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 recieved a PhD from Technical University of Berlin in 2013. After a postdoc period at TU Delft he returned TU Berlin. His research is focussed on the linear and nonlinear optical properties of II-VI nanosheets and 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).

Dr. Mark D. Allendorf is Co-Director of the Hydrogen Advanced Materials Research Consortium (HyMARC) and a Senior Scientist at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, California. He holds degrees in chemistry from Washington University in St. Louis (A.B.) and a Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry at Stanford University. At Sandia, his research focuses on the fundamental science and applications of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) and on hydrogen storage. Current interests include metal hydrides and MOFs for hydrogen storage, chemical and radiation sensing, gas separations, MOFs for electronic devices, and catalysts for biofuels production. He is President Emeritus and Fellow of The Electrochemical Society and has received awards for research, leadership, and teamwork, including a 2014 R&D100 Award for a novel approach to radiation detection.

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

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

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.

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"

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. Presently, he is a Postdoc at the Delft University of Technology with LEaDing Fellowship (Marie-Curie COFUND) support. His research concerns PEC rechargeable flow-battery system.

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).

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.

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.

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

He has recently won an ERC Advanced Grant entitled “Electroactive Donor-Acceptor Covalent Organic Frameworks”. Presently he is LMU-Coordinator of the newly funded Excellence Cluster “e-conversion”. Bibliographic data: Over 430 publications, over 28.000 citations, h=93 (WoS). Since 2018, Thomas Bein is listed as a Highly Cited Researcher (Clarivate).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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.

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.

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. 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. 

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.

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.

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.

Choi is an associate professor of chemistry at Purdue University in USA. She received her BS and MS degrees from Seoul National University in South Korea in 1993 and 1995, respectively. She received a PhD degree from Michigan State University in 2000 and then spent two years at the University of California, Santa Barbara, as a postdoctoral researcher. She was a visiting scholar at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) during the fall of 2008. Choi’s current research combines solid-state chemistry, electrochemistry, and materials chemistry to address materials-related issues of electrode and catalyst materials for use in electrochemical and photoelectrochemical devices. She was a recipient of a 2006 Alfred P. Sloan research fellowship, the 2007 American Chemical Society ExxonMobil Faculty Fellowship in Solid-State Chemistry, and the 2010 Iota Sigma Pi-Agnes Fay Morgan Research Award. Choi is currently serving as one of the 2011 volume organizers for MRS Bulletin and the 2011 chair of the ACS-DIC solid state chemistry subdivision.

Wonyong Choi received B.S. from Seoul National University (Korea) in 1988, M.S. from POSTECH (Korea), and Ph.D. from CALTECH (USA) in 1996. He then worked at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory from 1996 to 1998 as a postdoctoral scholar. He joined POSTECH in 1998 as an assistant professor and became a full professor in 2008. His research interests are mainly focused on semiconductor photocatalysis and photochemistry for solar energy conversion and environmental applications, advanced oxidation processes, and environmental chemistry. Dr. Choi has published more than 285 articles which have been cited more than 37,000 times (H-index 81) in scientific journals to date (2019.9). He was appointed as Namgo Chair professor (POSTECH) in 2012, elected as Academician of Korean Academy of Science and Technology (KAST) and Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) in 2014. He received Young Scientist Award (KAST) in 2005, KAST Science and Technology Award in 2015, and Korea Engineering Award in 2018. He is serving as an associate editor of Environmental Science and Technology (ACS: since 2017) and served as an editor of Journal of Hazardous Materials (Elsevier: 2008-2017).

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Prof. Dr. Matthias Driess

Born: 1961 – Eisenach, Germany

Affiliation: Department of Chemistry, TU Berlin, Straße des 17 Juni 135, 10623 Berlin

Telephone: +49 (0) 30 314–22265

Email: matthias.driess@tu-berlin.de

WWW: www.metallorganik.tu-berlin.de/menue/home

Scientific vita:

2005– Professor of Inorganic Chemistry (Metalorganics and Inorganic Materials), TU Berlin 1996–2004 Professor of Inorganic Chemistry (Cluster and Coordination Chemistry), U Bochum 1996 Professor at the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, U Freiburg

1993 Habilitation in Inorganic Chemistry, U Heidelberg

1990–1996 Junior Scientist at the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, U Heidelberg 1988–1989 Postdoc, Department of Chemistry (R. West), Madison, WI, USA

1988 PhD Chemistry (W. Siebert), Metalorganic Chemistry, Boron Chemistry 1985 Diploma in Chemistry, U Heidelberg

Fields of interest:

Molecular models of heterogeneous catalysts and bioinspired homogeneous catalysts; Molecular approach to heterogeneous catalysts for efficient light-driven and electrocatalytic energy conversion (e.g., overall water-splitting); Organometallic precursors for low-temperature synthesis of nanoscaled metal oxides; Coordination chemistry for activation of small molecules and homogeneous catalysis; Development of multifunctional, low-valent silicon-based strong s-donor ligands in homogeneous catalysis

Awards (selection):

2016 Davison Lecture of the Inorganic Chemistry Division of the MIT (USA) 2016 Visiting Professor, ETH Zürich (Switzerland)

2014 Member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities 2013 Member of the German National Academy of Sciences, Leopoldina

2011 WACKER Silicone Award

2010 Alfred-Stock-Memorial Award of the German Chemical Society

Industry cooperations:

BASF SE; Wacker AG

Organizational activities (selection):

2016– Vice coordinator of the Einstein Center of Catalysis 2012– Scientific Director of the UniCat-BASF Jointlab (BasCat) 2007–2018 Spokesperson of the Cluster of Excellence UniCat

2017- Scientific Director of the Chemical Invention Factory (CIF, John Warner Center for start-ups in Green Chemistry)

2019- Deputy of the Cluster of Excellence UniSysCat

 

Publications (selection):

N. J. Lindenmaier, S. Wahlefeld, E. Bill, T. Szilvási, C. Eberle, S. Yao, P. Hildebrandt, M. Horch, I. Zebger, M. Driess, An S-oxygenated [NiFe] complex modelling sulfenate intermediates of an O2- tolerant hydrogenase, Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2017, 56, 2208–2211.

Y. Wang, A. Kostenko, S. Yao, M. Driess, Divalent Silicon-Assisted Activation of Dihydrogen in a Bis(N-heterocyclic silylene)xanthene Nickel(0) Complex for Efficient Catalytic Hydrogenation of Olefins, Journal of the American Chemical Society 2017, 139, 13499-13506.

A. Indra, P. W. Menezes, K. Kailasam, D. Hollmann, P. StrasserM. Schröder, A. Thomas, A. Brückner, M. Driess, Nickel as a co-catalyst for photocatalytic hydrogen evolution on graphitic-carbon nitride (sg-CN): what is the nature of the active species?, Chem. Commun. 2016, 52, 104-107.

Yao, F. Meier, N. Lindenmaier, R. Rudolph, B. Blom, M. Adelhardt, J. Sutter, S. Mebs, M. Haumann, K. Meyer, M. Kaupp, M. Driess, Biomimetic [2Fe-2S] clusters with extensively delocalized mixed-valence iron centers, Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2015, 53, 12185.

T. Mätsenen, D. Gallego, T. Szilvasi, M. Driess, M. Oestreich, Peripheral mechanism of a carbonyl hydrosilylation catalysed by an SiNSi iron pincer complex, Chemical Science 2015, 6, 7143–7149.

P. W. Menezes, A. Indra, N. R. Sahraie, A. Bergmann, P. Strasser, M. Driess, Cobalt–manganese- based spinels as multifunctional materials that unify catalytic water oxidation and oxygen reduction reactions, ChemSusChem 2015, 8, 164–171.

P. W. Menezes, A. Indra, O. Levy, K. Kailasam, V. Gutkin, J. Pfrommer, M. Driess, Using nickel manganese oxide catalysts for efficient water oxidation, Chemical Communications 2015, 51, 5005– 5008.

P. W. Menezes, A. Indra, D. González-Flores, N. R. Sahraie, I. Zaharieva, M. Schwarze, P. Strasser, H. Dau, M. Driess, High-performance oxygen redox catalysis with multifunctional cobalt oxide nanochains: Morphology-dependent activity, ACS Catalysis 2015, 5, 2017–2027.

G. Tan, T. Szilvási, S. Inoue, B. Blom, M. Driess, An elusive hydridoaluminum(I) complex for facile C–H and C–O bond activation of ethers and access to its isolable hydridogallium(I) analogue: Syntheses, structures, and theoretical studies, Journal of the American Chemical Society 2014, 136, 9732.

B. L. Tran, B. Li, M. Driess, J. F. Hartwig, Copper-catalyzed intermolecular amidation and imidation of unactivated alkanes, Journal of the American Chemical Society 2014, 136, 2555.

Dr. Mao-Hua Du is a Senior R&D Staff in the Materials Sciences and Technology Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He received his B.S. in Physics at Fudan University, China, in 1998 and Ph. D in Physics at the University of Florida in 2003. He was a postdoctoral associate at National Renewable Energy Laboratory (Golden, Colorado, 2004-2006) and a National Research Council Research Associate at Naval Research Laboratory (Washington, DC, 2006-2007). He joined Oak Ridge National Laboratory in 2007. His research focuses on electronic structure, optical properties, and defect physics in electronic and optical materials (with applications in photovoltaics, energy efficient lighting, radiation detection,  etc.). 

James Durrant is Professor of Photochemistry in the Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London and Ser Cymru Solar Professor, University of Swansea. His research addresses the photochemistry of new materials for solar energy conversion targeting both solar cells (photovoltaics) and solar to fuel (i.e.: artificial photosynthesis. It is based around employing transient optical and optoelectronic techniques to address materials function, and thereby elucidate design principles which enable technological development. His group is currently addressing the development and functional characterisation of organic 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.

Bruno Ehrler is currently heading the Hybrid Solar Cells group at AMOLF since 2014, focusing on organic small molecules undergoing singlet fission, quantum dots and perovskites. Before moving to Amsterdam, he was a research fellow in the Optoelectronics Group at Cambridge University following post-doctoral work with Professor Sir Richard Friend. He obtained his PhD from the University of Cambridge under the supervision of Professor Neil Greenham.

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.

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).

Since Aug. 2014:

Professor for “Inorganic Functional Materials” and head of the NANOMATERIAL group at the IAAC of the Ludwigs-Universität-Freiburg

2009 – 2014:

Group Leader within the framework of UniCat (DFG Exzellenz Cluster), Technische Universität Berlin, Institut für Chemie

Research on "Nanostructured electrodes for (bio)-electrocatalysis“

2008 – 2009:

Post-Doc at the MPIKG, Department of Biomaterials, Golm, Germany

2005 – 2008:

Dissertation at the Max-Planck-Institute of Colloids and Interfaces (MPIKG), Golm, Germany

“Synthesis of nanostructured metal nitrides through reactive hard-templating“

2000 – 2005:

Education in chemistry, Paris, France

Roland A. Fischer, Prof. Dr. rer. nat., Dr. phil. h.c., holds the Chair of Inorganic and Metal-Organic Chemistry at the Technical University Munich (TUM) and is Director of the TUM Catalysis Research Centre. Previously he was Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at Ruhr-University Bochum (1997-2015) and Heidelberg University (1996-1997). He has been elected Vice President of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) in 2016. He is member of the Award Selection Committee of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the German Chemical Industry Fund and was elected member of the European Academy of Sciences. His research interest focuses on functional molecular materials for advanced applications in energy conversion, catalysis, gas storage and separation, chemical sensing, photonics and microelectronics. To illustrate, metal-rich complexes, atomic precise clusters, nanoparticles and nanocomposites can substitute rare noble metals for important catalytic transformation of small molecules. In addition, the combinatorial building-block principle of coordination network compounds such as metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) yields ample opportunities for the manipulation and design of the chemistry of coordination space in pores and channels accessible to guest molecules. The goal is to integrate chemical and physical multifunctionality in photo-active, electrical conductive, catalytic and stimuli-responsive MOFs. Currently, he is steering the DFG Priority Program 1928 “Coordination Networks: Building Blocks for Functional Systems”.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 Grancini is Team Leader at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Valais  based in Sion (Switzerland). She graduated from Politecnico of Milan in 2008 (MS in Physical Engineering). In 2012, she obtained her PhD in Physics cum Laude from the Politecnico of Milan with an experimental thesis focused on the realization of a new femtosecond-microscope for mapping the ultrafast phenomena at organic interfaces. During the 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 has been post-doctoral researcher at the Italian Institute of Technology (CNST@PoliMi) in Milan. In 2015 she joined the group of Prof. Nazeeruddin at EPFL awarded with a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship. Since 2016, she is team leader at EPFL, aiming to address the fundamental physics behind advanced photovoltaic devices. In 2017 she has been awarded with the Swiss Ambizione Energy Grant, which provides independent young researchers with up to 1million CHF for leading innovative projects in the energy sector. She is author of 71 peer-reviewed scientific papers bringing her h-index to 32 (>8600 overall citations). Recently, she has been awarded with and ERC starting grant, focused on developing new nanostructured hybrid systems for efficient and stable perovskite solar cells.

Giulia’s work focuses on the current scientific challenge of exploring the fundamental photophysical processes underlying the operation of advanced optoelectronic devices, with a special attention to new generation photovoltaics. In particular, she contributed with pioneer works to the understanding of the interface physics which governs the operation of organic and hybrid perovskite solar cells.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 at the University of Chicago appointed jointly in the departments of physics and chemistry.[1][2] He works in the field of colloidal semiconductors and metal nanocrystals.

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.

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. 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.

Sophia Haussener is an Assistant Professor heading the Laboratory of Renewable Energy Science and Engineering at the Ecole Polytechnique F�d�rale 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 40 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), and the ABB Forschungspreis (2012). She serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy and as a deputy head of the Swiss Competence Center of Energy Research on storage.

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.

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. Since 2015 he holds the Chair of Theoretical Chemistry at University of Leipzig, Germany. 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.

Professor Dr. Renate Hiesgen, born on 18.08.1958 in Germany, is Professor for Experimental Physics at the University of Applied Sciences, Department of Basic Science in Esslingen, Germany.

She studied Physics at the University of Münster and received her PhD with electron microscopy studies under the supervision of Prof. L. Reimer in 1989.

Her work on in-situ characterization of interfaces by scanning tunneling microscopy started at the Institute for Solar Energy Research in Hannover in 1998. After continued research with scanning tunneling and atomic force microscopy at the Research Center Jülich GmbH and the Technical University Munich, she became Professor for Experimental Physics at the University of Applied Sciences Esslingen in 2000. Main topics of her group are characterization of materials and interfaces for energy applications. In addition to battery materials and semiconductors for solar energy conversion, a focus of her work in recent years has been the investigation of ionomers and electrodes for applications in fuel cells and electrolysis with material-sensitive and conductive studies. She has authored or coauthored more than 80 publications and was recipient of the f-cell award 2007 in the category research.

Hugh Hillhouse is the Rehnberg Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Washington. Hugh earned a Master’s degree in Physics and a Doctorate in Chemical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts. After an NSF International Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Kavli Institute for Nanoscience at Delft University in the Netherlands working with Teun Klapwijk on organic semiconductors, he started as an Assistant Professor at Purdue University in 2002 working on semiconductor nanocrystals and photovoltaics. He later spent a year on sabbatical at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden Colorado working with Matt Beard and Art Nozik on multiple exciton generation and quantum dot solar cells before moving to the University of Washington in 2010 as the Endowed Rehnberg Chair Professor. He was the Thin Film Photovoltaics thrust leader for the Bay Area Photovoltaic Consortium (BAPVC) and has organized symposia for the National Academy of Engineering’s Frontiers of Engineering along with MRS and E-MRS. He has been on the editorial or conference advisory boards for Chemistry of Materials and the International Conference on Ternary and Multinary Compounds. He has published ~100 peer-reviewed articles that have been cited ~8,800 times with an h-index of 42. His research interest lies at the nexus of materials chemistry and solar energy conversion. His most recent efforts focus on perovskite stability and data science/machine learning.

Andreas Hinsch has studied physics at University of Heidelberg and received his PhD at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems in Freiburg on “Sol-gel film applications for solar materials”. From 1994 to 1997 he has been project-leader at the Swiss glass company Glas Trösch. During this time he had intense contact to the group of Prof. Grätzel at EPFL-Lausanne. In 1995 he made an intermediate half year stay in Japan as STA-fellow at the National Industrial Research Institute of Nagoya. From 1997 – 2001 he held a position as senior researcher at the Netherlands Energy Research Foundation (ECN). In 2001 he has established a group at Fraunhofer ISE on dye- and organic solar cells. Andreas Hinsch has been the coordinator in several European and national projects in the field. From 2007 on he is involved in commercialization related activities and projects for the product development of building integrated dye solar modules. Andreas Hinsch is author and co-author in more than 50 scientific publications on dye and organic solar cells which have been cited over 2000 times with an h-index of 23 and has been appointed Fraunhofer ISE Fellow in 2011.

Takashi Hisatomi received his Ph.D. in engineering from the University of Tokyo under Prof. Dr. Domen's supervision in March of 2010. He joined Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces in École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne led by Prof. Dr. Grätzel since April 2010 for two years as a postdoctoral fellow. As of April 2012, he worked in Prof. Dr. Domen's laboratory in the University of Tokyo as a postdoctoral fellow. In August 2012, he promoted to Assistant Professor. His major research interests are material development and device design for photocatalytic and photoelectrochemical water splitting using solar energy as well as kinetic assessments of these reactions.

Dr. Anita Ho-Baillie is an Associate Professor at the School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering. She is also the Program Manager for the Perovskite Solar Cell Research at the Australian Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics. Her research interests inlucde PV device (design, fabrication, characterisation, modelling, cost analysis) for high performance Si solar cells; tandem solar cells such as III-V/Si and perovskite/Si; perovskite solar cells (solution process, vapour assisted deposition, dual source evaporation, spray assisted deposition), inorganic perovskites and lead free perovskites.

1962-68 and 1968-71 BSc and PhD (Chemistry) at Queens University Belfast. At Weizmann Institute since 1972. Fields: Halide perovskite solar cells, Solution deposition of semiconductors.

Dr. Steven Holdcroft is a Professor of Chemistry and Departmental Chair at Simon Fraser University (SFU). He is known for his contributions to the design of π-conjugated and ionic polymeric materials and their application to organic electronics and fuel cell technology. He is author/co-author of more than 200 peer-reviewed articles and several book chapters and patents. He has served on numerous research advisory boards throughout North America, Europe and Asia, and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Association. He sits on the editorial advisory boards of several, international scientific journals and national and international grant selection committees. He is the Technical Program Chair and Congress Vice-Chair of Pacifichem 2015 and Director of CaRPE-FC, a national network for Catalysis Research for Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells. For services to the community was awarded the Macromolecular Science and Engin¬eering Division Award of the Chemical Institute of Canada (CIC) and is an elected Fellow of the CIC.

Jennifer A. Hollingsworth is a Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Fellow and American Physical Society Fellow, Division of Materials Physics, and Councilor for the Amercan Chemical Society Colloid & Surface Chemistry Division. She holds a BA in Chemistry from Grinnell College (Phi Beta Kappa) and a PhD degree in Inorganic Chemistry from Washington University in St. Louis. She joined LANL as a Director’s Postdoctoral Fellow in 1999, becoming a staff scientist in 2001. In 2013, she was awarded a LANL Fellows’ Prize for Research for her discovery and elaboration of non-blinking “giant” quantum dots (gQDs). In her role as staff scientist in the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT; http://www.lanl.gov/expertise/profiles/view/jennifer-hollingsworth), a US DOE Nanoscale Science Research Center and User Facility, she endeavors to advance fundamental knowledge of optically active nanomaterials, targeting the elucidation of synthesis-nanostructure-properties correlations toward the rational design of novel functional materials. Her gQD design has been extended to multiple QD and other nanostructure systems, and several are being explored for applications from ultra-stable molecular probes for advanced single-particle tracking to solid-state lighting and single-photon generation. A recent focus of her group is to advance scanning probe nanolithography for precision placement of single nanocrystals into metasurfaces and plasmonic antennas.

 

 

Dec. 2006 - Sept. 2008     Post Doc., University of California, Los Angeles, United States

Sept. 2001 - Nov. 2006     Ph. D. Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Sept. 1997 - Aug. 2001     B.S. University of Science and Technology, Beijing, China

Oct. 2010 - Present                  Professor, State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Sept. 2011 - Present         Professor, School of Chemistry and Biological Engineering, University of Science and Technology, Beijing, China

Oct. 2009 - Sept. 2010      CTO, Solarmer Materials Inc. Beijing, China

Oct. 2008 - Sept. 2010      Director of Research, Solarmer Energy Inc., El Monte, CA, US

Dr. Hou’s research focuses on organic photovoltaic materials. Two of his major interests: (a) Design and synthesis of new conjugated polymers towards the applications in highly efficient polymer solar cells; (b) Improving photovoltaic performance of polymer solar cells by morphology control and device engineering. He has co-authored 170+ papers in peer-reviewed journals and published 15 patents, and these works have been cited more than 20,000 times.

Arjan Houtepen obtained his PhD Cum Laude under supervision of prof. Vanmaekelbergh at Utrecht University and subsequently became tenure track assistant professor in Delft. In 2009/2010 he was a visiting scientist in the group of prof. Feldmann in Munich. At present he is associate professor in the optoelectronic materials section at Delft University.

Sven Huettner currently holds a position as a Juniorprofessor for Organic and Hybrid Electronics at the University of Bayreuth, Germany. Before he joined the department of Macromolecular Chemistry I at Bayreuth, he worked as a Research Associate at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge in the group of Prof. Sir Richard Friend. His Research is concered with novel materials based on conjugated polymers and hybrid semiconductors for applications in solar cells and transistors.

Hupp is a native of rural western New York state He was introduced to chemical research as an undergraduate student at Houghton College in New York, evaluating candidate electrode materials for heart pacers. He completed a B.S. degree in 1979. Subsequently he was a student of the late Mike Weaver at Michigan State University and Purdue University, completing a Ph.D. degree in 1983. He was a postdoc with T. J. Meyer at the University of North Carolina. He moved to Northwestern University in 1986 where he is currently a Morrison Professor of Chemistry. He also holds an appointment as a Senior Science Fellow at Argonne National Laboratory in the Materials Science Division and in the Division of Chemical Sciences & Technology. His research centers on energy-relevant materials chemistry, including materials for light-to-electrical energy conversion, catalytic water oxidation, chemical separations, chemical catalysis, and high-capacity storage and release of molecular hydrogen.

Maria Ibáñez was born in La Sénia (Spain). She graduated in physics at the University of Barcelona, where she also obtained her PhD in 2013, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Cabot and Prof. Dr. Morante. Her PhD thesis was qualified Excellent Cum Laude and awarded with the Honors Doctorate by the University of Barcelona. Her PhD research was funded by a Spanish competitive grant (FPU) which supported her to conduct short-term research stays in cutting-edge laboratories. In particular she worked at CEA Grenoble (2009), the University of Chicago (2010), the California Institute of Technology (2011), the Cornell University (2012) and the Northwestern University (2013). In 2014, she joined the group of Prof. Dr. Kovalenko at ETH Zürich and EMPA as a research fellow where in 2017 she received the Ružička Prize. In September 2018 she became an Assistant Professor (tenure-track) at IST Austria and started the Functional Nanomaterials group.

Hiroshi Imahori was born in Kyoto, Japan in 1961. He completed his doctorate in organic chemistry at Kyoto University. From 1990-1992, he was a post-doctoral fellow at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, USA. In 1992, he became an Assistant Professor at ISIR, Osaka University. In 1999, he moved to the Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, as an Associate Professor. Since 2002, he has been a Professor of Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University. Since 2007, he has also been a Principal Investigator, Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (WPI-iCeMS), Kyoto University. He received Japanese Photochemistry Association Prize (2004), JSPS Prize (2006), CSJ Award for Creative Work (2006), Tokyo Techno Forum 21 Gold Medal Prize (2007), Osaka Science Prize (2007), and NISTEP Researcher Award (2007). His current interests involve artificial photosynthesis, molecular photovoltaics, organic functional materials, and drug delivery systems. To date, Hiroshi Imahori has written more than 250 original papers.

Olle Ingan€as is professor of biomolecular and organic electronics, IFM, Link€opings Universitet, Sweden. He has a MSc in engineering physics from Chalmers University of Technology (1977), a BSc in philosophy and economics from G€oteborg University (1978), and a PhD in applied physics at Link€oping University (1984). He was appointed professor in 1999, and is presently director of a Center of Organic Electronics in Sweden. He has focused on studies of the class of conjugated polymers throughout areas of polymer physics, electrochemistry, electronics and optics. The use of electronic polymers as interfaces to biological systems and polymer photovoltaic systems are present topics of research.

Saiful grew up in north London, and obtained his BSc and PhD degrees from University College London. He then held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Eastman Kodak Labs, New York, USA, and returned to the UK in 1990 to the University of Surrey before joining the University of Bath in 2006 as Professor of Materials Chemistry. His research includes computational studies of new materials for lithium batteries and perovskite solar cells. Recent awards include the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award. Saiful sits on the Diversity Committee of the Royal Society and is a member of the British Humanist Association.

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Seigo Ito received his Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo (Japan), with a thesis that was the first to discuss Graetzel-type dye-sensitized solar cells in Japan. He worked in the Laboratory of Professor Shozo Yanagida (Osaka University, Japan) for two years, and in the Laboratory of Professor Michael Graetzel, at the Swiss federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in Lausanne as a postdoctoral scientist for over three years, where his efforts focused on the progress of high-efficiency dye-sensitized solar cells. He is currently professor at University of Hyogo, making new printable cost-effective solar cells.

Grigorios Itskos obtained a B.Sc. in Physics in 1997 from University of Thessaloniki, Greece and carried out his PhD studies at SUNY at Buffalo, USA (Ph.D. in Physics 2003), under the supervision of Prof. Athos Petrou within the newly-born field of semiconductor spintronics. He worked as postdoctoral researcher (Imperial College London, 2003-2007) under the supervision of Profs. Donal Bradely and Ray Murray, focusing on photophysical studies of hybrid organic-inorganic semiconductors. In September 2007 he become a faculty member at the Department of Physics, University of Cyprus (Lecturer 2007-2011, Assistant Professor 2011- 2017, Associate Professor 2017- now). His group research activities focus on optical studies of inorganic, organic and hybrid solution-processed semiconductors, with recent emphasis on the characterization and optoelectronic applications of semiconductor nanocrystals.  

SHORT BIOGRAPHY: Carlos Jacinto was born in Brazil in 1975. He received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in physics from the Universidade Federal de Alagoas (UFAL), Alagoas, Brazil, in 2000 and 2002, respectively, and the Ph.D degree from the Instituto de Física de São Carlos - Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Brazil, in 2006, for his work on thermo-optical characterization of laser materials using the thermal lens technique. In August 2006, he became Associate Professor at the Physics Institute of UFAL. He has developed works in the following topics: spectroscopic studies (energy transfer processes, fluorescence quantum efficiency, effects of impurities on the performance of systems, etc.) in polymers, glasses, and crystals doped with transition metals and rare earths ions using mainly the thermal lens and Z-scan techniques and conventional spectroscopy; thermal and electronic nonlinearities in photonics materials; thermal and optical properties as a function of temperature (at low and high temperatures); high-power solid-state lasers, modeling of nonlinear effects, etc. His current research interests include: materials for nanoscience and nanotechnology; fluorescence and thermal images; development of materials and techniques for diagnosis and therapy or in general nanomaterials for nano-bio-photonics; etc. The main keywords in his works are: thermal lens; spectroscopy, rare-earth; upconversion; laser; nano; imaging. Dr. Jacinto is a member of the Brazilian Physical Society (SBF) and the Optical Society of American (OSA). Website: www.if.ufal.br/gffc; E-mail: cjacinto@fis.ufal.br; Complete CV: http://lattes.cnpq.br/5196560719753785; Search in Web of Science: Author=(jacinto c) AND Address=(alagoas OR carlos).

Oct. 1999: Diploma in Theoretical Physics Feb. 2002: PhD in Theoretical Physics 2002-2004: Postdoc at Caltech 2004-2008: Groupleader at FHI-Berlin (Modeling Electrochemistry) 2007-2011: Groupleader at Ulm University (Modeling Electrochemistry) since 2011: Director of the Institute of Electrochemistry, Ulm University since 2011: Director at the Helmholtz-Institute Ulm

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Prof. Dr. Wolfram Jaegermann: Curriculum Vitae Wolfram Jaegermann, born 1954, studied Chemistry at the University of Dortmund and got his Ph.-D. in Inorganic Chemistry from the University of Bielefeld, Germany. Afterwards he started his scientifc career as a Post-Doc at the Hahn-Meitner-Institute in Berlin in Photoelectrochemistry. He spent one year as DuPont Guest Scientist in Wilmington, Deleware, before he got his Habilitation in Physical Chemistry at the Free University of Berlin. Afterwards he was appointed Head of Department of Interfaces at the Hahn-Meitner-Institute, before in 1997 he became Full Professor with the chair of Surface Science, in the newly founded Department of Materials Science, TU Darmstadt. His main research fields are: Surface Science, Photovoltaic Converters, Intercalation Batteries, Inorganic/Organic Composites, Semiconductor Interfaces, Photoelectrochemistry.

Wolfram Jaegermann, born 1954, studied Chemistry at the University of Dortmund and got his Ph.-D. in Inorganic Chemistry from the University of Bielefeld, Germany. Afterwards he started his scientifc career as a Post-Doc at the Hahn-Meitner-Institute in Berlin in Photoelectrochemistry. He spent one year as DuPont Guest Scientist in Wilmington, Deleware, before he got his Habilitation in Physical Chemistry at the Free University of Berlin. Afterwards he was appointed Head of Department of Interfaces at the Hahn-Meitner-Institute. In 1997 he became Full Professor with the chair of Surface Science, in the newly founded Department of Materials Science, TU Darmstadt. His main research fields are: Surface Science, Photovoltaic Converters, Intercalation Batteries, Inorganic/Organic Composites, Semiconductor Interfaces, Photoelectrochemistry.

René Janssen is full professor in chemistry and physics at the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). He received his Ph.D. in 1987 from the TU/e for a thesis on electron spin resonance and quantum chemical calculations of organic radicals in single crystals. He was lecturer at the TU/e since 1984, and a senior lecturer in physical organic chemistry since 1991. In 1993 and 1994 he joined the group of Professor Alan J. Heeger (Nobel laureate in 2000) at the University of California Santa Barbara as associate researcher to work on the photophysical properties of conjugated polymers. The research of his group focuses on functional -conjugated molecules, macromolecules, nanostructures, and materials that may find application in advanced technological applications. Synthetic organic and polymer chemistry are combined with advanced time-resolved optical spectroscopy, electrochemistry, morphological characterization and the preparation of prototype devices to accomplish these goals. In recent years activities have concentrated on polymer solar cells. He has co-authored more than 350 scientific papers. In 1999 René Janssen received the ‘Pionier’ award from the Chemistry Science Branch of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research and in 2000 he was co-recipient of the René Descartes Prize from the European Commission for outstanding collaborative research. René Janssen received the 2010 Research Prize of The Royal Institute of Engineers in The Netherlands for his work on Materials for Sustainable Energy. René Janssen serves as editor of “Organic Electronics”.

Dr. Quentin Jeangros received a PhD in Materials Science from EPFL in 2014 for his work on solid oxide fuel cells degradation pathways. After a postdoc between the University of Basel and the Photovoltaics and Thin Film Electronics Laboratory (PV-Lab) of EPFL on transparent conductive oxides, Quentin has overseen the "Perovskite Cells for Tandem Applications" activities at EPFL PV-Lab since early 2018. Within the laboratory headed by Prof. C. Ballif, his team consists of 6 PhD students and postdocs dedicated to the development of high-efficiency perovskite/silicon solar cells. His research activities focus on the use and development of advanced electron microscopy characterisation methods to understand and optimise the nanostructure of solar materials materials, with the aim of improving efficiency and reliability.

Kim Jelfs is a Senior Lecturer and Royal Society University Research Fellow (URF) in the Department of Chemistry at Imperial College London, UK. Kim specialises in the use of computer simulations to assist in the discovery of supramolecular materials. After a PhD modelling the crystal growth of zeolites at UCL, she worked as a post-doc across the experimental groups at the University of Liverpool, before beginning her independent research at Imperial College in 2013. She was awarded a Royal Society of Chemistry Harrison-Meldola Memorial Prize in 2018 and holds an ERC Starting Grant.

Alex Jen is currently serving as the Boeing-Johnson Chair Professor and Chair of the Department of Materials Science & Engineering at the University of Washington, Seattle. He is also serving as Chief Scientist for the Clean Energy Institute endowed by the Washington State Governor. Dr. Jen’s research interest is centered on utilizing molecular, polymeric and biomacromolecular self-assembly to create ordered arrangement of organic and inorganic functional materials for photonics, opto-electronics, nanomedicine, and nanotechnology. He has co-authored more than 550 publications, given over 450 invited presentations, and has >26,000 citations and a H-index of 83. He is also a co-inventor for more than 50 patents and invention disclosures. For his pioneering contributions in organic photonics and electronics, he was elected as Fellow by several professional societies including AAAS, MRS, ACS, PMSE, OSA, and SPIE. He has also been appointed as the National 1000 Talent Professor at Zhejiang University, the Changjiang Endowed Chair at Wuhan University by the Chinese Ministry of Education, the World Class University Professor by the Korean National Research Foundation, and as the Distinguished Chair Professor by National Taiwan University. Recently, he has been elected as an Academician by the Washington State Academy of Sciences.

Professor Alex Jen obtained his Ph. D. degree from the Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania in 1984. He is currently the Boeing-Johnson Chair Professor and Department Chair of the Materials Science & Engineering at the University of Washington, Seattle. He is also serving as the Chief Scientist of the Clean Energy Institute established by the governor of the Washington State. Dr. Jen’s research interest is focused on utilizing molecular, polymeric and biomacromolecular self-assembly to create ordered arrangement of organic and inorganic functional materials for photonics, opto-electronics, nanomedicine, and nanotechnology. He has co-authored more than 500 publications, given over 400 invited presentations, and has more than 20,000 citations and a H-index of 72. He is also a co-inventor for more than 50 patents and invention disclosures. For his pioneering contributions in organic photonics and electronics, he was elected as Fellow by several professional societies including the MRS Fellow of the Materials Research Society, ACS Fellow of the American Chemical Society, the AAAS Fellow by American Association of the Advancement of Science, the OSA Fellow of Optical Society of America, SPIE Fellow of the International Society of Optical Engineering, and PMSE Fellow of the American Chemical Society’s Polymeric Materials Science & Engineering Division. He was also elected as an Academician of the Washington State Academy of Sciences.

Kwang Seob Jeong obtained his B.S. in chemistry at Korea University and Ph.D. in chemistry at the Pennsylvania State University in 2013. He worked at the University of Chicago as a JFI post-doctoral scholar before joining the chemistry department at Korea University as an assistant professor in 2015. In 2018, he was nominated as 2018 emerging investigators by the Chemical Communications of Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) and won the POSCO TJ Park Science Fellow in 2019. His research focuses on the infrared colloidal nanocrystals.

Dr Beatriz Julián-López was born in 1977. She obtained her B.Sc. degree in chemistry in 1999 at the Jaume I University of Castellón (Spain), where she also received her Ph.D. in Chemistry of Materials (2003). Her first work was focused on the synthesis of ceramic pigments by nonconventional methods, but during her Ph.D. she specialized in the synthesis and characterization of sol–gel hybrid organic–inorganic materials for optical applications. In 2004 she moved to Paris for a post-doctoral formation at Prof. C. Sanchez’s Laboratory (University of Pierre and Marie Curie), addressed to get expertise on the synthesis of mesoporous and nanostructured materials. In 2007 she came back to Jaume I University with a “Ramon y Cajal” junior research contract, where she is nowadays Assistant Professor (2011). Her main interest is the development of novel multifunctional inorganic and hybrid organic–inorganic materials, textured at different scales, for optical, energy, ceramics and biomedical applications.

Hyun Suk Jung is an associate professor in school of advanced materials science & engineering at Sungkyunkwan university (SKKU). He received his BS, MS, and PhD degrees in materials science & engineering from Seoul National University (SNU), in 1997, 1999, and 2004, respectively. He joined Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) as a director’s postdoctoral fellow in 2005. He had worked for Kookmin University (KMU) since 2006 and joined SKKU in 2011. He published over 130 peer-reviewed papers regarding synthesis of inorganic nanomaterials and dye-sensitized solar cells. He presently researches perovskite solar cells and flexible solar cells.

Oana Jurchescu is an Associate Professor of Physics at Wake Forest University (WFU). She received her PhD in 2006 from University of Groningen, the Netherlands, and was a postdoctoral researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, MD, until 2009, when she joined the Physics Department at Wake Forest University as an Assistant professor. Her expertise is in charge transport in organic and organic/inorganic hybrid semiconductors, device physics and semiconductor processing. She published over 70 peer-reviewed articles, 4 invited book chapters, 3 patents and gave over 50 invited or plenary talks at conferences. She won the 2013 National Science Foundation CAREER award, the ORAU Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement award, the university award for excellence in research, the university innovation award, as well as the prize for excellence in teaching and the award for excellence in mentorship. She served in a variety of capacities, including program chair and co-chair, for over 30 international conferences and workshops such as MRS, APS, SPIE, etc.

Cherie R. Kagan is the Stephen J. Angello Professor of Electrical and Systems Engineering, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, and Professor of Chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania. Kagan graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1991 with a BSE in Materials Science and Engineering and a BA Mathematics. She earned her PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1996 working with Moungi G. Bawendi. In 1996, she went to Bell Labs as a postdoctoral fellow and in 1998, she joined IBM’s T. J. Watson Research Center, where she most recently managed the “Molecular Assemblies and Devices Group.” In 2007, she joined the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania. Kagan is an Associate Editor of ACS Nano and serves on the editorial boards of Nano Letters and NanoToday. The Kagan group’s research interests are in the chemical and physical properties of nanostructured and organic materials and in integrating these materials in electronic, optoelectronic, optical, thermoelectric and bioelectronic devices. The group combines the flexibility of chemistry and bottom-up assembly with top-down fabrication techniques to design novel materials and devices. The group explores the structure and function of these materials and devices using spatially- and temporally-resolved optical spectroscopies, AC and DC electrical techniques, electrochemistry, scanning probe and electron microscopies and analytical measurements. Kagan is co-director of The Penn Center for Energy Innovation and serves on the World Economic Forum, Global Agenda Council on Nanotechnology; on the Department of Energy, Basic Energy Sciences Materials Council; and on the advisory board of the US Summer Schools in Condensed Matter and Materials Physics. She served on the Materials Research Society’s Board of Directors from 2007-2009 and the editorial board of the ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces from 2008-2011

Antoine Kahn is a professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University. He received his PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Princeton University in 1978. His current research interests include the structural, electronic and chemical properties of surfaces and interfaces of intrinsic and doped organic and hybrid semiconductor films. Recent work includes (i) the physics and applications of n- and p-type molecular dopants in organic thin films, (ii) organic/organic heterojunctions, (iii) transition metal oxides in organic electronics, and (iv) organo-metal perovskites. Kahn has co-authored over 380 refereed regular and review articles. He was the recipient of a Presidential Young Investigator Award (1984-85), of the Joseph Meyerhoff Visiting Professorship (2002) and of the Weston Visiting Professorship (2009-12), Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. He is a Fellow of the AVS (1999) and APS (2002). He was listed among the “World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds”, Thomson Reuters 2014.

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Prashant V. Kamat is a Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Senior Scientist at Radiation Laboratory, and Concurrent Professor of Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Notre Dame. He earned his doctoral degree (1979) in Physical Chemistry from the Bombay University, and postdoctoral research at Boston University (1979-1981) and University of Texas at Austin (1981-1983). He joined Notre Dame in 1983 and initiated the project on utilizing semiconductor nanostructures for light energy conversion. His major research interests are in three areas : (1) catalytic reactions using semiconductor and metal nanoparticles, nanostructures and nanocomposites, (2) develop advanced materials such as inorganic-organic hybrid assemblies for energy conversion, and (3) environmental remediation using advanced oxidation processes and chemical sensors. He is currently serving as a Deputy Editor of Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters and A/B/C and a member of the advisory board of scientific journals, Langmuir, Research on Chemical Intermediates, Electrochemistry and Solid State Letters, and Interface. He has written more than 400 peer-reviewed journal papers, review articles and book chapters with more than 40000 citations and carries an h-index of 109. He has edited two books in the area of nanoscale materials. He was a fellow of Japan Society for Promotion of Science during 1997 and 2003 and was awarded Honda-Fujishima Lectureship award by the Japanese Photochemical Society in 2006 and Langmuir Lectureship Award in 2012. He is a Fellow of the Electrochemical Society, American Chemical Society and AAAS.

Patanjali Kambhampati. BA Carleton College USA (1992), PHD University of Texas (USA) 1998, PDF University of Texas (USA) 1999 - 2001. Professor of Chemistry McGill University (2003 - present). Research focus of semiconductor nanostructures and femtosecond laser spectroscopy.

Professor MERCOURI G. KANATZIDIS Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Chair Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208 Tel. (847)-467-1541, FAX (847)-491-7713 EDUCATION AND TRAINING B.S. Chemistry, November 1979, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Ph.D. Chemistry, 1984, University of Iowa, Postdoctoral Associate, 1985, University of Michigan Postdoctoral Associate, 1987, Northwestern University RESEARCH AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 8/06- present: Professor of Chemistry, Northwestern University (joint appointment with Argonne National Laboratory). 6/93-7/06: Professor of Chemistry, Michigan State University. 7/91-6/93: Associate Professor, Michigan State University. 7/87-6/91: Assistant Professor, Michigan State University. Awards and honors: Presidential Young Investigator Award. National Science Foundation, 1989-1994. ACS Inorganic Chemistry Div. Award: EXXON Faculty Fellowship in Solid State Chemistry, 1990. Beckman Young Investigator, 1992-1994. Alfred P. Sloan Fellow 1991-1993. Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher Scholar 1993-1998. Michigan State University Distinguished Professor 1998. Sigma Xi Senior Meritorious Faculty Award 2000. University Distinguished Professor MSU 2001. John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellow 2002. Alexander von Humboldt Prize, 2003. Morley Medal, American Chemical Society, Cleveland Section, 2003. Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor Northwestern University 2006. Materials Research Society Fellow 2010. American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow 2012. Chetham Lecturer Award, University of California Santa Barbara, 2013. Einstein Professor Chinese Academy of Sciences 2014. International Thermoelectric Society Outstanding Achievement Award 2014. PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AND RECOGNITION Chair-Elect Solid State Subdivision, Division of Inorganic Chemistry, ACS, 1997-1998. Editorial Advisory Board Chemistry of Materials, 1993-2000. Editorial Advisory Board Inorganic Chemistry 1994-1997. Editorial Advisory Board Journal of Alloys and Compounds 1996-2012. Editorial Advisory Board Energy and Environmental Science 2012-present. Editor-in-Chief: Journal of Solid State Chemistry. Chairman Solid State Chemistry Subdivision, American Chemical Soc 1998-1999. American Chemical Society, Div. of Chemical Education, Examinations Institute: 1996 and 2003 Inorganic Chemistry Committee, DOE Review Panelist 2004, 2007, 2010, 2012 NSF Panelist 2006, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012. PUBLICATIONS (Publications >800, citations >26,000, H index 80) Total number of graduate students graduated: 47 Total number of postdocs advised: 75 Ten female group-alumnae hold faculty positions in American and foreign universities. Graduate Advisor: Dimitri Coucouvanis, (U. Michigan) Postdoctoral Advisor: Tobin J. Marks (Northwestern University)

Claudine Katan (born Hoerner) received her Ph.D. in physics (nonlinear optics) from the University of Strasbourg (ULP), France in 1992. She subsequently served as a lecturer in physics at the University of Rennes (UR1), France, before being appointed as a CNRS Research Investigator in the Physics Department at Rennes in 1993. Until 2003, her research interests concerned the properties of molecular charge-transfer crystals and the topology of electron densities mainly through approaches based on density functional theory (e.g. the CP-PAW code by P. E. Blöchl, IBM-Zurich). She then joined the Chemistry Department at Rennes and turned her research interests toward the structural, electronic and linear/nonlinear optical properties of molecular and supramolecular chromophores using various theoretical approaches—from modeling to state-of-the-art electronic structure calculations (e.g. CEO methodology by S. Tretiak, LANL) . Since the end of 2010, her research has also been devoted to 3D and 2D crystalline materials of the family of halide perovskites based on solid-state physics concepts. Overall, her theoretical work is closely related to the experimental research developed in-house and through international collaboratorations.

Eugene A. Katz received his MSc degree (1982) in Semiconductor Materials Science and Ph. D. (1990) in solid state physics from the Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys. In 1995, he joined the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and has been working in the Department for Solar Energy and Environmental Physics ever since (now as a full professor). His research interests include a wide range of photovoltaic materials and devices, such as organic and perovskite-based photovoltaics, concentrator solar cells operated at ultra-high solar concentration (up to 10,000 suns), etc. He has published more than 120 peer-reviewed papers on these topics. In 2018 Prof. Katz was awarded the IAAM Medal (by the International Association of Advanced Materials) for the outstanding research in the field of New Energy Materials & Technology.

Dr. Andrei Kholkin received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Physics from the St. Petersburg State University and Ph.D. degree from the A. F. Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute, Russia. In consequent years, he held research positions in IFW (Dresden, Germany), EPFL (Lausanne, Switzerland) and Rutgers University (USA). He is currently a research coordinator and head of the laboratory of advanced microscopy of nanomaterials in the University of Aveiro (Portugal). His group develops multifunctional materials (including ferroelectrics and multiferroics) and scanning probe microscopy techniques. He is a coauthor of more than 500 technical papers in this area including numerous reviews and book chapters. He was a coordinator of three European projects on multifunctional materials and serves as an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control (TUFFC) and member of editorial boards of several scientific journals. He is a member of the Ferroelectric Committee of IEEE and was a recipient of the “Excellency” award from the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology. He has been a Technical Committee member of several international conferences and cofounded a new conference series on Piezoresponse Force Microscopy. He was a guest editor of the special issues on ferroelectrics in TUFFC, Journal of Applied Physics and Materials Research Society Bulletin. Dr. Kholkin is a Fellow of IEEE (class 2012), and member of IEEE, Materials Research Society and Portuguese Materials Society.

Sandra Kiese has a master of science in chemistry and works as a project manager in the Materials Development Department of Fraunhofer IVV. She is currently involved in 3 EU funded projects in the field of research on transparent and opaque high barrier materials. Furthermore she is working on her PhD thesis on the mechanical stability of ultra barrier films.

Ji-Seon Kim is Professor of Solid State Physics and Director of the Plastic Electronics Centre for Doctoral Training (https://www.imperial.ac.uk/plastic-electronics/) at Imperial College London. She has previously taken up an EPSRC Advanced Research Fellowship at the University of Cambridge, obtained a PhD in Physics in 2000. Her research focuses on the basic science and technology of Nanoscale Functional Materials such as organics, organic/ inorganic hybrids, nanomaterials and their related applications, as well as developing novel Nanometrology for these functional materials (http://www.imperial.ac.uk/nanoanalysis-group).

Dr. Yunseok Kim is an associate professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Korea. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Materials Science and Engineering from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Korea, in, respectively, 2004 and 2007. From 2008 to 2010, he was awarded the Humboldt research fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt foundation which allowed him to work as a postdoctoral researcher at Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics, Germany. Then, from 2011 to 2012, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA. In 2012, he joined the School of Materials Science and Engineering, SKKU, Korea. His research interests include scanning probe microscopy studies of electromechanical, ferroelectric, transport, and ionic phenomena at the nanoscale.

2012: "Privatdozent" for Physical Chemistry and Experimental Physics, University of Hamburg, Germany. 2011: “Habilitation” in Experimental Physics. Thesis: “Optical Spectroscopy of Quantum Structures Confining Electrons, Phonons, and Photons”. since 2009: Research Assistant in the group of Prof. Alf Mews, Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Hamburg. 2004-2009: Research Assistant in the group of Prof. Detlef Heitmann, Institute of Applied Physics, University of Hamburg. 2004 PhD in Physics, University of Hamburg. Thesis: “Laterally Structured Semiconductor Microcavities”. 2000 “Diplom” in Physics, University of Hamburg. Thesis: “Electronic Raman Spectroscopy of Two-Dimesional Electron Systems in Microcavities”. 1997-2000: Study of Physics in Cologne and Hamburg.

He studied electrical engineering in Stuttgart and started working on Si solar cells in 2004 under the guidance of Uwe Rau at the Institute for Physical Electronics (ipe) in Stuttgart. After finishing his undergraduate studies in 2006, he continued working with Uwe Rau first in Stuttgart and later in Juelich on simulations and electroluminescence spectroscopy of solar cells. After finishing his PhD in 2009 and 1.5 years of postdoc work in Juelich, Thomas Kirchartz started a three year fellowship at Imperial College London working on recombination mechanisms in organic solar cells with Jenny Nelson. In 2013, he returned to Germany and accepted a position as head of a new activity on hybrid and organic solar cells in Juelich and simultaneously as Professor for Photovoltaics with Nanostructured Materials in the department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at the University Duisburg-Essen. Kirchartz has published >100 isi-listed papers, has co-edited one book on characterization of thin-film solar cells whose second edition was published in 2016 and currently has an h-index of 38.

Victor I. Klimov is a Fellow of Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Director of the Center for Advanced Solar Photophysics of the U.S. Department of Energy. He received his M.S. (1978), Ph.D. (1981), and D.Sc. (1993) degrees from Moscow State University. He is a Fellow of both the American Physical Society and the Optical Society of America, and a recipient of the Humboldt Research Award. His research interests include optical spectroscopy of semiconductor and metal nanostructures, carrier relaxation processes, strongly confined multiexcitons, energy and charge transfer, and fundamental aspects of photovoltaics.

Christian Klinke studied physics at the University of Karlsruhe (Germany) where he also obtained his diploma degree in the group of Thomas Schimmel. In March 2000 he joined the group of Klaus Kern at the Institute of Experimental Physics of the EPFL (Lausanne, Switzerland). Then from 2003 on he worked as Post-Doc at the IBM TJ Watson Research Center (Yorktown Heights, USA) in the group of Phaedon Avouris. In 2006 then he became member of the Horst Weller group at the Universitiy of Hamburg (Germany). In 2007 he started as assistant professor at the University of Hamburg. In 2009 he received the German Nanotech Prize (Nanowissenschaftspreis, AGeNT-D/BMBF). His research was supported by an ERC Starting Grant and a Heisenberg fellowship of the German Funding Agency DFG. Since 2017 he is an associate professor at the Swansea University and since 2019 full professor at the University of Rostock.

Dr. Evelyne Knapp is a research associate at the Institute of Computational Physics at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences in Winterthur, Switzerland. She holds a Diploma and Ph.D. degree in Computational Science and Engineering from ETH Zurich.

Jaejung Ko is Professor at the Department of Advanced Materials Chemistry of Korea University at Jochiwon, Chungnam 339-700, KOREA. He has a B.S. and M.S. from Seoul National University (1975 - 1979) and a PhD from Brown University (1983). From 1983 to 1988 he was Postdoctoral Fellow, at Indiana and Houston University. From 2007 he is Member of Korea Science and Technology. From 2003 to 2004 he has been Vice President for the Korean Chemical Society and from 2001 to 2003 Associate-editor for Organometallics. He was the 2008 Hyundai-Kia Chair and the 2007recepient of the Outstanding Research Award in The Korean Chemical Society. His main research interests are in Dye-sensitized Solar Cells and Organic electronics materials.

Takeshi Komino obtained his doctorate degree in Chemistry in 2009 from the University of Tokyo with a thesis on optical study for a voltage-induced spin transition in organic films. He joined the group of Professor Chihaya Adachi at Kyushu University in 2010 as a research associate and was promoted to an Assistant Professor in 2013. His current interests are relationships between structural and optical/electrical properties in molecular glasses.

Gerasimos Konstantatos received the Diploma from the University of Patras, Patras, Greece, in 2001 and the M.A.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, in 2004 and 2008, respectively, all in electrical and computer engineering.He is currently a Group Leader with ICFO - the Institute of Photonic Sciences, Castelldefels, Barcelona, Spain. His work has been published in over 25 journal articles, 7 of them in Nature-family journals, in the field of colloidal quantum dot optoelectonics. He is also an inventor of 5 granted patents licensed to Invisage Technologies and a recipient of the TR35 Spain 2012 award for his contributions on colloidal quantum dot photodetectors. His current research interests lie in the field of solution processed functional nanomaterials for solar cell and optical sensor applications.

Marc T.M. Koper is Professor of Surface Chemistry and Catalysis at Leiden University, The Netherlands. He received his PhD degree (1994) from Utrecht University (The Netherlands) in the field of electrochemistry. He was an EU Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow at the University of Ulm (Germany) and a Fellow of Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) at Eindhoven University of Technology, before moving to Leiden University in 2005. His main research interests are in fundamental aspects of electrocatalysis, proton-coupled electron transfer, theoretical electrochemistry, and electrochemical surface science.

Brian A. Korgel is the T. Brockett Hudson Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin (USA) and works in the field of nanomaterials chemistry and complex fluids. He received his PhD from UCLA in 1997 and was a post-doctoral fellow at University College Dublin, Ireland until 1998 before joining the faculty at UT Austin. He has been Visiting Professor at the University of Alicante in Spain as a Senior Fulbright Fellow, Visiting Professor at the Université Josef Fourier in France and Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing. He directs the Industry/University Cooperative Research Center for Next Generation Photovoltaics, has co-founded two companies, Innovalight and Piñon Technologies, and serves as an Associate Editor for Chemistry of Materials. He has published more than 220 papers and has received various honors including the Professional Progress Award from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) and the ISHA Roy-Somiya Medal, and is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

I am currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Montreal, Department of Chemistry. My overarching motivation is to discover and implement the chemistry necessary to transition to a sustainable energy-based society. Specifically, I am developing materials to convert solar energy to chemical fuels as an energy storage media.

Maksym Kovalenko has been a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at ETH Zurich since July 2011 and Associate professor from January 2017. His group is also partially hosted by EMPA (Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology) to support his highly interdisciplinary research program. He completed graduate studies at Johannes Kepler University Linz (Austria, 2004-2007, with Prof. Wolfgang Heiss), followed by postdoctoral training at the University of Chicago (USA, 2008-2011, with Prof. Dmitri Talapin). His present scientific focus is on the development of new synthesis methods for inorganic nanomaterials, their surface chemistry engineering, and assembly into macroscopically large solids. His ultimate, practical goal is to provide novel inorganic materials for optoelectronics, rechargeable Li-ion batteries, post-Li-battery materials, and catalysis. He is the recipient of an ERC Consolidator Grant 2018, ERC Starting Grant 2012, Ruzicka Preis 2013 and Werner Prize 2016. He is also a Highly Cited Researcher 2018 (by Clarivate Analytics).

Todd D. Krauss received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in Applied and Engineering Physics all from Cornell University, the latter under the advisement of Professor Frank Wise. Upon receiving his Ph.D. in 1998, he moved to Columbia University, serving as a postdoctoral research fellow under one of the founders of the field of nanomaterials science, Professor Louis Brus, until 2000, when he joined the Chemistry faculty at the University of Rochester as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry. In 2006 he was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor of Chemistry and in 2008 he received a joint appointment as an Associate Professor in the Institute of Optics. In 2010 Krauss was promoted to the rank of Professor of Chemistry and Optics, and assumed directorship of the Rochester Advanced Materials Program (formerly the Materials Science graduate program). In 2013 Krauss assumed the Chair of the Department of Chemistry at Rochester. Krauss's research interests involve fundamental studies of materials at the nanometer scale, down to the single molecule level, with a specific emphasis on single walled carbon nanotubes and semiconductor quantum dots. Additionally, he is pursuing applications for these nanometer scale materials in the general areas of sustainable fuel production and nanophotonics. Krauss is a recipient of several honors and fellowships including a University of Rochester Goergen Award for Distinguished Achievement and Artistry in Undergraduate Teaching (2009), a Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award (2005), an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship (2004), and most recently was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society.

1996-1998 Undergraduate studies in chemistry at the University of Leipzig, Germany, Vordiplom exams in 1998. 1998-2000 Undergraduate studies in chemistry at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, concluded by the Diplom exams in 2000. 2000 Diploma thesis in geochemistry under the supervision of Prof. B. Wehrli at the Swiss Federal Institute of Environmental Science and Technology, Kastanienbaum, Switzerland: CaCO3 Biomineralization in Freshwater Picoplankton. 2001-2005 Ph.D. thesis in the field of synthetic inorganic chemistry and photochemistry with Prof. R. Alberto,Inorganic Chemistry Institute, University of Zurich, Switzerland: Complexes of Technetium(I) and Rhenium(I) – From Radiopharmacy to Photocatalysis. 2005-2007 Postdoctoral researcher in the group of Prof. Stenbjörn Styring, Molecular Biomimetics, Department of Photochemistry and Molecular Science, Uppsala University, Sweden, part of the Swedish Consortium for Artificial Photosynthesis. 2007-2012 Researcher at the Institute for Inorganic Chemistry, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany - financed by a Liebig scholarship of the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie since November 2008. 2011 Guest lecturer at the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Vienna 2011-2012 Lecturer at the Institute for Inorganic and Applied Chemistry, University of Hamburg (stand-in for a W2 professorship) 2012- W3-Professor at Institute for Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg

Professor Anna Köhler holds a chair of experimental physics at the University of Bayreuth. She received her PhD in 1996 from the University of Cambridge, UK, where she continued her research funded through Research Fellowships by Peterhouse and by the Royal Society. In 2003 she was appointed professor at the University of Potsdam, Germany, from where she moved in 2007 to the University of Bayreuth, Germany. Her research is concerned with photophysical processes in organic and hybrid semiconductors. She focusses in particular on the processes of energy and charge transfer in singlet and triplet excited states, the exciton dissociation mechanism and intermolecular/interchain interactions.

Philippe Leclère received a PhD in Physics from the University of Liège (Belgium) in 1994. He joined the group of Jean-Luc Brédas at the University of Mons in 1995 as a research fellow. From 2000 to 2004, he worked as research associate and served as research coordinator at the Materia Nova Research Center. During this period, he spent 4 months (in 1999) in the group of Jean-Pierre Aimé at the University of Bordeaux (France) and one year (2003) in the group of E.W. (Bert) Meijer at the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) in the Netherlands. In October 2004, he became Research Associate of the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research (FRS - FNRS) in the group of Roberto Lazzaroni at the University of Mons. In October 2014, he became Senior Research Associate of the FRS - FNRS. Since 2003, he is still visiting scientist at the Institute of Complex Molecular Systems at TU/e. His research interests mostly deal with the characterization by means of scanning probe microscopy techniques of the morphology and the nanoscale mechanical, electrical properties of organic and hybrid supramolecular (nano)structures, build by self-assembly of functional (macro)molecules. He is (co)author of over 160 chapter books and papers in international peer-reviewed journals. Hirsch Factor : 38

Experience: 2015 - …:Research Director CNRS January 2013 - 2015: Principal investigator at the Institut Jacques Monod (UMR 7592 & University Paris Diderot), Team “Cell adhesion & Mechanics”, University Paris Diderot (with RM. Mège). Professor of Physics, University Paris Diderot July 2010-… Visiting Professor & co-Principal Investigator Department of Biological Sciences (NUS, Singapore) Mechanobiology Institute, (director: MP. Sheetz) Sept. 2001 - 2012 : Full Professor Physics Department University Paris Diderot (09/2010 – 09/2015) Principal investigator and member of the Biophysics group at Laboratoire Matière et Systèmes Complexes, Physics department, University Paris Diderot. Assistant professor, Physics Department, University Paris Diderot (09/2001 – 09/2010) Sept. 2000 – Sept. 2001 Post-doctoral fellow (ATER) Laboratory Biorhéologie et Hydrodyanmique Physico-chimique, University Paris 7 Research in the group of Pr. François Gallet on "cell mechanics". EDUCATION March 2008 Research Habilitation, University Paris Diderot Oct 1997 - Dec 2000 Institut Curie, Paris PhD thesis on "Polymer dynamics and DNA-protein interactions at single molecule level" under the supervision of Dr. Jean-Louis Viovy.

Wolfgang Langbein (ResearcherID B-1271-2010) was born in Würzburg, Germany, in 1968. He received his Diplom in physics from the University of Kaiserslautern in 1992, and his PhD degree in physics from the University of Karlsruhe in 1995. From 1995 to 1998, he was assistant research professor at the Mikroelektronik Centret, Denmark. From 1998 to 2004, he was with the University of Dortmund, where received his Habilitation in 2003. In 2004 he was appointed senior lecturer in the School of Physics, Cardiff University, promoted to Reader in 2006 and to Personal Chair in 2007. His current research interests are (i) characterization and ultrafast spectroscopy of semiconductor nanostructures, microcavities, and quantum-dot optical amplifiers. (ii) application of optical spectroscopy and imaging to life-science, including the techniques of coherent Raman scattering microscopy and label-free optical biosensors using microcavities or plasmonics.

Guglielmo Lanzani is head of the Center for Nano Science and Technology of the Italian Institute of Technology since 2009, and full professor in physics at Politecnico di Milano since 2011. His research regards the photophysics of conjugated carbon materials (organic semiconductors, polyconjugated compounds and carbon nanotubes) and nanostructures, including devices and applications, as reported in more than 200 papers. Leading activities are on solar energy conversion and artificial retina.

Frédéric Laquai received his doctoral degree in Physical Chemistry from the University of Mainz in 2006. Thereafter, he was as a Research Fellow at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge. In 2008 he became Head of the Max Planck Research Group for Organic Optoelectronics at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz. Since 2015 he is also Associate Professor at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) and affiliated with the Solar and Photovoltaics Engineering Research Center (SPERC) at KAUST. His current research interest is focused on photonenergy conversion processes, specifically the photophysics of organic solar cells.

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Professor Matt Law joined the Chemistry Department at the University of California, Irvine in 2008. He received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley in 2006, where he investigated the synthesis, properties, and device applications of oxide nanowires under the direction of Peidong Yang. For this work, he was named a 2005 Young Investigator by the Division of Inorganic Chemistry of the American Chemical Society and was awarded the 2006 IUPAC Prize for Young Chemists. His postdoctoral research with Arthur Nozik at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory focused on the development of quantum dot solar cells and photoelectrochemical water splitting devices. Matt’s research interests are driven by the challenges of energy conversion and storage, chemical sensing, pollution remediation, and the conservation of biodiversity. His research group at UC Irvine focuses on the development of new materials and devices for solar energy conversion, including nanostructured solar cells, earth-abundant thin-film photovoltaics, and water splitting cells. He received a DOE Early Career Award in 2010, the Distinguished Assistant Professor for Research at UC Irvine in 2012, and was named a Sloan Fellow in 2013. He has published ~45 papers (cited more than 11,000 times) and six patents in the areas of nanoscience and photovoltaics.

Professor Matt Law joined the Chemistry Department at the University of California, Irvine in 2008. He received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the UC Berkeley in 2005, where he investigated the synthesis, properties, and device applications of oxide nanowires under the direction of Peidong Yang. For this work, he was named a 2005 Young Investigator by the Division of Inorganic Chemistry of the American Chemical Society and was awarded the 2006 IUPAC Prize for Young Chemists. His postdoctoral research with Arthur Nozik at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory focused on the development of quantum dot solar cells and photoelectrochemical water splitting devices. Matt’s research interests are driven by the challenges of energy conversion and storage, chemical sensing, pollution remediation, and the conservation of biodiversity. His research group at UCI focuses on the development of new materials and devices for solar energy conversion, including nanostructured solar cells, earth-abundant thin-film photovoltaics, and water splitting cells. Matt received the DOE Early Career Award in 2010 and was named a Sloan Fellow, a Distinguished Assistant Professor for Research at UCI, and a UCI Chancellor’s Fellow. He has published ~50 papers (cited more than 14,000 times) and eight patents in the areas of nanoscience and photovoltaics.

Mikhail V. Lebedev received his MS degree in Electrical Engineering from Leningrad Electrical Engineering Institute in 1986 and Ph.D. in Physics of Semiconductors from the same Institute in 1989. Now he is a Senior Research Associate of the Centre of Nanoheterostructure Physics of A. F. Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences. His scientific interests are surface modification of semiconductors; relationship between atomic and electronic structures of semiconductor surfaces and interfaces; surface chemical processes; chemical and electronic properties at semiconductor/electrolyte interfaces.

Education: 1980–1984 Ph.D. Chemical Engineering Stanford University MINOR in Chemistry 1975–1977 M.S. Chemical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology 1971–1975 B.S. Chemical Engineering, Seoul National University Professional Activities: 1986–present Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, POSTECH 1984–1986 Research Fellow, Catalytic Associates, Inc., Mountain View, California 1993-1994 Visiting Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Yale University 1987- 2007 Technical Advisor for LG Chem. Sam Sung Petrochemical Co. 2000–present Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of Catalysis, Applied Catalysis A. Journal of Molecular Catalysis A, Catalysis Letters, Topics in Catalysis 2005-present Full Member, Korean Academy of Engineers 1983–present Member, American Chemical Society, North American Catalysis Society, Asian Association of Catalysis Societies (Treasurer)

Professor Kwanghee currently leads research and development program of organic solar cells in Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST) as a director of the Research Institute of Solar and Sustainable Energies (RISE). He is also appointed as a “Distinguished Professor” of the School of Materials Science and Engineering of GIST. Dr. Lee started his professorship at Pusan National University in 1997 after finishing his Ph.D. and Post-Doc at the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB). Then he moved to GIST in 2007 and have organized and acted as a co-director of the Heeger Center for Advanced Materials (HCAM) together with the director, Professor Alan J. Heeger, who is a 2000 year Nobel Laureate in Chemistry. Now Dr. Lee is a leading scientist in the area of “plastic electronics” including organic solar cells, polymer LEDs, and organic FETs. Dr. Lee finished his B.S. in Nuclear Engineering at Seoul National University and M.S. in Physics at KAIST. Then he earned his Ph.D. in Physics at UCSB (USA) under the guidance of Prof. Heeger with a subject of metallic and semiconducting polymers.

Tae-Woo Lee is an associate professor in Materials Science and Engineering at the Seoul National University, Korea. He received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the KAIST, Korea in 2002. He joined Bell Laboratories, USA as a postdoctoral researcher and worked at Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology as (2003-2008). He was an associate professor in Materials Science and Engineering at the Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Korea until August 2016. His research focuses on printed flexible electronics based on organic, carbon, and organic-inorganic hybrid perovskite materials for displays, solar cells, and bio-inspired neuromorphic electronics.

Leite is an Assistant Professor in Materials Science and Engineering, and in the Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics (IREAP) at UMD. Her group investigates materials for energy harvesting and storage, from their nano-scale structural, electrical, and optical properties to their implementation in devices. Before joining UMD, Leite worked for two years at NIST and was a post-doctoral scholar at Caltech (Department of Applied Physics and Materials Science). She received her PhD in physics from Campinas State University in Brazil and the Synchrotron Light Source Laboratory. Leite's work has been recognized on the cover of 13 scientific journals, by the presentation of >85 invited talks, by the 2016 APS Ovshinsky Sustainable Energy Fellowship from the American Physical Society (APS) and the 2014 Maryland Academy of Sciences Outstanding Young Scientist Award. Leite’s research is currently funded by: NSF-ECCS (16-10833), NSF-DMR (16-09414), Army Research Lab, and the American Physical Society.

Karl Leo obtained the Diplomphysiker degree from the University of Freiburg in 1985,working with Adolf Goetzberger at the Fraunhofer-Institut für Solare Energiesysteme. In 1988, he obtained the PhD degree from the University of Stuttgart for a PhD thesis performed at the Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung in Stuttgart under supervision of Hans Queisser. From 1989 to 1991, he was postdoc at AT&T Bell Laboratories in Holmdel, NJ, U.S.A. From 1991 to 1993, he was with the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule (RWTH) in Aachen, Germany. Since 1993, he is full professor of optoelectronics at the Technische Universität Dresden. His main interests are novel semiconductor systems like semiconducting organic thin films; with special emphasis to understand basics device principles and the optical response. His work was recognized by the following awards: Otto-Hahn-Medaille (1989), Bennigsen-Förder-Preis (1991), Leibniz-Award (2002), award of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy (2002), Manfred-von-Ardenne-Preis (2006),Zukunftspreis of the German president (2011), Rudolf-Jäckel-Prize (2012), and a Dr.techn. h.c. of the University of Southern Denmark (2013). He is cofounder of several companies, including Novaled AG and Heliatek GmbH.
Nach dem Physikstudium an der Universität Freiburg promovierte Karl Leo 1988 an der Universität Stuttgart mit einer am Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung bei Hans Queisser ausgeführten Arbeit zur Ultrakurzzeit-Spektroskopie in Halbleitern. Von 1989 bis 1991 war er Postdoc bei den Bell Laboratories in Holmdel, NJ, U.S.A. und ab 1991 Oberassistent an der RWTH Aachen. Seit 1993 leitet er das Institut für Angewandte Photophysik der Technischen Universität Dresden. Sein aktuelles Arbeitsgebiet sind Organische Halbleiter, von den Grundlagen bis hin zu Anwendungen, z.B. als Organische Leuchtdioden (OLED) und Organische Solarzellen. Seine Arbeiten wurden mehrfach ausgezeichnet, u.a. mit dem Leibniz-Preis der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft und dem Zukunftspreis des Deutschen Bundespräsidenten. Er ist Mitbegründer einiger Firmen, u.a. Novaled AG Heliatek GmbH.

Emmanuel Lhuillier has been undergraduate student at ESPCI in Paris and then followed a master in condensed matter physics from university Pierre and Marie Curie. He was then PhD student under the mentorship of Emmanuel Rosencher at Onera in the optics department, where he work on transport in quantum well heterostructure. As post doc he moved to the group of Philippe Guyot-Sionnest in the university of Chicago, and start working on infrared nanocrystal. Then he moved back to ESPCI for a second post in the group of Benoit Dubertret working on optoelectronic properties of colloidal nanoplatelets. Since 2015 he is a CNRS researcher at Institute for nanoscience of Paris at Sorbinne université. His research activities are focused on optoelectronic properties of confined Nanomaterial with a special interest on infrared system. He receive in 2017 an ERC starting grant to investigate infrared colloidal materials.

Emmanuel is an ESPCI engineer and hold a master degree from universite Pierre and marie Curie in condensed matter physics. He did his PhD under supervision of Emmanuel Rosencher on the transport properties of superlattices used as infrared detector. He then did post doc in the group of Guyot Sionnest and Dubertret, working on the optoelectronic properties of nanocrystals. Since 2015 he is a CNRS researcher at Insitute for Nanoscience at Sorbonne Université. His team is dedicated to optoelectronic of confined nanomaterial

Yongfang Li is a professor in Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ICCAS) and in Soochow University. He received his Ph. D. degree in department of Chemistry from Fudan University in 1986, and did his postdoctoral research at ICCAS from 1986 to 1988. He became a staff in 1988 and promoted to professor in 1993 in ICCAS, and elected as member of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2013. He did his visiting research in Institute for Molecular Science, Japan from 1988 to 1991 and in University of California at Santa Barbara from 1997 to 1998. His present research interests are photovoltaic materials and devices for polymer solar cells. He has published more than 600 papers and the published papers were cited by others for more than 28000 times with h-index of 86.

Tianquan (Tim) Lian received his PhD degree from University of Pennsylvania (under the supervision of Prof. Robin Hochstrasser) in 1993. After postdoctoral training with Prof. Charles B. Harris in the University of California at Berkeley, Tim Lian joined the faculty of chemistry department at Emory University in 1996. He was promoted to associate professor in 2002, full professor in 2005, Winship distinguished research Professor in 2007, and William Henry Emerson Professor of Chemistry in 2008. Tim Lian is a recipient of the NSF CAREER award and the Alfred P. Sloan fellowship. Tim Lian research interest is focused on ultrafast dynamics in photovoltaic and photocatalytic nanomaterials and at their interfaces.

Peter Liljeroth is a professor of physics at the Department of Applied Physics, Aalto University School of Science since the beginning of 2011. After receiving his PhD in physical chemistry and electrochemistry at Helsinki University of Technology in 2002, he was a post-doc at Utrecht University (2003-2006) and IBM Zurich Research Laboratory (2006-2007). Before his present appointment at Aalto University, he was an assistant professor at Utrecht University (2007-2010). P.L. has published 54 peer-reviewed articles, with 23 appearing in high-impact journals (impact factor > 7), and has an h-index of 23. P.L. was awarded a VIDI grant from the Dutch NWO in 2006, an Academy of Finland fellowship in 2010, the prestigious ERC Starting Grant in 2011, and his group belongs to the Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence in “Low Temperature Quantum Phenomena and Devices”. Liljeroth’s research is based on using low-temperature scanning probe methods to study physical phenomena on the atomic scale. These techniques make it possible structurally and electronically characterize and manipulate matter one atom at the time. His group is currently focussing on using atomically well-defined graphene nanostructures and molecular assemblies as novel nanoelectronic components.

Prof. Monica Lira-Cantu is Group Leader of the Nanostructured Materials for Photovoltaic Energy Group at the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (www.icn.cat located in Barcelona (Spain). She obtained a Bachelor in Chemistry at the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, ITESM Mexico (1992), obtained a Master and PhD in Materials Science at the Materials Science Institute of Barcelona (ICMAB) & Autonoma University of Barcelona (1995/1997) and completed a postdoctoral work under a contract with the company Schneider Electric/ICMAB (1998). From 1999 to 2001 she worked as Senior Staff Chemist at ExxonMobil Research & Engineering (formerly Mobil Technology Co) in New Jersey (USA) initiating a laboratory on energy related applications (fuel cells and membranes). She moved back to ICMAB in Barcelona, Spain in 2002. She received different awards/fellowships as a visiting scientist to the following laboratories: University of Oslo, Norway (2003), Riso National Laboratory, Denmark (2004/2005) and the Center for Advanced Science and Innovation, Japan (2006). In parallel to her duties as Group Leader at ICN2 (Spain), she is currently visiting scientist at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL, CH). Her research interests are the synthesis and application of nanostructured materials for Next-generation solar cells: Dye sensitized, hybrid, organic, all-oxide and perovskite solar cells. Monica Lira-Cantu has more than 85 published papers, 8 patents and 10 book chapters and 1 edited book (in preparation).