquid water with Andrei Tokmakoff. In 2010, Sean was awarded an NSF ACC-F postdoctoral fellowship and undertook a position at the University of Southern California where he worked in the groups of Stephen Bradforth and Alexander Benderskii on collaborative projects organized by the Center for Energy Nanoscience, a DOE supported Energy Frontier Research Center. In 2014, Sean started his independent career at the University of Texas at Austin where he leads a research group that uses and develops ultrafast spectroscopic techniques to understand how the mesoscopic ordering of semiconductor nanomaterials impacts their ability to manipulate energy and transport charge. Sean is a recipient of the NSF CAREER award, was named a Cottrell Scholar in 2018, and has lead projects funded by the W. M. Keck Foundation, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Robert T. Welch Foundation, and the ACS Petroleum Research Fund. Sean has also won numerous teaching awards and currently leads an ACS and NSF-funded education and research program, GReen Energy At Texas (GREAT), that works with community colleges to increase student retention and degree attainment in the physical sciences.
The Robinson lab is embedded within the joint project MaxSynBio, sponsored by the Max Planck Society and the German Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF). The overall objective of MaxSynBio is the creation of a minimal cell from functional modules by means of a bottom-up approach to synthetic biology. The functional modules themselves being made from non-living components. The interdisciplinary joint research project involves 9 Max Planck Institutes in the fields of biology, chemistry, physics and engineering sciences. Our group uses lipid vesicles, namely GUVs, as a means to construct artificial cell-like systems. In the same way the cell plasma membrane acts as a barrier to the outside environment, we use GUVs as compartments to encapsulate various biomolecules to enable de novo mimicry of biological processes.
Prof. R. Robinson received his PhD in Applied Physics from Columbia University. After his PhD, Prof. Robinson was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship at University of California, Berkeley/LBNL in the research group of Paul Alivisatos. There, he worked on nanoparticle synthesis, chemical transformations of nanoparticles, and advanced property characterizations of nanoparticles. In 2008 Richard began a faculty position at Cornell University in the Materials Science Department, and is currently an associate professor. His primary research interests are: (I) Synthesis and chemical transformations in nanocrystals, (II) Nanocrystals in energy applications, and (III) Synchrotron x-ray characterization of nanomaterials.
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Prof. Anna Rodina is Senior Scientific Researcher in the laboratory of Optics of Semiconductors at Ioffe Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences (St.-Petersburg, Russia). She received her Ph.D. (1993) and Habilitation (2016) degrees in Physics from Ioffe Institute and became the Professor of Russian Academy of Sciences in 2018. The expertise of Prof. Rodina is in the theory of semiconductors and semiconductor nanostructures. The current research interests are focused on the magneto-optical properties and spin-dependent phenomena in colloidal nanocrystals.
Prof. Rodriguez graduated from North Carolina State University (Raleigh, USA) with a PhD in Physics in 2003 and subsequently held postdoctoral appointments at North Carolina State University and at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences (Oak Ridge, USA). In 2007, he received an Alexander von Humboldt fellowship to conduct research at the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics Halle, Germany). Brian joined University College Dublin in January, 2009 as a Lecturer in Nanoscience at the Conway Institute of Biomolecular and Biomedical Research. In October, 2011, he was appointed to the School of Physics.
Andrey L. Rogach is a Chair Professor of Photonics Materials at the Department of Physics and Materials Science, and the Founding Director of the Centre for Functional Photonics at City University of Hong Kong. He received his Ph.D. in chemistry (1995) from the Belarusian State University in Minsk, and worked as a staff scientist at the University of Hamburg (Germany) from 1995 to 2002. From 2002–2009 he was a lead staff scientist at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich (Germany), where he completed his habilitation in experimental physics. His research focuses on synthesis, assembly and optical spectroscopy of colloidal semiconductor and metal nanocrystals and their hybrid structures, and their use for energy transfer, light harvesting and light emission. His name is on the list of Top 100 Materials Scientists and on the list of Top 20 Authors publishing on nanocrystals in the past decade by Thomson Reuters, ISI Essential Science Indicators. Andrey Rogach is an Associate Editor of ACS Nano, and holds honorary appointments at Trinity College Dublin (Ireland), Xi’An Jiaotong University, Jilin University and Peking University (China).
He has more than 15 years research experience in the academic sector working on nanoelectronics, spintronics and optoelectronics. He possesses extensive hands-on experience on emerging low-dimensionality electronic systems including nanowire transistors, GaAs single spin quantum-bits, as well emerging phenomena in functional oxide and superconductive/ferromagnetic interfaces towards beyond CMOS technologies. He has served at various academic research positions in high reputation European institutions including the Foundation of Research and Technology in Greece, the Institut Néel CNRS in France and the London centre for Nanotechnology – University College of London in United Kingdom. He obtained his PhD in Nanoelectronics from Grenoble Institute of Technology in France, in 2009. He is currently Researcher (Grade C) in the i-EMERGE Research Institute of the Hellenic Mediterranean University (HMU) and the Team Leader of Innovative Printed Electronics at the Nanomaterials for Emerging Devices research group. His current research interests include 2D materials engineering in various printed device concepts suc as high performing solar cells, functional sensors as well as neuromorhic computation architectures towards energy efficient, smart Internet of Intelligent Things and wearable systems.
John A. Rogers is the Louis Simpson and Kimberly Querrey Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Medicine at Northwestern University, with affiliate appointments in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering and Chemistry, where he is also Director of the recently endowed Querrey Simpson Institute for Bioelectronics. He has published nearly 800 papers, is a co-inventor on more than 100 patents and he has co-founded several successful technology companies. His research has been recognized by many awards, including a MacArthur Fellowship (2009), the Lemelson-MIT Prize (2011), the National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellowship (2012), the Smithsonian Award for American Ingenuity in the Physical Sciences (2013), the MRS Medal (2018), the Benjamin Franklin Medal from the Franklin Institute (2019), the Sigma Xi Monie Ferst Award (2021) and a Guggenheim Fellowship (2021). He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine, the National Academy of Inventors and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Prof. Beatriz Roldán Cuenya is currently Director of the Interface Science Department at the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society in Berlin (Germany). She is an Honorary Professor at the Technische Universität Berlin, at the Freie Universität Berlin, and at the Ruhr-University Bochum, all in Germany. Also, she serves as a Distinguished Research Professor at the University of Central Florida (USA).
Prof. Roldán Cuenya began her academic career by completing her M.S./B.S. in Physics with a minor in Materials Science at the University of Oviedo, Spain in 1998. Afterwards she moved to Germany and obtained her Ph.D. from the Department of Physics of the University of Duisburg-Essen with summa cum laude in 2001. Subsequently, she carried out her postdoctoral research in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of California Santa Barbara (USA) until 2003.
In 2004, she joined the Department of Physics at the University of Central Florida (UCF) as Assistant Professor where she moved through the ranks to become a full professor in 2012. In 2013 Prof. Roldan Cuenya, moved to Germany to become Chair Professor of Solid State Physics in the Department of Physics at Ruhr-University Bochum until 2017.
During her academic career, Prof. Roldan Cuenya received an Early CAREER Award from the US National Science Foundation (2005) and the international Peter Mark Memorial award from the American Vacuum Society (2009). In 2016 she became Fellow of the Max Planck Society in Germany and also received the prestigious Consolidator Award from the European Research Council. In 2020, she became a member of the Academia Europaea (Academy of Europe). She received the AVS Fellow Award (2021), the International Society of Electrochemistry-Elsevier Prize for Experimental Electrochemistry (2021), the 2022 Paul H. Emmet Award of the North American Catalysis Society, and the Röntgen Medal of the City of Remscheid (2022).
Prof. Roldan Cuenya is the author of more than 200 peer-reviewed publications, 6 book chapters, and 6 patents. She has given 245 invited talks, with 13 plenary talks and 33 keynote lectures since 2017. Her H-factor is 74 (Google Scholar) and her work has received over 21,500 citations.
She presently serves on the editorial advisory boards of the Journal of Catalysis and Chemical Reviews. In addition, she also contributes to a number of advisory committees, including the Liquid Sunlight Alliance (USA), the Advanced Research Center Chemical Building Blocks Consortium (Utrecht, the Netherlands), the Spanish Synchrotron Facility ALBA (Barcelona, Spain), the German Synchrotron DESY (Hamburg, Germany), the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin for the strategic development of BESSY II (Berlin, Germany), the Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ in Tarragona, Spain), the UK Catalysis Hub and the Ertl Center for Electrochemistry & Catalysis (South Korea).
Prof. Roldan Cuenya’s research program explores physical and chemical properties of nanostructures, with emphasis on advancements in nanocatalysis based on operando microscopic and spectroscopic characterization.
Alexander Romanov holds a PhD in synthetic inorganic and physical chemistry from Nesmeyanov Institute Russian Academy of Sciences. After several postdoctoral positions in the US and UK, he applied his experience in synthetic chemistry towards the discovery of the Carbene Metal Amide (CMA) materials for highly energy-efficient OLEDs. In 2019, he started his independent research career as a Royal Society University Research Fellow at the University of East Anglia. His work is focused on the molecular design towards multifunctional materials for various optoelectronic applications.
Dr. Yaroslav Romanyuk is a scientific group leader at the Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics since 2008. He received his Ph.D. from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne in 2005 and completed his postdoctoral education stay at the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests include novel materials for thin-film solar cells, oxide electronics, and lately all-solid-state batteries fabricated with vacuum and printing methods. He supervised 11 completed Ph.D. theses with two in progress. He holds several patents and has co-authored more than 150 research articles (h-factor = 40 as of April 2022).
Ursula Rothlisberger was born in Switzerland and obtained her diploma in Physical Chemistry from the University of Bern. She earned her Ph.D. degree at the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory in R�schlikon. From 1992�1995, she worked as a postdoctoral fellow, first at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia (USA) and then at the Max-Planck-Institute for Solid State Physics in Stuttgart, Germany. In 1996, she moved as a Profile 2 Fellow of the National Science Foundation to the ETH in Zurich. One year later, she became Assistant Professor of Computer-Aided Inorganic Chemistry at the ETH Zurich, and in 2002 she accepted a call for a position as Associate Professor at the �cole Polytechnique F�d�rale de Lausanne (EPFL). Since 2009, she has been working as a full Professor in Computational Chemistry and Biochemistry at the EPFL. In 2001, she received the Ruzicka Prize, and in 2005, the World Association of Theoretically Oriented Chemists (WATOC) awarded her the Dirac Medal for "the outstanding computational chemist in the world under the age of 40". Ursula Rothlisberger is an expert in the field of density functional based mixed quantum mechanical/molecular mechanical molecular dynamics simulations in the ground and electronically excited states. She has published more than 200 original publications in peer-reviewed journals and various review articles in specialized journals and as book chapters.
Sanford Ruhman is a full professor of Chemistry at the Hebrew University. His work concentrates on applications of femtosecond spectroscopy in condensed phases. As a pioneer in the field of femtosecond photochemistry his group was the first to report conservation of coherence from reactants to dissociation products in solutions, and to utilize impulsive Raman probing of photoproducts. His current interests include fundamental ultrafast excitonics in nanocrystals and photovoltaic materials, ultrafast photobiology, and applications of impulsive vibrational spectroscopy to probe light induced dynamics in liquids and solids. Over the years he has served as the Director of the Farkas Minerva center for light induced processes at the Hebrew University, and as the head of the Institute of Chemistry there.
Prof. Dr. Beat Ruhstaller is founder of Fluxim and lecturer at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences ZHAW in Winterthur, Switzerland. After a Diploma in Physics from ETH Zürich he obtained his PhD in Physics at the University of California, Santa Cruz (USA), in 2000. He was a postdoc at the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory in the display technology group before joining ZHAW, where he headed the Institute of Computational Physics from 2007 to 2010. In 2006 he founded Fluxim which he has managed as CEO since 2011. Fluxim has successfully brought R&D tool innovations from the lab to the OLED and solar cell market. He has been performing research on both optical, electronic and thermal processes in light-emitting and light-harvesting (organic) semiconductor devices.
Associate Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Malaga (UMA) since 2017. Bachelor in Chemical Engineering at UMA in 2001, graduating with Honors. PhD summa cum laude in Chemistry (J.T. López Navarrete´s group: vibrational spectroscopy of conjugated materials). In April 2007, she joined Prof. Jean-Luc Brédas group at Georgia Tech (Atlanta, USA), as a MEC/Fulbright Postdoctoral Research. Her postdoctoral research dealt with the computational study of the impact of the intermolecular interactions on the charge transport properties of conjugated organic nanomaterials. She was awarded with the “AACP Postdoctoral Award” of the Georgia Tech and Emory University for excellence during her postdoctoral research. In 2010, she returned to the University of Malaga as a Ramón y Cajal researcher, where she has implemented a new line of research focused on the computational study of organic materials. This field of research is intended to guide synthetic chemists to create new molecules and materials with more efficient, reliable and environmentally friendly properties and applications, and it is a highly interdisciplinary field. She then combines theoretical calculations (postdoc expertise) with experimental physico-chemical analyses (predoc expertise) for a proper analysis of the structure/properties relationships of molecular materials. In 2010, she was honored with the award of the “2010 Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry” to the most talented young people. In recent years, she has carried out research stays at the University of Stuttgart (2016, 2017, 2019), the Polytechnic Institute of Milan (2015) and at the University of Cergy-Pontoise (2016-2022) as a visiting professor.
She has published > 105 JCR articles and one book chapter, attracting > 5500 citations (WoS). In the last 5 years, she published 27 scientific articles with 11 articles as a corresponding author. Her H index is 32 (WoS). In the last five years, three of her papers has been granted with artistic journal covers and two others were selected as hot papers in high impact factor journals. She has presented more than 85 contributions in national and international conferences, including 22 oral communications and delivered 8 invited talks in national and international Universities. She has participated in 12 research projects funded with public funds from the Spanish Ministry (5), Junta de Andalucía (4), European project (1) and USA projects (2),being IP of one national project and 1 regional project. She has coadvised 2 PhD Thesis, along with 5 PhD currently in progress. She has also supervised the research stays of 3 PhD students from the Politechnico di Milano, University of Stuttgart and University of Brasilia. She has taught more than 1600 hours in different physico-chemical courses in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering bachelors and Master degree. In addition, she frequently participates in dissemination activities aim to make visible the scientific results to the society and/or to support the gender equlity and women´s empowerment, such as “La Noche Europea de los Investigadores” or “Female Leaders in Science” since 2016. Since 2017 she is Adjunct Vice-Rector for Research Staff at UMA.
Education and Training University of Southampton, U.K., Chemistry with Electronics B.Sc. (honors), 1980 University of London, U.K., Molecular Photochemistry, Ph.D., 1984 Research and Professional Experience Laboratory Fellow. NREL, 2008�present Professor Adjoint. Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder, 2009�present Fellow. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute, 2009�present Group Manager. Chemical and Biosciences Center, NREL, 2004�2009 Scientist. NREL, 2001�2008 Visiting Professor. Department of Chemistry, Imperial College, London, U.K., 2001-present Sabbatical Scientist. NREL, 1999�2001 Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader. Department of Chemistry, Imperial College, London, U.K., 1989�2001
Prof. Jennifer Rupp is the Thomas Lord Associate Professor of Electrochemical Materials at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, and Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. Prior she was a non-tenure track assistant professor at ETH Zurich Switzerland where she held two prestigious externally funded career grants, namely an ERC Starting Grant (SNSF) and Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) professorship.
She previously was affiliated as a visiting and senior scientist at MIT (2012-2011), the National Institute of Materials Science (NIMS) in Tsukuba, Japan (2011), and was working as a postdoc at ETH Zurich (2010-2006). Rupp team`s current research interests are on processing of ceramic and glass materials, solid state material design and tuning of structure-property relations for novel energy and information devices and operation schemes. This ranges from alternative energy storage via solid state batteries, solar-to-synthetic fuel conversion or novel types of neuromorphic memories and computing logic entities for data storage and transfer beyond transistors and new sensing functions to track chemicals in the environment. Here, her team goes the whole way from material design, novel processing techniques to make ceramics, cermets or glassy-type ceramic structures up to novel device prototypes, their operation and characteristics.
She has published 90 papers, holds 12 patents, and, being a frequent speaker and panel member of the World Economic Forum, enjoys discussing material tech trends on the theme of energy with the public, economists and policy makers. Rupp also enjoys engaging with companies all around the world through both consultancy and collaborations focused either on material processing business or electrochemical device & product engineering (e.g. battery, oil & fuel processing, sensing, electronic companies). Currently, she holds a position as associate editor at Journal of Materials Chemistry A and is also on the advisory board member for Advanced Functional Materials and Advanced Materials Interfaces.
Rupp and team received several honors and awards such as the Displaying Future Award by the company Merck KGaA 2018 for a glucose converting fuel cell chip, BASF and Volkswagen Science Award 2017 for battery research, "Top 40 international scientist under the age of 40" by World Economic Forum 2015, Spark Award for the most innovative and economically important invention of the year 2014 at ETH Zurich, Kepler award “new materials in energy technology” by the European Academy of Science 2012 or Young Scientist Award by the Solid State Ionic Society. She gave keynote lectures at Royal Society UK 2018, Nature Energy conference 2016, Gordon Research lecture 2014 and many others, also she presented on battery and energy technologies at the World Economic Forum 2017.
The Nanotechnology Research Group at the Bernal Institute is led by Professor Kevin M. Ryan who holds a Personal Chair in Chemical Nanotechnology and is Course Director of the Pharmaceutical and Industrial Chemistry Degree at the Department of Chemical and Environmental Sciences (CES), University of Limerick. Previous affiliations included Marie Curie Fellowship positions at the University of California, Berkeley, USA and Merck Chemicals Southampton, UK following BSc and PhD degrees at University College Cork. The group research Interests are in Semiconductor Nanocrystals and Nanowires with emphasis on Synthesis, Assembly and Device Applications in Energy Storage and Energy Conversion Applications. The group also studies nucleation and growth in both hard (metal, semiconductor) and soft (pharmaceutical) nanocrystal materials with emphasis on size, shape and crystal phase control.
Director of Strategic Projects at APRIA Systems SL & Part time Assistant Professor at the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department from the University of Cantabria (UC), Spain. After concluding her doctoral thesis, E. Santos spent a period of two years at the UC as postdoctoral researcher until she joins the private company APRIA Systems SL with a Torres Quevedo Grant in 2016. She has worked as project manager on different projects including the valorization of CO2 streams, obtaining green H2 as an energy vector applied to the sustainable mobility sector or the recovery of fluorinated gases from the refrigeration industry, among others. In 2023 she is promoted to Director of Strategic Projects.
As a result of her scientific activity, E. Santos has reported a total of 22 publications, of which 9 are in high-impact international journals indexed in JCR and 13 contributions to conference books with ISBN. Her work has received a total of 615 citations, with an h index of 9 (Scopus) in a short period of time and taking into account the work dedication to the world of private business where the dissemination of knowledge through the publication of scientific papers is not usual practice. The results have been disseminated in 30 international conferences (2 keynote and 15 oral communications defended by E. Santos). E. Santos has worked on 30 research projects (11 European projects, 12 national and 7 regional. E. Santos has supervised 2 Doctoral thesis (Industrial Doctorate) and 1 Master's thesis in the field of chemical engineering.
Ozlem Sel joined “Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)” as a principle investigator in 2011, and currently working at the “Solid-State Chemistry and Energy Lab (CSE)” at College de France, Paris. Her research interests include piezoelectric sensors employed in junction with electrochemical analysis, for a real-time monitoring of the interfacial processes occurring in energy storage devices.
She has obtained her Ph.D. degree in materials chemistry at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, in Germany (2007), on the synthesis, characterization and applications of hierarchically porous metal oxides, under the supervision of Prof. Markus Antonietti. Following her Ph.D. degree, she moved to France, joined the group of Prof. Clement Sanchez (LCMCP, Sorbonne University-UPMC, 2007-2009) as a post-doctoral researcher, focusing on the nanostructured hybrid materials and their characterization for energy conversion devices. In the period of 2010-2011, she was at the UC-Davis (group of Prof. Alexandra Navrotsky), USA within a framework of Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs) program. Prior joining the CSE lab at the Collège de France, she has worked at “Laboratory of Interfaces and Electrochemical Systems, CNRS” and obtained her research habilitation at the Sorbonne University, Paris.
Through these years, she has developed an expertise in nanostructured energy materials and electrochemistry, as well as operando methods for surface and interface characterization. She is particularly interested in EQCM and its coupling with EIS, and has been actively working on, already more than 15 years.
Climatic changes induced by the over-usage of fossil reserves are threatening our way of life and the environment. However, I am an optimistic scientist who believes that science-based discoveries and developments will preserve and enhance human existence and protect the environment. My research interest is on the direct use of light both as energy and reagent. To maximize its use, my research group employs plasmonic materials. Plasmonic materials consist of metallic particles with nanometer dimensions that absorb light via a physical process unique to this class of materials. The process is called and wastes no energy in the formation of electric charges. Additionally, plasmonic absorbs up to ten times more light than other materials, enabling applications that operate under low and diffuse light. My research efforts are focused on light-matter fundamental interactions, specifically how light is converted into electrical charges on plasmonics. We use advanced laser-based spectroscopies to resolve the processes in real-time. The acquired understanding guides the development of photosystems for producing chemicals and fuels and ultrathin photovoltaics that are fully transparent and colourless "invisible solar cells". The latter development led to the creation of Peafowl Solar Power, which uses these solar cells as energy harvesters to power smart devices, such as IoT sensors, e-paper displays, dynamic glass, and eventually wearables.
Dr. Sascha Sadewasser is the Principal Investigator of the Laboratory for Nanostructured Solar Cells at INL – International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory. The group of Sascha works on the development of advanced solar cell materials and devices implementing nano- and microstructures. Additionally, scanning probe microscopy methods, especially Kelvin probe force microscopy, are developed and applied for the characterization of the optoelectronic nanostructure of solar cell materials. Finally, the group also works on 2D chalcogenide materials.
Sascha Sadewasser holds a Diploma (1995) in Physics from the RWTH Aachen, Germany and a PhD (1999) from the Washington University St. Louis, MO, USA. After 2 post-docs in Berlin (Hahn-Institute) and Barcelona (Centro Nacional de Microelectrónica), he became group leader and later deputy department head at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, Germany. After his Habilitation in Experimental Physics from the Free University of Berlin, Germany (2011) he joined INL in 2011. Sascha has published more than 80 peer-reviewed papers, with 2000 citations (h-index 25). He has published 5 book chapters and 1 book and has been granted 3 patents. He is also a member of several scientific committees and evaluation boards.
Akinori Saeki received BS and MS degrees in nuclear engineering from Osaka University in 1999 and 2001, respectively. He received Dr of engineering in applied chemistry from Osaka University in 2007. He had been an assistant professor at The Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research (ISIR), Osaka University in 2003-2009, an assistant professor (tenure-track) in 2010-2014, and an associate professor in 2014-2019 at the Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University. He had joined in JST-PRESTO research programs of "Photoenergy conversion systems and materials for the next generation solar cells" in 2009-2013 and "Materials Informatics" in 2015-2019. He is currently a professor at Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University (2019-present). His research interest is in nanometer-scale dynamics of chemical intermediates in condensed matters such as organic semiconductors, organic liquids, and organic-inorganic hybrid materials.
Sourabh Saha is an Assistant Professor in the G. W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He joined Georgia Tech in 2019 after a four year stay at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory where he first worked as a postdoctoral researcher and then as a research engineer. He received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from MIT in 2014 and his Masters and Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in 2008. His research interest lies in scaling up advanced manufacturing processes, especially for generation of complex micro and nanoscale 3D structures.
Alberto Salleo is currently an Associate Professor of Materials Science at Stanford University. Alberto Salleo graduated as a Fulbright Fellow with a PhD in Materials Science from UC Berkeley in 2001 working at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory on laser-induced optical breakdown in fused silica. From 2001 to 2005 Salleo was first post-doctoral research fellow and successively member of research staff at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, where he worked with Bob Street on device and materials physics of disordered and polymeric semiconductors. In 2005 Salleo joined the Materials Science and Engineering Department at Stanford as an Assistant Professor. While at Stanford, Salleo won the NSF Career Award, the 3M Untenured Faculty Award, the SPIE Early Career Award and the Tau Beta Pi Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award. Salleo is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Electronic Materials and a Principal Editor of MRS Communications.
Paolo Samorì is Distinguished Professor at the Université de Strasbourg, Director of the Institut de Science et d’Ingénierie Supramoléculaires (ISIS) and Director of the Nanochemistry Laboratory. He is Foreign Member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts (KVAB), Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences (EURASC), Member of the Academia Europaea, Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, Fellow of International Engineering and Technology Institute (IETI), Socio corrispondente, Sezione di Scienze Matematiche, Fisiche e Naturali - Accademia Nazionale di Scienze Lettere e Arti di Modena, Fellow of the Materials Research Society (MRS), Fellow of the University of Strasbourg Institute for Advanced Study (USIAS), Senior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF).
He has obtained a Laurea (master’s degree) in Industrial Chemistry at University of Bologna in 1995. In 2000, he has received his PhD in Chemistry from the Humboldt University of Berlin (Prof. J. P. Rabe). Before joining ISIS, he has been permanent research scientist at Istituto per la Sintesi Organica e la Fotoreattività of the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche of Bologna. He has published 410+ papers on nanochemistry, supramolecular sciences, materials chemistry, and scanning probe microscopies with a specific focus on graphene and other 2D materials as well as functional organic/polymeric and hybrid nanomaterials for application in optoelectronics, energy and sensing. He has been awarded numerous prestigious prizes, including the E-MRS Graduate Student Award (1998), the MRS Graduate Student Award (2000), the IUPAC Prize for Young Chemists (2001), the Vincenzo Caglioti Award (2006), the Nicolò Copernico Award (2009), the Guy Ourisson Prize (2010), the ERC Starting Grant (2010), the CNRS Silver Medal (2012), the Catalán-Sabatier Prize (2017), the Grignard-Wittig Lectureship (2017), the ERC Proof of Concept Grant (2017), the RSC Surfaces and Interfaces Award (2018), the Blaise Pascal Medal in Materials Science (2018), the Pierre Süe Prize (2018), the ERC Advanced Grant (2019), the “Étoiles de l’Europe” Prize (2019), the ERC Proof of Concept Grant (2020) and the RSC/SCF Joint Lectureship in Chemical Sciences (2020) and the Prix André Collet (2021).
He is Associate Editor of Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances (RSC) and Member of the Advisory Boards of Advanced Materials,Small, ChemNanoMat, ChemPhysChem, ChemPlusChem, ChemSystemsChem and SmartMat (Wiley-VCH), Chemical Society Reviews, Nanoscale Horizons, Chemical Communications and Journal of Materials Chemistry (RSC), ACS Nano and ACS Omega(ACS), and BMC Materials (Springer Nature).
Fredrik Sandin is a professor in Machine Learning at the Lulea University of Technology (LTU) in Sweden. He is interested in brain-inspired machine learning, neuromorphic computing, and applications requiring new efficient approaches to sensing, computing, and artificial intelligence. He was Gunnar Öquist Fellow (2014) and received two post-doctoral scholarships, one in brain-inspired computing from LTU (2010–11) and one in theoretical physics from FNRS in Belgium (2008–09). He has a Ph.D. in Physics (2007) from the Swedish Graduate School of Space Technology and received the 2004 “New-Talents” award for original work in theoretical physics at the International School of Subnuclear Physics in Erice.
Ted Sargent received the B.Sc.Eng. (Engineering Physics) from Queen's University in 1995 and the Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering (Photonics) from the University of Toronto in 1998. He holds the rank of Professor in the Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto, where he holds the Canada Research Chair in Nanotechnology and serves as a KAUST Investigator. His book The Dance of Molecules: How Nanotechnology is Changing Our Lives (Penguin) was published in Canada and the United States in 2005 and has been translated into French, Spanish, Italian, Korean, and Arabic. He is founder and CTO of InVisage Technologies, Inc. He is a Fellow of the AAAS “...for distinguished contributions to the development of solar cells and light sensors based on solution-processed semiconductors.” He is a Fellow of the IEEE “... for contributions to colloidal quantum dot optoelectronic devices.”
Dr. Edgardo Saucedo studied Chemical Engineering at the University of the Republic, Montevideo, Uruguay, and received his PhD in Materials Physic at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain in 2007 with a FPU fellowship. In 2007, he joined the Institut de Recherche et Développement sur l’Énergie Photovoltaïque IRDEP (Paris, France), with a CNRS associated Researcher fellowship, working in the development and optoelectronic characterization of CIGS low cost based solar cells. In 2009, he joined NEXCIS, a spin-off created from IRDEP, to further pursue their training in photovoltaic technology. In 2010, he joined the Solar Energy Materials and SystemsGroup at the Catalonia Institute for Energy Research (IREC) under a Juan de la Cierva Fellowship first (2010-2011) and a Ramon y Cajal Fellowship afterwards (2012-2016), with the aim to develop new low cost materials and processes for thin film photovoltaic devices. In 2020 he joined the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) to continuous his scientific and professorhip career.
He holds five patents and has authored or co-authored more than 215 papers in recognized international journals, including: Energy and Environmental Science, Advanced Materials, Adv. Energy Materials, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Chemistry of Materials, Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications, Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, NanoEnergy, J. Mater. Chem. A, J. Phys. Chem. C, etc. He has more than 350 contributions to the most important Congresses in Physics, Chemistry and Materials, and more than 35 invited talks around the world. He has been involved in more than 25 European and Spanish Projects (Scalenano, Inducis, Pvicokest, KestPV, Larcis, etc.), and he was the Coordinator of the ITN Marie Curie network Kestcell (www.kestcells.eu), the research and innovation project STARCELL (www.starcell.eu), and the RISE project INFINITE-CELL (www.infinite-cell.eu), three of the most important initiatives in Europe for the development of Kesterites. In 2019 he was granted with an ERC-Consolidator Grant by the European Research Council (SENSATE, 866018, 2020-2025), for the development of low dimensional materials for solar harvesting applications to be developed at UPC. Currently he is also the scientific coordinator of the European project SUSTOM-ART (952982), for the industrialization of kesterite for BIPV/PIPV applications.
He is frequently chairman and invited speakers in the most relevant Conferences in Photovoltaic (E-MRS, MRS, IEEE-PVSC, EUPVSEC, European Kesterite Workshop, etc.). He has supervised 11 PhD Thesis and is currently supervising 5 more. He has an h factor of 38 and more than 5000 citations. In 2020 he has been awarded with the ASEVA-Toyota Award for his contribution to the development of sustainable photovoltaic technologies using vacuum techniques (https://aseva.es/resolucion-de-los-primeros-premios-nacionales-de-ciencia-y-tecnologia-de-vacio-aseva-toyota/).
Achilleas Savva is an Assistant Professor in the Bioelectronics group at Delft University of Technology, in The Netherlands. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in chemical engineering from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece, in 2010. He then obtained his PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from Cyprus University of Technology in 2014. His PhD research was focused on organic optoelectronics for renewable energy. In 2017 he joined the group of Professor Sahika Inal in KAUST, Saudi Arabia, as a postdoc, and expanded his research on organic bioelectronics. In 2019, he joined the group of Professor Róisín Owens at the University of Cambridge where he secured the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship. He developed several novel organic bioelectronic devices such as biosensors, light sensitive devices for photo-stimulation of neurons, 3D in vitro human stem cell models, among others. Achilleas was born in Limassol, Cyprus.
Alberto Scaccabarozzi is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Nanoscience and Technology (CNST) of the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia in Milan (Italy). He received his PhD from Imperial College London (UK) in 2017 under the supervision of Prof. Natalie Stingelin, followed by postdoctoral appointments at CNST in Mario Caironi’s group and at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST, Saudi Arabia) in Prof. Thomas Anthopoulos’ group. His research interests encompass the broad field of organic electronics, in particular the study of structure-processing-property relationships of organic semiconductors for a wide range of devices, especially Organic Field-Effect Transistors (OFETs).
Since 2010, Richard D. Schaller has held a joint appointment as both a research scientist in the Center for Nanoscale Materials at Argonne National Lab and as an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry at Northwestern University. Schaller’s research focuses on spectroscopy and physical chemistry of semiconductor nanomaterials From 2002 to 2010, Schaller was a Reines Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow and then a permanent technical staff member at Los Alamos National Lab with Dr. Victor Klimov. Schaller obtained his PhD in physical chemistry from UC Berkeley in 2002 with Prof. Richard Saykally in nonlinear optics and near-field optics. In 2012, he was selected by the National Academy of Sciences as a Kavli Fellow participant.
Ivan Scheblykin obtained Ph.D. in 1999 from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and Lebedev Physical Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences on exciton dynamics in J-aggregates. After a postdoctoral stay in the KU Leuven, Belgium, he moved to Sweden to start the single molecule spectroscopy group at the Division of Chemical Physics in Lund University where he became a full professor in 2014. His interests cover fundamental photophysics of organic and inorganic semiconductors and, in particular, energy transfer, charge migration and trapping. The general direction of his research is to comprehend fundamental physical and chemical processes beyond ensemble averaging in material science and chemical physics using techniques inspired by single molecule fluorescence spectroscopy and single particle imaging.
Prof. Christina Scheu has a diploma degree in physics and did her doctorate at the Max-Planck-Institute for Metals Research in Stuttgart (Germany) in the field of material science. She spent two years as a Minerva Fellow at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology – in Haifa, Israel. 2008 she was appointed as a full professor at the Ludwig-Maximilian-University (Munich, Germany). Since April 2014 she holds a joint position as a full professor at the RWTH Aachen, and as an independent group leader at the Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung GmbH (MPIE) in Düsseldorf Germany. Her expertise is the structural and chemical analysis of functional materials with ex-situ and in-situ transmission electron microscopy and electron energy loss spectroscopy and correlation to optical, electronic and electrochemical properties. The investigated materials range from (photo)catalyst for hydrogen production to electrodes and membranes for polymer based fuel cells.
Rainer SCHINDL is a biophysicist with strong interest in bioelectronic medicine and electrophysiology. His research combines in vivo studies on live-cells and in silico simulations. He has done pioneering work in organic light-triggered semiconductors for neuronal stimulation. Currently, he focuses on optoelectronic neuro-stimulation and electronically controlled local chemotherapy.
Luigi Schirone is a Professor of Electronics at Sapienza, University of Rome.
Currently teaches courses in Applied Electronics, Power Electronics, Electrical Power Systems for Space, Reliability Engineering.
His current research is mainly devoted to electronics for power/energy systems.
In this field he investigates new design methodologies for power conversion systems, aimed to increase efficiency, reliability and power density. The main field of application is aerospace, where he developed and built power modules to manage power generation and storage on board of spacecrafts, planetary rovers and aircraft. His studies also were applied to smart power sources, wireless power transmission, energy harvesting, photovoltaic plants.
He is involved in researches on materials and optoelectronic devices: he studied amorphous silicon solar cells and image detectors. Also developed best-of-class porous silicon solar cells.
Application of thin film photovoltaics in space vehicles is one of his most recent fields of interest, where he can make the most of his experience in both space systems and thin film photovoltaics.
He also participates in studies and work groups about renewable energies and sustainability.
He is a member of IEEE, vicepresident of AEIT-ASTRI, member of the scientific board of CIRIAF.
He is the author/co-author of nearly 150 scientific publications.
Wolfgang P. Schleich is engaged in research on quantum optics ranging from the foundations of quantum physics via tests of general relativity with light and cold atoms to number theory.
He was educated at the Ludwig Maximilians-Universität (LMU) in Munich and studied with Marlan O. [w1] Scully at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, and the Max-Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, Garching. Moreover, he was also a post doctoral fellow with John Archibald Wheeler at the University of Texas at Austin.
Professor Schleich is a member of several national and international academies and has received numerous prizes and honors for his scientific work such as the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, the Max Planck Research Award, and the Willis E. Lamb Award for Laser Science and Quantum Optics, and the Herbert-Walther Prize. He is also a Faculty Fello[w2] w at the Hagler Institute for Advanced Study at Texas A&M University.
His textbook, Quantum Optics in Phase Space, has been translated into Russian and a Chinese edition was published in 2010.
Philip Schulz holds a position as Research Director for Physical Chemistry and New Concepts for Photovoltaics at CNRS. In this capacity he leads the “Interfaces and Hybrid Materials for Photovoltaics” group at IPVF via the “Make Our Planet Great Again” program, which was initiated by the French President Emmanuel Macron. Before that, Philip Schulz has been a postdoctoral researcher at NREL from 2014 to 2017, and in the Department of Electrical Engineering of Princeton University from 2012 to 2014. He received his Ph.D. in physics from RWTH Aachen University in Germany in 2012.
Pablo S. Fernández received his B.Sc (2006) and Ph.D. (2011) in the Research Institute of Theoretical and Applied Physical Chemistry (INIFTA) at the University of La Plata, La Plata, Argentina under the supervision of Profa. Maria E. Martins. During 2012-2014 he was a postdoctoral fellow at the same institution. In 2014 he joined the Electrochemistry Group at the Chemistry Institute of São Carlos, USP, where he worked as a Postdoc with Prof. Germano Tremiliosi-Filho until August of the same year when he was appointed Assistant Professor at the Chemistry Institute of the University of Campinas (UNICAMP). Between 2010 and 2013 he visited the group of Prof. Giuseppe Câmara (UFMS-MS) where he worked intensively with FTIR in situ. From 07/2015 to 03/2016 he joined the Catalysis and Surface Chemistry Group, at the University of Leiden (The Netherlands) working under the supervision of Prof. M.T.M. Koper. He is currently an Associate Professor at Unicamp, head of the Campinas Electrochemistry Group (CampEG) and an active member at the Center for Innovation on New Energies (CINE). He was the Director of the Physical Chemistry Division of SBQ (Brazilian Chemical Society, 2020-2022). Since 2020 is the Brazilian representative of the SIBAE (Ibero-American Society of Electrochemistry). His research focuses on fundamental aspects of electrochemistry and electrocatalysis with an emphasis on the use and development of in situ characterization tools.
Hiroshi Segawa (born 1961) is a professor at Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST), The University of Tokyo, Japan. He obtained his Ph.D. in Molecular Engineering from Graduate School of Engineering of Kyoto University in 1989 and was Research Associate (1989-1995) at the division of Molecular Engineering of Graduate School of Engineering at Kyoto University. He held an additional researcher post (1994-1997) of PRESTO project of Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST). In 1995 he joined the University of Tokyo as Associate Professor of Department of Chemistry at Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. From 1997 he has also been in charge of Department of Applied Chemistry at Graduate School of Engineering. In 2006 Professor Segawa joined the three faculties of RCAST, Department of Chemistry at Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and Department of Applied Chemistry at Graduate School of Engineering at the University of Tokyo. In 2010, he was appointed director of Academic-Industrial Joint Laboratory for Renewable Energy of RCAST. Currently he is one of core researcher of FIRST Program (Funding Program for World-Leading Innovative R&D on Science and Technology) which is selected top 30 researchers with highest potential from various science fields by Cabinet office, Government of Japan. He is one of the experts in the field of electrochemical solar cells. His research group are focused on construction of photo-energy conversion system. Currently the object is the efficiency enhancement of the meso-structured solar cells. Additionally, he is developing an energy-storable dye-sensitized solar cell.
Sang Il Seok is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Energy and Chemical Engineering at the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) in Korea. He obtained his Ph.D. in the Department of Inorganic Materials Engineering from Seoul National University in Korea. After completing his Ph.D., he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Cornell University in the USA, where he investigated defects and transport in the Fe-Ti-O Spinel structure. He also experienced a visiting scholar at the University of Surrey in UK in 2003 and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland in 2006. Prior to joining UNIST in 2015, he served as the principal investigator of the Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology (KRICT) and as a professor at the Department of Energy Science at Sungkyunkwan University. He is a highly cited researcher, selected by Clarivate Analytics since 2018, and has published over 200 peer-reviewed papers, including three Nature and seven Science articles as a corresponding author. He has received several awards for his excellence, such as the "Korean Scientist Award" from the Korean government in 2017, and the Kyung-Ahm Prize in 2019. In 2022, he was awarded the Rank Prize, recognized as one of the seven scientists pioneering in perovskite solar cells. His research focuses on functional inorganic-organic hybrid materials and devices, particularly on perovskite solar cells.
Prof. Boomi Shankar obtained his B.Sc. (1996) and M.Sc. (1998) in Chemistry from Madura College affiliated to Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, India. He then obtained his Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India in 2004 under the supervision of Prof. V. Chandrasekhar. Soon after obtaining his Ph.D. degree in January 2004, he took a short-term postdoctoral position at the University of Illinois at Urban-Champaign, USA. He then worked at the University of Liverpool as a Senior Research Associate for about three years between November 2004 and December 2007. In April 2008 he joined as an Assistant Professor at IIT, Guwahati and later moved to IISER Pune in December 2010. He became an Associate Professor in December 2014 and serving as a Full Professor since December 2019. The research focus of his group falls in the broad interface of inorganic and materials chemistry with emphasis to synthesis, structure, physical properties and energy applications. Particularly, they are interested in the reticular design of organic, hybrid organic-inorganic and metal-organic ferroelectric materials and their utility in energy harvesting applications in the domain of mechanical generators.
Prof. Qing Shen received her Bachelor’s degree in physics from Nanjing University of China in 1987 and earned her Ph.D. degree from the University of Tokyo in 1995. In 1996, she joined the University of Electro-Communications, Japan and became a full professor in 2016. In 1997, she got the Young Scientist Award of the Japan Society of Applied Physics. In 2003, she got the Best Paper Award of the Japan Society of Thermophysical Properties and the Young Scientist Award of the Symposium on Ultrasonic Electronics of Japan. In 2014, she got the Excellent Women Scientist Award of the Japan Society of Applied Physics. She has published nearly 140 peer-reviewed journal papers and book chapters. Her current research interests focus on solution processed nano-materials and nanostructures, semiconductor quantum dot solar cells and perovskite solar cells, and especially the photoexcited carrier dynamics (hot carrier cooling, multiple exciton generation, charge transfer at the interface) in perovskite solar cells, quantum dot and dye sensitized solar cells, organic-inorganic hybrid solar cells.
Dr. Xinyu Shen is a Postdoctoral Researcher in School of Advanced Materials Science and Engineering at Sungkyunkwan University, specializing in the nano materials and their light-emitting devices. She recieived her Ph.D. from Jilin University, where she focused on highly efficient perovskite nanocrystal light-emitting diodes.
Dr. Samira Siahrostami is an Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in the Department of Chemistry at Simon Fraser University in Canada. Prior to that, she was an associate professor (2022-2023) and assistant professor (2018-2022) in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Calgary. Prior to that, she was a research engineer (2016–2018) and postdoctoral researcher (2014–2016) at Stanford University's Department of Chemical Engineering. She also worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Technical University of Denmark from 2011 to 2013. Her work uses computational techniques such as density functional theory to model reactions at (electro)catalyst surfaces. Her goal is to develop more efficient catalysts for fuel cells, electrolyzers, and batteries by comprehending the kinetics and thermodynamics of reactions occurring at the surface of (electro)catalysts. Dr. Siahrostami has written more than 100 peer-reviewed articles with an h-index of 47 and over 13,000 citations. She has received numerous invitations to give talks at universities, conferences, and workshops around the world on various topics related to catalysis science and technology. Dr. Siahrostami is the recipient of the Environmental, Sustainability, and Energy Division Horizon Prize: John Jeyes Award from the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in 2021. She received the Tom Zeigler Award and the Waterloo Institute in Nanotechnology Rising Star award in 2023. She has been named as an emerging investigator by the RSC in 2020, 2021 and 2022. Dr. Siahrostami's contribution to energy research was recognized in the most recent Virtual Issue of ACS Energy Letters as one of the Women at the forefront of energy research in 2023. She is currently the board member of the Canadian Catalysis Foundation and editor of Chemical Engineering Journal (CEJ) and APL Energy journal (AIP Publishing).
Laurens Siebbeles (1963) is leader of the Opto-Electronic Materials Section and deputy head of the Dept. of Chemical Engineering at the Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands. His research involves studies of the motion of electrons in novel nanostructured materials that have potential applications in e.g. solar cells, light-emitting diodes and nanoelectronics. Materials of interest include organic nanostructured materials, semiconductor quantum dots, nanorods and two-dimensional materials. Studies on charge and exciton dynamics are carried out using ultrafast time-resolved laser techniques and high-energy electron pulses in combination with quantum theoretical modeling.
Susanne Siebentritt is a physics professor and heads the laboratory for photovoltaics at the University of Luxembourg.
Her research interest is twofold: the electronic structure of semiconductors and thin film solar cells and the fundamental functioning and limitations of these devices. Her interest in thin film solar cells is kindled by the fact that they present the electricity source with the lowest carbon footprint.
She is the author of more than 210 peer reviewed publications and has an h-index of 40. In 2014 she received the FNR Outstanding Publication Award, together with three co-authors. In 2015 she was awarded the "Grand Prix en Sciences Physique – Prix Paul Wurth" of the Luxembourgish Institut Grand Ducal. She is a board member of applied research programmes for the energy transition: the Kopernikus project of the German Ministry of Education and Research and “Luxembourg in transition”. She serves on the editorial board of Physical Review Applied and of Solar RRL. She’s the head of the doctoral school in Science and Engineering at the University of Luxembourg.
Carlos Silva earned a PhD in chemical physics from the University of Minnesota, with the late Professor Paul Barbara. His graduate research focused on ultrafast polar solvation dynamics, probed by transient absorption spectroscopy on the solvated electron and transition-metal mixed-valence complexes. Following his graduate degree in 1998, he was Postdoctoral Research Fellow with Professor Sir Richard Friend at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, where he developed an ultrafast spectroscopy laboratory to investigate the photophysics of conjugated polymers and related organic semiconductors. In 2001, he began his independent academic career as Advanced Research Fellow of the UK Engineering and Physical Science Research Council at the Cavendish Laboratory, and simultaneously became Research Fellow in Darwin College, University of Cambridge. He moved to the Université de Montréal with a Canada Research Chair in 2005, where he developed an ultrafast spectroscopy laboratory for the study of electronic processes in organic semiconductor materials. In recognition of his rising international leadership, he was awarded the 2010 Herzberg Medal and the 2016 Brockhouse Medal by the Canadian Association of Physicists. Since 2017, Carlos’s research career at Georgia Tech has built on his previous research experiences to bring innovative optical probes of organic and hybrid organic-inorganic semiconductor materials. His research program exploits a range of spectroscopic techniques, including nonlinear ultrafast spectroscopies such as two-dimensional coherent excitation spectroscopies, and quantum spectroscopy, in which quantum properties of light are exploited to unravel light-matter interactions with intricate detail. These techniques are applied to understand key electronic processes in a wide range of materials, with many target applications in optoelectronics, on timescales ranging from femtoseconds to milliseconds. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Alexandr N. Simonov is a physical chemist specialising in (photo)electrochemistry and (photo)electrocatalysis. Research in his group is aimed at understanding and designing new effective ways to generate and use renewable electricity for the sustainable chemistry technologies. His major research focuses on the development of catalysts, electrode architectures and electrolytic devices for generation of hydrogen through splitting of water (including seawater), reduction of nitrogen to ammonia, as well as selective oxidation of ammonia and nitrogen to nitrates for fertiliser generation. He collaborates with Australian and German industry on several projects aiming to develop new cost-effective water electrolysers. He is a co-founder of a spin-out company Jupiter Ionics Pty Ltd. working on the commercialisation of the Monash technologies for ammonia synthesis and oxidation.
David Sinton is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto. He is a Canada Research Chair and a recent NSERC E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellow. Prior to joining the University of Toronto, Dr. Sinton was a Canada Research Chair at the University of Victoria, and a Visiting Associate Professor at Cornell University. The Sinton group develops fluid systems for energy applications. The group is application-driven, and currently developing systems to convert CO2 into renewable fuels and chemicals. Dr. Sinton previously developed a library of industrial fluid testing systems commercialized through the startup Interface Fluidics Ltd. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering.
Kevin Sivula obtained a PhD in chemical engineering from UC Berkeley in 2007. In 2011, after leading a research group in the Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces at EPFL, he was appointed tenure track assistant professor. He now heads the Laboratory for Molecular Engineering of Optoelectronic Nanomaterials (http://limno.epfl.ch) at EPFL.
Sara Skrabalak received her B.A. in chemistry from Washington University in St. Louis in 2002 where she conducted research with Professor William E. Buhro. She then moved to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where she completed her Ph.D. in chemistry in fall of 2006 under the tutelage of Professor Kenneth S. Suslick. After conducting postdoctoral research at the University of Washington – Seattle with Professors Younan Xia and Xingde Li, she began on the faculty at Indiana University – Bloomington in 2008. She is currently a James H. Rudy Professor at Indiana University. She was appointed Editor-in-Chief for the ACS journals Chemistry of Materials and ACS Materials Letters in 2020.
She is a recipient of both NSF CAREER and DOE Early Career Awards. She is a 2012 Research Corporation Cottrell Scholar, a 2013 Sloan Research Fellow, a 2014 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar and 2017 Guggenheim and Fulbright Fellows. In 2014, she received the ACS Award in Pure Chemistry and in 2017 was the recipient of the Frontiers in Research Excellence & Discovery Award from Research Corporation. She served as an Associate Editor for the RSC journals Nanoscale from 2017-2020 and Nanoscale Horizons from 2018-2020. Her group is developing new synthetic methods to solid materials with defined shapes and architecture then studying the properties of the materials as they are applied to applications in energy science, chemical sensing, and secured electronics.
Henry Snaith undertook his PhD at the University of Cambridge, working on organic photovoltaics, then spent two years at the EPFL as a post-doc working on dye-sensitized solar cells. Since 2007 he has held a professorship at the University of Oxford Clarendon Laboratory where his group researches organic, hybrid and perovskite optoelectronic devices. Professor Snaith was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2015, he is a 2017 Clarivate Citation Laureate, and among his awards are the 2017 Royal Society James Joule Medal and Prize. In 2010 he founded Oxford Photovoltaics Ltd. which is commercializing the perovskite solar technology transferred from his laboratory.
Prof. Zdenek Sofer is tenured professor at the University of Chemistry and Technology Prague since 2019. He received his PhD also at University of Chemistry and Technology Prague, Czech Republic, in 2008. During his PhD he spent one year in Forschungszentrum Julich (Peter Grünberg Institute, Germany) and also one postdoctoral stay at University Duisburg-Essen, Germany. Research interests of prof. Sofer concerning on 2D materials, its crystal growth, chemical modifications and derivatisation. His research covers various applications of 2D materials including energy storage and conversion, electronic, catalysis and sensing devices. He is an associated editor of FlatChem journal. He has published over 460 articles, which received over 15000 citations (h-index of 61).
Manuel Souto Salom (Valencia, 1988) is a Principal Researcher at CICECO-Aveiro Institute of Materials and at the Department of Chemistry of the University of Aveiro. He holds a double degree in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering from the University of Valencia and from the École de Chimie, Polymères et Matériaux (ECPM) de Strasbourg. He also earned a Master’s degree in Molecular and Supramolecular Chemistry (2011) from the University of Strasbourg conducting his Master thesis at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST, Lisbon). He obtained his PhD in Materials Science at Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC) in 2016 conducting two research stays at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and at the University of Antwerp. In 2017, he started to work as postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Molecular Science/University of Valencia (ICMol-UV). Since 2019 he was an Assistant Professor at the University of Aveiro and in 2022 he was promoted to Principal Researcher (tenure, equiv. to Associate Prof.). His research interests encompass molecular electronics and electroactive polymers. His main current research interest is the design and synthesis of new functional electroactive porous frameworks based on redox-active organic building blocks for energy storage applications (lithium- and sodium-ion batteries). In 2021, he was awarded an ERC Starting Grant with the project ELECTROCOFS.
Georgios Spyropoulos (a.k.a George D. Spyropoulos) joined Ghent University as an assistant professor in the Department of Information Technology, Faculty of Engineering and Architecture. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Materials Science and Technology from the University of Crete (Greece). He joined the nanomaterials & organic electronics group (Greece) of Prof. Kymakis to work on organic electronics for his bachelor and master thesis. He then moved to Prof. Christoph J. Brabec’s group at Materials for Electronics and Energy Technology (i-MEET), focusing on smart device fabrication strategies for solution-processed solar cells to pursue his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering at the Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (Germany). He is the recipient of the Cross-disciplinary postdoctoral fellowship awarded by the Human Frontier Science Program Organisation. His postdoctoral research at Prof. Khodagholy's Translational Neuro-Electronics lab of Columbia University (USA) aimed at the development of neural interface devices based on organic electronics.
His multidisciplinary research is focused on innovating neural interfaces that can address fundamental questions regarding the auditory-neurological pathways and the neurobiology of the brain, as well as conduct diagnostics and interventions to mitigate relevant disorders. Prof. Spyropoulos is the principal investigator of the Neural Waves (NeW) lab.
Claire is a Lecturer in the Department of Bioengineering at Imperial College London and leads the Microbiome-Microscopy and Microfluidics Lab. Her research focusses on developing new microfluidic technologies to probe the interplay between living organisms found in soil environments at the single cell level. Claire has also established several collaborative projects in Switzerland, Europe and the USA.
Eleni Stavrinidou is an Associate Professor and leader of the Electronic Plants group at Linköping University. She received a PhD in Microelectronics from EMSE (France) in 2014. She then did her postdoctoral training at Linköping University (Sweden) during which she was awarded a Marie Curie fellowship. In 2017 Eleni Stavrinidou became Assistant Professor in Organic Electronics at Linköping University and established the Electronic Plants group. She received several grants including a Swedish Research Council Starting Grant and she is the Coordinator of the HyPhOE-FET-OPEN project. In 2019 she received the L’ORÉAL-UNESCO For Women in Science prize in Sweden. In 2020 she became Associate Professor and Docent in Applied Physics. The same year she was awarded the Future Research Leaders grant of the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research. Her research interests focus on organic electronics for plant monitoring and optimization, energy applications and bio-hybrid systems.
Ludmilla is an Associate Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the Univeristy of Oxford. She obtained her B.Sc and M.Sc. degrees from the University of Siegen (Germany). During her undergraduate studies she developed an interest in electrochemistry and semiconductor physics driving her to pursue a M.Sc. project on dye-sensitized solar cells in the group of Professor Michael Grätzel at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL, Switzerland). Staying in the same group, Ludmilla worked on oxide thin film photoelectrodes applied in photoelectrochemical water splitting and perovskite solar cells during her Ph.D. degree which she obtained in 2016. She then joined the group of Professor James Durrant at Imperial College London to study photochemical and photophysical processes in semiconductors using time-resolved spectroscopy and shortly after was awarded the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship (2017-2019). Ludmilla began her independent research career as Imperial College Research Fellow (2019-2021) before moving to Oxford in October 2021. Her research at Oxford aims at the design of atomically defined photo- and electrocatalysts that convert CO2, water and other “waste products” to energy-rich fuels and chemicals with high conversion efficiency, selectivity and long operational stability.
Ifan is Professor in Electrocat Imperial College London. Prior to Ifan's appointment at Imperial in 2017, he was Asssociate Professor and Leader of the Electrocatalysis Group at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU).In 2015, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) appointed Ifan as the Peabody Visiting Associate Professor.
Ifan leverages the insight from fundamental electrochemistry experiments to discover new catalyst materials with unprecedented performance. Ifan’s research ultimately aims to enable the large-scale electrochemical conversion of renewable energy to fuels and valuable chemicals and vice versa. He has 62 peer reviewed publications, 2 patents, 4 patent applicaitons and is cofounder of the spinout company, HPNow.
Thomas Stieglitz was born in Goslar in 1965. He received a Diploma degree in electrical Engineering from Technische Hochschule Karlsruhe (now: KIT), Germany, in 1993, and a PhD and habilitation degree in 1998 and 2003 from the University of Saarland, Germany, respectively. In 1993, he joined the Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Engineering in St. Ingbert, Germany, where he established the Neural Prosthetics Group. Since 2004, he is a full professor for Biomedical Microtechnology at the Albert-Ludwig-University Freiburg, Germany, in the Department of Microsystems Engineering (IMTEK) at the Faculty of Engineering and serves as deputy spokesperson of the Cluster BrainLinks-BrainTools, board member of the Intelligent Machine Brain Interfacing Technology (IMBIT) Center and spokesperson of the profile neuroscience / neurotechnology of the university. His research interests include neural interfaces and implants, biocompatible assembling and packaging and brain machine interfaces. Dr. Stieglitz has co-authored about 170 peer reviewed journal publications, 330 conference proceedings and holds 25 patents. He is co-founder and scientific consultant of CorTec GmbH and neuroloop GmbH, two spin-off companies which focus on neural implant technology and neuromodulation, respectively. Dr. Stieglitz is Fellow of the IEEE and serves the EMBS in the neuroethics group and the technical committee of neural engineering, the German Biomedical Engineering Society (DGBMT im VDE) where he is chair of the Neural Prostheses and Intelligent Implants section, the Materials Research Society. He is also founding member of the International Functional Electrical Stimulation Society (IFESS).
Natalie Stingelin (Stutzmann) FRSC is a Full Professor of Organic Functional Materials at the Georgia Institute of Technology, with prior positions at Imperial College London; the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge; the Philips Research Laboratories, Eindhoven; and ETH Zürich. She was an External Senior Fellow at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies and is Associate Editor of the RSC journal ‘Journal of Materials Chemistry C’. She was awarded the Institute of Materials, Minerals & Mining's Rosenhain Medal and Prize (2014) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) President's International Fellowship Initiative (PIFI) Award for Visiting Scientists (2015); she was the Chair of the 2016 Gordon Conference on 'Electronic Processes in Organic Materials' as well as the Zing conference on ‘Organic Semiconductors’. She has published >160 papers and 6 issued patents. Her research interests encompass organic electronics & photonics, bioelectronics, physical chemistry of organic functional materials, and smart inorganic/organic hybrid systems.
Dr. Kelsey A. Stoerzinger joined Oregon State University as an Assistant Professor and Callahan Faculty Scholar in the School of Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering in the Fall of 2018. She holds a joint appointment at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, where she was a Linus Pauling Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow. Kelsey completed her doctoral studies in Materials Science and Engineering in 2016 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, supported by a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. She received an M.Phil. in Physics from the University of Cambridge as a Churchill Scholar and a B.S. from Northwestern University. Prof. Stoerzinger is the recipient of the NSF CAREER Award (2020) and the Doctoral New Investigator Award of the ACS-PRF (2019), in addition to recognition for her contributions as a teacher and advisor.
Sam Stranks is Professor of Optoelectronocs and Royal Society University Research Fellow in the Department of Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology and the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge. He obtained his DPhil (PhD) from the University of Oxford in 2012. From 2012-2014, he was a Junior Research Fellow at Worcester College Oxford and from 2014-2016 a Marie Curie Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He established his research group in 2017, with a focus on the optical and electronic properties of emerging semiconductors for low-cost electronics applications.
Sam received the 2016 IUPAP Young Scientist in Semiconductor Physics Prize, the 2017 Early Career Prize from the European Physical Society, the 2018 Henry Moseley Award and Medal from the Institute of Physics, the 2019 Marlow Award from the Royal Society of Chemistry, the 2021 IEEE Stuart Wenham Award and the 2021 Philip Leverhulme Prize in Physics. Sam is also a co-founder of Swift Solar, a startup developing lightweight perovskite PV panels, and an Associate Editor at Science Advances.
Peter Strasser is the chaired professor of �Electrochemistry for energy conversion and storage� at the Chemical Engineering Division of the Department of Chemistry at the Technical University of Berlin. Prior to his appointment, he was Professor at the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Houston. Before moving to Houston, Prof. Strasser served as Senior Member of staff at Symyx Technologies, Inc., Santa Clara, USA. In 1999, Prof. Strasser earned his doctoral degree in Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry from the �Fritz-Haber-Institute� of the Max-Planck-Society, Berlin, Germany, under the direction of the 2007 Chemistry Nobel Laureate, Professor Gerhard Ertl. In the same year, he was awarded the �Otto-Hahn Research Medal� by the Max-Planck Society. In 1996, Dr. Strasser was visiting scientist with Sony Central Research, Yokohama, Japan. He studied chemistry at Stanford University, the University of Tuebingen, and the University of Pisa, Italy. Professor Strasser is interested in the fundamental Materials Science and Catalysis of electrified liquid solid interfaces, in particular for renewable energy conversion, energy storage, production of fuels and chemicals.
Alessandro Stroppa (July 14th 1976) is a Research Director of the CNR-SPIN Institute (Italy) and deputy director of the research unit in L’Aquila (Italy). He received his PhD in Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics from University of Trieste (Italy) in 2006 and he continued his research in computational materials science at University of Vienna in the group of Prof. Georg Kresse (VASP Team). After 2009, he joined the CNR in Italy where he became permanent staff in 2012. He is contract professor at University of L’Aquila (Italy), and invited professor at Shanghai and South East University (China).
His current research areas deal with solid-state physics and materials science. Specifically, he is interested in 3D and 2D hybrid inorganic-organic perovskites, non-magnetic and magnetic 2D systems with special focus on photo-ferroic, multiferroic, magnetoelectric, twistronic, topological, magneto-optical and non-linear optical properties, skyrmions, etc. He has great experience with Density Functional Theory (DFT) methods for the study of the structural, electronic and magnetic properties using all-electrons as well as pseudopotential approaches implemented in numerical codes. He has published about 138 peer-reviewed papers (h-index=43, Total citations 6744) in theoretical condensed matter also in collaboration with experimentalists. In 2017, 5 of his papers were Highly Cited (Source: Web of Science). He is on the World’s top 2% scientists lists published by Stanford University since 2019. He received honors such as the ‘Best 2008 New Journal of Physics Collection’; Research Highlight talk at EUROMAT 2013; Best oral talks at Italian Physical Society conferences in 2005 and 2011; Certificate of appreciation for “his important contributions to the theoretical understanding of microscopic mechanisms of multiferroicity and magnetoelectricity in perovskite metal-organic frameworks” by Nature Conference (Nankai University, 2019). He is carrying out an intense outreach activity for primary schools. [Last update Sept 04th 2023]
Selected papers
1. A. Stroppa, et al.“Electric Control of Magnetization and Interplay between Orbital Ordering and Ferroelectricity in a Multiferroic Metal-Organic Framework”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl., 2011, 50, 5847-5850. Times cited:192.
2. A. Stroppa, et al. “Hybrid Improper Ferroelectricity in a Multiferroic and Magnetoelectric Metal-Organic Framework”, Adv. Mat., 2013, 25, 2284-2290. Times cited:215.
3. A. Stroppa, et al. “Tuning the Ferroelectric Polarization in a Multiferroic Metal-Organic Framework”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2013, 135, 18126-18130. Times cited:190.
4. A. Stroppa, et al. “Electric-Magneto-Optical Kerr Effect in a Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Perovskite”, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2017, 139, 12883-12886. Times cited:23.
5. A. Stroppa, et al.”Tunable ferroelectric polarization and its interplay with spin-orbit coupling in tin iodide perovskites”, Nat. Commun., 2014, 5, 5900. Times cited:175 (Highly Cited Paper)
6. A. Stroppa, “Cross coupling between electric and magnetic orders in a multiferroic metal-organic framework”, Sci. Rep., 2014, 4, 6062. Times cited:134.
7. A. Stroppa, et al. “Magneto-Optical Kerr Switching Properties of (CrI3)2 and (CrBr3/CrI3) Bilayers”, ACS Appl. Electron. Mater. 2020, 2, 5, 1380-1373. Times cited:1.
8. A. Stroppa et al. “Activating magnetoelectric optical properties by twisting antiferromagnetic bilayers”, Phys. Rev. B, 106, 184408 (2022). Times cited: 0
Selected links (Outreach)
https://www.spin.cnr.it/outreach-and-t-t/events/item/240-spin-at-maker-faire-2023
https://outreach.cnr.it/risorsa/231/giocando-con-la-geometria
https://outreach.cnr.it/risorsa/79/dalla-geometria-alla-geo-materia-un-affascinante-percorso-didattico
Dr Emmanuel Stratakis is a Research Director at the Institute of Electronic structure and laser (IESL) (www.iesl.forth.gr) of the Foundation for Research and Technology—Hellas (FORTH) (www.forth.gr) and founder and CEO of Biomimetic PC (www.biomimetic.gr). His research interests are in the fields of ultrafast laser interactions with materials for (a) biomimetic micro- and nano- structuring (b) Advanced photonic processes for photovoltaics and energy storage, c) nanomaterials synthesis and diagnostics for optoelectronics and (c) biomaterials processing for tissue engineering. He has over 250 SCI publications and more than 11000 citations, h-index=56 (Scopus), and he has coordinated many National and EU grants. Since 2015, he is the Director of the Nanoscience Facility of FORTH, part of the NFFA-Europe PILOT EU Infrastructure, where he is a member of the General Assembly. He is an OPTICA fellow and National Representative to the Horizon 2020 High-Level Group of EU on Nanotechnologies, Advanced materials, Biotechnology, Advanced Manufacturing and Processing.
Dr. Thilo Stöferle has been a permanent Research Staff Member at the IBM Research – Zurich Laboratory since August 2007. His current research interests are quantum simulation and quantum fluids, Bose-Einstein condensates with exciton-polaritons, integrated high Q/V cavities, nanophotonic lasers and switches. Another focus is on hybrid nanocomposite quantum materials for strong-light matter interaction and opto-electronic applications.
Dr. Tze-Chien Sum is an Associate Professor at the Division of Physics and Applied Physics, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (SPMS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU) where he leads the Femtosecond Dynamics Laboratory. He is presently the Associate Dean (Research) at the College of Science. Tze-Chien received his Ph.D. in Physics from the National University of Singapore (NUS) in 2005, for the work in proton beam writing and ion-beam spectroscopy. His present research focuses on investigating light matter interactions; energy and charge transfer mechanisms; and probing carrier and quasi-particle dynamics in a broad range of emergent nanoscale and light harvesting systems. Tze-Chien received a total of 11 teaching awards from NUS and NTU, including the coveted Nanyang Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2006 and the 2010 SPMS Teaching Excellence Honour Roll Award. Most recently, he received the 2013 SPMS Young Researcher Award; the Institute of Physics Singapore 2014 World Scientific Medal and Prize for Outstanding Physics Research; the 2014 Nanyang Award for Research Excellence (Team); and the 2015 Chemical Society of Japan Asian International Symposium Distinguished Lectureship Award. More information can be found at http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/tzechien/spms/index.html
Dr. R. Radhakrishnan Sumathi is a Vice-head of volume crystals department at Leibnitz-Institute for Crystal Growth (IKZ), Berlin. She is leading and responsible for the semiconductor section, which focuses its niche research and development in elemental and compound semiconductor materials (Si, Ge, III-Vs, II-VIs) for various applications. Dr. Sumathi holds a Ph.D degree (Anna University, Chennai/Madras, India) and also has received a “habilitation” title from Ludwig-Maximilans University (LMU, Munich, Germany), where she is also a faculty at Materials Science and Crystallography institute. She has about 25 years of expertise in crystal growth/materials sciences field and specialised experience in semiconductor materials and devices. Her research interest also covers advanced functional materials. She is very active in many professional societies (IACG, DGKK) and has received many awards (Young Scientist, Young Researcher), the recent one being, Young Achiever Award by Indian Science and Technology Association in 2018. She has over 75 papers in internal journals (peer-reviewed, high impact factor) and/or conferences and has given invited talks in more than 25 meetings. She is a guest editor of Results in Materials (Elsevier publications) and serving as a international committee member in many national/international scientific conferences.
Darren is an Associate Professor and the Director of Research at the School of Pharmacy, University of Auckland. His main research drive is the use of materials to communicate with and influence the body through microelectrode arrays and the intelligent delivery of drugs.
The team’s research has demonstrated the ability of conducting polymer coatings to improve the performance of sensing and stimulating bio-electrodes. Darren has expertise in releasing different drugs in a controlled fashion from a range of injectable and implantable platforms. His translational and multidisciplinary research aims to address currently unmet health demands. The technologies my team design and test are used in implantable medical devices to answer fundamental research questions and to treat spinal cord injury. In the future these implants could be used for diagnostic purposes and as a platform for novel treatment strategies in tissues responsive to chemical and electrical cues.
As an academic pharmacist he work with scientists, health professionals and patients. Darren has built productive collaborations across different disciplines around the world. He is committed to achieving real world translation of research to make a difference to people’s lives.
Carlos Sánchez-Somolinos holds a CSIC Research Scientist position at INMA where he leads the Advanced Manufacturing Laboratory. His expertise and scientific objectives are focused on the development of polymers and their processing through advanced manufacturing techniques (direct laser writing, inkjet and 3D printing) in the search of polymeric surfaces or functional systems of interest in the areas of optics, biomedicine and soft robotics. He has recently developed at INMA the 4D printing of liquid crystal elastomers, a technique that introduces intelligent character to 3D printed structures, programing,though additive manufacturing, material response to external stimuli. He has published more than 80 papers in internationally recognized journals, and 5 book chapters. He is coinventor in 18 patents, almost all of them with Industry as co-proprietary and one of them leading to the formation of a spin-off company. Very much focused on the transfer of technology, he has undertaken lines of research in the functionalization of surfaces in direct collaboration with Industries (Bosch -BSH Spain- and Dupont Lightstone). He has previously participated in five EU projects, one of them as a PI at CSIC (FP7-SME-2013, ID.: 605934), and has led several National and Regional Research projects and contracts, some of them fully financed by Industry. Currently, he is coordinator of the PRIME FET-OPEN H2020 project, dedicated to the development of a platform of materials and advanced manufacturing techniques to create active and easy-to-operate microfluidic devices (ID: 829010). He is also coordinator of the STORM-BOTS ITN H2020 project on soft robotics of liquid cryistal elastomers (ID: 956150). In 2017 he was awarded with the Prize of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Zaragoza (Physics Section).
Rafael Sánchez (M.Sc. degree in Chemistry in 2006 and Ph.D. degree in 2011, both from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain). To date, he has worked without interruptions in several international research institutions: Universitat Jaume I (2012-2017), University of Liverpool (2017-2018), Henkel Ibérica-UAB (2018-2019) and Université de Bordeaux (2019-2020). The main research topics he has developed are based on the synthesis and electro-optical characterization of functional materials and/or semiconductors for light generation, photovoltaics and water splitting applications. His current interests are focused on the chemical design and synthesis of quaternary diazaaromatic dications for the development of novel 2D metal halide perovskite semiconductors suitable for the preparation low-cost, highly efficient and durable optoelectronic devices. He is the author of 1 book chapter and 27 publications in peer-review international journals (27 publications in Q1 journals, 18 of which in D1 journals with impact factor > 6.9 in different areas) with 2733 citations and a h-index of 21 (https://scholar.google.es/citations?user=kzbjcFQAAAAJ&hl=es).
Nahid talebi is the Professor of Physics and the Director of Nanooptics department at the Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics of the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel. Talebi has joined the CAU university in September 2019, and before she was the ERC group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart, Germany. She has been the recipient of an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship in 2012 and a European Research Council Starting Grant in 2018. She has drafted more than 60 papers in high-impact journals, has issued two patents, and has published in 2019 a monograph book “Near-Field Mediated Photon-Electron interactions,” in Springer Series in Optical Sciences. Talebi’s research has been at the border of photonics and electron microscopy, contributing to both fields theoretically and experimentally. She has proposed several novel methodologies for improving electron microscopy techniques and to enhance the temporal resolution of ultrafast electron microscopes, and has also developed numerical techniques to simulate the interaction of electron wavepackets with light and has pioneered the field of electron-light interactions beyond the adiabatic approximations.
Jiang Tang is a full professor and deputy director at Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST); he also serves as the dean of school of optical and electronic engineering, HUST. He obtained his bachelor’s degree from University of Science and Technology of China, and his Ph. D. from University of Toronto under the supervision of Prof. Edward H. Sargent at 2010. He joined HUST in 2012 after one year and half postdoctoral research at IBM T. J. Watson research center. He has published >150 papers including Nature, Nature Photonics and so on with more than 10000 times citation. He is the recipient of the NSFC Funds for Exceptional Young Scholars. His current research focuses on colloidal quantum dot infrared photodetectors, halide perovskites for X-ray detection and light emitting diodes, and antimony selenide thin film solar cells.
Shuxia Tao is a compuational materials scientist and she studies how photons, electrons and ions interact with each other and how such interactions determine the formation, function and degradation of materials. Currently, she leads the Computational Materials Physics group at the department of Applied Physics, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands.
Tao's group focuses on multiscale modelling of energy and optoelectronic materials, studying the growth of nanomaterials and developing theory of light-matter interactions. The ultimate goal is perfecting the quality of these materials and maximizing their efficiency for converting and storing energy and information. Her recent contribution to PV materials focuses on halide perovskites, where she made important contribution in the understanding of the electronic structure, the defect chemistry/physics and the nucleation and growth of halide perovskites. Recently, she also expanded the research to the interactions of perovskites with other contact materials in devices and novel optoelectronic properties, such as optical chirality and chiral induced spin selevetivity.
Christian Teichert studied Physics in Halle, Germany; Ph.D. in 1992; 1992/93 Postdoc (Alexander von Humboldt fellowship) Research Center Juelich, Germany; 1993-1996 Postdoc UW Madison, U.S., 1996/97 Postdoc, Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics, Halle, Germany; 1997 Assistant Professor, University of Leoben, Austria, Head of Scanning Probe Microscopy Group Leoben; since 2001 Associate Professor, University of Leoben.
2002: Gaede Prize of the German Vacuum Society. 2014: reactivated fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
Areas of expertise: Scanning Probe Microscopy based nanostructure research with focus on structure and electrical and mechanical properties of inorganic and organic semiconductors, two-dimensional materials, and cellulose based materials.
Organizer of several International Nanoscience Workshops and Symposia. Currently, he is the elected vice-chair of the Nanometer Structure Division of the International Union of Vacuum Science, Technology and Application (IUVSTA).
After obtaining PhD in Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry from the Friedrich-Schiller University of Jena (Germany) in 1992, he worked at BASF AG Ludwigshafen as a postdoctoral fellow. Subsequently he joined the University of Bayreuth, followed by habilitation in Macromolecular Chemistry. After a short research stay at General Electric Global Research Center, Niskayuna, USA, he accepted the Professorship for Applied Functional Polymers under the Elite Network Bavaria Program of Macromolecular Science at the University of Bayreuth. Thelakkat is leading the independent Laboratory of Solar Cell Research at the University of Bayreuth, he is at present the spokesperson for the chemistry department and is also member of the faculty adivisory council. He is coordinator for the EU-India research project, LARGECELLS and the Bavarian research consortia, SOLTECH. He has 137 international publications and 16 patents.
A key theme running through the research activities of Thelakkat is the design, development and application of complex, multifunctional organic and hybrid systems, especially built up of charge transport molecules, charge generation materials, and chromophores. Thelakkat has been working with novel concepts on organic semiconductors and photovoltaic devices for many years. During this period, his group has specialized in tailor-made synthesis of functional molecules, polymers and blockcopolymers for charge transfer and energy transfer studies. Starting from his doctoral work, which dealt with the synthesis and characterization of conducting polymers belonging to the class of poly(arylene vinylenes), he has intensified his expertise in the design and architecture of organic semiconductors towards OLEDs, OFETs and OPV. He is an expert for combinatorial material and device screening for organic devices. At present his research group is intensively involved in multifunctional self-assembling block copolymers, bridged donor-acceptor systems, light harvesting dyes, photoswitchable systems and diverse organic devices.
Jianjun Tian is a professor at Institute for Advanced Materials and Technology, University of Science and Technology Beijing (USTB). He received his PhD in USTB in 2007. During 2011-2012, he studied in University of Washington as visiting professor. He was selected as new century excellent talents of Ministry of Education in 2013, and built the Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Devices in 2016 as leader (PI). He was nominated as director of Functional Materials Institute, USTB in 2015 and vice-dean of Institute for Multidisciplinary Innovation, USTB in 2019. Current research focuses on quantum dots and perovskites, and their applications, including solar cells, light emitting and photodetectors.
Will Tisdale joined the Department of Chemical Engineering at MIT in January, 2012, where he holds the rank of Associate Professor and is currently the ARCO Career Development Professor in Energy Studies. He earned his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Delaware in 2005, his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Minnesota in 2010, and was a postdoc in the Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT before joining the faculty in 2012. Will is a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the DOE Early Career Award, the NSF CAREER Award, an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, the Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, the AIChE Nanoscale Science & Engineering Forum Young Investigator Award, and MIT’s Everett Moore Baker Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.
Andrea Toma has a long-standing experience in the fabrication and characterization of 3D nanostructures, facing cutting-edge issues in light-matter interaction and nanophotonics. He is staff scientist at the Italian Institute of Technology where he coordinates the Clean Room Facility and the ERC CoG grant "REPLY - Reshaping Photocatalysis via Light-Matter Hybridization in Plasmonic Nanocavities".
Andrea Toma is Adjunct Professor at the University of Genova and, since 2012, member of the Proposal Study Panel at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He published more than 100 scientific papers in some of the most impacting Journals of the field, with an h-index of 41. In 2017 he has been awarded with a Visiting Scientist - Full Professorship position by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (under the President's International Fellowship Initiative) with both research and training responsibilities.
He works as referee for many international journals and international funding agencies, serving as program committee member/organizer of conferences on light-matter interaction and nanofabrication.
Luisa Torsi received her Laurea degree in Physics from the University of Bari in 1989 and a Ph.D. in Chemical Sciences from the same institution in 1993. She was a post-doctoral fellow at Bell Labs from 1994 to 1996. In 2005 and 2006 she was invited professor at the University of Anger and Paris 7, respectively. Since 2005 she is a full professor of chemistry at the University of Bari and since 2017 she is an adjunct professor at the Abo Academy University in Finland.
In 2010 she has been awarded the Heinrich Emanuel Merck prize for analytical sciences, this marking the first time the award is given to a woman. Prof. Luisa Torsi is also the winner of the Wilhelm Exner Medal 2021 (https://www.wilhelmexner.org/en/). The medal has been awarded since 1921 by the Austrian Association of Industries to celebrate excellence in research and science and as many as 23 Nobel prize winners have been awarded too. She is also the recipient, at the British Library in London, of the 2015 main overall platinum prize of the Global-Women Inventors and Innovators Network. The IUPAC - International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry awarded her with the 2019 Distinguished Women in Chemistry or Chemical Engineering. The analytical chemistry division of the European Chemical Society (EuChemS) conferred her the Robert Kellner Lecturer 2019.
Since 2020 she has been appointed National Representative for the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action of Horizon Europe by the Italian Minister for Education and Research. She is also past president of the European Material Research Society being the first women to serve on this role. She has been also elected 2017 Fellow of the Material Research Society, for pioneering work in the field of organic (bio) electronic sensors and their use for point-of-care testing.
Awarded research funding for over 26 million € in thirteen years, comprises several European contracts as well as national and regional projects. She is coordinating the “Single molecule bio-electronic smart system array for clinical testing – SiMBiT” a H2020-ICT-2018-2020 research and innovation action financed with over 3 M€. The PRIN 17 national project “ACTUAL: At the forefront of Analytical ChemisTry: disrUptive detection technoLogies to improve food safety (2017RHX2E4)” is also coordinated by Torsi. She has also coordinated a “European Industrial Doctorate” Marie Curie project in collaboration with Merck and was principal investigator in a Marie Curie ITN. She has also coordinated a Marie Curie ITN European network, several national PRIN projects, and was principal investigator in an ICT STREP proposal. She has also been the scientific coordinator of a Structural Reinforcement PON Project awarded to UNIBA for 2012-2014 and is engaged with a number of other Structural Reinforcement PON projects.
Torsi has authored almost 230 ISI papers, including papers published in Science, Nature Materials, Nature Communications, PNAS, Advanced Materials, Scientific Reports, and is co-inventor of several international awarded patents. Her works gathered almost 13.500 Google scholar citations resulting in an h-index of 55. She has given more than 170 invited lectures, including almost 50 plenary and keynotes contributions to international conferences.
Prof. Torsi is committed to the role of model for younger women scientists. She has been giving a number of talks on this topic such as a TEDx talk. Prof. Torsi is one of the 100Experts (https://100esperte.it) a project led by Fondazione Bracco comprising an online databank with the names and CVs of female experts in STEM, a sector historically underrepresented by women but a strategic one for the economic and social development of Italy. In a recent campaign to foster the idea of gender equality in Science among children, prof. Torsi was featured in a story of TOPOLINO (Italian comic digest-size series of Disney comics), as “Louise Torduck”, a successful female scientist of the Calisota valley.
C. Tortiglione is researcher at CNR since 2001, heading the Nanobiomolecular group at Istituto di Scienze Applicate e Sistemi Intelligenti "E.Caianiello" (ISASI-CNR, Pozzuoli) of National Research Council since 2007. After completing her graduate research at Istituto di Genetica e Biofisica (IGB-CNR, Naples), she spent two years at University of Edinburgh, in the laboratory of Developmental Biology (Prof. M. Bownes). Back in Italy she received her PhD at University of Naples, developing new skills in Plant Genetics and Biotechnology, followed by several postdoctoral appointments. At ISASI she launched new research lines merging Biology to Nanoscience. Beside basic investigations on key pathways controlling development and cell differentiation using cell and molecular biology tools, the novelty of her research is the development and the use of nanoparticle-based methods for analysis of gene and cell function, manipulation of intracellular pathway, optical and magnetic hyperthermia, controlled drug delivery. Recently, she is exploiting the possibility to use organic semiconducting polymers to control cell function. She demonstrated the possibility to modulate animal behaviour and light sensitivity by using photovoltaic nanoparticles, and is currently using these materials for therapeutic purposes. More recently she exploited the possibility to use the biocatalytic machinery of living organisms for fabricating functional hybrid bioelectronic interfaces, fully integrated into the tissues, using semiconducting oligomers as build blocks
As a Chief Operating Officer (COO), Silke Traut brings more than 20 years of industrial experience in technology development and production. Her teams translate the latest developments of the worlds fastest X-ray cameras into industrial production. After her Masters Degree in Applied Physics at UMass Lowell she worked in micro-optics and thin-film technology for a few years. She then joined the semiconductor GaAs laser industry for 13 years to work on process technology development. Since 2011 she is with DECTRIS, leading different teams and projects to develop and manufacture X-ray and electron cameras to spark scientific breakthroughs around the world.
Wolfgang Tress is currently working as a scientist at LPI, EPFL in Switzerland, with general interests in developing and studying novel photovoltaic concepts and technologies. His research focuses on the device physics of perovskite solar cells; most recently, investigating recombination and hysteresis phenomena in this emerging material system. Previously, he was analyzing and modeling performance limiting processes in organic solar cells.
Kristofer studied material physics at Linköping University in Sweden and started working on organic solar cells in 2003 under the guidance of prof. Olle Inganäs at the Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biology (IFM). His thesis work was devoted to light trapping and the development of novel electrodes for organic solar cells. After defending his Ph.D in 2008 he continued as a Post doc. focusing his studies on charge transfer state spectroscopy. After a short period in industry he got a Marie Curie grant in 2013 to go to the University of Würzburg in Germany where he devoted research efforts to study recombination dynamics in organic solar cells. These studies were soon extended to also include hybrid perovskite solar cells. He was awarded with a principal investigator DFG grant in 2017 to pursue perovskite solar cell recombination research at the University of Würzburg. He has published more than 50 peer reviewed papers, has co-authored two book chapters on organic solar cells and has currently an h-index of 31.
Prof. Satoshi Uchida is a professor (born in 1965) in Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST), The University of Tokyo. He received his PhD from Tohoku University in 1995 and moved to current position in 2006. For more than 15 years his research focused on the field of dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs), specifically cell assembling technique such as full-plastic, light-weight, film type as a ubiquitous power source. He is now also showing strong activity of Perovskite Solar Cells research based on the crystallography, surface engineering and electronic simulation.
Atsushi Urakawa was born in Japan. He obtained his BSc degree (with one year stay in the USA) in Applied Chemistry at Kyushu University (Japan) and he studied Chemical Engineering at Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands) for his MSc degree. He obtained his PhD in 2006 from ETH Zurich (Switzerland) where he worked as Senior Scientist and Lecturer until he joined ICIQ as Group Leader in Spain in 2010. In 2019, he undertook a new challenge as Professor of Catalysis Engineering at Delft University of Technology. His research team combines fundamental and applied research and focuses on the rational development of heterogeneous catalysts and processes aided by in situ and operando methodologies.
Alexander S. Urban studied Physics at the University of Karlsruhe (Germany) obtaining an equivalent to an M.Sc. degree (German: Dipl. Phys.) at the University of Karlsruhe (Germany) in 2006. During his studies he spent a year at Heriot Watt University (UK), where he obtained an M.Phys. in Optoelectronics and Lasers in 2005. He then joined the Photonics and Optoelectronics Chair of Jochen Feldmann at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU) Munich (Germany) in 2007 where he worked on the optothermal manipulation of plasmonic nanoparticles, earning his Ph.D. summa cum laude in 2010. He expanded his expertise in the fields of plasmonics and nanophotonics in the group of Naomi J. Halas at the Laboratory for Nanophotonics at Rice University (Houston, TX, USA), beginning in 2011. He returned to the LMU in 2014 to become a junior group leader with Jochen Feldmann, where he led the research thrusts on optical spectroscopy, focusing on hybrid nanomaterials such as halide perovskite nanocrystals and carbon dots. In 2017 he was awarded a prestigious Starting Grant from the European Research Council and shortly after that in 2018 he received a call as a Full Professor of Physics (W2) at the LMU. Here, he now leads his own research group working on nanospectroscopy in novel hybrid nanomaterials.
James Utterback’s research focuses on ultrafast optical spectroscopy and microscopy of energy relaxation and transport in materials for optoelectronic applications.
CNRS Researcher | Researcher; Institute of Nanosciences of Paris; Sorbonne University | 2023 – present
Postdoctoral Fellow | Beckman Postdoctoral Fellow; University of California, Berkeley | 2019 – 2022
PhD in Chemistry | NSF Graduate Research Fellow; University of Colorado, Boulder | 2013 – 2018
B.S. in Physics | Goldwater Scholar & Undergraduate Research Fellow; University of Oregon | 2007 – 2011
Academic Education and Degrees
Veronique Van Speybroeck is full professor at the Ghent University and head of the Center for Molecular modeling (http://molmod.ugent.be), a multidisciplinary research center composed of about 40 researchers. She obtained her PhD in 2001 from the Ghent University. Her expertise lies in first principle kinetics and molecular dynamics simulations of complex chemical transformations in nanoporous materials. Major method develpments were done in the framework of two ERC grants. The research is strongly driven by the ambition to model as close as possible realistic materials/processes. To this end, she is recently exploring methods to also model spatially extended nanostructured materials, including defects and other spatial heterogeneities.
She has a record of significant contributions in the field of modeling nanoporous materials for catalysis, adsorption, e.g. zeolites, Metal-Organic Frameworks, Covalent Organic Frameworks; all applications are inspired and performed in close synergy with experimental groups. She is also an elected member of the Royal (Flemish) Academy for Science and the Arts of Belgium (KVAB, www.kvab.be).
Vanmaekelbergh's research started in the field of semiconductor electrochemistry in the 1980s; this later evolved into the electrochemical fabrication of macroporous semiconductors as the strongest light scatterers for visible light, and the study of electron transport in disordered (particulate) semiconductors. In the last decade, Vanmaekelbergh's interest shifted to the field of nanoscience: the synthesis of colloidal semiconductor quantum dots and self-assembled quantum-dot solids, the study of their opto-electronic properties with optical spectroscopy and UHV cryogenic Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and Spectroscopy, and electron transport in electrochemically-gated quantum-dot solids. Scanning tunnelling spectroscopy is also used to study the electronic states in graphene quantum dots. More recently, the focus of the research has shifted to 2-D nano structured semiconductors, e.g. honeycomb semiconductors with Dirac-type electronic bands.
Dr. Valerii Vashchenko, PhD in chemistry.
Scientific officer in the Electronic and Computer engineering Department of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
Main Scientific Interests are:
- Design and synthesis of nanoparticles (magnetic and semiconductor), development of organic shells their modification to apply in display and photonic devices.
- Design and synthesis of organic compounds for application in ferroelectric liquid crystal materials.
- Design and synthesis of organic dyes for thin-film optical application.
After completion of Kharkiv State University worked in the Institute of Single Crystals, Kharkiv, Ukraine. Since 2008 headed the Department of Technology of Organic Materials in that Institute.
That time started a tight collaboration with Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
In 2016 joined the Electronic and Computer engineering Department of the HKUST. Together with design of LC materials, introduced the chemistry of AIIBIV luminescent semiconductor nanoparticles in HKUST, particularly quantum dots and quantum rods, and modification of their organic shells.
Further activity in this area are targeted to:
• Design and application of new organic ligands for stabilizing of aligned colloids of quantum rods in polymer films.
• Elaboration of a new method for synthesis of low-cadmium QR with luminescence in the whole visible range.
• Design and assembly of the flow reactor for effective QR synthesis.
• Design and formulation of a protection layer for the QR-polymer mixtures for the enhancement of the film stability.
Since 2019, Yana Vaynzof holds the Chair for Emerging Electronic Technologies at the Technical University of Dresden. Prior to that (2014-2019), she was a juniorprofessor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, Heidelberg University (Germany). She received a B.Sc degree (summa cum laude) in electrical engineering from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology (Israel) in 2006, and a M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from Princeton University, (USA) in 2008. She pursued a Ph.D. degree in physics under the supervision of Prof. Sir. Richard Friend at the Optoelectronics Group, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge (UK), and investigated the development of hybrid polymer solar cells and the improvement of their efficiency and stability. Upon completing her PhD in 2011, she joined the Microelectronics group at the University of Cambridge as a Postdoctoral Research Associate focusing on the research of surfaces and interfaces in organic and hybrid optoelectronics. Yana Vaynzof was the recipient of a number of fellowships and awards, including the ERC Starting Grant, Gordon Y. Wu Fellowship, Henry Kressel Fellowship, Fulbright-Cottrell Award and the Walter Kalkhof-Rose Memorial Prize.
Sjoerd Veenstra - Program Manager Perovskite Solar Cells and Modules at TNO, partner in Solliance.
Sjoerd has a passion for photovoltaics (PV). He received his PhD from the University of Groningen (2002). Sjoerd stayed at UCSB (intern) and Cornell University (visiting scientist). He started as a researcher working on organic solar cells at the Energy research Center of the Netherlands (ECN, 2002). In 2011 he moved to Eindhoven (NL) when ECN joined the thin film PV activities of Solliance. He started working on perovskite solar cells in 2014. In 2018 ECN and TNO merged and since he works for TNO and leads the perovskite team.
Javier Vela is a University Professor of Chemistry at Iowa State University. He is a Fellow of the American Chemical Society (ACS) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He serves on the editorial advisory boards of ACS Energy Letters, Chemistry of Materials, Chemistry–An Asian Journal, and ChemNanoMat. Along with former and current coworkers, Dr. Vela is the author of over one hundred peer-reviewed scientific publications and patents on nanostructured materials, inorganic compounds, and their application to energy conversion, chemical catalysis, and fluorescence imaging. He has directed nineteen doctoral and four master’s theses and successfully mentored numerous undergraduate researchers, among them three NSF graduate research fellowship awardees.
Dr. Vela has been a faculty scientist with the Ames National Laboratory since 2010. An active member of the American Chemical Society, he has served as Councilor for the Ames local section, Program Chair for the Midwest Regional Meeting in Ames in 2018, Treasurer of the Division of Inorganic Chemistry, and member of the Committee on Committees (ConC). He also worked as Equity Advisor for the ISU College of Liberal Arts and Sciences from 2015 to 2021. Dr. Vela holds a BS (Lic.) in Chemistry from UNAM and a PhD degree in Chemistry from the University of Rochester. After postdoctoral stints at the University of Chicago and Los Alamos National Laboratory, he joined Iowa State University in 2009. He was granted tenure in 2015, rose to the rank of full professor in 2019, and was named University Professor in 2020. He also held the rotating John D. Corbett Endowed Professorship from 2020 to 2023.
Javier Vela is a University Professor of Chemistry at Iowa State University. He is a Fellow of the American Chemical Society (ACS) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He serves on the editorial advisory boards of ACS Energy Letters, Chemistry of Materials, Chemistry–An Asian Journal, and ChemNanoMat. Along with former and current coworkers, Dr. Vela is the author of over one hundred peer-reviewed scientific publications and patents on nanostructured materials, inorganic compounds, and their application to energy conversion, chemical catalysis, and fluorescence imaging. He has directed nineteen doctoral and four master’s theses and successfully mentored numerous undergraduate researchers, among them three NSF graduate research fellowship awardees.
Dr. Vela has been a faculty scientist with the Ames National Laboratory since 2010. An active member of the American Chemical Society, he has served as Councilor for the Ames local section, Program Chair for the Midwest Regional Meeting in Ames in 2018, Treasurer of the Division of Inorganic Chemistry, and member of the Committee on Committees (ConC). He also worked as Equity Advisor for the ISU College of Liberal Arts and Sciences from 2015 to 2021. Dr. Vela holds a BS (Lic.) in Chemistry from UNAM and a PhD degree in Chemistry from the University of Rochester. After postdoctoral stints at the University of Chicago and Los Alamos National Laboratory, he joined Iowa State University in 2009. He was granted tenure in 2015, rose to the rank of full professor in 2019, and was named University Professor in 2020. He also held the rotating John D. Corbett Endowed Professorship from 2020 to 2023. Dr. Vela grew up in Xalapa (Veracruz), Mexico and became a Naturalized US Citizen in 2013.
Saül Vélez pursed his master’s (2008) and PhD studies (2012) at the University of Barcelona under the supervision of Prof. Tejada, receiving in both the Extraordinary award for his results on quantum magnetism. In April 2013, Saül joined the nanodevices group at CIC nanoGUNE to work with Prof. Hueso with the purpose to transition towards spintronics and nanodevices, areas in which he is now a reference. From September 2017 to May 2021, Saül also hold a senior postdoctoral position in the groups of Prof. Gambardella and Prof. Fiebig at ETH Zürich.
With interest in spintronics, magnetotransport, and optoelectronics phenomena, his recent research focused on exploring magnetoresistive effects and magnetic dynamic phenomena in metal/oxide heterostructure devices. Among his recent works, he has demonstrated that interfacial interactions and spin currents can be used for probing and manipulating the magnetic moments of electrically insulating materials, opening a new research field with profound fundamental and technological impacts. His contributions to polaritonics and optoelectronics in low dimensional materials and heterostructures are also multiple.
Saül joined IFIMAC in June 2021 as Junior Group Leader and found the Spintronics and Nanodevices group. In his lab, he aims at exploring non-conventional materials and new device concepts for spintronic applications.
Prof. T. Venkatesan is currently the Director of the Center for Quantum Research and Technology (Professor of Physics and ECE) at University of Oklahoma, and Scientific affiliate at NIST Gaithersburg. He is also the founding Director of the Center of Optimal Materials for Emerging Technologies (COMET) at OU. Prior to this he was Director of the Nano Institute at the National University of Singapore (NUSNNI) where he was a Professor of ECE, Physics, MSE and NGS. He wore various hats at Bell Labs and Bellcore before becoming a Professor at University of Maryland. As the inventor of the pulsed laser deposition (PLD) process, he has over 800 papers and 34 patents and is globally among the top one hundred physicists (ranked at 66 in 2000) in terms of his citations (Over 51,186 with a hirsch Index of 115-Google Scholar). He has graduated over 56 PhDs, 35 Post Docs and over 35 undergraduates. He is also the founder and Chairman of Neocera, and Neocera Magma, companies specializing in PLD and magnetic field imaging systems and co-founder of Blue Wave Semiconductors. He recently helped launch two healthcare companies in Singapore, Cellivate and Breathonix. Close to 12 of the researchers (PhD students and Post Docs) under him have become entrepreneurs starting over 25 different commercial enterprises.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS), National Academy of Inventors (USA), Singapore National Academy of Science, Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Academy, World Innovation Foundation, American Physical Society (APS), Materials Research Society (MRS), Academician of the Asia Pacific Academy of Materials, Fellow of the winner of the Bellcore Award of excellence, George E. Pake Prize awarded by APS (2012), Distinguished Lectureship on the Applications of Physics Award- APS (2020), President’s gold medal of the Institute of Physics, Singapore, Guest Professor at Tsinghua University, past member of the Physics Policy Committee (Washington DC), the Board of Visitors at UMD and the Chairman, Forum of Industry and Applications of Physics at APS. He was awarded the outstanding alumnus award from two Indian Institute of Technologies- Kanpur (2015) and Kharagpur (2016), India.
Dr. María J. Vicent received her Ph.D. degree in 2001 in chemistry after her research on solid supports from the Universitat Jaume I (Castellon, Spain) after several scientific stays in the laboratory of Prof. Fréchet’s lab. at the University California (Berkeley, USA). María then moved into more biomedically-oriented research, initially with the Spanish company Instituto Biomar S.A., and subsequently at the Centre for Polymer Therapeutics at the University of Cardiff (UK) with Prof. R. Duncan after receiving a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2002. In 2004, María joined the Prince Felipe Research Center (CIPF, Valencia, Spain) as a research associate through a Marie Curie Reintegration contract and was promoted to her current position as the head of the Polymer Therapeutics Laboratory at CIPF in 2006. María is currently responsible for the Screening Platform one of the Specialist Sites in the EU-OPENSCREEN European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) and coordinates the Advanced Therapies Program at the CIPF. She is part of the Strategic Committee of the Valencian Agency of Innovation (AVI) and serves as Director at Large for the CRS since 2021.
María’s research group (http://www.VicentResearchLab.com) focuses on the development of novel nanopharmaceuticals for different therapeutic and diagnostic applications - in particular the application of Polymer Therapeutics in unmet clinical needs. María has been funded by both national and European grants (several acting as coordinator, including an ERC Consolidator grant-MyNano, ERC-PoC-POLYIMMUNE, ERC-PoC-Polybraint and Fund Health La Caixa-NanoPanTher) from academia as well as industry. She is fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) College of Fellows 2019 and Controlled Release Society College of fellows 2021. María has co-authored »135 peer-reviewed papers and 11 patents. Three patents have been licensed to the pharmaceutical industry, one being used for co-founding the spin-off company ‘Polypeptide Therapeutic Solutions S.L.’ (Valencia, Spain) in 2012. María was the President of the SPLC-CRS up to 2013, is currently vicepresident of the specialised Chemical Biology Section of the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry (RSEQ) and the chairperson in key conferences in the nanomedicine field, such as the International Symposium on Polymer Therapeutics and the annual Controlled Release Society meeting in 2019 in Valencia. María is also the executive editor of Adv. Drug Deliv Rev, the associate editor of DDTR, and a member of the editorial boards of key journals in the field.
Julian obtained his B.S. in chemical engineering from the University of New Mexico and his M.Phil. in chemistry from the University of Cambridge, where he studied electrocatalytic materials. He recieved his Ph.D. in chemical engineering from Stanford University under the supervision of Profs. Hemamala Karunadasa and Michael Toney, focusing on synthesis, defect chemistry, and X-ray characterization of halide perovskite semiconductors. Julian is currently a Schmidt Science Fellow at the Unviersity of California, Berkeley; his present research concerns applying chemical design principles to next-generation electronics.
Dr. Villa obtained her PhD in Chemistry from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Then, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Catalonia Institute for Energy Research (IREC) on the conversion of methane to methanol and at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) within an ERC-Proof-of-concept (MICROCLEANERS). In 2018, she joined the Advanced Functional Nanorobots center at the University of Chemistry and Technology (Czech Republic), where she worked as Senior Scientist for three years. Since 2021, she is leading a research group on advanced photocatalytic materials for energy and environmental applications at the Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ).
Katherine has a strong multidisciplinary profile gained by working at 8 research centers, Colombia, Spain, Czech Republic, and Belgium. Her research areas span from water decontamination, hydrogen generation, selective oxidation processes to light-driven micro/nanoswimmers. She has received important recognitions (MSCA-UNIPD-COFUND, Beatriu de Pinós, Ramón y Cajal, la Caixa Junior Leader, etc) as well as national and international competitive funding, including an ERC Starting Grant 2022 for her project (PhotoSwim).
Her research interests include photocatalysis, nanomaterials, renewable energy, micro/nanomotors, and environmental remediation.
Born June 23, 1966 in Meppel, The Netherlands
Professor in Theoretical Chemistry, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Ph. D. (cum laude) University of Groningen (1993), postdoctoral stays at NASA Ames (1994-1995) and at the University of Odense (1996-1997). Professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (1998-present). Visiting professor stays at University of Strasbourg and at Pacific Northwest Laboratories. Awards: KNCV Clemens Roothaan Prize (1996), NWO vici (2005), WATOC Dirac Medal (2006).
Main research Interests
1. Subsystem electronic structure methods
2. Reducing the time-to-solution of computational models
3. Development and application of relativistic computational chemistry techniques
Alex earned his Ph.D. in physics of semiconductors from Chernivtsi National University, Ukraine for his work on electronic properties of nitride semiconductor alloys.
In 2004 he joined the Quantum Semiconductors and Bionanophotonics lab at University of Sherbrooke as a postdoc, working on theoretical modeling of laser-assisted quantum well intermixing and self-assembly processes of organic monolayers on metal and semiconductor surfaces for applications in bio-sensing.
In 2008 he moved to Quantum Theory Group at National Research Council of Canada in Ottawa, where he worked on many-body problems in epitaxial and colloidal semiconductor and graphene quantum dots; in particular, simulations of multi-exciton generation, Auger processes and optical properties of nanocrystals used in hybrid polymer-semiconductor solar cells.
Alex joined Ted Sargent’s Nanomaterials for Energy Group in 2011 and worked on characterization and modeling of the semiconductor nanocrystal surfaces and developing the synthesis methods for nanomaterials with improved optical and transport properties for photovoltaics.
In 2018, Alex joined the Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences at the University of Toronto, Scarborough as an Assistant Professor in Clean Energy. His topics of interest are materials for energy storage and novel materials discovery using high-throughput experiments and machine learning.
Jess is an Imperial College Research Fellow investigating spin selective charge transport through chiral systems in the Department of Materials. She currently works in SPIN-Lab at Imperial, which is led by Professor Sandrine Heutz. She previously worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Fuchter group at Imperial College London, where she optimised these chiral systems such that can absorb/emit circularly polarised (CP) light for CP OLEDs and OPDs. For her PhD Jess concentrated on organic photovoltaics and the development of advanced characterisation techniques to better understand molecular packing under the supervision of Dr Ji-Seon Kim. Outside of the lab, Jess is involved with several science communication and outreach initiatives. She is committed to improving diversity in science, both online and offline, and since the start of 2018 has written the Wikipedia biographies of women and people of colour scientists every single day.
Atsushi Wakamiya received his Ph.D. degree from Kyoto University in 2003. He began his academic carreer at Nagoya University as an assistant professor in 2003. In 2010, he moved to Kyoto University as an associate professor and was promoted to full professor in 2018. He received several awards: The Chemical Society of Japan Award for Creative Work (2020), Commendation for Science and Technology by MEXT Japan: Award for Science and Technology Research Category (2022), etc. He is a project leader of the Green Innovation Program (NEDO) and JST-Mirai Program. He is a co-founder and a director (as Chief Scientific Officer, CSO) of “EneCoat Technologies, Co. Ltd.”, a startup company for perovskite solar modules. His research interests include physical organic chemistry, elemental chemistry and materials chemistry.
Alison Walker's research is on multiscale modelling of materials and devices, focussing on organic and perovskite opto-electronic and electronic devices. She took her undergraduate and postgraduate degrees at the University of Oxford, followed by postdocs at Michigan State University in the US and at Daresbury Laboratory in the UK. Then she took up a lectureship at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK, moving to the University of Bath in 1998, holding a Royal Society Industry Fellowship with Cambridge Display Technology 2003-2006. She directs the Centre for Doctoral Training in New and Sustainable Photovoltaics involving 7 UK universities. She has coordinated four EU projects, including the Horizon 2020 Innovative Training Network, Maestro,MAking pErovskiteS TRuly explOitable, and was a partner in the Horizon2020 project EoCoE -II, Energy Oriented Centre of Excellence for Energy, towards exascale for energy. In 2019 she chaired the Solar Commission aimed at publicising the role of solar in the UK economy - see her website https://people.bath.ac.uk/pysabw/. She was a member of the physics assessment sub panel for assessing UK research in 2021.
Prof. Aron Walsh holds the Chair in Materials Design at Imperial College London. He received his PhD in Chemistry from Trinity College Dublin and later worked at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, University College London, and the University of Bath. His research combines technique development and applications at the interface between solid-state chemistry and physics. He was awarded the EU-40 prize from the Materials Research Society for his work on the theory of solar energy materials, and is an Associate Editor for the Journal of the American Chemical Society.
Marc Walter received his PhD in Chemistry from ETH Zurich in 2016. From 2016 to 2021, he worked as R&D and Application Manager at Wacker Chemie, mostly focusing on silicon-based anode materials for Li-ion batteries. Since 2021 he is a Senior Manager for Technology at BASF Stationary Energy Storage pursuing the joint development of sodium-sulfur (NAS®) batteries with NGK Insulators.
Ergang Wang was appointed as a Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at Chalmers in 2019. He has been an Associated Professor in 2016-2019 and Assistant Professor in 2012-2016. Previously, he has been a postdoc fellow in the same department in 2008-2011. He obtained his PhD degree in Materials Science in 2008 and Docentship in 2015.
The focus of his research is on the development of new conjugated polymers, 2D materials and Graphene-like materials. The main applications of the materials are organic solar cells, photodetectors, light-emitting diodes, light-emitting electrochemical cells, electrochromics, field effect transistors and supercapacitors.
Hai Wang studied materials science at Zhejiang University and obtained his degree in 2009. Between 2009 and 2011, he finished a joint master program in nanoscience at University of Leuven (2009-2010) in Belgium and Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands (2010-2011), supported by the Erasmus Mundus fellowship. From 2012, Hai Wang started his PhD at Max Planck institute for polymer research (MPI-P) in Mainz with the support of a fellowship from MAINZ (graduate school of excellence, materials science in Mainz). In his PhD, Hai worked with Enrique Cánovas and Mischa Bonn on investigating ultrafast charge transfer process at quantum dot and oxide interfaces, and graduated with Summa Cum Laude (with highest honors) in February of 2016. After that, he spent ~ 1.5 year in the group of Mathias Kläui at University of Mainz as a postdoc, where he focused on studying the ultrafast carrier dynamics in graphene and graphene nanoribbons. On 1 August, 2017, Hai started his group “Nano- optoelectronic materials” in the Molecular Spectroscopy department at MPI-P.
Tao Wang is Professor of Materials Science in the School of Materials Science & Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, China. He received his B.S. in Polymer Materials and Engineering (2002) and M.Sc. in Materials Science (2005). He obtained his Ph.D. in Soft Condensed Matter Physics from the University of Surrey (UK) in Feb. 2009. Subsequently, he moved to the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Sheffield (UK), where he worked with Prof. Richard Jones (FRS) and Prof. David Lidzey on organic solar cells. He became a professor in Wuhan University of Technology (China) in 2014. He is admitted as Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry in 2019, and is an Editoral Board Member of Reports on Progress in Physics. His current research interests are organic and hybrid optoelectronic devices. He has published over 100 journal papers in Joule, Advanced Materials, Advanced Energy Materials and so on.
Lianzhou Wang is Professor and Australian Research Council (ARC) Laureate Fellow in School of Chemical Engineering, Director of Nanomaterials Centre (Nanomac), and Senior Group Leader of Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, the University of Queensland (UQ). His research focuses on the design and application of semiconductor nanomaterials for renewable energy conversion/storage applications including photocatalytsts for solar hydrogen production, low cost solar cells and batteries. He has contributed 15 edited books and chapters, > 400 journal publications, and 17 patents, with >24000 citations. He won some prestigious Fellowships/awards including ARC QEII Fellowship, Future Fellowship and Laureate Fellowship, UQ Research Excellence Award and Research Supervision Award, Scopus Young Researcher Award, RACI Research Excellence Award in Chemical Engineering. He is the fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry and was named in the list of the Clarivate’s Highly Cited Researchers.
Qian Wang is currently an Associate Professor at Nagoya University, Japan. She obtained her Ph.D. in 2014 at the University of Tokyo, Japan. She then worked as a postdoctoral researcher for the Japan Technological Research Association of Artificial Photosynthetic Chemical Processes (ARPChem) project at the University of Tokyo. In 2018, she became a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge. She joined Nagoya University as an Associate Professor in May 2021 and established her research group, which is currently developing new materials, approaches, and technologies for solar energy storage in the form of renewable fuels via artificial photosynthesis.
Dr. Cheng Wang is a Physicist Staff Scientist at the ALS, LBNL. He obtained his bachelor’s degree in physics from Jilin University, China in 2002, and received his Ph.D. in physics in North Carolina State University advised by Prof. Harald Ade in 2008. After graduation, he joined the ALS, LBNL where he led the development of Resonant Soft X-ray Scattering for soft materials and led the construction of the world’s first RSoXS beamline at ALS beamline 11.0.1.2. He is a leading expert on the development of soft X-ray metrology and utilize advanced synchrotron x-ray probes such as X-ray scattering, microscopy and spectroscopy to elucidate the morphology, chemistry, and interfacial structure of broad range of complex materials.
Guillaume Wantz graduated from the School of Chemistry and Physics of Bordeaux (ENSCPB) in 2001 including a thesis work at Philips Research (Eindhoven, NL) on ink-jet printing. He received his Ph.D. in Electronics Engineering from the University of Bordeaux in 2004 working on Polymer Light Emitting Diodes. He was Assistant Professor at the University of Bordeaux working on Organic Field Effect Transistors with research stays at Queen’s University (Kingston, Canada). In 2006, he was appointed as tenure Associate Professor at the Bordeaux Institute of Technology (Bordeaux INP). He is Professeur des Universités since 2021. His research interest is on Organic Electronics with a focus on polymer photovoltaic solar cells (OPV). He was invited-professor at Queen’s University (Kingston, Ontario, Canada) in Spring 2012 and at Univ. of Massachusetts (Amherst, USA) in Fall 2014. He has been appointed at the “Institut Universitaire de France” (IUF Paris) in 2016. Since 2017, he is Associate Editor for the journal “Materials Chemistry Frontiers” (RSC). He is co-founder of Héole, a company developing flexible OPV products including solar-powered sails for yachting, a solar zeppelin and some BIPV flexible OPV products. To date, he has published 125 research papers in peer-reviewed international journals and issued 7 patents (h = 37 – 6000 citations – source Google Scholar).
Group Leader for Functional Molecules and Materials for Energy Conversion at the Technical University of Munich (TUM, Germany).
Michael R. Wasielewski is currently the Clare Hamilton Hall Professor of Chemistry at Northwestern University, Executive Director of the Institute for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern, and Director of the Center for Molecular Quantum Transduction, a United States Department of Energy Energy Frontier Research Center. His research has resulted in over 730 publications and focuses on light-driven processes in molecules and materials, artificial photosynthesis, molecular electronics, quantum information science, ultrafast optical spectroscopy, and time-resolved electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy. His honors and awards include membership in the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; the Bruker Prize in Electron Paramagnetic Spectroscopy (EPR); the Josef Michl American Chemical Society Award in Photochemistry; the International EPR Society Silver Medal in Chemistry; the Royal Society of Chemistry Physical Organic Chemistry Award; the Chemical Pioneer Award of the American Institute of Chemists; the Royal Society of Chemistry Environment Prize; the Humboldt Research Award; the Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award of the American Chemical Society; the Porter Medal for Photochemistry; and the James Flack Norris Award in Physical Organic Chemistry of the American Chemical Society. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Chicago.
Benjamin Watts is a beamline scientist at the PolLux scanning transmission soft X-ray spectro-microscope (STXM) specialising in the materials analysis of soft matter. He obtained a BSc (Professional) in Physics, with Honours, and a PhD in Physics from the University of Newcastle, Australia, before working as a post-doctoral researcher with North Carolina State University (permanently stationed at the Advanced Light Source, Berkeley) in the USA and then moving to PSI. Details of the interactions between soft X-ray light and organic materials has been a continuing theme throughout both his university research and later career.
Stefan Weber (born 1981) studied physics at the University of Konstanz. For his PhD thesis, he joined the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in 2007, where he studied organic electronic materials with atomic force microscopy in an international German-Korean research-training group. He then went to University College Dublin, where he studied high-resolution force microscopy at liquid-solid interfaces. Since 2012 he has been group leader at the MPI-P and, since 2014, a junior professor in the physics department of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. Since his doctoral thesis, he has been working on the application and further development of force microscopy methods. He aims at understanding basic mechanisms in nanostructures as found e.g. in solar cell materials.
Prof. Bert Weckhuysen (52) received his master degree in chemical and agricultural engineering with greatest distinction from Leuven University (Belgium) in 1991. After obtaining his PhD degree from Leuven University with honours (highest degree) in 1995 under the supervision of Prof. Robert Schoonheydt, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow with Prof. Israel Wachs at Lehigh University (USA) and with Prof. Jack Lunsford at Texas A&M University (USA). From 1997 until 2000 he was a research fellow of the Belgian National Science Foundation affiliated with Leuven University. Weckhuysen is since October 1 2000 Full Professor at Utrecht University (The Netherlands). Weckhuysen has been appointed as first Distinguished Professor of the Faculty of Science at Utrecht University as of September 2012. Since January 2018 he has been promoted to Distinguished University Professor at Utrecht University. He was a visiting professor at Leuven University (2000-2005) and has done a sabbatical at Stanford University (USA) in 2012. He has also been a visiting professor at Stanford University & SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (2013-2018) and at University College London (UK, 2014-2017).
Weckhuysen authored or co-authored ~ 600 publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals with an average number of citations per paper of ~ 55 and a Hirsch index of 89. Weckhuysen is the author of ~ 20 conference proceedings publications, ~ 30 other journal publications and editorial material, ~ 30 book chapters, 4 granted patents and 7 patent applications. Furthermore, he is the (co-) editor of three books. He serves/served on the editorial and/or advisory boards of Applied Catalysis A: General, Catalysis Letters, Catalysis Today, Chem, Chemical Society Reviews, ChemCatChem, ChemPhysChem, Chemistry Methods, Faraday Discussions, Journal of Applied Chemistry, Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, Topics in Catalysis, Vibrational Spectroscopy, Angewandte Chemie and The Journal of Catalysis.
He obtained prestigious VICI (2002), TOP (2006 and 2011), IPP (2020), Groot (2020) and Gravitation (2013) grants from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO). In 2012 he has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant from the European Research Council (ERC). Weckhuysen has received several research awards, including the 2006 Royal Dutch Chemical Society Gold Medal, the 2007 DECHEMA Award from The Max Buchner Research Foundation, the 2009 Netherlands Catalysis and Chemistry Award, the Eminent Visitor Award 2009 of the Catalysis Society of South Africa, the 2011 Paul H. Emmett Award in Fundamental Catalysis of the North American Catalysis Society, the International Catalysis Award 2012 of the International Association of Catalysis Societies, the 2013 Vladimir N. Ipatieff Lectureship in Catalysis from Northwestern University, the 2013 John Bourke Award from the Royal Society of Chemistry, the 2013 Spinoza Award from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research, the 2017 Kozo Tanabe Prize in Acid-Base Catalysis from the International Acid-Base Group, the 2017 Xing Da Lectureship of Peking University, the 2018 Robert B. Anderson Award from the Canadian Catalysis Society and the 2019 Karl Ziegler Lectureship Award from the Max-Planck-Institut fur Kohlenforschung. In 2015 he has been appointed Knight in the Order of the Netherlands Lion. In 2018 he received a Certificate for Achievements of the Christoffel Plantin fund for his contributions to the prestige and appeal of Belgium in foreign countries from the Belgian Ambassador in the Netherlands.
Weckhuysen was the scientific director of the Dutch Research School for Catalysis (NIOK) in the period 2003-2013 and of a Smartmix research program Biomass Catalysis funded by the Dutch government and chemical industries (CatchBio; 2007-2016; ~29 M€; www.catchbio.com). Currently, he directs two national research programs, namely a Gravitation research program on Multiscale Catalytic Energy Conversions (MCEC; 2013-2023; ~32 M€; www.mcec-researchcenter.nl) funded by the Dutch government as well as the Advanced Research Center Chemical Building Blocks Consortium (ARC CBBC; 2016-2026; 11 M€/year, www.arc-cbbc.nl) with a joint investment by government, businesses and universities. He was (one of) the main initiator(s) of these large research program initiatives. He also directs the European initiative, SUNERGY (www.sunergy-initiative.eu), to foster the science and technology to produce fossil-free fuels and chemicals to create a circular society.
Weckhuysen is an elected member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences (KNAW), Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Sciences and Arts (KVAB), the Netherlands Academy of Technology and Innovation (NATI), the Royal Holland Society of Sciences (KHMW), and the European Academy of Science; an alumnus elected member of the Young Academy (DJA, 2005-2010) of the KNAW; and a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), the American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS) and ChemPubSoc Europe. Weckhuysen serves on many boards and panels for national and international research.
Gert-Jan Wetzelaer obtained an MSc degree in Applied Physics at the University of Groningen in 2009. In 2014, he obtained a PhD degree from the University of Groningen. His doctoral research focused on charge transport and recombination in organic light-emitting diodes and solar cells, under supervision of Prof. Paul W.M. Blom. Subsequently, he continued as a postdoctoral researcher on biophotovoltaic cells involving photosynthetic proteins. In 2015, he obtained a position as group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz, Germany. His research focuses on device physics of organic light-emitting diodes and solar cells, as well as perovskite solar cells. He has co-authored more than 60 articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals.
Prof. Mark W.B. Wilson uses laser spectroscopy to explore, understand, and develop excitonic materials for optoelectronic devices. He joined the faculty of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Toronto in 2016 and leads the team in the WilsonLab.
From Port Colborne, Ontario, Canada, Mark first studied at Queen’s University, receiving a B.Sc. (2006, Engineering Physics), a B.A. (2008, History), and an M.Sc. (2008, Eng. Phys.) under the supervision of Prof. James Fraser. He then earned his Ph.D. (2012, Physics) at the University of Cambridge with Prof. Sir Richard Friend, before working as a postdoctoral associate in the Center for Excitonics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with Professors Moungi Bawendi (Chemistry) and Marc Baldo (Electrical Engineering).
He has contributed to our understanding of the ultrafast dynamics of singlet exciton fission in molecular semiconductors, as well as the invention of devices that combine conjugated organic molecules and colloidal quantum dots to enable solar-intensity photon up- and downconversion between the visible spectrum and the short-wave infrared.
Gunther Wittstock studied chemistry at the University of Leipzig and obtained a PhD in Analytical Chemistry. After stays at the University of Cincinnati (1992-1993) and at the Technical University of Munich, he prepared his habilitation at the Wilhelm-Ostwald-Institute of the University of Leipzig. In 2001 he became full professor of Physical Chemistry at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg where he runs an electrochemistry group. His research interest is focused on localized interfacial charge transfer reaction which he investigates within a larger variety of application. This includes biomimetic interfaces, functional organic thin films on the basis of self-assembled monolayers, patterned organic thin films, organic-inorganic functional materials, nanoparticle assemblies at interfaces, localized electrocatalytic reactions in particular oxygen reduction reaction in different media. Recently, there has been a particular emphasis on molecular reaction in energy conversion systems. He uses scanning electrochemical microscopy which is complemented by surface spectroscopies and other microscopic techniques. Among others, his achievements have been recognized by a grant of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the Klaus Jürgen Vetter Award of the International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE). Currently he is a member of the Executive Council and Treasurer of ISE.
Vanessa Wood is a professor in the Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering at ETH Zurich, where she heads the Laboratory for Nanoelectronics. Before joining ETH in 2011, she was a postdoctoral associate in the laboratory of Professor Yet-Ming Chiang and Professor Craig Carter in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at MIT, performing research on novel lithium-ion battery systems. She received her MSc and PhD from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. Her graduate work was done in the group of Professor Vladimir Bulović and focused on the development of optoelectronic devices containing colloidally synthesized quantum dots.
I am a third year PhD student under Professor Watson. I work on green solvent systems for application in perovskite precursors in printed carbon-based perovskite cells and modules. If you have any questions about my presentation, poster or work, please contact me at 938002@swansea.ac.uk .
Kaifeng Wu obtained his B.S. degree in materials physics from University of Science and Technology of China (2010) and his PhD degree in physical chemistry from Emory University (2015). After his postdoc training at Los Alamos National Laboratory, he moved to China to start his independent research in 2017. His current work focuses on the ultrafast spectroscopy of carrier and spin dynamics in low-dimensional optoelectronic materials, as well as relevant applications in quantum information and energy conversion technologies. He is the winner of the 2022 Distinguished Lectureship Award by the Chemical Society of Japan, 2021 Future of Chemical Physics Lectureship Award by the American Physical Society, 2020 Chinese Chemical Society Prize for Young Scientists, 2019 Robin Hochstrasser Young Investigator Award by the Chemical Physics journal, and 2018 Victor K. LaMer Award by the American Chemical Society. He also serves as the Editorial Advisory Board of J. Phys. Chem. Lett.
Matthias Wuttig received his Ph.D. in Physics in 1988 from RWTH Aachen/ Forschungszentrum Jülich. From 1995 to 1997 he worked with a Feodor-Lynen stipend at Bell Labs, Murray Hill, New Jersey. He was a visiting professor at several institutions including Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Stanford University, Hangzhou University, IBM Almaden, Bell Labs, DSI in Singapore, CiNAM in Marseilles and the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Shanghai. In 1997, he was appointed Full Professor at RWTH Aachen, where his work focusses on the design of novel functional materials. From 2009 to 2018, he was the speaker of the strategy board of RWTH. Since 2011, he heads a collaborative research centre on resistively switching chalcogenides (SFB 917), funded by the German Science Foundation DFG. In 2013, he received an ERC Advanced Grant to realize novel functionalities by disorder control. He is a member of Acatech and the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and has written about 330 publications (~17.000 citations). In 2019 he was selected as an MRS Fellow for path-breaking contributions to the advancement of phase-change materials, including unraveling their unique bonding mechanism, unconventional transport properties and unusual kinetics.
Maria Wächtler studied Chemistry at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena where she also received her PhD in 2013. After a postdoctoral period at Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology Jena (Leibniz-IPHT), she was appointed head of work group Ultrafast Spectroscopy in the department Functional Interfaces in 2015 and since 2020 she is head of work group Quantum Confined Nanostructures at Leibniz-IPHT. Her research focuses on the design of systems for light-driven water splitting based on colloidal semiconductor nanostructures and the investigation of function determining interactions and light-driven processes by (time-resolved) spectroscopy.
Dr. Qihua Xiong from Tsinghua University is a leading expert in semiconductor optics. His research interest is particularly driven by the light-matter interactions in quantum materials in reduced dimensionality by optical spectroscopy. He has published more than 290 papers, which attracted more than 23000 citations with an H-index of 84. He was elected Fellow of American Physical Society in 2018, Academician of Asian Pacific Academy of Materials in 2019, Fellow of Optical Society of America in 2020 and Fellow of Materials Research Society in 2022. His outstanding achievement has been recognized by a few prestigious awards, such as IPS Nanotechnology Physics Award (2015), Nanyang Award for Research Excellence by NTU (2014) and Singapore National Research Foundation Inaugural Investigatorship (NRFI) Award (2014), Highly cited researcher in cross-field by Clarivate Analytics (2019-2022). He currently serves as Associate Editor for Nano Letters and serves as international advisory board for many prestigious international journals, such as ACS Photonics, Science China Materials, Nano Research, eScience, Science Bulletin, etc.
Dr. Yadong XU received his PhD in School of Materials Science & Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University in 2010 and is currently a Professor in State Key Laboratory of Solidification Processing and Key Laboratory of Radiation Detection Materials and Devices, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China. Dr. XU has received many prestigious awards including “Second-class of National Technological Invention”, P.R. China, 2013, “First- class of Scientific and Technical Awards”, Shaanxi Province,2012, “Youth outstanding talent support program" in Shaanxi, China, (2017), Excellent Talents project in Shaanxi Province, China, 2016. His research interests cover development of new semiconductor materials for X/γ-ray detectors, growth of electro-optical crystals for THz application, optical and electrical properties of the semiconductor materials and defect engineering. Dr XU has published more than 70 SCI papers and documented 16 patents.
Omer Yaffe is a senior scientist (assistant professor) at the Weizmann Institute of Science.
He investigates the structure-function relationship in functional materials such as semiconductors, ionic-conductors, and ferroelectrics. Specifically, he is interested in phenomena that stems from strongly anharmonic atomic displacements in solids.
He earned his Bachelor's degrees in chemistry and chemical engineering (dual-program) at Ben Gurion University in 2005, followed by a master’s degree in chemical engineering. In 2013, he earned a Ph.D. from the Weizmann Institute followed by a postdoctoral term at Columbia University, New York.
Ph.D. in Electronics Engineering from University of Rome Tor Vergata and M.Sc. of Physical Chemistry. She was awarded a MARIE CURIE Fellowship as a part of the EU-funded project (Destiny FP7/2007–2013) . She is currently Assistant professor of Department of electronic engineering, University of Rome Tor Vergata. She has more than 8 years experience in the fields of emerging thin film PVs (especially perovskite solar cells/modules, tandem solar Module ) and electrochemistry of polymeric layers. She was a member of Espresso, ENEA, PRIN, Perseo project and collaborator for ASI project. She is currently member of VIPERLAB project (https://www.viperlab-kep.eu/organisations.asp?i=11&t=UNI_TOV) and contributing to the NEXTCCUS project as communication manger (https://www.nextccus.eu/consortium) and CHOH – D projects . Principal investigator P4SPACE project, MARIE CURIE Global fellowship
2022 (Sapienza University of Rome - Aerospace Engineering School and EPFL University)
Obtained PhD degree from National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in 2007. 2008 - 2013 years Sergii is a PostDoc in JKU Linz, Austria in Prof. Wolfgang Heiss group. In 2013 he joined the group of Prof. Maksym Kovalenko group in ETH Zurich, Switzerland where he is a Senior Research Associate (Oberassistent) since 2018.
The main achievements are for the discovering of perovskite hard radiation and full-colour photo-detectors, optical gain and lasing in perovskite nanocrystal films.
Hiroko Yamada was born in Kamakura. She received her Ph.D. degree in 1992 from Kyoto University, under the guidance of Prof. Kazuhiro Maruyama and Prof. Atsuhiro Osuka, focusing on the synthesis and characterization of carotenoid-linked porphyrins. She was selected as a Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) in 1992-1994. In 1993, she did her research under Prof. Michael R. Wasielewski in Argonne National Laboratory, USA. In 1994, she joined International Research Laboratory, Ciba Geigy Ltd., then moved to Ciba Specialty Chemicals Inc. She started her academic career in 1998 as a post-doctorate researcher under Prof. Yoshiteru Sakata and Prof. Hiroshi Imahori at the Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research (ISIR), Osaka University, then a post-doctorate researcher of CREST, JST under Prof. Shunichi Fukuzumi and Prof. Hiroshi Imahori at Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University. Since 2003, she was an associate professor in the group of Prof. Noboru Ono in Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Ehime University, and moved to an associate professor as a tenure track in Grad１uate School of Materials Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology in 2011. She was promoted to a full professor in 2012. In 2006–2010, she was a researcher of PRESTO, JST, and in 2010-2016 a group leader of CREST project, JST.
Koichi Yamashita obtained his PhD from Kyoto University in 1982 supervised by Prof. Kenichi Fukui. He was postdoctoral fellow with Prof. William H. Miller at the University of California, Berkeley for 1982-84. He moved to Okazaki in 1984 to join the group of Prof. Keiji Morokuma as Research Associate at Division of Theoretical Study of Institute of Molecular Science. In 1991 he became Senior Researcher at Institute of Fundamental Chemistry directed by Prof. Kenichi Fukui. In 1994 he moved to Tokyo to join the group of Prof. Kimihiko Hirao as Associate Professor in Department of Applied Chemistry at University of Tokyo. He has been Full Professor at the University of Tokyo since 1997.
Dr. Yanfa Yan has held the Ohio Research Scholar Chair in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at The University of Toledo, USA since 2011 and is a faculty member in the Ohio's Wright Center for Photovoltaics Innovation and Commercialization (PVIC). Previously, he was a Principal Scientist at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), USA. Dr. Yan's expertise includes theoretical study of electronic properties and defect physics of semiconductors and nano scale characterization of microstructures, interfaces, and defects in thin-film photovoltaic materials. Dr. Yan is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.
Prof. Yang Yang The Carol and Lawrence E. Tannas Jr. Endowed Chair in Engineering Department of Materials Science and Engineering, UCLA PhD: Physics and Applied Physics, U-Mass.,Lowell, 1992; Advisors: Prof. Sukant Tripathy (deceased) and Jayant Kumar MS.: Physics and Applied Physics, U-Mass.,Lowell, 1988 Advisor: Prof. Y.Y. Teng (deceased) BS.: Physics, National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan, 1982 Prof. Yang's major researches are in the solar energy and highly efficient electronic devices. He has more than 230 refereed papers (including book chapters); 43 patents (filed or issued), and 120 invited talks. His H-Index is ~82 as January 2014. His major contribution in the organic solar energy is in the understanding of polymer morphology and the influence on device performance; the invention of inverted organic solar cell, and inverted tandem solar cell; and transparent solar cells. In the past few years, Yang has created several record-high efficiencies in polymeric solar cells. Other researches he participated are: organic memory devices, solution processible graphene, and solution processible CIGS/CZTS solar cells. He has a group of 25 student and postdocs. Since 2001, he has produced 28 PhD degrees, 10 MS degrees; among them, 9 of his students have become faculty. His technology has enabled the formation of 5 startups. Honors and Awards: The Carol and Lawrence E. Tannas Jr. Endowed Chair in Engineering, July 2011 Director, Nano Renewable Energy Center of California NanoSystem Inst., UCLA. (2007-now) Top Hot Researcher in 2010, Science Watch (published by Thomas Reuters) Highest cited Paper in 2010, Advanced Functional Materials Highest cited Paper in 2008-2010, Journal of American Chemical Society (JACS) IEEE Photovoltaic Field Expert, 2009. Semiconductor Research Association Invention Award 2008. NSF Career Award: 1998; 3M Young Investigator Award, 1998. Professional EXPERIENCE UCLA (1997-present): The Carol and Lawrence E. Tannas Jr. Endowed Chair in Engineering, July 2011 Nano Renewable Energy Center, California Nano-System Institute, Director, (2007-present). Materials Science and Engineering, Professor (02-now), Asso. Prof. (98-02), Asst. Prof. (97-98) EFL Tech. (Brisbane, Australia), Chair of Scientific Advisory Board (2012-present) EFL Tech is a startup to commercialize the transparent solar cell for portable electronics. Solarmer Energy Inc., Chief Scientist (2006-present) Solarmer Energy Inc. is a startup co-funded by Yang, their business is in the commercialization of polymer solar cells. 1992-1996, UNIAX Corporation (now Du Pont Display) in Santa Barbara Postdoc (92 -93; advisor: Prof. Alan Heeger, Nobel Laureate, 2000) and Staff Scientist (93-96) Participated in research on polymer LEDs, transistors, and conducting polymers. 1991-1992, University of California-Riverside, Chemistry Department Postdoc (supervisor: Prof. B. Kohler (deceased)) Laser spectroscopy and hole-burning experiments. Prof. Yang's Selective Publications His H-index is ~82 as of January 2014 (1) High-efficiency solution processable polymer photovoltaic cells by self-organization of polymer blends, Gang Li, Vishal Shrotriya, Jinsong Huang, Yan Yao, Tom Moriarty, Keith Emery and Yang Yang, Nature Materials Volume: 4 Issue: 11, 864-868, 2005 Times Cited: 2002 (2) Polymer solar cells with enhanced open-circuit voltage and efficiency, Hsiang-Yu Chen, Jianhui Hou, Shaoqing Zhang, Yongye Liang, Guanwen Yang, Yang Yang, Luping Yu, Yue Wu and Gang Li., Nature Photonics, 3, 11, Pages: 649-653, 2009 Times Cited: 427 (3) Programmable polymer thin film and non-volatile memory device, Jianyong Ouyang, Chih-Wei Chu, Charles R. Szmanda, Liping Ma, Yang Yang, Nature Materials, 3, 12, 918-922, 2004 Times Cited: 322 (4) Polyaniline nanofiber/gold nanoparticle nonvolatile memory, Ricky Jia-Hung Tseng, Jiaxing Huang, Jianyong Ouyang, Richard B. Kaner, and Yang Yang, Nano Letters, 5, 6, 1077-1080, 2005 Times Cited: 319 (5) Synthesis, Characterization, and Photovoltaic Properties of a Low Band Gap Polymer Based on Silole-Containing Polythiophenes and 2,1,3-Benzothiadiazole, Jianhui Hou, Hsiang-Yu Chen, Shaoqing Zhang, Gang Li, and Yang Yang., Journal of the American Chemical Society, 130, 48, 16144-16145, 2008 Times Cited: 284 (6) High-throughput solution processing of large-scale graphene, Vincent C. Tung, Matthew J. Allen, Yang Yang and Richard B. Kaner., Nature Nanotechnology, 4, 1, 25-29, 2009 Times Cited: 254 (7) "Solvent annealing" effect in polymer solar cells based on poly(3-hexylthiophene) and methanofullerenes, Gang Li, Yan Yao, Hoichang Yang, Vishal Shrotriya, Guanwen Yang, and Yang Yang, Advanced Functional Materials, 17, 10, 1636-1644, 2007, Times Cited: 254 (8) Investigation of annealing effects and film thickness dependence of polymer solar cells based on poly(3-hexylthiophene), Gang Li, Vishal Shrotriya, Yan Yao, and Yang Yang., Journal of Applied Physics, 98, 4, 043704(5 pages), 2005 , Times Cited: 229 (9) Recent Progress in Polymer Solar Cells: Manipulation of Polymer: Fullerene Morphology and the Formation of Efficient Inverted Polymer Solar Cells, Li-Min Chen, Ziruo Hong, Gang Li, and Yang Yang, Advanced Materials ,21, 14, 1434-1449, : 2009, Times Cited: 196 (10) Accurate measurement and characterization of organic solar cells, Vishal Shrotriya, Gang Li, Yan Yao, Tom Moriarty, Keith Emery, and Yang Yang., Advanced Functional Materials, 16, 15, 2016-2023, 2006 , Times Cited: 181 (11) Low-Temperature Solution Processing of Graphene-Carbon Nanotube Hybrid Materials for High-Performance Transparent Conductors; Tung, VC; Chen, LM; Allen, MJ; Kaner, R., and Yang, Y., Nano Letters, 9 (5), 1949-1955 (2009); Times Cited: 114 (12) Synthesis of a Low Band Gap Polymer and Its Application in Highly Efficient Polymer Solar Cells; Hou, JH; Chen, HY; Zhang, SQ; Yang, Y.et al; JACS, 131(43), 15586- 629 (2009); Times Cited: 136 (13) Effect of solvent mixture on the nanoscale phase separation in polymer solar cells; Yao, Y; Hou, JH; Xu, Z; Li, G., Yang, Y.; Adv. Func. Mat., 18, 1783-1789 (2008). Times Cited: 106 (14) Manipulating regioregular poly(3-hexylthiophene): [6,6]-phenyl-C-61-butyric acid methyl ester blends - route towards high efficiency polymer solar cells; Li, G; Shrotriya, V; Yao, Y; Huang, J., Yang, Y.; Journal of Materials Chemistry, 17 (30), 3126-3140 (2007), Times Cited: 120 (15) Patterning organic single-crystal transistor arrays, A. L. Briseno, S. Mannsfeld, M. M. Ling, S. Liu, R. J. Tseng, C. Reese, M. E. Roberts, Y. Yang, Z. Bao; Nature, 444, 913, (2006). Times Cited: 272 (16) Digital memory device based on tobacco mosaic virus conjugated with nanoparticles; Tseng, RJ; Tsai, CL; Ma, LP; Ouyang, J., Ozkan, C.S., Yang, Y.; Nature Nanotech, 1, 72, (2006) Times Cited: 145 (17) Efficient inverted polymer solar cells; Li, G; Chu, CW; Shrotriya, V; Huang, J., and Yang, Y. Appl. Phys. Lett., 88, Pages: 253503-253505 (2006), Times Cited: 85 (18) Regioregular copolymers of 3-alkoxythiophene and their photovoltaic application; Shi, CJ; Yao, Y; Yang, Y; Pei, Q.; JACS, 128, 27, p. 8980-8986 (2006); Times Cited: 137 (19) Electrical switching and bistability in organic/polymeric thin films and memory devices, Yang, Y; Ouyang, J; Ma, LP; et al.; Adv. Func. Mat. 16, 1001-1014 (2006). Times Cited: 184 (20) Achieving high-efficiency polymer white-light-emitting devices; Huang, JS; Li, G; Wu, E; Yang, Y.Adv. Mat. 18, 114-117, (2006). Times Cited: 163 (21) Transition metal oxides as the buffer layer for polymer photovoltaic cells; Shrotriya, V; Li, G; Yao, Y; Yang, Y.; Applied Physics Letters: 88(7), Pages: 073508-510 (2006); Times Cited: 132 (22) High-performance organic thin-film transistors with metal oxide/metal bilayer electrode; Chu, C.W., Li, S-H., Chen, C-W., Shrotriya, V., & Yang, Y., Appl. Phys. Lett., 87,193508 (2005) Times Cited: 100 (23) Investigation of annealing effects and film thickness dependence of polymer solar cells based on P3HT; Li, G; Shrotriya, V; Yao, Y; & Yang, Y., JAP 98, 043704, (2005). Times Cited: 229 (24) Organic donor-acceptor system exhibiting electrical bistability for use in memory devices; Chu, CW; Ouyang, J; Tseng, HH; Yang, Y.; Adv. Mat. 17 (11) p. 1440 (2005) Times Cited: 140 (25) Nonvolatile electrical bistability of organic/metal-nanocluster/organic system, Ma, LP; Pyo, S; Ouyang, J; Yang, Y., Appl. Phys. Lett. 82, 1419-21, (2003). Times Cited: 213 (26) High-performance polymer light-emitting diodes doped with a red phosphorescent iridium complex, Chen, FC; Yang, Y; Thompson, ME; Appl. Phys. Lett., 80, 2308 (2002). Times Cited: 155 (27) Organic electrical bistable devices and rewritable memory cells, Ma, LP; Liu, J; Yang, Y; Applied Physics Letters, 80, 16, p. 2997-2999 (2002). Times Cited: 260 (28) Solvation-induced morphology effects on the performance of polymer-based photovoltaic devices, Liu, J; Shi, YJ; Yang, Y, Adv. Func. Mat., 11 (6), p. 420-424, (2001), Times Cited: 150 (29) Device performance and polymer morphology in polymer light emitting diodes: The control of device electrical properties and metal/polymer contact, Liu, J; Shi, YJ; Ma, LP; Yang, Y J. Appl. Phys., 88, 605, (2000). Times Cited: 95 (30) Device performance and polymer morphology in polymer light emitting diodes: : the control of thin film morphology and device quantum efficiency;; Shi, Y; Liu, J; Yang, Y; J. Appl. Phys., 87, 4254 (2000). Times Cited: 249 (31) Polymer electroluminescent devices processed by inkjet printing: I. Polymer light-emitting logo, Bharathan, J; Yang, Y, Appl. Phys. Lett., 72, 2660, (1998). Times Cited: 255 (Citation number is from: www.researchid.com)
Zhenyu (Kevin) Yang received the B.Sc. (Chemistry) from Nankai University in 2009 and the Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Alberta, under the supervision of Prof. Jonathan Veinot. His Ph.D. research focused on the synthesis and surface chemistry of group 14 nanomaterials (e.g., silicon and germanium). He joined Prof. Edward Sargent’s laboratory at the University of Toronto in July 2014. His research topics at U of T were the development of quantum dot and organo-lead perovskite materials for optoelectronic applications such as light-emitting devices and photovoltaics. In 2017, Kevin was selected as one of the “Thousand Talents Program” Junior Scholars. He recently joined the School of Chemistry at Sun Yat-Sen University as a Professor.
Dr. Ge Yang is an Associate Professor at the Department of Nuclear Engineering of North Carolina State University (NCSU). His research interests have revolved around the opportunities at the intersection of nuclear engineering, materials science and engineering and electrical engineering. Special emphasis is placed on developing new materials and devices for improving radiation detection and imaging technologies, which are widely needed in medical imaging, nonproliferation, nuclear security, industrial process monitoring, environmental safety survey and remediation, astronomical observation instrumentation and high energy physics R&D. Dr. Yang’s research has yielded 7 patent disclosures, 151 publications in top-ranked scientific journals and conference proceedings, and numerous invited presentations at various professional conferences. He is a two-time recipient of the prestigious R&D 100 Award together with his collaborators for developing various compact sensors to detect and image radiation. Dr. Ge Yang is also the inaugural recipient of Goodnight Early Career Innovators Award.
Heesun Yang, Ph.D., is a professor in the department of Materials Science and Engineering at Hongik University. Yang received his Ph.D. degree in Materials Science and Engineering at University of Florida and master/bachelor degrees in Ceramic Engineering at Yonsei University in Korea. Following his Ph.D. studies, he conducted two-year postdoctoral research at University of Florida. And then, he joined Hongik University in 2006. Over 20 years he dedicated his all efforts to synthesis of fluorescent quantum dots with various semiconductor compositions of II-VI, III-V, and I-III-VI families and their applications to optoelectronic devices.
J. Joshua Yang is a professor of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Southern California. He was a professor of the ECE department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst between 2015 and 2020. His current research interest is Post-CMOS hardware for neuromorphic computing, machine learning and artificial intelligence, where he published several pioneering papers and holds 120 granted and about 60 pending US Patents. He is the Founding Chair of the IEEE Neuromorphic Computing Technical Committee, a recipient of the Powell Faculty Research Award and a recipient of UMass distinguished faculty lecturer and UMass Chancellor's Medal. He serves on the Advisory Boards of a number of prime international journals and conferences, including serving as an associate editor of Science Advances. Dr. Yang is a Clarivate™ Highly Cited Researcher in the field of Cross-Field and an IEEE fellow for his contributions to resistive switching materials and devices for nonvolatile memory and neuromorphic computing.
Maksym Yarema received his master degree in Chemistry from Lviv National University (Ukraine) in 2007. From 2008 to 2012, he worked towards his doctorate degree at the Johannes Kepler University Linz (Austria) under supervision of Prof. W. Heiss. In 2012, he joined the research group of Prof. M. V. Kovalenko at EMPA as Marie-Curie fellow. Since 2013, he is working in the Institute for Electronics, ETH Zurich (the research group of Prof. V. Wood), where he received the SNSF Ambizione Fellowship in 2016 and the ERC Starting Grant in 2019. His research interest spans various topics of solid-state and physical chemistry as well as chemical engineering. Particular focus is given for colloidal nanomaterials, their synthetic approaches and applications into optoelectronic devices, memory cells, and lithium-ion batteries.
Angus Hin-Lap Yip joined the Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) and the School of Energy and Environment (SEE) at the City University of Hong Kong as Professor in 2021. He has been the associate director of the Hong Kong Institute for Clean Energy (HKICE) since 2022. He was also elected as a member of the Hong Kong Young Academy of Sciences. From 2013-2020, he was a Professor at the State Key Laboratory of Luminescent Materials and Devices (SKLLMD) at the South China University of Technology (SCUT). He got his BSc (2001) and MPhil (2003) degrees in Materials Science from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and completed his PhD degree in MSE in 2008 at the University of Washington (UW), Seattle. His research combines materials, interface, and device engineering to improve polymer and perovskite solar cells and other optoelectronic devices. He has published more than 270 scientific papers with citations over 36000 and an H-index of 99. He was also honoured as ESI“Highly Cited Researcher” in Materials Science 9 times from 2014-2022.
Amirreza received his BSC. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from the Tehran Polytechnic (2010) and Sharif University of Technology (2013), Tehran, Iran. In 2014, he was awarded an F.P.I scholarship from Spanish Research Council (CSIC). He received his Ph.D. in the field of neuromorphic engineering at the Instituto de Microelectronica de Sevilla (IMSE-CNM-CSIC), University of Seville, Seville, Spain in 2018. He has been visiting scholar/Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Manchester (UK), Brain and Mind Institute (CerCo, CNRS, Toulouse), National University of Singapore, imec (Ghent), BrainChip (Toulouse) and GrAI-Matter-Labs (Eindhoven). Since 2020, he is a neuromorphic architect researcher in IMEC (Eindhoven, Netherlands) with a focus on designing low-power neuromorphic processor architecture.
Dr. Minghao Yu, PI, holds an independent research group (Electrochemistry for Sustainable Energy Storage) at Technische Universität Dresden. His research interest includes 1) the development of novel organic and inorganic 2D layered materials, 2) the investigation of advanced artificial interphases and electrolytes for next-generation batteries, 3) fundamental charge and ion dynamics during electrochemical energy storage processes, and 4) sustainable energy storage device fabrication, including supercapacitors, hybrid-ion capacitors, aqueous batteries, dual-ion batteries, and multivalent metal (Zn, Mg, Al) batteries. He has published more than 120 scientific articles which have attracted more than 20,000 citations with an H-index of 69 (Web of Science). Besides, he is also an associated member of the Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden (cfaed), an associated group leader at Max-Planck-Institut für Mikrostrukturphysik, a highly cited researcher (Clarivate Analytics, 2018-now), 2023 ERC Starting Grant winner, and a Fellow of the Young Academy of Europe.
Prof.Hua Yu received his Ph.D. in 2010 from Griffith University. He did his postdoctoral study at the Nanomaterials Centre of The University of Queensland from 2011 to 2015. After that, he worked as a research follow at Advanced Materials Processing Center in Australia from 2015 to 2018, working with CSIRO Dow-Chemical and Shandong Xingroup for industrialization research. Currently, he is working at Southwest Petroleum University. His current research interests include smart thin-film materials in perovskite solar cells, energy-storage devices, and smart glass. Prof.Hua Yu has published 46 papers in peer-viewed top journals with citations over 2500. He also published two chapters and one book. His current H-index is 27(Google Scholar).
Yongbo Yuan is a Professor in the Hunan Key Laboratory of Super-microstructure and Ultrafast Process and the School of Physics and Electronics in Central South University (CSU). He got his B.S. degree of physics in 2004 and Ph.D. degree of condensed matter physics in 2009 from Zhongshan University. He then joined Prof. Jinsong Huang’s research group at University of Nebraska-Lincoln as a postdoctor in 2009. He joined CSU in 2016 as full Professor. His current research interests include perovskite/ polymer solar cells, organic thin film transistors and hybrid photodetectors. He had published more than 50 scientific papers with citations over 10000 and H-index of 35. He was listed as “Highly Cited Researchers”by Thomson Reuters in 2018 and 2019.
Dr. Felix Zamora is Full Professor at the Department of Inorganic Chemistry UAM, research associate member of IMDEA Nanoscience Foundation (Excelencia Severo Ochoa), Institute for Advanced Research in Chemical Sciences (IAdChem), and Condensed Matter Physics Institute Center (IFIMAC; Excelencia Maria de Maeztu). He has been recently awarded by the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry with Research Excellence Award in 2015. Félix Zamora has obtained the position of distinguished professor with the mention of the Excellence Program for University Professors of the CAM (2020).
F. Zamora is head of the Nanomaterials Laboratory (nanomater.es). His research activity can be summarized in 225 papers in scientific journals (H= 44, 9707 citations from Scopus) in the area of nanoscience, material science, multidisciplinary chemistry, and inorganic chemistry, (Nature Nanotech, Nature Commun., Chem Soc Rev, Angewandte Chem., JACS, Chem. Sci., Adv. Mater., ACS Nano,..) and 10 patents (2 transferred to a company). In addition to three chapters in books and several scientific reviews (Chem Soc Rev, Coord Chem Rev, Adv Mater, ...). More than 75 national and international invited talks at Universities and Conferences.
His recent research has focused on: i) the preparation and characterization of new nanomaterials with multifunctional properties, including molecular wires based on 1D-coordination polymers and lamellar coordination polymers to produce 2D-polymers and films; ii) Porous materials based on Covalent Organic Frameworks; iii) Alternative 2D materials to graphene (“antimonene” isolation in 2016). He has spent several periods as a visiting professor at the Nanoscience Laboratory (University of Newcastle; 2 summer periods: 2010/2012), at the Chemistry Department of the National University of Singapore, and at the Singapore Graphene Center (6 summer periods: 2013, 2015-2019).
Since 2013, he is a member of the editorial board member of Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing Group) and from 2017 of General Chemistry Journal and Editor-in-Chief of "Inorganic Materials and Metal-Organic Frameworks" section of Nanomaterials Journal MDPI.
He has developed I+D projects with several companies Abengoa Research, Nanoinnova Tech., Repsol, and Fourteen Energies. He is the founder and scientific advisor of the companies Nanoinnova Technologies S.L. (founded in 2008, UAM spin-off company, www.nanoinnova.com), Porous Inks Technologies S.L. (founded in 2020, UAM spin-off company), and Fourteen Energies S.L. (founded in 2019, UAM spin-off company).
Stefania Zappia is a researcher at the "Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie Chimiche “Giulio Natta” (SCITEC)" of "Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR)" in Milano (taly) since 2018. She obtained her Ph.D. in Chemical Sciences and Technologies from the University of Genova (Italy) in 2013, working on synthesis and characterization of organic and metal-organic hybrid materials for sensoric and photovoltaic applications. She then worked as a Research Fellow at "Istituto per lo Studio delle Macromolecole" of CNR in Milan from 2013 to 2018. She works on the synthesis of low band gap conjugated polymers for optoelectronic applications through bulk and flow synthesis, and on the synthesis of advanced polymeric and hybrid materials for CO2 recovery. She developed a strong expertise in the design and synthesis of amphiphilic rod-coil block copolymers for the functionalization of inorganic nanoparticles and/or for the preparation of polymeric nanoparticles processable from aqueous media for photovoltaic and/or biological applications.
PhD of Inorganic Chemistry and Asst. Prof. of Chemistry and Nanotechnology with more than 14 years research and industrial activities in the field of electrochemistry, photochemistry, materials science, petrochemistry, crystallography, nanotechnology and thin film PVs. He was coordinator of 5 research and innovative projects in the field of natural gas desulfurization (TRL 7), methane to methanol under ambient condition innovative reactor (TRL 7), smart electrochromic mirrors for photonic industry application (TRL 5), methane to olefin electrocatalytic system (TRL 6) and water-based nanocrystalline slurries for application in optic and photonic industries (TRL 7). He published various scientific articles and book chapters in the fields of chemistry, crystallography, solar cells, corrosion, photocatalysts, electrochemistry and computational chemistry. He also filled 13 patents in the sectors of CO2 reduction to fuels (electrocatalytic), methane to methanol (electrocatalytic), methan to olefin (EC), EC-gas desulfurization, water based polymers, methanol separation membranes, large-scale nanomaterials manufacturing, nanocomposite coatings, perovskite solar cells and modules as well as food industry by crystallization of natural sweeteners.
He is RDI manager of Iritaly Trading Company S.r.l and through this position he is managing the “NEXTCCUS” EU project (ERA-NET ACT 2021) and CHOH-D (semi-industrial Italian project). He is also working in University of Rome Tor Vergata, department of Electronics Engineering as a research fellow scientist with focus activity on development of highly stable perovskite solar modules and novel 2D perovskite structures. In addition, he is CEO of Kimia Solar as a knowledge based company active in manufacturing of advanced optic and photonic devices and materials.
Jenny started her independent research career as a David Phillips Fellow at the University of Cambridge in 2018. Currently she is tailoring photoelectrochemical platforms to rewire photosystem II both in vitro and in vivo for solar fuel and electricity generation. Her work extends into biophotovoltaic and microbial fuel cell studies.
Hong Zhang is currently a Senior Scientist in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE) at The University of Hong Kong (HKU). He will join the Institute of Optoelectronics at Fudan University as a Professor from August 2022. He received his Ph.D. in July 2018 from HKU under the supervision of Professor Wallace C.H. Choy on perovskite solar cells. From 2019 to 2021, he worked as a Post-doc with Prof. Michael Graetzel on highly efficient perovskite solar cells. His current research interests mainly focus on the design and synthesis of perovskite and metal oxide inks as well as their application in flexible perovskite solar cells and perovskite photodetectors.
Yanliang Zhang is an assistant professor and the principal investigator of Advanced Manufacturing and Energy Lab in the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at University of Notre Dame. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2011, and his M.S. and B.S. from Southeast University in 2008 and 2005. His research focuses on additive manufacturing and scalable nanomanufacturing for sustainable energy and sensor systems, hybrid manufacturing for integrated and multifunctional systems, and high-throughput design and manufacturing methods for autonomous materials discovery.
Dr. Zhang Chaoqi graduated with a Ph.D. in Nanoscience from the University of Barcelona, Spain, and is currently an Associate Professor at the College of Materials Science and Engineering at Fuzhou University, China. His research interests are primarily in the electrochemical energy storage applications of functionalized nanomaterials. In his studies related to lithium-sulfur batteries, he has developed a range of functionalized nanomaterials to serve as cathode hosts in lithium-sulfur batteries, which have led to rapid lithium-sulfur reaction kinetics and suppression of the shuttle effect. To date, he has published over 30 academic papers in this field and has garnered more than 1,400 citations.
Dr. Shiming Zhang is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE) of the University of Hong Kong (HKU), leading the wearable, intelligent and soft electronics (WISE) research group. Before that, He spent three years at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), as a postdoctoral scholar (group leader on bioelectronics), and promoted to affiliated faculty in Terasaki Inst. He obtained his Ph.D. degree (Best Thesis Award) from École Polytechnique, Université de Montréal, Canada, and B.S./M.S. degree (Outstanding Graduates) from Jilin University, China. He was recognized as a “Rising Star”on bioelectronics by Advanced Science (2022) and an“Emerging Investigator”by Journal of Materials Chemistry C (2022). He was awarded the prestigious title of “Vanier Canada Scholar”by the Canada Government, "Outstanding International Student" by Quebec Government, and "Outstanding Students Abroad" by the Chinese Government.
Prof. Zijian Zheng is currently Chair Professor of Soft Materials and Devices at the Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology, Associate Director of Research Institute for Intelligent Wearable Systems, Lead Investigator of Research Institute for Smart Energy at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU). His research interests include surface and polymer science, nanofabrication, flexible and wearable electronics, energy conversion and storage. Prof. Zheng received his B. Eng. in Chemical Engineering at Tsinghua University in 2003, PhD in Chemistry at University of Cambridge in 2007, and postdoctoral training at Northwestern University in 2008-2009. He joined PolyU as Assistant Professor in 2009, and was promoted to tenured Associate Professor in 2013 and then Professor in 2017. He has published more than 200 papers in journals such as Science, Nat. Mater., Nat. Comm., Adv. Mate., JACS, Angew. Chem.. He also files more than 40 patents and is recipient of more than 15 academic awards. He serves as Editor-in-Chief of EcoMat (impact factor: 14.6), a flagship open-access journal in green energy and environment published by Wiley. He is Founding Member of The Young Academy of Sciences of Hong Kong (2018), Chang Jiang Chair Professor by the Ministry of Education of China (2020), Senior Research Fellow of the University Grant Commission of Hong Kong (2021), Fellow of International Association of Advanced Materials (FIAAM, 2021), Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC, 2022). He is awardee of the inaugural Hong Kong Engineering Science and Technology Award.
Haizheng Zhong is a professor of photonic materials in the school of materials science and Engineering at Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT). He obtained his B.E. degree in 2003 from Jilin University, and then undertook his Ph.D. studies at the Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ICCAS) from 2003 to 2008. During 2017/04-2017/10, he spent 6 months in UCLA as a visiting student. After that, he worked as postdoc in the University of Toronto during 2008–2010. He joined School of Materials Science & Engineering at Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT) as an associate professor in 2010 and was promoted to full professor in 2013. His current research interests are in the area of colloidal quantum dots for photonics and optoelectronics. His recent awards include Xu-Rong Xu Luminescence Best Paper Award (2013), the National Science Foundation for Excellent Young Scholars (2017), Beijing Science and Technology Award (2018, 2/10), 2019 IDW best paper award. Since 2019, he serves as senior editor for The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters and moved to executive editor in 2020.
Kai Zhu is currently a senior scientist in the Chemistry and Nanoscience Center at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). He received his PhD degree in physics from Syracuse University in 2003. Before this position, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Basic Science Center at NREL, focusing on fundamental charge carrier conduction and recombination in photoelectrochemical cells, especially dye-sensitized solar cells. Dr. Zhu’s research on dye-sensitized solar cells involves the development of advanced electrode materials/architectures, basic understanding of charge transport and recombination processes in these electrodes, and thin-film solar cell development/characterization/modeling. His recent research has centered on both basic and applied research on perovskite solar cells, including perovskite material development, device fabrication and characterization, and basic understanding of charge carrier dynamics in these cells. In addition to solar conversion applications, his research interests have also included III-Nitride wide-bandgap semiconductors for high-power blue and UV light emitting diodes and ordered nanostructured electrodes for Li-ion batteries and supercapacitors.
Xiaoyang Zhu is the Howard Family Professor of Nanoscience and a Professor of Chemistry at Columbia University. He received a BS degree from Fudan University in 1984 and a PhD from the University of Texas at Austin in 1989. After postdoctoral research with Gerhard Ertl at the Fritz-Haber-Institute, he joined the faculty at Southern Illinois University as an Assistant Professor in 1993. In 1997, he moved to the University of Minnesota as a tenured Associate Professor, later a Full Professor, and a Merck endowed professor. In 2009, he returned to the University of Texas at Austin as the Vauquelin Regents Professor and served as directors of the DOE Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC) and the Center for Materials Chemistry. In 2013, he moved to Columbia University. His honors include a Dreyfus New Faculty Award from Dreyfus Foundation, a Cottrell Scholar Award from Research Corporation, a Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Award from the Humboldt Foundation, a Fellow of the American Physical Society, a Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellow Award from DOD, and an Ahmed Zewail Award from the American Chemical Society. Among his professional activities, he serves on the editorial/advisory boards of Accounts of Chemical Research, Science Advances, Chemical Physics, and Progress in Surface Science, and as a scientific advisor to the Fritz-Haber-Institute of the Max-Planck Society and ShanghaiTech University
Dr. Zhu is a Professor of School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University. He received his B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering (1998) and Ph.D. degree in Materials Processing Engineering (2003) at Tsinghua University. After Post Doc. studies in Japan and USA, he began his independent career as a faculty member at Tsinghua University (2008~present). His research involves multi-scale synthesis and assembly, characterizations and applications of materials. He has authored 2 books and 6 invited book chapters, received 16 CN patents, 1 US patent and published 200+ papers with a H-index of 51.
Yingping Zou is a full professor in Central South University (CSU). She received her Ph. D. degree from Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ICCAS) in 2008 with Prof.Yongfang Li, then performed her postdoctoral research at Laval University from 2008 to 2010 with Prof.Mario Leclerc. She was an assistant professor in 2008 and promoted to full professor in Feb, 2014 in CSU. She did her visiting research in Stanford University from 2012 to 2014, in Stanford University. Currently her researches focus on the organic small molecules/polymers for high performance optoelectronic devices. She has published more than 170 peer-review papers including Nature Photonics, Joule, Nature Communications, J.Am.Chem.Soc, Adv Mater, etc. with more than 6000 citations and H index is 42, and she also obtained more than 10 Chinese invention patents and 3 PCT patents. More than 40 invited/plenary/keynote talks have been delivered. Recently she developed a new molecular strategy, based on this strategy, she obtained word-record NREL efficiency in organic solar cells for several times.
Celso de Mello Donega is an Associate Professor in the Chemistry Department of the Faculty of Sciences at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. His expertise is in the field of synthesis and optical spectroscopy of luminescent materials. His research is focused on the chemistry and optoelectronic properties of nanomaterials, with particular emphasis on colloidal nanocrystals and heteronanocrystals.
Dr. Jesús Martínez de la Fuente (Barakaldo (Spain), 1975), holds a CSIC research position (Profesor de Investigación) at INMA. He created his research group (BIONANOSURF Group) at the Univ of Zaragoza in 2007, becoming internationally recognised in nanomaterials and biofunctionalisation. He has extensive experience in the synthesis and characterisation of novel nanomaterials (mainly gold and magnetic nanoparticles) and their biofunctionalization (with carbohydrates, peptides and nucleic acids) for the development of the next generation of nanobiosensors (using plasmonic nanoparticles and thermal transduction) and nanotherapeutics (gene therapy, photothermotherapy, photoacoustics and theranostic).
Dr. Loretta L. del Mercato is Senior Researcher at Institute of Nanotechnology of Cnr (Cnr-NANOTEC) and coordinator of the «3DCellSensing» group. She received her Master Degree in Biotechnology from the University of Naples “Federico II” in 2004. In 2007, she got her PhD in “Innovative Materials and Technologies” from Institute of Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies (ISUFI), University of Salento, working at the National Nanotechnology Laboratory (NNL) under supervision of Prof. R. Rinaldi. From January 2008-April 2010, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Phillips University of Marburg (DE) under supervision of Prof. W.J. Parak. In May 2010, she moved as Junior Researcher to the Nanoscience Institute of CNR (IT). In 2015, she joined the new-funded Nanotechnology Institute of Cnr-NANOTEC, directed by Prof. G. Gigli, as Principal Investigator where she started her own research program. She was awarded an ERC-Stg in 2017 and a MFAG AIRC grant in 2019. At Cnr-NANOTEC, Dr. del Mercato implements a highly interdisciplinary approach, spanning from Materials Science to Chemistry and Bioengineering, to address fundamental challenges in cancer-related research. Through the core expertise in biosensing, stimuli-responsive nanoparticles and biomaterials, her team develops novel approaches for studying cell-cell heterogeneity in 3D in vitro patient-matched tumor models.
Roel van de Krol is head of the Insitute for Solar Fuels at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin fuer Materialien und Energie (HZB), and professor at the Chemistry Department of TU Berlin. After earning his PhD from TU Delft in 2000 and a postdoctoral stay at M.I.T. (USA), he returned to TU Delft where he was an assistant professor until 2012. At HZB, his research focuses on the development of materials and devices for the photoelectrochemical conversion of sunlight to chemical fuels. Understanding how surface and bulk defects in thin films and nanomaterials affect light absorption, charge transport, recombination and catalytic activity is at the heart of these efforts.
Dr. van de Lagemaat received his PhD in 1998 from the University of Utrecht. He worked on the exciton dynamics, charge transport properties, and the physical and chemical properties of interfaces of large band gap semiconductors. From 1998 to 2001 he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. He is currently a Center Director and Principal Scientist at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory directing the Chemistry and Nanoscience Center at NREL. The Center researches high-efficiency photovoltaics based on III-V materials and Silicon, perovskite photovoltaics and other applications of hybrid perovskite materials, hydrogen fuel cells, hydrogen storage, and advanced water splitting, CO2 capture and utilization, energy application manufacturing science, ultrafast photophysical and photochemical phenomena in energy systems, and electrochemical energy storage. His personal research focuses on solar water splitting using advanced photocatalytic systems including 2D materials and plasmonics, exciton plasmon coupling in quantum dot/plasmonic particle hybrids, the photophysics of perovskites, and photoelectrochemical fuels formation. Dr. van de Lagemaat is also a fellow of the Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute at the University of Colorado at Boulder and he is the chief operating officer of the US-MAP Consortium consisting of National Labs, academia and industrial partners. The consortium seeks to advance U.S. leadership in optoelectronic and photonic manufacturing for photovoltaic and other applications.
Monique A. van der Veen is Associate Professor in the department of Chemical Engineering at Delft University of Technology. In 2010, she obtained her PhD at the university of Leuven, under the guidance of Thierry Verbiest and Dirk De Vos. With a 3-year postdoctoral fellowship from the Fund for Scientific Research –Flanders she continued to work at the University of Leuven, as well as in the group of Mischa Bonn at the Max-Planck Insitute of Polymer Research in Mainz. In 2013 she started her own group at Delft University of Technology. In 2017 she was awarded an ERC Starting Grant, in 2018 the Athena Prize by the Dutch Science Foundation (NWO) and in 2020 a VIDI Grant by the Dutch Science Foundation (NWO). She seeks to unravel and control the dynamical behaviour of framework materials with external physical forces. Via this route she aims to design better materials for electronics, separations and catalysis.
Elizabeth von Hauff received her BSc in honours Physics from the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada in 2000, and an MSc in Physics (2001) from the University of Oldenburg, Germany. She completed her PhD in 2005 on charge carrier transport in organic semiconductors. After post doc research from 2006 – 2011 she completed her habilitation in experimental physics. In 2011 Elizabeth accepted a joint appointment as Associated Professor between the Institute of Physics at the University of Freiburg and the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE). From 2013 - 2021 Elizabeth was an Associate Professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. In 2021 she was appointed as Director of the Fraunhofer FEP and Professor of Coating Technologies for Electronics at the TU Dresden. Her research interests are the investigation of fundamental questions in organic and hybrid solar energy material systems within the context of real applications.
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Senol Öz obtained his diploma in chemistry in 2013 at the University of Cologne
(Germany). Completing his PhD under supervision of Prof. Sanjay Mathur in 2018 at
University of Cologne (Merck KGaA PhD scholarship). In 2019 he joined Prof.
Tsutomu Miyasaka`s group as a post-doctoral fellow at Toin University of Yokohama
under a JSPS scholarship. His research interests include the synthesis, chemical
engineering, and solution processing of inorganic-organic hybrid metal halide
perovskite materials for photovoltaic application. He is currently a senior R&D project
leader at Saule Technologies and managing director of Solaveni GmbH.