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.

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.

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). 

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.

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

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

Osbel Almora graduated of Physics from the University of Havana, Cuba, in 2013 and received his Ph.D. in 2020 from both the Universitat Jaume I of Castelló, Spain, and the Friedrich‐Alexander Universität Erlangen‐Nürnberg (FAU), in Germany. His main research interests are the characterization and modeling of energy materials and devices, e.g., perovskite solar cells, and more recently he is been focused on the development of optoelectronic characterization techniques, such as the light intensity modulated impedance spectroscopy (LIMIS). He is one of the initiating members of the "Emerging PV reports" project (emerging-pv.org), launched in 2020.

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.

Agustin O. Alvarez got his Licentiate degree in Physics at the University of Córdoba, Argentina, in 2017. His final degree project was in the Medical Physics field. Subsequently, he worked for 17 months in the Sustainable Energy Laboratory, University of Córdoba, in the field of Lithium-Ion Batteries. Since September 2018, he is doing his PhD under the supervision of Prof. Francisco Fabregat-Santiago and co-direction of Elena Mas Marzá at the Institute of Advanced Materials (INAM), Spain. He is currently focused on the characterization and modelling of optoelectronic devices including perovskite and silicon solar cells and LEDs.

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.

Dr. Teresa Andreu is senior researcher at the Energy Storage group of IREC. 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. Her current research is focused on emerging technologies for hydrogen generation and carbon dioxide conversion (photoelectrochemistry, heterogeneous catalysis and plasma-catalysis), solar fuels and redox flow batteries. She has been part-time lecturer at the materials department at UB (2014-2017) and UPC (2017-2019) and she is the author of more than 100 scientific publications and 4 patents.

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

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.

Ivan Aprahamian was born and raised in Jerusalem. He received all his degrees (BSc-1998, MSc-2000, and PhD-2005) from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His doctoral research was conducted under the supervision of Professors Mordecai Rabinovitz and Tuvia Sheradsky, and focused on NMR spectroscopic studies of alkali metal reduced polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. He then carried out postdoctoral research in Professor J Fraser Stoddart's Group at UCLA (2005-2008), where he focused on the synthesis of switchable and highly-ordered interlocked molecules in the form of bistable [n]rotaxanes. He joined the Department of Chemistry at Dartmouth College as an Assistant Professor in August 2008, and was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 2014, and Full Professor in 2019. He is the recipient of numerous awards including the NSF CAREER award,Cram Lehn Pedersen Prize in Supramolecular Chemistry, Humboldt Research Fellowship, and is a fellow of the RSC.

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.

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"

Harry Atwater is the Howard Hughes Professor of Applied Physics and Materials Science at the California Institute of Technology. Atwater’s scientific interests span light-matter interactions from quantum nanophotonics, two-dimensional materials and metasurfaces to solar photovoltaics and artificial photosynthesis. Atwater is an early pioneer in nanophotonics and plasmonics; he gave the name to the field of plasmonics in 2001. He currently serves as Director of the Liquid Sunlight Alliance, a DOE Solar Fuels Hub project, and was the founding Director of the Resnick Sustainability Institute at Caltech. He also chairs the Breakthrough Starshot Lightsail Committee and is a PI of the Caltech Space Solar Power Project.

Atwater has laid the foundations for plasmonic and negative index metamaterials, as well as tunable nanophotonic materials and metasurfaces. He has pioneered principles for light management and high efficiency solar cell design.  He was the co-founder of Alta Devices, a solar photovoltaics company in Santa Clara, CA that holds the current world records for 1 Sun single and dual junction solar cell efficiency as well as solar module efficiency.

As of October 2020, he has authored or co-authored more than 500 publications and 60 patents cited in aggregate > 70,000 times and marked by citation metrics: h index = 95 (Web of Science) and h = 118 (Google Scholar), and he is an ISI Highly Cited Researcher (2014-2019). His group’s advances in the solar energy and plasmonics field have been reported in Scientific American, Science, Nature Materials, Nature Photonics and Advanced Materials.

Harry Atwater is a Member of US National Academy of Engineering and is also a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the Materials Research Society, SPIE and the National Academy of Inventors.  Atwater has been honored by awards including: Kavli Innovations in Chemistry Lecture Award, American Chemical Society (2018); APS David Adler Lectureship for Advances in Materials Physics (2016); Julius Springer Prize in Applied Physics (2014); Fellowship from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (2013); ENI Prize for Renewable and Nonconventional Energy (2012); SPIE Green Photonics Award (2012); MRS Kavli Lecturer in Nanoscience (2010); and the Popular Mechanics Breakthrough Award (2010). He also received the Joop Los Fellowship from the Dutch Society for Fundamental Research on Matter (2005), the A.T.&T. Foundation Award (1990), the NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award (1989) and the IBM Faculty Development Award in 1989-1990.

He is the founding Editor in Chief for the journal ACS Photonics, and is Associate Editor for the IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics. In 2006 he founded the Gordon Research Conference on Plasmonics, for which he served as chair in 2008.  Professor Atwater has worked extensively as a consultant for industry and government and has actively served the materials community in a variety of roles, including President of the Materials Research Society in 2000, MRS Meeting Chair in 1997, and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Gordon Research Conferences. He also teaches graduate level Applied Physics classes at Caltech in nanophotonics, solid-state physics and device physics.

Professor Atwater received his B. S., M. S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1981, 1983 and 1987, respectively. He held the IBM Postdoctoral Fellowship at Harvard University from 1987-88 and has been a member of the Caltech faculty since 1988.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

 

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

Shannon Boettcher is currently an Associate Professor in Chemistry at the University of Oregon. His research interests center on developing materials for solar energy conversion and storage. Current efforts focus on the synthesis and study of heterogeneous electrocatalysts with precise molecular and nanoscale structures, the development of alternative deposition routes for high-performance III-V semiconductors such as GaAs, and on understanding the details of interfaces between semiconductors and electrocatalysts in oxygen and hydrogen evolving photoelectrodes. Boettcher received his B.A. in Chemistry at the University of Oregon in 2003 where he was a Barry M. Goldwater Scholar. He received his Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry with Galen Stucky at UC Santa Barbara in 2008 where he was an NSF Graduate Research and UC Chancellor's Fellow. As a Kavli Nanoscience Institute Prize Postdoctoral Scholar, he studied three-dimensional Si structures for solar energy conversion and storage at the California Institute of Technology working with Nate Lewis and Harry Atwater. In 2010, he joined the Chemistry Department at the University of Oregon and in 2011 was named one of 18 DuPont Young Professors worldwide.

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.

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.)

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

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

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.

Prof. Paul V. Braun is the Director of the Materials Research Laboratory, the Grainger Distinguished Chair in Engineering, and Professor of Materials Science and Engineering. He also has a co-appointment as a Professor in Chemistry and is affiliated with the Department of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering and the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology. Prof. Braun has co-authored a book, about 300 peer-reviewed publications, been awarded multiple patents, and has co-founded three companies. He is the recipient of the Illinois MatSE Young Alumnus Award (2011), the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2010), the Stanley H. Pierce Faculty Award (2010), the 2002 Robert Lansing Hardy Award from TMS, a Beckman Young Investigator Award (2001), a 3M Nontenured Faculty Award (2001), the Xerox Award for Faculty Research (2004, 2009), and multiple teaching awards. He is a Fellow of the Materials Research Society and AAAS.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Maytal Caspary Toroker received her BA degree in molecular biochemistry (2004) and a direct-track PhD degree in theoretical chemistry (2009) at the Technion. After a postdoctoral period at Princeton University funded by the Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowship from the European Union FP7 (2010-2013) program, she joined the Department of Materials Science and Engineering as an Assistant Professor in 2013 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2019. She received several awards for excellence, including L'Oréal-Unesco-Israel Award (2010), New England Fund (2009), Sara Lee Schupf Post-Doctoral Award (2008/9), and the Levi Eshcol Scholarship (2007-9).

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

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

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

I am an assistant professor at Stanford University.

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. 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.

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-). 

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.

Jun Cheng received his PhD in Chemistry at the Queen’s University Belfast, UK in 2008, and the subject was simulating surface catalysis using density functional theory. He then moved to the University of Cambridge, first as a postdoc for two years developing ab initio molecular dynamics based method for calculation of redox potentials and acidity constants. In 2010-2013, he was awarded a junior research fellowship by Emmanuel College at Cambridge, which granted him freedom to pursue his interest in interfacial electrochemistry. He became a university lecturer at the University of Aberdeen, UK in 2013, and was soon rewarded the major national start-up program fund and took up a full professorship in Xiamen University, China. Over years, his research has shifted from computational surface science and heterogeneous catalysis, to method development in redox and acid-base chemistry, and to ab inito electrochemistry. His recent research interest is combining electronic structure, sampling and machine learning methods for studying chemical dynamics in catalysis and electrochemistry.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Jonathan Coleman is the Professor of Chemical Physics in the School of Physics and the CRANN and AMBER Research centres, all at Trinity College Dublin. His research involves liquid exfoliation of layered compounds such as graphene, boron nitride and molybdenum disulphide. Exfoliation of these materials gives 2D nanosheets which can be processed into films or composites for applications including energy storage, sensing and mechanics. He has published ~200 papers in international journals including Nature and Science, has a h-index of 68 and has been cited ~25000 times. He was listed by Thomson Reuters among the world’s top 100 materials scientists of the last decade and was named as the Science Foundation Ireland researcher of the Year in 2011. Prof Coleman has been involved in a number of industry-academic collaborative projects with companies including Hewlett-Packard, Intel, SAB Miller, Bell Labs and Thomas Swan. Within this work, Prof Coleman’s team were among the first to demonstrate silver nanowire networks as flexible transparent electrodes for displays and have been the leading team developing the large-scale production of 2-dimensional materials. This latter work has been licenced to both Thomas Swan and Samsung and has led to the commercial products Elicarb graphene and Boron Nitride.

Mariona Coll received her degree in chemistry from University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, in 2002. In 2007, she earned her Ph.D. degree in materials science from UA Barcelona performing the research at ICMAB-CSIC. She was a Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA, holding a joint appointment at NIST, USA, for nearly 3 years. Now she is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC), Spain, in the superconducting materials and large scale nanostructures group. Her research interests focus on the development of radically new processes to generate and stabilize nanoscale engineered functional oxide thin films and nanostructures (insulating, magnetic, ferroelectric, superconductor, and photovoltaic) using low cost deposition methodologies and the search for the comprehension of chemistry-structure-property relationship . She is on the Editorial Board of Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing Group) and Journal of Chemistry (Hindawi). She holds 1 patent and 3 book chapters and has coauthored more than 40 publications.

Emiliano holds a W2 tenure-track professorship at the Physics Department in LMU Munich and is the academic lead of the Plasmonic Chemistry Group. He is also a visiting researcher at the Chemistry Department, University College London, UK, and at the Physics Department, Imperial College London, UK.

His research interests lie at the interface between chemistry and physics, and focus on the development of novel nanomaterials and techniques, specifically for applications in energy conversion.

Emiliano studied chemistry at the National University of La Plata in Argentina. He was one of the founders of Nanodetection, a start-up company based on plasmonic sensing. He was also a Marie-Skłodowska-Curie research fellow at Imperial College London. In 2018, he was awarded with the ERC Starting Grant from the European Commission for his project CATALIGHT.

He is currently a Principal Investigator (PI) of two German excellence research clusters, Nanoinitiative Munich (NIM) and e-conversion; member of the Munich-based Centre for NanoScience (CeNS) and the Bavarian program Solar Technologies go Hybrid (SolTech). Since March 2019, Emiliano is also a member of the Young Academy of Europe (YAE) and he is currently co-editing the first book in Plasmonic Catalysis (Wiley, Apr. 2021).

Dr Serge Cosnier is First Class Director of Research at CNRS and head of the Department of Molecular Chemistry at Grenoble university (France) where he began his research career in 1983. He received his PhD in Chemistry from the Paul Sabatier University of Toulouse (1982) and was an Alexander von Humbold postdoctoral fellow (1989-1990) at Munich university. Since 2001, he is the President of the French Group of Bioelectrochemistry and was elected in 2007 President of the Rhône-Alpes section of the Chemical Society of France . Dr Cosnier is Associate Editor of Current Analytical Chemistry, Frontiers in Analytical Chemistry and of Journal of Integrated OMICS. He is also involved in several editorial boards: Electroanalysis, Talanta, The Open Analytical Chemistry Journal and The Open Current Process Chemistry Journal. Dr Cosnier’s activity is focused on biosensors, conducting polymers, modified electrodes and bioconversion. His main research interests deals with the immobilization of macromolecular biomolecules and transduction of their molecular recognition properties or catalytic activity for the design of biosensors and biofuel cells. He has made important contributions in the area of enzymatic biofuel cells, electrochemical biosensors, immunosensors and DNA sensors, functionalized polymers and carbon nanotubes, biomimetic sensors, and inorganic composite modified electrodes and is an international leader in the field of electropolymerized films applied to bioelectrochemistry. Dr Cosnier has authored over 264 peer reviewed publications (h-index 46), 2 books and 14 book chapters, holds 12 patents and he was awarded two national prizes of the French Club of Chemical Microsensors. In 2009, he received the Katsumi Niki Prize of the International Society of Electrochemistry and was appointed as Fellow of the International Society of Electrochemistry in 2010. He was recently appointed as Distinguished Visiting Professor of the University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Cluj-Napoca (Romania, 2012) and of the University of Science and Technology of Nanjing (China, 2013).

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

Date and place of birth: February 16th, 1970, Medina del Campo (Spain) 1988 -- 1993: Physics degree, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain. October 1993 -- March 1999: PhD thesis in Physics. Supervisors: Alvaro Martín Rodero and Alfredo Levy Yeyati, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain. Thesis title: "Electronic transport through normal and superconducting nanostructures". November 1999 -- December 2000: Post-doc with an "Individual Marie Curie Fellowship" in the group of Gerd Schön, Universität Karlsruhe, Germany. January 2001 -- October 2003: Post-doc in the group of Gerd Schön, Universität Karlsruhe, Germany. November 2003 -- December 2007: Head of the Junior Research Group (Nachwuchsgruppe) on Theoretical Aspects of Molecular Electronics within the Institut für Theoretische Festkörperphysik of the Universität Karlsruhe. October 2004 -- December 2006: Associate professor (replacement) in the Department of Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain). January 2007 -- present: Associate professor (permanent position) in the Department of Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain).

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.

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

 

Dibyendu Das is Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical Sciences of Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Kolkata, West Bengal, India. He received his MSc degree in Organic Chemistry at the University of Calcutta (India) (2005), PhD in Supramolecular Chemistry at Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (Thesis 2010) and postdoctoral training at the Emory University. From Jan 2017, he is working in IISER Kolkata. His lab is actively working in the field of systems chemistry and driven self-assembly.

 

Awards and Distinctions​

Advisory Board of Materials Horizons from 202

Early Career Advisory Board of ACS Chemical Reviews 2020-2021.

International Advisory Board (IAB) of AsianJOC from 2021 onwards.

Awarded Swarnajayanti Fellowship in Chemical Science 2020, DST, Govt of India.

Selected as an Associate of the Indian Academy of Sciences (IASc) 2019.

Awarded INSPIRE Faculty Fellowship 2012 from DST, Govt of India.

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.

Melepurath Deepa received her PhD in Applied Chemistry from Delhi University, India in 2004. Thereafter, she worked as a Scientist in the Electronic Materials Division at CSIR-National Physical Laboratory. In November 2009, she joined the Department of Chemistry at the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, and she is currently an Associate Professor and the Head of the Department. Her present research is focused on designing and developing new photoanode and counter electrode architectures for quantum dot solar cells, conducting polymer composites for electrochromic devices and pseudocapacitors, and novel electrode materials for Li-based batteries. She has been a recipient of the CSIR Young Scientist Award in Chemical Sciences (2008), NASI - Young Scientist Platinum Jubilee Award in Chemical Sciences (2010), and the B. M. Birla Science Prize in Chemical Sciences (2013). She has published 125 research articles in peer reviewed SCI journals, contributed to 3 book chapters and filed 4 patents, and has an h-index of 35.

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.

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 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 is Director of the Center for Hybrid and Organic Solar Cells (CHOSE) which involve more than 30 researchers dealing with the development of organic solar cells (DSC, OPV and Perovskite) and on scaling-up of these technologies for industrial applications. CHOSE has generated 5 spin-off company and a public/private partnership. Di Carlo is author/coauthor of more than 300 scientific publications in international journals, 13 patents and has been involved in several EU projects (two as EU coordinator)

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.

 

Marjolein Dijkstra is full professor (2007) in the Debye Institute for Nanomaterials Science at Utrecht University. She received a MSc degree in Molecular Sciences at Wageningen University as well as in Physics at Utrecht University. She obtained her PhD degree from Utrecht University in 1994, and was awarded twice a prestigious EU Marie-Curie Individual Fellowship to join the Physical and Theoretical Chemistry group at Oxford University and the H.H. Wills Physics Laboratory at Bristol University.

In 1999, she started her own research line at Utrecht University on obtaining a fundamental understanding on how colloidal building blocks self-assemble and how the self-assembly process can be manipulated by external fields such as gravity, templates, air-liquid or liquid-liquid interfaces, and electric fields. Her group employs Monte Carlo, (event driven) Molecular and Brownian Dynamics simulations, Stochastic Rotational Dynamics simulations to include hydrodynamics, Umbrella and Forward flux sampling, free-energy calculations based on thermodynamic integration methods, and simulated annealing techniques, and more recently machine learning techniques, to determine the (non)-equilibrium phase behavior of colloids, nanoparticles, and liquid crystals.

She is recipient of the Minerva Prize (2000), a high-potential grant (2004), a prestigious NWO VICI and Aspasia grant (2006), and an ERC advanced grant (2020), and is elected as a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). She is (vice) director of the Debye Institute for Nanomaterials Science, (consulting) editor of Reviews of Modern Physics, Physical Review X, and Molecular Physics, and has organised several international conferences and workshops.

Dennis Discher is the Robert D. Bent chaired Professor in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the Principal Investigator of the Biophysical Engineering Lab and is also the lead investigator on the NCI Phys Sci Oncology Ctr @ Penn. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and an elected member of the US National Academy of Engineering and the US National Academy of Medicine.

Brahim Dkhil received a Ph.D. (1999) in Materials Science from Universit´e d’Orsay, France. Currently working at Structures, Properties and Modeling of Solids laboratory at CentraleSupélec, Université Paris-Saclay, France, he is the leader of the “Advanced Ferroics” group aiming at better understand the microscopic mechanisms and the couplings at the origin of ferroic materials properties. His current research focuses on ferroelectrics, multiferroics, electrocalorics, photoferroics, relaxors and piezoelectrics.

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

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.

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 solar cells and photoelectrodes for solar fuel generation. More widely, he leads the UK�s Solar Fuels Network and the Welsh government funded S�r Cymru Solar initiative. He has published over 300 research papers and 5 patents, and was recently awarded the 2012 Tilden Prize by the RSC.

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.

Alexander L. Efros has been a senior researcher at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) since 1999. He was and currently is PI and co-PI on several programs related to nanocrystal quantum dots. He received his PhD (1978) from St.Petersburg Technical University. From 1973 to 1981, he was a Junior Researcher at the Pozitron Corporation, Leningrad, and from 1981 to 1990 a Senior Researcher at the A. F. Ioffe Institute of the Russian Academy of Science, Leningrad. From 1990 to 1992 he had a position of a German Physical Society senior researcher at the Physics Department of the Technical University of Munich, and for 1992-1993 he was a Visiting Scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA. From 1993 to 1998 he was a Consultant at the Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC Dr. Efros’s primary expertise area is a theory of electronic, optical and transport properties of low-dimensional semiconductor structures. He has published more than one hundred and sixty articles in refereed journals (more the hundreds of these papers are in the field of quantum dots); papers published have been cited more than 12000 times (the paper related to Dr. Efros’s pionering work on nanocrystals have been cited more than 1000 times). His pioneering contributions to the theory of nanocrystal quantum dots including establishing the basic model used for describing their electronic and optical properties were instrumental for creation a new class of the optical materials. He is continuing his active work in the quantum dot field. Just recently he suggested a theoretical model, which suggest a way to suppress nonradiative Auger processes in confined structures [ NanoLetters 10, 313 (2010)]. This model was used to explain the suppression of blinking observed in soft-confined nanocrystals (Nature 459, 686 (2009)). Dr, Efros is recipient of the 2006 R.W. Wood Prize of the Optical Society of America (with L. E. Brus and A. Ekimov) for the “discovery of nanocrystal quantum dots and pioneering studies of their electronic and optical properties. For his work on quantum dots, he also received of Humboldt Research Award for Senior U.S. Scientists in 2007 and 2006 Sigma Xi NRL Award for basic research. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (2001) and recipient of the Dolores M. Etter Top Navy Scientists and Engineers of the Year Award (2009). Dr. Efros gave more then seventy invited talks at International Conferences and Meetings and more than 200 at Universities and Laboratories throughout the US and Europe. He is co-editor with Prof. D. J. Lockwood and Prof. L. Tsybeskov of a book entitled, “Semiconductor Nanocrystals: from Basic Principles to Device Applications,” Kluwer, New York, 2003; and co-editor with Prof. L. Brus and Prof. T. Itoh for a Special Issue of the Journal of Luminescence on “The Spectroscopy of Isolated and Assembled Semiconductor Nanocrystals,” 1996.

Dr. Elisseeff received a bachelors degree in Chemistry from Carnegie Mellon University and a PhD in Medical Engineering from the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology. After doctoral studies, Dr. Elisseeff was a Fellow at the National Institute of General Medical Sciences Pharmacology Research Associate Program where she worked in the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research. In 2001, Dr. Elisseeff became an assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. In 2004, Elisseeff cofounded Cartilix, Inc., a startup that translated adhesive and biomaterial technologies for treating orthopedic disease, acquired by Biomet Inc in 2009. In 2009, she also founded Aegeria Soft Tissue and Tissue Repair, new startups focused on soft tissue regeneration and wound healing. Dr. Elisseeff is now the Jules Stein Professor at the Wilmer Eye Institute and directs the recently established Translational Tissue Engineering Center at Johns Hopkins in collaboration with Biomedical Engineering. She serves on the Scientific Advisory Boards of Bausch and Lomb, Kythera Biopharmaceutical, and Cellular Bioengineering Inc. Dr. Elisseeff has received awards including the Carnegie Mellon Young Alumni Award, Arthritis Investigator Award from the Arthritis Foundation, Yasuda Award from the Society of Physical Regulation in Medicine and Biology, and was named by Technology Review magazine as a top innovator under 35 in 2002 and top 10 technologies to change the future. In 2008, Dr. Elisseeff was elected a fellow in the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering and a Young Global Leader in the World Economic Forum. She has published over 120 articles, book chapters and patent applications and given over 130 national and international invited lectures.

- 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, 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, 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. In 2019 she received the UNESCO-L'Oréal For Women in Science award. 

Peter Erk is head of the organic photovoltaics systems research group in BASF SE Ludwigshafen. Born in 1960, he studied chemistry at Würzburg University, Germany where he received a doctorate degree in the field of conducting organic materials. After a post-doc position at Stanford University he joined in 1991 the colorants laboratory of BASF in Ludwigshafen, Germany working on R&D of organic pigments. From 2000 onwards, he focused his research on the technologies of OLEDs (organic light emitting diodes) and organic solar cells. His fields of experience are crystal engineering, photoactive materials, and organic conductors.

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.

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).

Francisco Fabregat-Santiago is Associate Professor at Physics department of Universitat Jaume I de Castelló. He obtained his BSc (1995) in Physics at Universitat de Valencia and Univerity of Leeds and received his PhD (2001) at the Universitat Jaume I where he is an active member of the Photovoltaics and Optoelectronic devices group that is focused on the development of materials and devices for the production and storage of energy from renewable sources. He 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 devices and films including ZnO and TiO2 nanostructured films (nanocolloids, nanorods and nanotubes), dye sensitized solar cells, electrochromic materials and liquid and solid state hole conductors. He is also active in the fields of QD and perovskite solar cells, photoinduced water splitting, bio-energy and bio-sensors. He has published 103 papers that accumulate more than 9500 citations with an index h of 46, and acts as referee for numerous scientific journals.

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.

Dr H.J. Fan is an assistant professor at Nanyang Technological University since Aug 2008. He received his PhD in 2003 from National University of Singapore, followed by postdoc at Max-Planck-Institute of Microstructure Physics and University of Cambridge. Dr. Fan has organized conference symposia in MRS 2008, 2010 and ICMAT 2011, 2013. He is leading his group of "Functional Nanomaterials and Atomic Layer Deposition" at NTU working on nanomaterials fabrication (nanowires and heterostructures) and energy applications (solar fuel cells and supercapacitors), as well as nanophotonics. Dr. Fan has published 100 papers and 5 book chapters.

Jochen Feldmann is Professor for Photonics and Optoelectronics and coordinator of the research cluster Nanosystems Initiative Munich (NIM) in Munich, Germany. Plasmonics with functionalized metal nanoparticles and optical applications of semiconductor nanocrystals are in the focus of his interests. As a post-doc he worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories (USA) and as a visiting fellow at JILA (Boulder, USA) and at UCLA (USA). He received numerous awards such as the Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz Award from the German Science Foundation and an Advanced Investigator Grant from the European Research Council (ERC).

Sascha is an EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellow at the University of Cambridge.

His research aims to tailor the optoelectronic properties of novel materials through chemical modifications. He investigates how material changes like doping, dimensionality and chirality impact the electronic structure, and thus enable more efficient devices or entirely new functionalities.

Before, he completed his PhD in Physics with Dr Felix Deschler and Prof Sir Richard Friend at the Cavendish Laboratory, where he investigated charge carrier dynamics in halide perovskite semiconductors for optoelectronic applications such as solar cells or lighting. He found that charge accumulation and localisation effects can be beneficial for device performance.

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

Dr. Thomas Fix is a CNRS researcher. He has 13 years of experience in the field of thin film oxides. He is a French Engineer from Télécom Physique Strasbourg. He defended his PhD in 2006 on oxide spintronics at the IPCMS laboratory, France. He then worked for six years as a research associate at the University of Cambridge, Department of Materials Science, UK. He was then awarded in 2012 a permanent position at CNRS in the ICube laboratory, France. He has experience in solar cells acquired through a Masters in photovoltaics organised by Fraunhofer ISE and the University of Freiburg. His current topics are advanced concepts for solar cells such as photon conversion, and novel oxide absorbers for solar cells.

Dr. Daniel A. Fletcher is the Chatterjee Professor of Bioengineering & Biophysics at UC Berkeley and Chair of the Department of Bioengineering, where his laboratory studies organization of the cytoskeleton and cell membrane, investigates biophysical mechanisms of disease, and develops medical devices.

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.

Heinz Frei is a Senior Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California. He studied chemistry at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich and received his doctorate degree at ETH in the Laboratory of Physical Chemistry. After a postdoctoral stay at the Chemistry Department of the University of California at Berkeley, he started a research group in solar photochemistry at LBNL with focus on chemistry with near infrared light, work for which he received the Werner Prize. Over the past two decades, Frei has established new methods for utilizing visible and near infrared light for the environmentally friendly synthesis of useful chemicals, and for the chemical storage of solar photons. Currently, his research effort focuses on the scientific challenges of the direct conversion of carbon dioxide and water to a liquid fuel by artificial photosynthesis. A frequent plenary lecturer at international conferences and member of Department of Energy workshop panels, he has co-organized several symposia of sunlight to fuel conversion in the past few years and has been elected Vice Chair of the Gordon Research Conference on Solar Fuels (2012). He led the Interface Project of the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (JCAP) and is currently Acting Director of the JCAP North Site.

 
Dr Marina Freitag is presently a Royal Society University Research Fellow and Newcastle Academic Track Fellow at School of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Newcastle University, UK.  She is continuing her work in coordination chemistry, energy relevant materials and solar cells. Previously, she held as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Chemistry, Uppsala University and a postdoctoral position at EPFL (Prof. Anders Hagfeldt's). She received her PhD degree with Prof. Galoppini from Rutgers University, USA, and her BSc, in Chemistry from Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.

Marina is the inventor of the so-called Zombie-cell and she contributed to recent breakthroughs in dye-sensitized solar cells and their low-light applications. She is a recipient of the Göran Gustafsson's Grand Prize for Young Researchers 2019.

In 1952 he graduated with distinction from the Faculty of Physics of Moscow State University. In 1955, A.V. Shubnikov and A.S. Zheludev invited Fridkin to study as a postgraduate student at the Institute of Crystallography of the USSR Academy of Sciences. His entire life, since September 1955, has been connected with the Institute of Crystallography. In 1958 Fridkin defended his Candidate dissertation on electrophotography, and in 1964 he defended his Doctoral dissertation on the physics of photoelectrets; both studies were done at the Institute of Crystallography. Fridkin has published more than 300 papers and directed 70 Candidate of Science students and five Doctoral students. His main scientific interests include the electric and optical properties of nonlinear crystals and nonlinear and photorefractive optics. However, Fridkin believes that one of his greatest achievements was the first design of a dry photocopy machine in the world in 1953. He called it an electrophotographic apparatus, but it is known today as Xerox. He received the Kozar Medal of the American Photographic Society and the Berg International Prize for this accomplishment. He was a visiting professor at the University of Trento (Italy) and the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. He has published seven scientific monographs and ten literary books.

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.

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. Galian received her Ph.D in Chemistry at the National University of Cordoba, Argentina in 2001. Then, she was a postdoc researcher at the Polythecnic University of Valencia, University of Valencia and University of Ottawa. During those years, she has studied photosensibilization processes by aromatic ketones using laser flash photolysis techniques and was involved in photonic crystal fiber/semiconductor nanocrystal interaction projects. In 2007, Dr. Galian came back to Spain with a Ramon y Cajal contract to study the surface chemistry of quantum dots and since 2017 she has a permanent position at the University of Valencia. Her main interest is the design, synthesis and characterization of photoactive nanoparticles and multifunctional nanosystems for sensing and electroluminescent applications.

Dr. Benjamin Gallinet received his Master Degree in Physical Engineering in 2009 and his PhD Degree in Photonics in 2012 from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). His research interests range from plasmonics, nanophotonics to computational optics and electromagnetics. He is currently Senior R&D Engineer at CSEM in Muttenz, Switzerland, where he leads projects in integrated optical sensing and light management. He received in 2009 the Jean Landry prize for an outstanding research work. He has an h-index of 9, is co-author of over 12 peer-reviewed publications and co-inventor in over 4 patents.

Elena Galoppini was born in Pisa, Italy. She received a Laurea in Chimica from the Università di Pisa, and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago (synthesis and reactivity of ethynylcubanes, strained cage molecules). She was then a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin, where she synthesized and studied the effect of the helix dipole on electron transfer processes in donor-spacer-acceptor systems made from peptides. She joined as Assistant Professor the Chemistry Department at Rutgers University-Newark, where she is Distingushed Professor since 2017. She a the recipent  of  the 2019 Rutgers Board of Trustees Award for Excellence in Research and has authored over 100 papers and review articles. The research interests of her group are centered on the design and synthesis of model chromophoric compounds to study electronic processes on nanostructured semiconductor materials. This research finds application in the development of functional nanomaterials, including new types of solar cells, electrochromic windows and biosensors.

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. 

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.

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. 

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.

Ph.D. in Physics UAB, MSc in Physics , B.S. in Physics, Postdoctoral Research Fellow ICN, Ex-President of National Council of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. Director of Centre for Nanoscale Science and Technology. Currently Associate Professor in the Faculty of Engineering at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. Group Leader of the Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Group UJ. Network NanoColombia Coordinator. Researcher in the area of nanomaterials, specifically production of nanostructures, characterization and study of their physicochemical properties.

Agnaldo de Souza Gonçalves is currently the Chief Technology Officer at the startup company Tezca, Brazil. He was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Inorganic Chemistry at UNICAMP from 2008 to 2009. He obtained his BA, MS, and PhD in Chemistry from the State University of São Paulo (UNESP), Araraquara, Brazil. His expertise and research interests are focused on flexible optoelectronic devices that can be made by continuous manufacturing processes.

Alexander O. Govorov is Professor of Theoretical Physics at Ohio University in Athens, USA. He received his PhD in 1991 from the Institute of Semiconductor Physics (Novosibirsk, Russia). He held research position in the above Institute from 1987 till 2001. In 2001, he moved to the U.S. His research is focused on the theory of optical and electronic properties of nanostructures which incorporate semiconductor, metal, and molecular components. Some of the topics of his research: Novel magneto-optical effects in quantum rings, magnetic impurities in nanocrystals, many-body excitons, exciton-plasmon interactions, nonlinear Fano effect, plasmonic photo-thermal effects, plasmonic chirality in nanocrystals and bio-assemblies, injection of hot electrons, etc. His theoretical predictions motivated experiments in many research labs worldwide. Dr. Govorov is an author of more than 200 papers including several papers published in Nature and Nature-family journals. Dr. Govorov is a co-organizer of several international conferences and workshops. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a recipient of Bessel Research Award (A. v. Humboldt Foundation, Germany), Ikerbasque Research Fellowship 2009 (Spain), E.T.S. Walton Visitor Award (Ireland), 2013 Chang Jiang Chair Professorship of the Scholar Program of MOE of China, 2014 Jacques-Beaulieu Excellence Research Chair (INRS, Montreal).

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. Bruno Grandidier has been a Research Scientist at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) since 2001. He works at IEMN, one of the major facilities for nanotechnology research in France, where he coordinates the group of physics of nanostructures and quantum devices. He also has teaching activities at the university of Lille and in French engineering schools. He has a long experience in working with scanning probe microscopies and designing ultra high vacuum systems equipped with scanning tunneling microscopes. His current research projects focus on the study of semiconductor materials at the nanoscale. He has been involved in several national and european projects related to semiconductor quantum dots.

Tom Gregorkiewicz is full professor of Optoelectronic Materials at the Van der Waals – Zeeman Institute of the University of Amsterdam. He has obtained his PhD (1980) at the Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences on the subject of defects in silicon. After a postdoc period, he is since 1989 staff member of the Science Faculty at the University of Amsterdam – initially as assistant professor, and since 2003, as full professor. In 2004 he received also the personal professorship from the President of the Republic of Poland. He is currently leading a research group at the Van der Waals – Zeeman Institute, working on optical properties of silicon nanostructures and is an academic teacher on both undergraduate and graduate levels. To date he has published over 200 papers in refereed journals and has given more than 80 invited presentations at international meetings. He organized several scientific conferences and symposia and is a member of multiple advisory and supervisory boards.

Martha Grover is a Professor in the School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at Georgia Tech, and Associate Chair for Graduate Studies.  She earned her BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and her MS and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Caltech.  She joined Georgia Tech as an Assistant Professor in 2003.  In 2011 she received the Outstanding Young Researcher Award from the Computing and Systems Technology Division of AIChE.  Her research program is dedicated to understanding, modeling, and engineering the self-assembly of atoms and small molecules to create larger scale structures and complex functionality.  Her approach draws on process systems engineering, combining modeling and experiments in applications dominated by kinetics, including surface deposition, crystal growth, polymer reaction engineering, and colloidal assembly.  She is a member of the NSF/NASA Center for Chemical Evolution, and Georgia Tech’s Decision and Control Laboratory.

Peter Grutter (PhD 1989 from the University of Basel) joined the Physics Department at McGill University in Montreal in 1994. His group works on developing tools, mainly scanning probe microscopy based, and applying them to problems in nanoscience and technology as well as to neuroscience. Research project descriptions as well as links to all papers and thesis of his group can be found at www.physics.mcgill.ca/~peter Grutter won the NSERC E.W.R. Steacie award (2001), and the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIfAR) 'Top 20 under 40 in Canada’ in 2002. He is Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Studies for the Faculty of Science at McGill University, Fellow and Director of the Nanoelectronics Program of CIfAR as well as the past Director of the Quebec Strategic Regroupment in Advanced Materials and the NSERC NanoInnovation Platform. He is an Associate of the Chemistry Department at McGill and Member of the Centre de recherche sur le cerveau, le comportement et la neuropsychiatrie. In 2005 he won the Rutherford Memorial Medal in Physics from the Royal Society of Canada and was appointed Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

Professor Gu's research focuses on designing novel solid-state and hybrid electrocatalysts for fuel generation, along with investigating and tailoring charge transfer mechanisms at the semiconductor-catalyst interface for solar energy conversion reactions, such as CO₂ reduction, water oxidation, and water reduction.

Mael Guennou defended his PhD in 2007 at the Ecole Centrale Paris (France) on the piezoelectric properties and domain engineering of relaxor-based PZN-PT single crystals. As a post-doctoral researcher in Grenoble (France), he studied structural distortions and instabilities in perovskites at high pressures by means of X-ray diffraction and Raman spectroscopy and then, at the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic in Prague, lead-free piezoelectric single crystals. Since 2013, he is working as a researcher at the Luxembourg Institute for Science and Technology (LIST), where he follows the same research line, with a more recent focus on ferroic domain walls and resonant Raman spectroscopy.

Antonio Guerrero is a materials science chemist currently contracted as a Ramón y Cajal Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Materials (Jaume I University, Spain).  Antonio completed a Ph.D. in Organometallic Chemistry (University of East Anglia, UK) industrially funded by Bayer CA focused on the design of new catalysts for the production of butyl rubber. Subsequently, Antonio worked during 4 years at the company Cambridge Display Technology where he developed some of the state of the art semiconducting materials for Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLEDs). In 2010 Antonio Guerrero joined the group of Prof. Juan Bisquert at the University Jaume I where he learnt the insights of impedance spectroscopy to understand the operation mechanism of several electronic devices. Over the last few years, his work has been focused in three different lines of research: 1-Perovskite Materials for photovoltaic applications, 2-Organic Photovoltaics and 3- Photoelectrochemical Cells.

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.

Dirk M. Guldi completed both his undergraduate studies (1988) and PhD (1990) at the University of Cologne (Germany). Following postdoctoral appointments at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (USA), the Hahn-Meitner Institute Berlin (1992), and Syracuse University, he joined the faculty of the Notre Dame Radiation Laboratory in 1995. He was promoted a year later from assistant to associate professional specialist, and remained affiliated to Notre Dame until 2004. Since 2004, he is Full Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy at the Friedrich-Alexander University in Erlangen. Since 2018, Dirk M. Guldi is Co-Editor in Chief of Nanoscale and Nanoscale Horizons and he has been named among the world’s Highly Cited Researchers by Thomson Reuters.

The Guldi group and its network belong to the cutting edge of worldwide research in solar-energy conversion with expertise not only in advanced photon- and charge-management, but also in the synthesis of tailored materials and molecular modeling. Impressive documentations of their accomplishments are more than 700 peer-reviewed publications, nearly 40,000 citations, and an h-index of 100. At the heart is always a multifaceted and interdisciplinary research program, where his group designs, conceptually devises, synthesizes, tests, and characterizes novel nanometer scale materials with the objective of using them in solar energy conversion schemes. A broad range of spectroscopic (i.e. time-resolved and steady-state measurements with spectrophotometric detection covering a time range from femtoseconds to minutes) and microscopic techniques (i.e. scanning probe microscopy, electron microscopy) are routinely employed to address aspects that correspond to the optimization and fine-tuning of dynamics and/or efficiencies of charge separation, charge transport, charge shift, and charge recombination processes.

Devens Gust has research and teaching interests in organic chemistry including artificial photosynthetic solar energy conversion, organic photovoltaics, molecular computing, and general photochemistry. Professor Gust received his B.S. degree from Stanford University and his Ph.D. in chemistry from Princeton University. He completed postdoctoral research at Caltech before joining Arizona State University. At ASU, he has served as Chair of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Director of the Photosynthesis Research Center. He is currently Director of the Center for Bio-Inspired Solar Fuel Production, a U. S. Department of Energy, Energy Frontier Research Center. He has held visiting professorships at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, University of Sydney, Australia, and Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France. Professor Gust has published over 300 research articles, and is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Institute of Physics (London).

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.  

Director of Institute of Physics & Chemistry of functional Materials Strasbourg (IPCMS,www-ipcms.u-strasbg.fr) Since 2004 : Professor in Physics, University of Strasbourg 1999 � 2004: Assistant Professor Physics Department Lausanne University & EPFL 1999 : Habilitation, �cole Polytechnique F�d�rale de Lausanne (EPFL) 1994 - 99 : Res. Associate Inst. Micro-&Optoelectronics, �cole Polytechnique F�d�rale de Lausanne 1990 - 94 : PhD thesis in Physics, High Magnetic Field Lab Grenoble, Universit� J. Fourier Grenoble

Anders Hagfeldt is Professor in Physical Chemistry and the Dean of Chemistry at Uppsala University, Sweden. He is also the Director of the Center for Molecular Devices (CMD) and Chairman of Dyenamo AB. He obtained his Ph.D. at Uppsala University in 1993 and was a post-doc with Prof. Michael Grätzel at EPFL, Switzerland (1993-1994). His research focuses on the field of mesoporous dye-sensitized solar cells, specifically physical chemical characterization of mesoporous electrodes for different types of opto-electronic devices. He has published more than 260 scientific papers that have received over 20,000 citations (with an h-index of 67), and has 8 patent applications. He was ranked number 46 on a list of the top-100 material scientists of the past decade by Times Higher Education in 2011, and in 2012 he was awarded the Nature Award for Mentoring in Science. He is a member of the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala (founded 1710), and the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences in Stockholm. He is a Visiting Professor at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and a Fellow Professor at Sungkyankwan University, Korea.

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.

Anders Hagfeldt is President (Vice Chancellor) of Uppsala University, Sweden, and Professor in Physical Chemistry. 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 fields of dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSC), perovskite solar cells (PSC) and solar fuels. His research includes physical chemical approaches for fundamental understanding of electronic properties and dynamics of materials, interfaces and devices, materials science and device development, and development of up-scalable manufacturing methods. He is co-founder and board member of the company Dyenamo AB.

He has published more than 560 scientific papers that have received over 96,000 citations with an h-index of 144 (Google Scholar). He was ranked number 46 on a list of the top 100 material scientists of the past decade by Times Higher Education. In 2014-2020 he was on the list of Thomson Reuter’s Highly Cited Researchers. He is a member of the European Academy of Sciences, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala, and the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences in Stockholm. He is Doctor Honoris Causa at Université Paris Diderot, France, and Professeur Honoraire at EPFL, Switzerland.

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. 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.

Dr. Liyuan Han is a director of photovoltaic materials unit, National Institute for Materials Science. He received a doctor’s degree from the University of Osaka Prefecture in 1988. During 1990-1993, he worked in Dainippon Ink & Chemicals Inc. on organic photoconductor materials. He then moved to SHARP Corporation. He had been investigating dye-sensitized solar cells, especially, improving the conversion efficiency of cells and sub-modules, and developing new sensitized dyes, since 1996. He moved to current position from June 2008 and developed large area of perovskite solar cells with certificated efficiency 18.2% in NIMS. He is inventor in about 100 patents and author in 140 scientific publications in the field of thin film solar cells. His current research interests involve perovskite solar cells and dye sensitized solar 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.

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.

Tobias received a B.S. from the University of Tulsa, OK (2000), M.S. from University of Texas at Austin (2002) and PhD., University of Texas at Austin (2004) in the group of Brian Korgel. He served as Postdoctoral Research Fellow, MIT (2005) Postdoctoral Research Fellow, TU Eindhoven, and The Netherlands (2006-2007) before coming to Cornell. Tobias is an Associate Professor in the Robert Fredrick Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and a field member in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.

Kenneth Hanson received a B.S. in Chemistry from Saint Cloud State University (2005), his Ph.D. from the University of Southern California (2010), followed by an appointment as a postdoctoral scholar at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2010–2013). His independent research career began in 2013 at Florida State University as a member of the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry and is affiliated with the Materials Science & Engineering program. His current research interests include the design, synthesis, and characterization of photoactive molecules/materials with particular emphasis on manipulating energy and electron-transfer dynamics at organic–inorganic interfaces using multilayer self-assembly.

 

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.

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.