Prof Paul Alivisatos
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, United States
Paul Alivisatos currently serves as Laboratory Director at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Additionally, he is Professor of Chemistry and Materials Science, and the Larry and Diane Bock Professor of Nanotechnology at the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to becoming interim director, Alivisatos was the Deputy Director of Berkeley Lab, serving as the lab’s chief research officer, overseeing the discretionary research budget, key research initiatives, and technology transfer functions. Alivisatos attended the University of Chicago and received a Bachelor's degree in Chemistry with Honors in 1981. He continued his graduate studies at the University of California, Berkeley, where he worked under the supervision of Charles Harris. His Ph.D. thesis concerned the photophysics of electronically excited molecules near metal and semiconductor surfaces. In 1986, he went to AT&T Bell Labs where he worked with Louis Brus as a postdoctoral, and it was at this time that he first became involved in research related to Nanotechnology. In 1988, he joined the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley. He has received the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation fellowship, the ACS Exxon Solid State Chemistry Fellowship, the Coblentz Award, the Wilson Prize at Harvard, the Materials Research Society Outstanding Young Investigator Award, the ACS Award in Colloid and Surface Chemistry (2004), the Rank Prize (2006), the University of Chicago Distinguished Alumni Award (2006), the Eni Italgas Prize (2007), the E.O. Lawrence Award (2007), and the MRS Fred Kavli Distinguished Lectureship in Nanoscience Award (2008). He is a Fellow of both the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2004, he was elected into the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the Editor of the American Chemical Society Journal and Nano Letters. Alivisatos is a leader of the Helios solar research initiative at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where he is spearheading potentially transformational research into artificial photosynthesis, and the creation of new photovoltaic technology through the creation of nano-inspired devices. His research generally concerns the structural, thermodynamic, optical, and electrical properties of colloidal inorganic nanocrystals. He investigates the fundamental physical and chemical properties of nanocrystals and also works to develop practical applications of these new materials in biomedicine and renewable energy.
Dr Juan A. Antonio Anta
Universidad Pablo de Olavide,
Juan A. Anta is an Assistant Professor 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 solar cells.
Mrs Ana Claudia Arias
University of California in Berkeley, United States
Ana Claudia Arias is an Associate Professor at the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at the University of California in Berkeley. Prior to joining the University of California she was the Manager of the Printed Electronic Devices Area and a Member of Research Staff at PARC Inc (Palo Alto Research Center), Palo Alto, CA. At PARC she used inkjet printing techniques to fabricate organic active matrix display backplanes for paper-like displays and flexible sensors. She went to PARC from Plastic Logic in Cambridge, UK where she led the semiconductor group. She did her PhD on semiconducting polymer blends for photovoltaic devices at the University of Cambridge, UK. Prior to that, she received her master and bachelor degrees in Physics from the Federal University of Paraná in Curitiba, Brazil. Her research work in Brazil focused on the use of semiconducting polymers for light emitting diodes. Ana Claudia is a member of the board of directors of the Materials Research Society (MRS) and a member of the technical advisory board of ThinFilm Electronics and Linde Nanomaterials.
Prof Neal Armstrong
University of Arizona, US
www.solarinterface.org
Neal R. Armstrong is Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry and Professor of Optical Science at the University of Arizona, since 1978. He is also currently the Director of the Department of Energy Frontier Research Center, CIS:SEM - Center for Interface Science: Solar Electric Materials. His research interest focus on the interface science of emerging molecular electronic materials, including organic solar cells and solar cells based on hybrid materials including semiconductor nanocrystals. His interests also include the use of "electrochemically wired" semiconductor nanocrystals in photoelectrochemical formation of fuels.
Prof. Doron Aurbach
Bar Ilan University , Israel
aurbach@mail.biu.ac.il
http://www.ch.biu.ac.il/people/aurbach
Dr. Doron Aurbach is a full Professor in the Department of Chemistry and a senate member in Bar Ilan University (BIU), Ramat Gan, Israel since 1996. He chaired the chemistry department at BIU during 2001-2005. He is associate editor of Electrochemical and Solid State Letters journal and the journal of Solid State Electrochemistry. He founded the electrochemistry group of BIU at the end of 1985. The group includes 30 researchers (one of the biggest research groups in Israel) and works in the following fields: Li ion batteries (new cathodes, anodes, electrolyte solutions, electrodes-solution interactions, practical systems, electric vehicle applications), rechargeable magnesium batteries, electronically conducting polymers, super capacitors, engineering of new carbonaceous materials, sensors and water desalination. The group currently collaborates with several prominent research groups in Europe and the US and with several commercial companies in Israel and abroad. D. Aurbach published so far about 330 journals papers (electrochemistry, physical chemistry, materials and surface science), a book ("Nonaqueous Electrochemistry" by Marcel Dekker NY, 1999 ) 12 chapters in books, 12 patents and more than 250 extended abstracts related to international meetings. He is a fellow of the Electrochemical Society.
Prof Juan Bisquert
Universitat Jaume I, ES
bisquert@fca.uji.es
http://www.elp.uji.es/jb.htm
Juan Bisquert is professor of Applied Physics at Universitat Jaume I de Castelló, where he leads the Group of Photovoltaic and Optoelectronic Devices. Recent research activity was focused on nanoscale device for production and storage of clean energies, in particular dye-sensitized solar cells and other photovoltaic devices and organic LEDs. He is specialist in the application of measurement techniques and physical modeling that relate the device operation with the elementary steps that take place at the nanoscale dimension: charge transfer, carrier transport, chemical reaction, etc. Especially the use of techniques of impedance spectroscopy has shown to be very useful to understand fundamental electronic phenomena in complex situations, such as in porous nanoscaled morphology. These methods are currently being applied to dye-sensitized solar cells, aligned ZnO nanowires structures, efficient charge injection and transport in organic LEDs, and solid-state photovoltaic devices.
Dr Gerrit Boschloo
Uppsala University, Sweden
gerrit.boschloo@fki.uu.se
Gerrit Boschloo is a specialist in the physical-chemical characterization of dye-sensitized solar cells. He obtained his Ph.D. in 1996 at Delft University of Technology (the Netherlands) and held post-doctoral positions at University College Dublin (Ireland) and Uppsala University (Sweden). He currently holds a position as an associate professor at the Department of Physical and Analytical Chemistry, Uppsala University. He is author of more than 90 peer-reviewed articles.
Prof. Dr Christoph Brabec
FAU Erlangen, DE
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.
Dr Maarten Van Brussel
Metrohm Autolab, Utrech, The Netherlands
Maarten Van Brussel (1975, M. Sc. Chemistry 1999, Ph. D. Physical Chemistry 2005). His research during the Ph.D. at the Free University of Brussels (Belgium) was focused on the study of the kinetics of the electroreduction of oxygen on platinum nanoparticles deposited on gold for fuel cell applications. Nowadays, he works for Metrohm Autolab, the producer of the Autolab potentiostat/galvanostat as product manager for the electrochemistry range. As an electrochemistry specialist, he is involved in the development of instrumentation and data acquisition software as well as in the development of applications using the Autolab.
Prof. Dr Paulo Roberto Bueno
UNESP (Săo Paulo State Univ.), Brazil
prbueno@iq.unesp.br
Prof. Dr. Paulo Roberto Bueno received his degree in Materials Science and Engineering by Federal University of Săo Carlos (UFSCar, Brazil) in 1996. In 1998 he finishes his master in Materials Science and Engineering specifically in semiconductor materials at the same university. Also in 1998 he received another master degree in Administration and Production Manager either by UFSCar. In 2003 he finished his PhD. in Physical Chemistry and the subject of this thesis was in theoretical aspects of electrochemical impedance spectroscopy and solid state kinetics. From 2003 to 2005 he did his pos-doctorate in physics at Săo Paulo University (USP) in the Physics and Mathematics Department in the campus of Ribeirăo Preto. Nowadays, Dr. Bueno is Professor at Săo Paulo State University (UNESP) in the Physical Chemistry Department in the Institute of Chemistry. He was one of the researchers to introduce SnO2 and (Ca1/4Cu3/4)TiO3 polycrystalline semiconductor as a varistor system in scientific and industrial context. Nowadays, his main academic area of interest is related to impedance spectroscopy, admittance and dielectric spectroscopy, optical impedance (modulated transmittance) and mass transfer function techniques (ac-electrogravimetry) to develop alternative energy source devices (photovoltaic conversion and storage) and biosensors devices. He recently starts a research project in drug delivery system and bioeletroanalysis of natural organic products. Concerning technological tech transfer, Dr. Bueno is involved with the initiative of tech transfer development at UNESP. He is leading the startup of Tech service companies as INNOUT and technological companies as INNBIO (biotechnological company) and SPINMOS (a semiconductor company based on semiconductor technology applied surge arrestors).
Prof David Cahen
Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
david.cahen@weizmann.ac.il
http://www.weizmann.ac.il/materials/Cahen/ ; http://www.weizmann.ac.il/AERI/
Born in the Netherlands, Cahen earned a B.Sc. in chemistry & physics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1969. He conducted his graduate studies at Northwestern University, earning a Ph.D. in chemistry and materials research in 1973, over-wintering in Stanford, where he worked on the 70s version of high temperature superconductors. He pursued postdoctoral research in the biophysics of photosynthesis at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and at the Weizmann Institute. In 1976, he joined the Weizmann Institute (where he was tenured in 1982 and promoted to associate and full professor in 1993 and 1998, respectively), starting work on novel solar cells, something which he is active in today, too. His solar cell work led to his research on the chemistry of electronic materials and devices and to studying such issues as fundamental chemical limits to electronic device miniaturization and stability. In parallel he explored how and when defects in materials can actually improve material quality and device performance. These interests led to research on hybrid (bio)molecular/non-molecular materials, which, in turn, evolved into his present activities on understanding how (bio)molecules can be active electronic materials (what are mechanisms of electronic charge carrier transport across them)and how they can control electronic transport, what are the limitations and where are the possibilities for fundamentally novel science here. His research contributed significantly to the maturing of the so-called 2nd generation solar cells, including elucidation of the self-healing ability of certain solar cell materials. He co-discovered a new ultra-sensitive sensor platform with direct electronic detection, and led the basis for a comprehensive model for understanding and controlling poly- and nano-crystalline electronic materials, among other things. Recent honors include the Edwards Prize for Research Excellence, awarded to him by the Israel Vacuum Society in 2003, the 2008 Landau Prize for Alternative Energy and the 2009 Kolthoff prize (from the Technion, Israel Inst. of Technology) for his work on Alternative Renewable Energy. He has served and serves on various national and international committees concerned with science and science education, and consults or serves as scientific advisory board member of several energy-related companies and initiatives. Since 2007, he heads the Institute’s Department of Materials and Interfaces, the Schmidt Minerva Center on Supramolecular Architecture and the Mary and Tom Beck Canadian Center for Alternative Energy Research. He is the first (and founding) scientific director of Weizmann’s campus-wide Alternative Sustainable Energy Research Initiative and the incumbent of the Rowland and Sylvia Schaefer Professorial Chair in Energy Research.
Prof Andrés Cantarero
University of Valencia, Spain
Andres.Cantarero@uv.es
Andrés Cantarero (B.S. 1979, Ph.D. Physics 1986) is Full Professor in Condensed Matter Physics at the University of Valencia and at present Director of the Materials Science Institute. His research topics are the physical properties of semiconductor nanostructures, more recently semiconductor nanowires. He has more than 170 publications in the WOS and around 1800 citations.
Prof Junseok Chae
Arizona State University, United States
Junseok Chae received the B.S. degree in metallurgical engineering from the Korea University, Seoul, Korea, in 1998, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in EECS (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science) from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 2000 and 2003, respectively. After a couple of years of being research fellow at Michigan, he joined Arizona State University as an assistant professor in electrical engineering in 2005 and now he is an associate professor. His research areas of interest are MEMS for biomedical applications. He received the 1st place prize and the best paper award in DAC (Design Automation Conference) student design contest in 2001. He has published over 80 journal and conference articles, one book, two book chapters, and holds two US patents. He received NSF (National Science Foundation) CAREER award on MEMS protein sensor array.
Prof. Carlos Chesman
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
Master's at Physics from Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (1994), Phd at Physics from Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (1997) and presently is Full Professor at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte. Has experience in Physics, focusing on Magnetic Materials and Magnetic Properties and Semicondutors, acting on the following subjects: magnetism (Sputtering, MOKE, MR, FMR), nanoestructures, multilayers and semicondutor (Peltier Effect).
Dr Maria Lucia Curri
Institute for Physical and Chemical Processes, Italy
lucia.curri@ba.ipcf.cnr.it
http://www.ba.ipcf.cnr.it/
Dr. Maria Lucia Curri, PhD in Chemistry 1997, is Staff Researcher at Italian National Council Institute for Physical and Chemical Processes, Bari Division, Italy. She is devoted to activities aiming to design and fabricate inorganic nanocrystals and process them in nanostructured and multifunctional materials for optoelectronic, photocatalytic and life science applications. She has been and is currently responsible for CNR IPCF Bari in 6th and 7th European Framework Programme projects and has been involved in several National Projects on nanomaterial fabrication, characterization and environmental application. She has got several research visiting appointments, is co-author of over 90 papers, including 68 peer reviewed papers and 3 book chapters and has contributed to many conferences, also with invited talks.
Dr Jason Davis
University of Oxford, United Kingdom
jason.davis@chem.ox.ac.uk
http://davisgroup.uk.net/
Dr Jason Davis is a Reader in Chemistry at the University of Oxford and a Senior Member and Dr Lees Reader in Chemistry at Christ Church, Oxford. Jason studied Chemistry at Kings College London, where he was awarded The Victor Gold Prize for Chemistry in 1991, The Ivor John Prize for Organic Chemistry in 1992, and The Robert Wakeford Memorial Prize in Chemistry and a first class honours degree in 1993. He moved to the Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory at the University of Oxford in 1994 and obtained a DPhil in Chemistry in 1998. He was elected to an Extraordinary Junior Research Fellowship at The Queens College in 1998, a Royal Society University Research Fellowship in 1999 and a Lectureship in Chemistry at Jesus College, Oxford, in 2001. He was made a University Lecturer and Official Student and Tutor in Chemistry at Christ Church in 2003. He became Senior Subject Tutor in 2006 and was made a University Reader in Chemistry in September 2008. His research group develop and apply methods for the design, analysis and manipulation of functional molecular (bioelectronic, biochemical, wires, mechanically interlocked) interfaces, often at molecular scales, and are additionally engaged in the use and development of state of the art molecular and medical imaging technologies.
Dr Filippo De Angelis
CNR-ISTM, Italy
filippo@thch.unipg.it
Main research interests are in the development and application of quantum chemical methods to the study of the structural, electronic, and optical properties of complex systems including transition metal centers. Techniques rooted in Density Functional Theory (DFT) and Time-Dependent DFT are mainly applied to the field of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells, to predict and interpret the electronic, spectroscopic and optical properties of organic and transition metal dyes, and to evaluate the alignment of their ground and excited state oxidation potentials with respect to the energy levels of metal oxides and of prototypical electrolytes. The interaction of dye sensitizers with nanostructured oxides and the evaluation of excited state coupling as well as modeling of electrolytes and/or hole transporting materials is also actively investigated.
Dr John de Mello
Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Dr. John de Mello is a Reader in Nanomaterials in the Department of Chemistry at Imperial College. His research focuses on the experimental and theoretical characterisation of nanoparticles and molecular semiconductors with particular emphasis on their use in optoelectronic devices. He has published over 60 papers and 3 patents and was a co-recipient of the Royal Society's 2007 Brian Mercer Award for Innovation in Nanotechnology. Dr. de Mello currently holds a Royal Society Industry Fellowship with Millennium Inorganic Chemicals, and is a co-founder of Molecular Vision Ltd. - an Imperial College spin-out specialising in the use of organic LEDs and photodiodes for chemical sensing.
Prof Franco Decker
Universitŕ di Roma , Italy
Franco Decker (born in 1949) is full professor of electrochemistry and head of a research group at the University of Roma, Chemistry Dept, since 1990. His university degree ("Laurea in Fisica") was awarded by the University of Torino, Italy, with the highest grade "110/cum laude" in 1974, and his Ph.D. was awarded by the University of Campinas (Brasil) in 1979. He has been professor of physics at the Sao Paulo University at Campinas-Unicamp (Brasil, 1975-80 and 1983-90, from level MS-2 up to level MS-5), visiting scientist at the Fritz-Haber-Inst. of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (Berlin, Germany 1980-82) with prof.H.Gerischer and his group. He has been visiting for shorter periods the Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University (USA), the University of Trento and the Polytechnic of Milan (Italy), the University of Sao Paulo (Ribeirao Preto), the IRDEP (unité mixte EDF-CNRS-ENSCP, Paris, France), and has collaborated with research groups in Argentina, France, Greece, Israel, Germany, Peru, Spain, Slovenia, Sweden, Uruguay, USA on the basis of bi-national scientific agreements or of EU projects. His present research is in photoelectrochemistry, electrochemistry of semiconductors, of hybrid devices and of optically active electrodes (thin electrochromic films based on Li cation intercalation reactions). He regularly publishes on Physical Chemistry, Electrochemistry and, in particular, on Surface Chemistry journals where his research results on surface modified electrodes (studied both with electrochemistry and with XPS and other surface-sensitive methods) are reported. He has been coordinator of national (PRIN-MIUR) research projects and collaborates with several groups in Italy and abroad on bilateral and EU projects listed below. He is presently the Socrates coordinator (EU programme for student and teacher exchanges) for Chemistry and Industrial Chemistry. He has authored more than 150 full papers, is currently referee of 10 scientific journals, and has been appointed Expert of the EU Commission on Research for the FP-6 and FP-7 programmes, and advisor of the ICTP-Trieste for research activities in collaboration with developing countries. During his career, he has been advisor of 3 MS Theses, 5 PhD Theses, and 12 theses of "Laurea".
Dr Carsten Deibel
University of Würzburg, Germany
http://www.disorderedmatter.eu
Carsten Deibel studied at the Universities of Bochum (Germany) and Sussex (UK). He did his PhD in the group of J. Parisi in Oldenburg (Germany) about the characterisation of defects in inorganic thin film solar cells made of Cu(In,Ga)(S,Se)2 in cooperation with Shell Solar. During a two year stay as postdoc with Paul Heremans at the Interuniversity Microelectronics Center (imec) in Belgium, he began to focus his investigations on organic semiconductors. Since 2005, he holds a position as researcher and group leader at Vladimir Dyakonov's Chair of Experimental Physics, University of Würzburg (Germany), where he is responsible for the fundamental research of charge generation and transport in organic semiconductors and optoelectronic devices.
Dr Hans Desilvestro
Dyesol, Italy
http://www.dyesol.com/
Dr Hans Desilvestro gained his PhD from the Swiss Institute of Technology based on his work on photoelectrochemistry and dye sensitisation under the direction of Prof. Michael Grätzel. After many years of R&D and technical management within the battery technology industry, he returned to the world of dye solar cells in 2005 as Dyesol’s Chief Scientist.
Prof. Dr Aldo Di Carlo
CHOSE - University of Rome , Italy
http://www.chose.it
Aldo Di Carlo is associate professor of optoelectronics and leader of the Nano&Optoelectronic research group (http://www.optolab.uniroma.it) of the University of Rome “Tor Vergata” (Italy). Since 2006 he is co-director of the Centre for Hybrid and Organic Solar Energy (CHOSE) of the Lazio Region- Italy. CHOSE involves more that 30 researchers for the development and industrialization of the DSC technology. He is president of the Technical Board of the Dyepower consortium. Di Carlo is author/coauthor of more than 200 scientific publications on international journals, 6 patents, several book chapters, co-author of two books of optoelectronics and geneanal and/or local coordinator of several European Projects on optelectronics.
Prof. Dr Eric Wei-Guang Wei-Guang Diau
Department of Applied Chemistry, TW
http://diau08.ac.nctu.edu.tw/
Eric Diau received his Ph.D. in Chemistry in 1991 from National Tsing Hua University (NTHU). After military service, he went to Emory University, University of Queensland, and California Institute of Technology (caltech) for his postdoctoral research. In August 2001, he joined National Chiao Tung University (NCTU) as a faculty member and has become a full professor since 2006. Eric Diau’s current research interests include femtochemistry, electron transfer and energy transfer dynamics in condensed matters, fabrication and characterization of nano-materials, and the development of new materials and novel technologies for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells (DSSC).
Prof James Durrant
Imperial College London, GB
j.durrant@imperial.ac.uk
http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/people/j.durrant
James Durrant is Professor of Photochemistry in the Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London, and Deputy Director of Imperial College's Energy Futures Lab. Following undergraduate studies in Physics, his PhD and postdoctoral studies focused on the primary processes of plant photosynthesis. He joined the Chemistry Department in 1999, where he established an interdisciplinary research group focusing upon chemical approaches to solar energy conversion – harnessing solar energy either to produce electricity (photovoltaics) or molecular fuels (e.g.: hydrogen). His research is based around employing photochemical studies to elucidate design principles which enable technological development. His group is currently researching organic solar cells and photoelectrodes for solar fuel generation. He has published over 220 research papers and 5 patents, and was recently awarded the 2009 Environment Prize by the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Dr Francisco Fabregat-Santiago
Universirtat Jaume I, Spain
fabresan@uji.es
Born in 1970, in Castelló, Spain. BsC 1995, at Universitat de Valencia and University of Leeds, PhD in Physics 2001 at Universitat Jaume I. He is Associated Professor at University Jaume I, Spain. He is an expert in electro-optical characterization of devices and particularly known by his studies on the electrical characteristics of nanocolloids, nanorods, nanotubes, dye solar cells and electrochromic materials using impedance spectroscopy
Dr Arthur Frank
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, United States
Arthur J. Frank is a Principal Scientist in the Chemical & Materials Science Center at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). He received his PhD from the University of Florida in 1975. Before joining NREL in 1978, he worked at the Hahn-Meitner Institute in Berlin and at the University of California, Berkeley as a postdoctoral scientist. His interest covers basic and applied research on the direct conversion of solar photons to fuels and electricity. His research is aimed at understanding the physical and chemical factors that govern the energetics and dynamics of interfacial charge transfer and carrier transport in sensitized nanoporous solar cells and the limitations that these processes impose on cell performance. These studies are usually based on a combination of theory, computer simulations, and time- and frequency-resolved techniques. He is also working on advanced nanostructured electrodes for ultrahigh efficiency solar hydrogen production from water splitting.
Dr Germŕ Garcia-Belmonte
Universitat Jaume I, Spain
garciag@fca.uji.es
Germŕ Garcia-Belmonte (1964) received his Ph.D. degree at Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, 1996. He worked from 1988 at CIEMAT, Madrid, on experimental as well as theoretical research in the area of digital processing of nuclear signal. He joined the Universitat Jaume I, Castelló, in 1992 and works as Associate Professor of Applied Physics (1999) at the Department of Physics (Photovoltaic and Optoelectronic Devices Group). Recently he follows researches in various topics 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. Device physics using impedance spectroscopy (including modeling and measuring) is his main subject.
Prof. Giuseppe Gigli
NNL-Lecce, Italy
giuseppe.gigli@unisalento.it
Giuseppe Gigli was born in Rome, the 4th of November, 1970. He took the Degree in Physics cum laude at the University of Rome (IT) “La Sapienza” in 1996 and the PhD in Physics in 1999 at the University of Lecce (IT). In 1999 he joined the group of Prof.Richard Friend in the Cavendish Laboratory of the University of Cambridge (UK), working on Polymer based Optoelectronic Devices. In 2000 he joined the group of Prof.Olle Inganäs at the University of Linköping (Sweden), working on Nanotechnology processes of molecular materials. Since 2001 he is Lecturer in Physics in the Engineering Faculty of the University of Lecce, where he is Associate Professor since 2005. Giuseppe Gigli is the Coordinator of the Organics Division in the National Nanotechnology Laboratory (NNL) of CNR-INFM and national coordinator of the CNR research line “Nanotechnology for molecular materials”. His main research activities involve: Study of Structural and Optical properties of Molecular Materials, plastic optoelectronic Devices such as OLEDs, Solar Cells and lasers, Soft lithography and Nanotechnology of Molecular Materials, Cell factory GG is author of more than 160 publications on International Journals with more than 2000 citations (h-index=25), several chapters in scientific books, 15 International and Italian patents and more than 50 Invited talks in International Conferences. GG is and has been coordinators of several research projects funded by Italian Ministry of University and Research, Unit coordinator of European project FP6 IP OLLA, and responsible of several industrial project with italian and international companies. Giuseppe Gigli is co-founder and president of a research Spin-off, Mediteknology s.r.l., aiming at the developing of new diagnostic tools for Medicine.
Dr Sixto Giménez
Universitat Jaume I de Castelló, Spain
sjulia@fca.uji.es
Sixto Giménez (1973, M. Sc. Physics 1996, Ph. D. Physics 2002) is researcher at Universitat Jaume I de Castelló (Spain). His professional career has been focused on the study of particulated materials. 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 (2003-2006) where he focused on the development of non-destructive and in-situ characterization techniques of the sintering behavior of metallic porous materials. In 2006-2007, he was responsible for a new research line on nanostructured particulated materials for magnetic applications at CEIT (Spain). 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 devices and biosensors based on nanoscaled materials, particularly studying the optoelectronic and electrochemical responses of the devices by electrical impedance spectroscopy. He has co-authored more than 30 papers in international journals and has been awarded with a Ramon y Cajal fellowship for 2008-2012.
Prof Carlos Frederico de Oliveira Graeff
DF-FC-UNESP, Brazil
graeff@fc.unesp.br
http://lattes.cnpq.br/5268607684223281
Carlos F. O. Graeff was born in Ribeirao Preto (Brazil) in 1968. He studied at the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) where he obtained his Bachelor degree in Physics in 1989 and a PhD. in Physics in 1994 under the supervision of Prof. Ivan Chambouleyron. He carried out postdoctoral research as an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Technical University of Munich with Prof. Martin Stutzmann. In 1996 he returned to Brazil as an Assistant Professor at the University of Sao Paulo-Ribeirao Preto (USP-RP). In 1999 he became Associate Professor in the same University. In 2006 he joined the State University of Sao Paulo-Bauru (UNESP-Bauru) as Full Professor. Prof. Graeff has published 90 research articles and holds 2 patents. He has been appointed in 2009 the national coordinator of Materials Science in the Brazilian Ministry of Education CAPES/MEC.
Prof. Dr Michael Graetzel
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
michael.graetzel@epfl.ch
Switzerland
Professor at the Ecole Polytechnique de Lausanne Professor Michael Grätzel directs there the Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces. He pioneered studies of mesoscopic materials and their use in energy conversion systems, in particular photovoltaic cells, lithium ion batteries and photo-electrochemical devices for the splitting of water into hydrogen and oxygen by sunlight. He discovered a new type of solar cell based on dye sensitized nanocrystalline oxide films. Mass production of the flexible embodiment of these PV cells has started in October 2009. Author of over 800 publications, two books and inventor of more than 50 patents, his work has been cited over 75.000 times (h-factor 126) making him one of the 10 most highly cited chemists in the world. His most recent awards include the 2011 Paul Karrer Gold Medal, the 2010 Millenium Technology Grand Prize, the City of Florence Prize of the Italian Chemical Society, the Balzan Prize, the Harvey Prize, the Galvani Medal, the Faraday Medal, the Dutch Havinga Award and the Gerischer Award, He received a doctor's degree in Natural Science from the Technical University Berlin and honorary doctors degrees from the Huazhong University of Science and technology (HUST) and the Universities of Lund (Sweden), Singapore (NTU), Nova Gorice (Slovenia), Hasselt (Belgium), Delft (The Netherlands), Uppsala (Sweden) and Turin (Italy). He is a member of the Swiss Chemical Society, the European Academy of Science, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) and was elected honorary member of the Société Vaudoise de Sciences Naturelles.
Prof Craig A. Grimes
The Pennsylvania State University, United States
cgrimes@engr.psu.edu
Craig A. Grimes is currently a Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University, University Park. He received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 1990. His research interests include the reduction of CO2 to hydrocarbon fuels, solid-state dye sensitized solar cells, propagation and control of electromagnetic energy, and remote query environmental sensors. He is founder or co-founder of four different companies. Dr. Grimes is co-author of The Electromagnetic Origin of Quantum Theory and Light; Light, Water, Hydrogen: The Solar Generation of Hydrogen by Water Photoelectrolysis; TiO2 Nanotube Arrays: Synthesis, Properties and Applications; and Editor of The Encyclopedia of Sensors.
Prof Anders Hagfeldt
Uppsala University, SE
anders.hagfeldt@fki.uu.se
http://www.fki.uu.se/Personal/hagfeldt-anders/index.shtm
Anders Hagfeldt is Professor in Physical Chemistry and the Dean of Chemistry at Uppsala University, as well as Director of the Center for Molecular Devices (CMD). 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 195 scientific publications and 8 patent applications. He is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA), Stockholm, and a visiting professor at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, at Dalian University of Technology, China, and the Institute for Materials Research and Engineering in Singapore.
Dr Janne Halme
Aalto University School of Science and Technology, Finland
http://tfy.tkk.fi/renewable/
Janne Halme is a researcher at the Aalto University School of Science and Technology (former Helsinki University of Technology), Finland, where he obtained his D.Sc. (Tech.) degree in engineering physics in 2009. His has carried out both fundamental and applied research of nanostructured electrochemical dye solar cells with contributions to the development of better understanding and tools for device modeling, characterization, design, and long-term stability of low-cost flexible DSCs on plastic and metal substrates.
Dr Jens Andreas Hauch
Konarka Technologies GmbH, Germany
http://www.konarka.com
Dr. Jens A. Hauch is the Director of R&D Operations and the general manager of the German R&D site of Konarka Technologies. He is responsible for the development of innovative processes and materials to improve the performance of Konarka’s innovative Power Plastic®, a new type of solar module based on semiconducting organic polymers. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1993, where he was a member of the Center for Complex Systems Research. In 1998 he received his PhD degree in Physics from the Center for Nonlinear Dynamics at the University of Texas at Austin. Before joining Konarka in 2004, he was active in the development of thin-film magnetic sensors, electrochromic displays, and organic photodetectors at Siemens Corporate Technology from 1999-2004. He is author and co-author of numerous patents, patent applications and scientific papers in organic photovoltaics, thin film magnetics and dynamic fracture.
Yanek Hebting joined Dyesol in 2006 and is presently leading Dyesol's Materials Group. The Materials Group's main focuses are the development and optimization of ruthenium-based dye syntheses and titanium oxide products. The Materials Group is also simultaneously involved in the engineering of novel dye structures, the development of new metal oxide formulations and the study of the dye/titania interface in order to increase the DSC device efficiency. Dr Hebting graduated with a PhD in Organic Chemistry in 2002 from the Universit?© Louis Pasteur in Strasbourg France where he studied carbon-based radical reaction mechanisms in aqueous media. He conducted his post-doctoral work at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, (2003-2006) where he was a Research Fellow funded by the American Chemical Society. In 2006 the Geochemical Society prized him with the Best Paper of the Year Award for his PhD work. ACS PRF recipient 2004 MIT-France Seed Fund recipient 2005
Prof Gary Hodes
Weizmann Institute, IL
http://www.weizmann.ac.il/materials/idcards/idHodes.html
1962-68 and 1968-71 BSc and PhD (Chemistry) at Queens University Belfast.
At Weizmann Institute since 1972.
Fields: Solution deposition of semiconductors, nanostructured photovoltaic cells.
Prof. Dr Olle Inganäs
Center of Organic Electronics, Linköping University, Sweden
https://cms.ifm.liu.se/applphys/biorgel/
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.
Prof Rene Janssen
Eindhoven University of Technology, NL
http://mst.chem.tue.nl/m2n
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”.
Prof Antoine Kahn
Princeton University, United States
http://www.princeton.edu/~kahnlab/
Antoine Kahn, native of France, received his B.S.E from the Ecole Polytechnique de Grenoble in 1974 and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Princeton University in 1978. He joined the Princeton faculty in 1979, and was promoted to Associate Professor in 1985 and Full Professor in 1991. He has extensively investigated the atomic and electronic structures of surfaces and interfaces of inorganic semiconductors. Over the past fifteen years, he focused on the structural, electronic and chemical properties of surfaces and interfaces of intrinsic and doped organic molecular and polymer films. Recent work includes the physics and applications of n- and p-type molecular dopants in organic thin films, (ii) the physics of organic/inorganic and organic/organic heterojunctions; or (iii) the use of transition metal oxides in organic electronics. Kahn has published over 300 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).
Prof Prashant V Kamat
University of Notre Dame, United States
http://www.nd.edu/~pkamat
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 and functionalized carbon nanotubes 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 350 peer-reviewed journal papers, review articles and book chapters with more than 18000 citations and carries an h-index of 74. 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. He was elected as a Fellow of the Electrochemical Society in 2008.
Prof. Jaejung Ko
Korea University, Korea
jko@korea.ac.kr
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.
Prof. Frederik Christian Krebs
Risř National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy, Denmark
Frederik C. Krebs was born in Denmark on the 3rd of January 1970. B.Sc. in chemistry from University of Aberdeen, Scotland, 1993. B. Sc. In biochemistry/immunology from University of Aberdeen, Scotland, 1994. D. E. A. in solid state chemistry from University of Nantes, France, 1995. Cand. Scient in chemistry from University of Copenhagen, Denmark, 1996. Ph. D. in chemistry from Technical University of Denmark, 2000. He is Senior Scientist at Risř National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy, Technical University of Denmark. The current research area is polymer solar cells and includes topics of organic chemistry, device preparation, device stability studies, studies of degradation mechanisms, roll-to-roll manufacture of polymer solar cells and demonstration of the technology in applications.
Dr Malle KRUNKS
Tallinn University of Technology, EE
Dr. Malle Krunks, at present leading research scientist and head of the thin film lab at Tallinn University of Technology (TUT), Department of Materials Science, is graduated from TUT (dipl. eng. in electronics), PhD in chemistry by Ural Polytechnic Institute, Yekaterinburg, Russia, in 1985. She has been working in different positions at TUT; 2006‐2008 she held the position of research professor at Estonian Academy of Sciences. After restoration independence of Republic of Estonia in 1991 she had worked as visiting researcher at leading research institutes in Europe for different periods. Since 1995, principal investigator of national and international projects, since 2002 leader of the Thin Film research group. Research field: chemical methods of deposition of thin films and nanostructures, and their formation chemistry; nanostructured solar cells. She has been awarded 2 times by Estonian Government with Estonian Science Award for her research in the field of PV materials and devices.
Dr Gerardo Larramona
IMRA EUROPE, FR
Dr Gerardo Larramona IMRA EUROPE, FR larramona@imra-europe.com Gerardo Larramona (1962, M. Sc. Chemistry 1985, Ph. D. Chemistry 1989) is researcher at IMRA EUROPE (France). His Ph.D. and early post-doctoral research was on the field of spectro-electrochemical techniques applied to identification of metal oxide thin films, carried out at CSIC, Madrid, Spain, and at the University of Southampton, UK. Afterwards he moved to IMRA EUROPE, France, where he carried out research on several fields such as microelectrodes, gas sensors, fuel cells and solar cells. At present he is concentrated on photovoltaic cells, concerning several aspects including materials, nanostructures, fabrication methods, theoretical issues and characterization techniques.
Prof. Dr Yuh-Lang Lee
National Cheng Kung University, TW
Yuh-Lang Lee was born in Yunlin, Taiwan, in 1961. He received the BS, MS, and PhD degrees in Chemical Engineering from the National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, in 1984, 1986, and 1991, respectively. He was on the faculty of the Department of Applied Chemistry at Chia-Nan University of Pharmacy and Science between 1993 and 2001. Currently, he is a professor of the Chemical Engineering Department at National Cheng Kung University. His research interests include molecular engineering of surfaces and interfacial phenomena; preparation, characterization, and application of molecular thin-films, dye-sensitized and semiconductor-sensitized solar cells.
Prof. Dr Karl Leo
TU Dresden, Germany
http://www.iapp.de
1980-1985 University of Freiburg
1985-1988 MPI FKF Stuttgart
1989-1991 Bell Labs, Holmdel
1991-1993 RWTH Aachen
1993- Director, IAPP
Prof Charles M. Lieber
Harvard University, United States
http://cml.harvard.edu/
Charles Lieber holds a joint appointment at Harvard University in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford, followed by postdoctoral research at the California Institute of Technology and an Assistant Professor appointment in 1987 at Columbia University. He moved to Harvard in 1991, where he has pioneered synthesis of nanoscale materials, characterization of their unique physical properties and development of methods of hierarchical assembly of nanoscale wires, and their application in nanoelectronics, nanocomputing, biological and chemical sensing, neurobiology, and nanophotonics. Lieber is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Fellow of the American Chemical Society and the Materials Research Society, and Co-Editor of the ACS journal Nano Letters. He has published over 300 papers and is the principal inventor on more than 35 patents.
Prof. Dr Daniel Lincot
CNRS, France
daniel-lincot@chimie-paristech.fr
http://www.enscp.fr/spip.php?article222
Daniel LINCOT Director Institute of Research and Development of Photovoltaic Energy (IRDEP – Joint research unit between CNRS, EDF and ENSCP/ParisTech), Chatou, France Birth Date : 1954 Married, 3 children Professional Cursus and Distinctions 1974-1978 Engineering Studies at Ecole Supérieure de Physique et Chimie Industrielles de la ville de Paris (ESPCI) 1978 Master in Materials Sciences (University Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris) 1978-1980 PhD on the Elaboration of cadmium telluride homojonctions solar cells by close space vapour transport (CSVT) at Laboratory of Solid State Physics of CNRS 1981 CNRS researcher at Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Paris (ENSCP). 1986 Doctor čs Sciences in the field of Semiconductor Photoelectrochemistry 1992 Nomination as Director of research at CNRS 1998-2001 Deputy director of research at ENSCP 2001-2008 Director of the Laboratory of Electrochemistry and Analytical Chemistry 2004 Silver Medal of CNRS for research achievements 2004 Committe member of the French agency ADEME for PV 2005 Creation of IRDEP, nomination as Deputy Director 2008- Vice president of the committee of the French Research Agency program HABISOL in charge of Photovoltaics 2009- Director of IRDEP Research highlights in Photovoltaics 1982 Record efficiency for cadmium telluride solar cells made by close space vapor transport 1991 Chemical bath deposition of CdS for high efficiency copper indium diselenide solar cells 1991 Record efficiency for CIS solar cells (european project EUROCIS), using CBD CdS layers 1994 Record efficiency with electrodeposited CIS solar cells 1996 Discovery of the electrodeposition of ZnO thin films and nanorods 2003 Record efficiency for CIS solar cells with indium sulfide by Atomic Layer Deposition 2004 Record efficiency for one step electrodeposited CIS solar cells 2005 Towards industrial transfer of electrodeposited CIS solar cells Scientific contributions About 170 papers in international journals, 50 invited presentations, 8 patents. Teaching activities Electrochemistry Photovoltaics
Dr Michal Lipson
Cornell University, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, United States
nanophotonics.ece.cornell.edu
Michal Lipson is an Associate Professor at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University, Ithaca NY. Her research focuses on novel on-chip Nanophotonics devices. She holds numerous patents on novel micron-size photonic structures for light manipulation, and is the author of over 100 technical papers in journals in Physics and Optics. She has pioneered several of the critical building blocks for silicon photonics including the GHz silicon modulators. Professor Lipson's honors and awards include OSA Fellow, IBM Faculty Award, and NSF Early Career Award.
Dr Rene Lopez
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, US
http://www.physics.unc.edu/project/rln/
Dr. Lopez obtained his Bachelor degree from the Monterrey Institute of Technology (Mexico), and his Master and Doctoral degrees from Vanderbilt University (USA). He worked at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Vanderbilt University before joining the Faculty of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (USA). He currently heads a group that does research in optical materials. In particular, photonic structures for organic photovoltaics, dye sensitized solar cells, surface raman enhancement spectroscopy, and evanescent wave amplification.
Prof George Malliaras
Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de St-Etienne, France
http://www.emse.fr/spip/-Departement-bioelectronique-.html?lang=en
Professor George Malliaras is the Head of the Department of Bioelectronics at the Centre Microélectronique de Provence of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint Etienne (ENSM-SE). He received a BS in Physics from the Aristotle University (Greece) in 1991, and a PhD in Mathematics and Physical Sciences, cum laude, from the University of Groningen (the Netherlands) in 1995. After a two year postdoc at the IBM Almaden Research Center (California), he joined the faculty in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Cornell University (New York). From 2006 to 2009 he served as the Lester B. Knight Director of the Cornell NanoScale Science & Technology Facility. He joined ENSM-SE in the Fall of 2009. His research on organic electronics and bioelectronics has been recognized with awards from the New York Academy of Sciences, the US National Science Foundation, and DuPont. He is a co-author of 150+ publications in peer-reviewed journals that have received over 4,000 citations. He serves as the chairman of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Materials Chemistry.
Dr Rebeca Marcilla
CIDETEC, Spain
www.cidetec.es
Dr. Rebeca Marcilla got the PhD degree in Chemistry by the University of the Basque Country in 2006. She carried out her doctoral thesis in the field of ionic liquids and polymeric ionic liquid with application in electrochemistry and nanotechnology. She received the prize for the best PhD thesis in polymer science in 2005-2006 by the Spanish Polymer Group. Currently she is working at CIDETEC as researcher and possesses a wide expertise in conducting polymers and polymer electrolytes based on ionic liquids. She is co-author of more than 30 scientific papers in international journals.
Prof Mike McGehee
Stanford University, US
Michael D. McGehee is an Associate Professor in the Materials Science and Engineering Department and Director of the Center for Advanced Molecular Photovoltaics at Stanford University. His research interests are patterning materials at the nanometer length scale, semiconducting polymers and solar cells. He has taught courses on nanotechnology, organic semiconductors, polymer science and solar cells. He received his undergraduate degree in physics from Princeton University and his PhD degree in Materials Science from the University of California at Santa Barbara, where he did research on polymer lasers in the lab of Nobel Laureate Alan Heeger. He did postdoctoral research with Galen Stucky and Brad Chmelka at the University of California at Santa Barbara on the self-assembly of organic-inorganic mesostructures. He has won the 2007 Materials Research Society Outstanding Young Investigator Award and the Mohr Davidow Innovators Award.
Prof. Dr Qingbo Meng
Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, CN
http://solar.iphy.ac.cn/
Professor Qingbo Meng is a full professor in Institute of Physics (IOP), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), and Director of the Renewable Energy Laboratory, IOP. He received his Ph.D. degree from Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, CAS in 1997. From 1997 to 1999, he was a post-doctoral fellow in IOP, CAS. From 1999 to 2002, he was a STA fellow and researcher at the University of Tokyo and KAST in Japan. In 2001, he was selected as ˇ°Hundreds of Talents of CASˇ±. From 2003 to 2004, he was a NEDO fellow at Research Institute of Innovative Technology of the Earth, Japan). Prof. Meng was awarded ˇ°Excellent Hundreds of Talentsˇ± from CAS in 2005 and ˇ°Distinguished Young Scholarsˇ± from National Nature Sciences Foundation of China (NSFC) in 2007, respectively. His current research interest focuses on solar energy materials and devices, including dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs), photocatalytic materials and photonic crystal materials. At present, he is a member of the Editorial Board for Electrochem. Commun., and a council member of the Chinese Renewable Energy Society. He has already published over 90 papers in J. Am. Chem. Soc., Adv. Mater., Energy Environ. Sci., Adv. Funct. Mater., Chem. Commun. Appl. Phys. Lett., J. Phys. Chem. C, Electrochem. Commun., etc., which have been cited over 1000 times. He has applied over 30 patents, and 11 patents were authorized.
Dr Hernan Miguez
Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Sevilla (CSIC), Spain
MÍGUEZ, Hernán (born May 1971 in Buenos Aires, Argentina). Doctor in physics by the Autonomous University of Madrid (2000). From 2000 to 2002 worked as a post-doctoral fellow in the Chemistry Department of the University of Toronto, Canada, where he was appointed a honorary professorship position. Since 2004 he is a member of the permanent research staff of the Materials Science Institute of Seville (ICMS) (joint centre of the Spanish Research Council and the University of Seville). He leads a research line in Optical Nanomaterials. His research activities have been mainly focused on the design, preparation, characterization and modelling of optical nanomaterials for applications in photovoltaics, sensing and radiation protection. He is author or more than 80 papers in International Journals (Hirsch index 32), 12 internationalized patents, and numerous scientific presentations including about 20 invited lectures in International symposia and in Industry or University centres. His patents leaded to the founding of two technology based companies, the Canadian Opalux, devoted to the development of tuneable photonic displays, and the Swedish NLAB Solar, focused on the integration of photonic crystals in solar cells to achieve boost the light harvesting efficiency.
Dr Iván Mora-Seró
Universitat Jaume I, ES
sero@fca.uji.es
Iván Mora Seró (1974, M. Sc. Physics 1997, Ph. D. Physics 2004) is researcher at Universitat Jaume I de Castelló (Spain). His research during the Ph.D. at Universitat de Valčncia (Spain) was centred in the crystal growth of semiconductors II-VI with narrow gap, setting up the first laboratory in Spain dedicated to the research with the epitaxial growth technique MOCVD (MetalOrganic Chemical Vapour Deposition). On February 2002 he joined the Group of Photovoltaic and Optoelectronic Devices of University Jaume I. From this date until nowadays his research work has been developed in several of the research topics of the group: electronic transport in nanostructured devices, photocatalysis, electrical characterization of photovoltaic and electrocromic devices, making both experimental and theoretical work. Recent research activity was focused on new concepts for photovoltaic conversion based on nanoscaled devices following two mean lines: The characterization of monocrystalline ZnO nanowire/nanotube arrays, with a view to the development of electron transporters in non-conventional solar cells, and on the other hand in the characterization of the injection, transport and recombination in TiO2 nanoporous electrodes using as absorbing materials both dye and quantum dots, been the use of the laters a hot topic in the development of new solar cells.
Prof Shogo Mori
Shinshu University, Japan
seimitsu.shinshu-u.ac.jp/MaterChemEng/English/index_e.html
Shogo Mori is an associate professor of Faculty of Textile Science and Technology at Shinshu University in Japan, where he has been since 2005. His former family name is Nakade. He received a B.S. and a M.S. in Physics from University of Toledo, U.S.A., in 1996 and 1998, respectively. He received the Ph.D. degree in Engineering Science from Osaka University, Japan, in 2004. From 1999 to 2005, he was a research engineer at Nokia Research Center at Tokyo in Japan, working for various materials and energy sources. His current research interests are interactions between photon and materials, and charge transport and transfer, especially at semiconductor/dye/electrolyte interface in dye-sensitized solar cells. He is the author of 40 papers and proceedings that have received over 1000 citations. He has two patents and seven patent pendings, and is co-author of a chapter of book.
Dr Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin
E P F L, India
mdkhaja.nazeeruddin@epfl.ch
http://personnes.epfl.ch/mdkhaja.nazeeruddin
Dr. Md. K. Nazeeruddin received M.Sc. and Ph. D. in inorganic chemistry from Osmania University, Hyderabad, India. His current research focuses on Dye-sensitized solar cells, Hydrogen production, Light-emitting diodes and Chemical sensors. He has published more than 200 peer-reviewed papers, nine book chapters, and inventor of 19 patents. The high impact of his work has been recognized with invitations to speak at over 40 international conferences. He appeared in the ISI listing of most cited chemists, and has more than 10000 citations with an h-index of 49. He is directing, and managing several industrial, national, and European Union projects on Hydrogen energy, Photovoltaics (DSC), and Organic Light Emitting Diodes. He was awarded EPFL Excellence prize in 1998 and 2006, Brazilian FAPESP Fellowship in 1999, Japanese Government Science & Technology Agency Fellowship, in 1998, Government of India National Fellowship in 1987-1988. Recently he has been appointed as World Class University (WCU) professor for the period of March 1, 2009 ~ December 31, 2012 by the Korea University, Jochiwon, Korea.
Prof Jenny Nelson
Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Jenny Nelson is a Professor of Physics at Imperial College London, where she has researched novel varieties of material for use in solar cells since 1989. Her current research is focussed on understanding the properties of molecular semiconductor materials and their application to organic solar cells. This work combines fundamental electrical, spectroscopic and structural studies of molecular electronic materials with numerical modelling and device studies, with the aim of optimising the performance of plastic solar cells. She has published around 200 articles in peer reviewed journals, several book chapters and a book on the physics of solar cells.
Dr Kion Norrman
Risř National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy , Denmark
Dr. Kion Norrman received his Bachelors degree, Masters degree, and his Ph.D. degree in chemistry from University of Copenhagen (Denmark). He spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow at University of Waterloo (Canada), and one year as an analytical chemist at the Danish Technological Institute (Denmark). He is currently a senior scientist at Risř National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy, Technical University of Denmark. He is assigned to the Solar Energy Programme led by Professor Frederik C. Krebs. Dr. Norrman is responsible for the research area dealing with degradation and stability of polymer solar cells. He is developing and optimizing methodologies in an attempt to unravel the complex array of degradation mechanisms that take place during operation of organic solar cells. The aim is to improve the technology through detailed knowledge of how the devices degrade. In collaboration with Professor Krebs he pioneered the use of time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry in conjunction with isotopically label atmospheres that led to important discoveries regarding oxygen and water induced degradation of polymer solar cells.
Prof. Dr Arthur Nozik
U.S. DOE National Renewable Energy Laboratory, United States
Dr. Arthur J. Nozik is a Senior Research Fellow at the U.S. DOE National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Professor Adjoint in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Colorado, Boulder. In 2009 Nozik was selected as Associate Director of a joint Los Alamos National Lab/NREL Energy Frontier Research Center for DOE called Center for Advanced Solar Photophysics. In 2007 he was appointed the Scientific Director of the new Center for Revolutionary Solar Photoconversion under the Colorado Renewable Energy Collaboratory. Nozik received his BChE from Cornell University in 1959 and his PhD in Physical Chemistry from Yale University in 1967. Before joining NREL in 1978, then known as the Solar Energy Research Institute (SERI), he conducted research at the Materials Research Center of the Allied Chemical Corporation (now Honeywell, Inc). Dr. Nozik's research interests include size quantization effects in semiconductor quantum dots and quantum wells, including multiple exciton generation from a single photon; the applications of unique effects in nanostructures to advanced approaches for solar photon conversion; photogenerated carrier relaxation dynamics in various semiconductor structures; photoelectrochemistry of semiconductor-molecule interfaces; photoelectrochemical energy conversion; photocatalysis; optical, magnetic and electrical properties of solids; and Mössbauer spectroscopy. He has published over 200 papers and book chapters in these fields, written or edited 5 books, holds 11 U.S. patents, and has delivered over 250 invited talks at universities, conferences, and symposia. He has served on numerous scientific review and advisory panels, chaired and organized many international and national conferences, workshops, and symposia, and received several awards in solar energy research, including the 2009 Science and Technology Award from the Intergovernmental Renewable Energy Organization associated with the U.N., the 2008 Eni Award from the President of Italy, and the 2002 Research Award of the Electrochemical Society. Dr. Nozik has been a Senior Editor of The Journal of Physical Chemistry from 1993 to 2005 and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Energy and Environmental Sciences and the Journal of Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells. A Special Festschrift Issue of The Journal of Physical Chemistry honoring Dr. Nozik’s scientific career appeared in the December 21, 2006 issue.. Dr. Nozik is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; he is also a member of the American Chemical Society, the Electrochemical Society, and the Materials Research Society.
Dr Dana C. Olson
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), United States
dana.olson@nrel.gov
Dr. Dana C. Olson received his Bachelors degree in chemistry from Carleton College (Northfield, Minnesota, USA), his Masters degree in materials science from The Pennsylvania State University (State College, Pennsylvania), and his Ph.D. in materials science from the Colorado School of Mines (Golden, Colorado). He spent two years as an intelligence community (IC) postdoctoral fellow at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, NM. He is a senior scientist at NREL and oversees much of the organic photovoltaic research in the national center for photovoltaics (NCPV). He has over ten years of experience in organic electronics and eight years with organic and hybrid photovoltaics. During his graduate research at NREL, he focused on hybrid organic/inorganic photovoltaics. He successfully demonstrated the first hybrid photovoltaic devices based on polymer/ZnO nanorod composites as well as demonstrating inverted polymer:fulerene bulk heterojunction devices based on ZnO hole blocking layers. During his time at Sandia National Laboratories, he focused his research on enhancing the interfacial interactions between the polymer and the metal oxide in order to enhance polymer infiltration, charge separation, and device performance. He developed inorganic metal oxide interfacial layers as well and organic self assembled monolayers between the polymer and ZnO that enhance the photovoltage, enhance the crystallinity of the polymer at the interface, and decrease carrier recombination. Since returning to NREL, his focus has returned to interfacial modification and the development of electron and hole blocking layers for use in polymer:fullerene bulk heterojunction photovoltaic devices. He has published more than 25 scientific papers and given numerous invited presentations at international conferences on organic photovoltaics.
Prof Emilio Palomares
ICIQ, Spain
http://www.iciq.es/portal/investigacion/322/grupos_de_investigacion.aspx
Emilio Palomares (Born 1974. M. Sc. Biology. Esp. Biochemistry 1997, Ph. D. Chemistry, 2001). ICREA Senior Researcher and ERC fellow at Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), where he leads since April 2006 the Group of Optoelectronic Materials and Molecular Devices. Prof. Palomares has published over 85 papers (H factor 30) in major peer-review journals as, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Advanced Materials, Angewandte Chemie Int. Ed. and Chemistry-A Eur. J., and coordinates several national and European projects on molecular photovoltaic devices. His recent research activity is focused on light driven devices for production and storage of clean energies, in particular molecular photovoltaic devices based on nanostructured metal oxides and organic conductors. Prof. Palomares specialist in photophysical characterization of molecular materials and molecular devices. Emilio has built up a strong international reputation on the application of materials synthesis, photophysical characterization and device manufacturing. Particularly, the use development of the distance-dependence theory and the Kinetic redundancy concept in molecular photovoltaics has been widely used to understand fundamental charge recombination phenomena in molecular photovoltaic devices, such as dye sensitised solar cells. His developed methodology to achieve high device efficiencies (Al2O3 coatings etc…) is currently being applied to dye-sensitized solar cells and solid-state photovoltaic devices. Prof. Palomares is the co-inventor of 4 international patents and the responsible for development of a new colorimetric chemosensor for mercury detection in the ppb range. His results have been highlighted in several international journals such as Science, Nature Materials etc…The major topics of my current activity is the research on the development of new concepts for light induced molecular devices for fuel and electricity production .
Prof Nam-Gyu Park
Sungkyunkwan University, KR
http://ngplab.skku.edu
Nam-Gyu Park is professor of School of Chemical Engineering at Sungkyunkwan University, where he leads the Group of Next Generation Photovoltaics. He got Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry from Seoul National University in 1995. He worked at ICMCB-CNRS, France, and at National Renewable Energy Laboratory, USA, as postdoctoral researchers from 1996 to 1999. He worked as Director of Solar Cell Research Center at Korea Institute of Science and Technology and as a principal scientist at Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute before joining School of Chemical Engineering in 2009. His research activity has been focused on high efficiency dye-sensitized solar cells. He is specialist in design and synthesis of inorganic nanostructured materials as well as photovoltaic solar cell fabrication. He has received awards, including Scientist Award of the Month (MEST, Korea), KyungHyang Electricity and Energy Award (KEPCO, Korea) and KIST Award of the Year (KIST, Korea). He has 100 scientific publications, 35 patent applications and 2 book chapters. His research interests are extended to super high efficiency third generation solar cells and bio-inspired energy devices.
Prof Laurence Peter
University of Bath, United Kingdom
Laurie Peter received his B.Sc. and Ph.D. from the University of Southampton (UK). After a period working at the Fritz Haber Institute in Berlin in the group of the late Heinz Gerischer, he returned to the Southampton before moving to the University of Bath, where he has been Professor of Physical Chemistry since 1993. He partially 'retired' in 2009 and is currently spending 6 months at the Ludwig Maximillian University in Munich working in the group of Professor Thomas Bein. Laurie Peter's interest sinclude fundamental studies of dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs), research into inorganic thin film solar cells based on sustainable materials such a copper zinc tin sulfide and photoelectrochemical water splitting. He has developed a number of experimental techniques such as intensity modulated photocurrent spectroscopy (IMPS) and charge extraction that are used to characterize DSCs and water splitting systems. He has also developed in situ microwave methods for investigating photoelectrochemical reactions. At present he is attempting to understand the kinetics and mechanisms of light-driven oxygen evolution at iron oxide electrodes.
Dr Moritz Riede
Institut für Angewandte Photophysik, TU Dresden, Germany
http://www.iapp.de/iapp/agruppen/osol/
Before moving to Dresden, Moritz Riede studied physics at the University of Cambridge, UK, and obtained his PhD degree in 2006 from the University of Konstanz with a thesis on "Investigation and Analysis of the Key Parameters in Organic Solar Cells" that was carried out at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE and the Freiburg Materials research centre FMF. Subsequently he joined the research group of Prof. Karl Leo at the Institut für Angewandte Photophysik (IAPP) of the TU Dresden in 2007, where he is heading the organic solar cell group. His research focus is on small molecule based organic solar cells.
Prof. Dr Andrey L. Rogach
City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
andrey.rogach@cityu.edu.hk
Andrey L. Rogach is currently a Professor at the Department of Physics and Materials Science, City University of Hong Kong. He received his Diploma in chemistry in 1991 and Ph.D. in physical chemistry on synthesis and properties of silver nanoparticles in 1995 from the Belarusian State University in Minsk (Belarus). From 1995 to 1996 he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Hamburg (Germany), where he also worked in 1997-2002 as a visiting scientist, Alexander-von-Humboldt Research Fellow and finally staff scientist. From 2002 till 2009 he was a lead staff scientist at the Photonics and Optoelectronics group of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich (Germany). Since 2008 he is also an Adjunct Professor at the Center for Research on Adaptive Nanostructures and Nanodevices (CRANN) of the Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, where he held an SFI Walton Award in 2005-2006. His research interests are the synthesis, supramolecular chemistry, spectroscopy and applications of colloidal semiconductor and metal nanocrystals. He has authored over 180 publications and has been ranked 8th among 20 Top Authors publishing on nanocrystals in the past decade by Thomson Scientific, Essential Science Indicators. His most recent research activities address hybrid nanocrystal structures and their use for energy transfer and light harvesting applications.
Dr Debra Rolison
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, United States
Debra Rolison received a B.S. in Chemistry from Florida Atlantic University in 1975 and a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1980 under the direction of Professor Royce W. Murray. Dr. Rolison joined the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory as a research chemist in 1980 and currently heads the Advanced Electrochemical Materials section. She also holds an appointment as Adjunct Professor of Chemistry at the University of Utah. Her research at the NRL focuses on multifunctional nanoarchitectures with emphasis on new nanostructured materials for catalytic chemistries, energy storage and conversion, biomolecular composites, porous magnets, and sensors.\n Dr. Rolison is a Fellow of the AAAS, AWIS, and in 2008 was inducted into the inaugural class of Fellows of the Materials Research Society. She is a member of the American Chemical Society, Materials Research Society, the International Society for Electrochemistry, and the Society for Electroanalytical Chemistry (SEAC). She co-authored Ultramicroelectrodes, the first text on this active area (1987), with M. Fleischmann, S. Pons, and P. Schmidt. She guest edited (with H.S. White) an issue of Langmuir devoted to “Electrochemistry of Nanostructured Materials” (February 1999), a Festschrift in honor of Royce Murray (with R.L. McCarley and R.M. Wightman) in the Journal of Physical Chemistry (September 2001), and a volume of the Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids devoted to the S&T of nanoarchitectures (December 2004). Her Editorial Advisory Board service includes Analytical Chemistry, Langmuir, Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry, and inaugural board membership at Nano Letters, the Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, and Annual Review in Analytical Chemistry. She was a member of the Board of Directors of SEAC (1996–2001) and served as Editor of SEAC Communications (1997–2002). She chaired the 2001 Gordon Research Conference on Electrochemistry, the 2003 International Symposium on Aerogels, and co-chaired the 12th-15th NSF Materials Chemistry Workshops (2004–2008). She was named the 2005 Distinguished Alumna of the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science of Florida Atlantic University and received the 2009 NRL Edison Chapter/Sigma Xi Award for Pure Science (the first women to receive this award in its 55-year history at the NRL). Dr. Rolison also writes and lectures widely on issues affecting women in science. In 2000, she proposed using Title IX, which prohibits discrimination in any educational “program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance”, to evaluate academic Science & Engineering departments. Her strategy was echoed in the 2004 General Accountability Office report Women's Participation in the Sciences Has Increased, but Agencies Need to Do More to Ensure Compliance with Title IX. The primary recommendation in this report to the U.S. Congress directs the agencies that fund scientific research to “take actions to ensure compliance reviews of grantees are conducted as required by Title IX.” She and her research team have written over 185 refereed journal publications, book chapters, and reports, been awarded 23 U.S. patents (with 8 pending), presented over 400 talks at professional society meetings (210 of which were invited), and given an additional 300 professional talks and seminars. She also lectures on the impact of nano(bio)technology on society and the ethical obligations of scientists who perform research in nanoscale science and technology.
Dr Garry Rumbles
NREL, US
http://www.nrel.gov/research_fellows/rumbles.html
Education and Training: University of Southampton, U.K., Chemistry with Electronics B.Sc. (honors), 1980 University of London, U.K., Molecular Photochemistry, Ph.D., 1984 Research and Professional Experience: Laboratory Fellow. NREL, 2008–present Professor Adjoint. Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder, 2009–present Fellow. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute, 2009–present Group Manager. Chemical and Biosciences Center, NREL, 2004–2009 Scientist. NREL, 2001–2008 Visiting Professor. Department of Chemistry, Imperial College, London, U.K., 2001-present Sabbatical Scientist. NREL, 1999–2001 Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader. Department of Chemistry, Imperial College, London, U.K., 1989–2001 Postdoctoral Researcher. Prof. David Phillips; Davy Faraday Research Laboratory, London, U.K., 1987–1989 Postdoctoral Researcher. Prof. Edward K.C. Lee; Department of Chemistry, University of California at Irvine, 1985–1987 Postdoctoral Researcher. Prof. George Atkinson; Department of Chemistry University of Arizona, Tucson, 1984–1985
Prof Luigia Sabbatini
University of Bari, Italy
sabba@chimica.uniba.it
Luigia Sabbatini: born in1950 is Full Professor at the University of Bari since1986. -President of the Analytical Chemistry Division of Italian Chemical Society (1998-2000). -Representative of Chemists in the Senate of the University of Bari (1997-2002). -President of the Center for Research and Activity in the Field of Spectroscopy at the University of Bari. -President of the Analytical Chemistry Division of Italian Chemical Society (1998-2000). -President of the Research Laboratory for the development of analytical advanced methods for the diagnostics in the Field of Archeometry, at University of Bari (2005-2010). -Head of Chemistry Department at University of Bari (2005-2010). -President of the "Sezione Puglia" Regional Committee of Italian Chemical Society (2005-2007). -Served as Editorial Board member of “Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena”, and “Annali di Chimica” (Roma); now in the Advisory Board of “Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry” Her main scientific interests concern the development and surface characterization of application-oriented innovative materials. Her field of expertise is that of surface spectroscopy, in particular X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS), whose analytical capabilities have been fully exploited in the determination of chemical composition of materials properly tailored for biomedical, microelectronics and sensors application. Of particular interest is the pulse given to the utilization of surface chemical derivatization techniques for the assessment of the presence of chemical functionalities, strategically important in view of the end use of the material developed. Investigations of structure/properties correlation and of (bio)molecule/material-surface interaction have received great attention for their key-role in the design and synthesis of materials to be employed in drug delivery, sensing by molecular recognition, etc. Author of about one hundred and fifty papers published in peered journals and co-editor of the book "Surface Characterization of Advanced Polymers" VCH, 1993; Guest Editors of special issues of Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry journal. Invited speaker to national and international conferences.
Prof Edward Sargent
University of Toronto, CA
www.light.utoronto.ca
Ted Sargent received the B.Sc.Eng. (Engineering Physics) from Queen's University in 1995 and the Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering (Photonics) from the University of Toronto in 1998. He holds the rank of Professor in the Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto, where he holds the Canada Research Chair in Nanotechnology and serves as a KAUST Investigator. His book The Dance of Molecules: How Nanotechnology is Changing Our Lives (Penguin) was published in Canada and the United States in 2005 and has been translated into French, Spanish, Italian, Korean, and Arabic. He is founder and CTO of InVisage Technologies, Inc. He is a Fellow of the AAAS “...for distinguished contributions to the development of solar cells and light sensors based on solution-processed semiconductors.” He is a Fellow of the IEEE “... for contributions to colloidal quantum dot optoelectronic devices.”
Dr Sang Il Seok
Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology, KR
seoki@krict.re.kr; http://www.krict.re.kr/research/research_v.php?TCODE=03_A&id=100257
Dr. Sang Il Seok is directing Global Research Laboratory, funded through the National Research Foundation of Korea funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, as Principle Investigator at the Advanced Materials Division in Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology, Korea. He obtained his PhD degree at Department of Material Science and Engineering of Seoul National University, Korea, in 1995. From 1996 to 1997, he experienced a post-doc to investigate defects and transport in Fe-Ti-O Spinel structure in Cornell University, USA, and visiting scholar in University of Surrey, UK, in 2003, and EPFL, Switzerland, in 2006 respectively. His major research interests were inorganic/organic hybrid materials through sol-gel process for optical amplifier, high dielectrics, corrosion-resistance coatings etc. Since 2006, his research is focused on semiconductor nanocrystal (including quantum dots)-sensitized photovoltaics for photodetectors and solar cells, and novel materials for them.
Dr. Henry Snaith
University of Oxford, United Kingdom
h.snaith1@physics.ox.ac.uk
Henry Snaith undertook his PhD at the University of Cambridge, working on polymer blend photovolatics, and spent two years at the EPFL, in Switzerland, as a post doc working on dye-sensitized solar cells. He returned to the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge to take up a Junior Research Fellowship for Clare College in 2006 and moved to Oxford Physics in October 2007, where he now leads a group researching in optoelectronic devices, specifically organic and hybrid solar cells. His current research is heavily focussed on developing new material structures for dye-sensitized and hybrid solar cells and understanding and controlling the physical processes occurring at interfaces.
Prof. Dr Guilhermo Solórzano
PUC-RIO, Brazil
guilsol@puc-rio.br
Guillermo Solórzano is a professor at the department of Materials Science and Metallurgic, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, PUC Rio. He obtained his engineering degree from PUC Rio de Janeiro (1975) after studies in applied science at Universite Catholique de Louvain (1973). He obtained his Master’s degree in Materials Science from PUC Rio (1977) and his PhD degree in Materials Science and Engineering from McMaster University, Canada (1983). Among his international experience: Pos-doctoral position at the Max-Planck Institute, Stutgart, Germany (1987), visiting professor, at Institute Nationale Politechnique de Grenoble, France (1990), Massachusetts Institute of Technology- MIT, Cambridge, EUA (1991-1993) and Stanford University, EUA (2008). Currently, at PUC Rio, Professor Solórzano is also responsible for the Laboratory for Nanosctructured Materials. Past-president of Scientific Societies, namely Inter American Committee of Societies for Electron Microscopy-CIASEM, and Sociedade Brasileira de Microscopia e Microanálise-SBMM, he is also the founding president of the Brazilian Society for Materials Research – Brazilian MRS. Prof. Solórzano is currently serving as chairman of the MRS International Relations Committee and as member of several international executive committees and also member of editorial committees in scientific journals such as Materials Characterization (Elsevier), Journal of Materials Science (Springer) and Microscopy and Microanalysis (Cambridge University Press). Professor Solórzano has organized over the years several Brazilian National and International scientific events and has hosted in Brazil over hundred prominent international scientists. Currently, he is the chairman of International Conference on Advanced Materials – ICAM 2009, and International Microscopy Congress IMC 17. He has a wide experience in Materials Science and engineering, acting primarily in the following fields: nanostructure and characterization, electron microscopy and microanalysis, phase transformations and crystalline defects, interfacial phenomena and applications, materials in art and cultural heritage. Professor Solórzano is the coordinator or PI of several research projects in topics associated to these themes, mainly in international collaboration about nanostructures and advanced materials. He has received research awards from the Brazilian National Research Council, CNPq, from the Research Foundation of the State of Rio de Janeiro, FAPERJ, and from the International Union of Materials Research Society IUMRS. He has also received the Tinker Award from Stanford University.
Prof Villy Sundstrom
Lund University, SE
http://www.chemphys.lu.se/
Phd 1977 Umeĺ University Sweden Professor of Chemical Physics Lund University Sweden 1994 Research interests: Photochemistry, ultrafast dynamics, structural dynamics, photosynthesis, solar energy conversion, natural pigments, organic and hybrid photovoltaics.
Dr Ramon Tena-Zaera
CIDETEC (Centre for Electrochemical Techniques), Spain
Ramón Tena-Zaera: Dr. Ramon Tena-Zaera got the PhD degree in Phisics by the Unversity of Valencia in 2004. He possesses a wide expertise in the electrodeposition of ZnO nanowire arrays as well as their application in solar cells. He is co-author of more than 35 scientific papers in international journals. He moved from CNRS (France) to CIDETEC in November 2008 at CIDETEC to establish a research line on ZnO based nanostructured solar cells. He has recently been awarded with a Ramon y Cajal fellowship for 2009-2013 period.
Prof. Dr Mukundan Thelakkat
University of Bayreuth, DE
http://www.chemie.uni-bayreuth.de/mci ; http://www.afupo.de/
Bio-data: 1992: PhD at Institut of Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry, University of Jena, Germany. 1993 - 1994: Postdoc at BASF Aktiengesellschaft, Ludwigshafen, Germany. 1995 - 2006: Research scientist at Macromolecular Chemistry I, University of Bayreuth, Germany. 2004: Habilitation in Macromolecular Chemistry at University of Bayreuth 2004: Research stay at General Electric Global Research, Niscayuna, NY, USA April 2006-: Professor for Applied Functional Polymers at the University of Bayreuth- --- Research topics: Design and tailor-made synthesis of functional molecules, dyes and semiconductor polymers and block copolymers using advanced synthetic organic chemistry and modern polymerization methods (GRIM, NMRP, RAFT). Energy transfer, Charge transfer, charge transport in organic donor-acceptor and hybrid systems. Photoswtches and fluorescence modulation using photoswitchable chromophores. Application of semiconductor materials in organic/hybrid solar cells and organic field effect transistors.
Dr Ching Ting
Industrial Technology Research Institute, Taiwan
cting@itri.org.tw
Dr. Ching Ting got her Ph.D. Degree in Chemistry from The University of Iowa at 1989. After being post-doctoral fellow and visiting assistant professor in The University of Iowa, she joined Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) at 1994. She is currently the deputy director of Organic Opto-Electronic Materials and Applications Division in ITRI and is in charge of Polymer Photovoltaic Program. Dr. Ting’s research interests include nano-structured polymers, O-I hybrid materials, and material design and synthesis for optoelectronic applications.
Miss Luisa Torsi
Universitŕ di Bari "Aldo Moro", Italy
Luisa Torsi is full professor of Analytical Chemistry since 2005. Her main research interests are in the fields of functional materials/nanostructures and organic thin-film transistors for chemical and biological sensing applications. Author of more than 80 papers, including Science Magazine and Nature Materials, she is also co-inventor of several international patents. Her works gathered more than 3300 citations with an h-index of 27. The research activity of Luisa Torsi is documented by 83 ISI publications. She has given more than 45 invited presentations, including plenary and key note lectures, at European, USA and Asian universities, international conferences and workshops. Awarded research funding comprise two European contracts as well as national and regional projects. Torsi is coordinating an ITN Marie Curie European network named FlexSMELL (Gas Sensors on Flexible Substrates for Wireless Applications) and is principal investigator in the STREP proposal BioEGOFET (Electrolyte-Gated Organic Field-Effect BIOsensors). She is the 2010 E. H. Merck prize winner for analytical science, being the first women and the first Italian to be awarded by this prize. Presently she is the national coordinator of the Working Group “Sensors” of the Analytical Chemistry Division (Italian Chemical Society) and member of the Division Council for 2010-12. She is also Member of the Executive Committee of the European Material Research Society, member of the Scientific Council of the VINN Excellence Center FunMat at Linköping University. She serves as evaluation panel vice-chair and project technical assistants for the European Commission and as expert reviewer for the European and USA National Science Foundation
Prof Taro Toyoda
The University of Electro-Communications, Japan
toyoda@pc.uec.ac.jp
Taro Toyoda is Professor of Applied Physics and Chemistry at The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan. He recieved his B.S., M.Sc, and D.Sc from Tokyo Metropolitan University. Before he got the position at the University, he was Research Associate at National Research Council of Canada, Assoicate Research Manager at Fuji Electric Corporate Research and Development, and Manager of Nippon Mining Co. Ltd. His current major research interests include optical properties of semiconductor and metal quantum dots and their applications to photovoltaic devices. He is a specialist in the application of measurement techniques not only static ones but also transient ones to investigate the photoexcited carrier dynamics of semiconductor and metal quantum dots.
Dr Gavin Tulloch
Dyesol, Australia
http://www.dyesol.com
Dr. Gavin Tulloch founded STI the forerunner of Dyesol and has been pivotal in the development of DSC in Australia, forming the initial team in 1994. He is now Managing Director Global of Dyesol Limited, and is also Director of several Dyesol subsidiary companies including Dyesol UK, Dyesol Italia, Dyesol S E Asia and is Director General of Greatcell Solar – Dyesol’s Swiss subsidiary. He has been instrumental in establishment of the collaborative project with Corus and collaborations in Italy with Permasteelisa and ERG. His technical expertise is in technical ceramics, materials science and manufacturing engineering. Past achievements include the establishment of an underwater sensor and systems business which grew to be a major global supplier. He gained his PhD from UNSW in the field of semiconducting oxides, and has been a leader in the fields of piezoceramics, battery technology, electrochromics and solar technologies. He is principal or co-author of many patents. Gavin is a fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors since 1995 and a companion of the Institute of Engineers.
Prof. Dr Satoshi Uchida
RCAST, The University of Tokyo, JP
uchida@rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp
http://kuroppe.tagen.tohoku.ac.jp/~uchida/profile-e.html
Satoshi Uchida is associate professor in Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST), The University of Tokyo. He received his PhD from Tohoku University in 1995 and moved to current status in 2006. His research focuses on the field of dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs), specifically cell assembling technique such as full-plastic, light-weight, film type DSSC as a ubiquitous power source. He has also activity of material engineering for high performance organic sensitizer, 1D nanostructured titanium oxide and clay electrolyte etc.
Prof Alison B Walker
University of Bath, United Kingdom
http://people.bath.ac.uk/pysabw/
Alison Walker was born in Sarawak, Malaysia. She took her undergraduate and postgraduate degrees at the University of Oxford then was a postdoc at Michigan State University, US and Daresbury Laboratory, UK. She held a tenured post at the University of East Anglia then moved to the University of Bath in 1998. Her area of research is condensed matter theory, where her focus is on excitonic solar cells, including dye-sensitized cells, and multiscale modelling of conjugated polymers. She held a Royal Society Industry Fellowship with Cambridge Display Technology 2003-6, is coordinator of the EU project Modecom and is a member of the UK funded Supergen Excitonic solar cell consortium.
Prof Peng Wang
CAS Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, CN
EDUCATION
1996.09-2001.07 Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, Ph.D Student
1991.09-1995.07 Department of Chemistry, Zhengzhou University, Undergraduate
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
2006.11-Present Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, Professor
2006.06-2006.11 Center for Polymers and Organic Solids, University of California, Santa Barbara, Visiting Scientist
2005.01-2006.05 Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Research Associate
2002.01-2004.12 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Research Assistant
SELECTED HONORS
Member of the Advisory Board of Energy & Environmental Science (2009)
Adjunct Professor, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (2008)
Visiting Professor, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (2007)
Distinguished Young Scientist Award, Jilin Province (2007)
ˇ°Hundrends Talent Projectˇ± Professor, Chinese Academy of Sciences (2006)
Adjunct Professor, Harbin Engineering University (2006)
Research Excellence Award, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (2003)
President Fellowship, Chinese Academy of Sciences (2001)
P&G Fellowship, Chinese Academy of Sciences (2001)
Liu-Yongling Fellowship, Chinese Academy of Sciences (1998)
Dr Qing Wang
National University of Singapore, SG
http://www.dmse.nus.edu.sg/wq/Group_Homepage/Home.html
Dr. Qing Wang is an assistant professor at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National University of Singapore (NUS). He obtained his PhD degree in Condensed Matter Physics from Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2002. Before joined NUS in 2008, he has been working with Prof. Michael Grätzel at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), and Dr. Arthur J. Frank at National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in the fields of nanostructured solar cells. His research is currently focused on charge transport and transfer in mesoscopic energy conversion and storage systems, including various sensitized solar cells and novel energy storage devices.
Prof Shozo Yanagida
Osaka University, Japan
s.yanagida@casi.osaka-u.ac.jp
Date of Birth: September 19th, 1940 Nationality: Japan Education: Osaka University, Bachelor of Engineering: 1964 Osaka University, Master Degree of Engineering: 1966 Osaka University: Ph.D. 1970 Professional Experience: Assistant Professor (Faculty of Engineering, Osaka University): 1966 Associate Professor (Faculty of Engineering, Osaka University): 1980 Full Professor (Faculty of Engineeringm Osaka University): 1987~2004 Emeritus Professor of Osaka University: 2004~ Guest Professor (Semiretirement) with special duty, Center for Advanced Science and Innovation, Osaka University 2004~2007 Guest Professor (part time) of Kwansei Gakuin University 2004~2006 Guest Professor (part time) of Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology: 2005~2007 Full-time Guest Professor of Kaneka Energy Solution Research Division, Center for Advanced Science and Innovation, Osaka University 2007~ Trustee of the Association for the Progress of New Chemistry, 2001~, http://www.aspronc.org/10prof/h18yakuin.html (Japanese) Advisory Board Member of G24i Innovation Ltd., http://www.g24i.com/pages,advisory-board,35.html Professional Societies: Japan Chemical Society American Chemical Society The Society of Polymer Science, Japan The Japanese Photochemistry Association The Electrochemical Society of Japan The Society of Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Japan Japan Society of Electromagnetic Wave Energy Applications International Microwave Power Institute Research work; 1968-1972: Organic reaction and synthesis. 1973-1980: Metal-ion complexation of polyethylene oxides and their functions. 1981-1990: Molecular photochemistry and photochemical conversion and storage of solar light energy. 1991-1997: Photocatalysis of quantum dots of metal sulfides and photo-fixation of CO2. 1995- Remarkable photoluminescence of lanthanide materials 1997- Microwave energy assisted Chemistry 1995- Dye-sensitized metal oxide solar cells and dye-staff photovoltaic
Prof Peidong Yang
University of California, Berkeley, USA
Peidong Yang received a B.S. in chemistry from University of Science and Technology of China in 1993 and a Ph.D. in chemistry from Harvard University in 1997. He did postdoctoral research at University of California, Santa Barbara before joining the faculty in the department of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley in 1999. He is currently Miller professor in the Department of Chemistry, Materials Science and Engineering; and a senior faculty scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He is the deputy director for the Center of Integrated Nanomechanical Systems. He is an associate editor for Journal of the American Chemical Society and also serves on editorial advisory board for number of journals including Acct. Chem. Res. and Nano. Lett. He was the first chairperson for the Nanoscience subdivision within American Chemical Society. He is the recipient of Alfred P. Sloan research fellowship, the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Young Investigator Award, National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award, MRS Young Investigator Award, Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics, ACS Pure Chemistry Award, and Alan T. Waterman Award. His main research interest is in the area of one dimensional semiconductor nanostructures and their applications in nanophotonics, energy conversion and living cell interface.
Prof Arie Zaban
Bar-Ilan University, IL
zabana@mail.biu.ac.il
http://www.nano.biu.ac.il/index.aspx?id=3400&itemID=2264
Arie Zaban was born in Israel in 1961. He earned a B.Sc. in Chemistry (summa cum laude) and a Ph.D. in Electrochemistry (with highest distinction) at Bar-Ilan University (1987-1995). After a 2 year postdoctoral stint at the US National Renewable Energy Laboratory (Denver, CO), he was appointed to the senior faculty at Bar-Ilan (1998), where he is currently a Full Professor of Chemistry and Director of the Bar Ilan Institute for Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials. Prof. Zaban has published over 110 papers in refereed journals, 3 book chapters, and 35 invited lectures. He has 10 patents out of which 7 are commercialized in three start-up companies. All papers and patents are energy related (photovoltaics, batteries, materials for energy conversion and storage). Prof. Zaban is a member of the Israeli government advisory committee on alternative fuels and vice chair of the Solar Energy Solution consortium (Magnet Program). Prof. Zaban has been awarded several prizes and fellowships such as the Israel Chemical Society Prize for Outstanding Young Scientist, a Rothschild Fellowship, a Levi Eshkol Scholarship and the Michael Landau Research Prize in Renewable Energy. His research interests are in the fields of photo-electrochemistry and materials science, with a focus on renewable energy resources.
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