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Steve Albrecht is a Young Investigator Artem Bakulin is developing and Sayan Bhattacharyya was born in Kolkata Group leader for perovskite based multi- applying new ultrafast spectroscopy where he did his B.Sc. at Maulana Azad Published on 06 June 2017. Downloaded 07/06/2017 05:53:35. junction photovoltaics at the Helmholtz methods for the characterisation of College. Aer obtaining his M.Sc. degree Center Berlin for Materials and Energy. organic electronic materials and nano- from the University of Kalyani, West He received a Ph.D. in physics from the structures. He obtained his B.Sc. Bengal, he completed his Ph.D. with University of Potsdam for his work on and M.Sc. degrees in physics from Professor N. S. Gajbhiye at the Indian understanding the photon to collected Lomonosov Moscow State University and Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India in charge conversion in organic solar cells. his Ph.D. from the University of Gronin- 2006. Aer his postdoctoral research with For his Ph.D. he was awarded the Carl- gen working on multidimensional IR Professor (Emeritus) Aharon Gedanken at Ramsauer Prize and the Young spectroscopy of water and organic semi- Bar-Ilan University, Israel and Professor Researcher Prize of the Berlin Physical conductors. Aer this, he was awarded Yury Gogotsi at Drexel University, USA he Society and the Leibniz-Kolleg Potsdam, a number of postdoctoral fellowships joined IISER Kolkata in April 2010 where respectively. Aer his Ph.D., he started which he carried out at Cavendish Labo- he is now an Associate Professor of the a postdoc at the Helmholtz-Center Ber- ratory, University of Cambridge and the Department of Chemical Sciences and lin where he developed, together with AMOLF institute, Amsterdam. In 2016 he Head of the Centre for Advanced Func- collaborators from EPFL, the rst started a new research group in the tional Materials. He is a Materials monolithic perovskite/silicon hetero- Department of Chemistry, Imperial Chemist interested in photovoltaics, junction tandem solar cell. His recently College London, focusing on IR optical catalysis for energy, magnetism and drug established group focuses on the control techniques and vibronic coupling delivery. A combination of wet-chemical further development of highly phenomena in so conductive materials. synthesis and self-assembly of smart efficient perovskite based multi- nanomaterials, structure–property corre- junction devices. lation and device applications are used to attain these research goals.
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and Biochemistry at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth in 2014 aer attaining his Ph.D. in Chemistry at Boston University and completing a post- doc at Sandia National Laboratories. Using his diverse background in inor- ganic, bioinorganic, and materials chemistry, he has established a research agenda focused on developing active materials for electrical energy storage. Harnessing the power of natural selec- tion in designing batteries is at the heart of his approach to this problem. He was Pedro H. C. Camargo is an Associate a recipient of the 2015–2016 Electro- Ethan J. Crumlin was born in Massachu- Professor at University of Sao Paulo, chemical Society/Toyota Young Investi- setts in 1983 and graduated from Brazil. He obtained his B.S. and M.Sc. gator Fellowship. Massachusetts Institute of Technology degrees in Chemistry from Federal with a B.S. in 2005, a M.S. in 2007 and University of Paran´a in 2003 and 2005, a Ph.D. in 2012 with Professor Yang Shao- respectively. In 2005, he was a recipient of Horn. He then undertook postdoctoral a Fulbright/CAPES Fellowship to pursue studies at the Advanced Light Source his Ph.D. in the US. He obtained his (ALS) at Lawrence Berkeley National Ph.D. from Washington University in Laboratory with Professor Zhi Liu, who is Saint Louis in 2009, where he worked in currently at ShanghaiTech University in the group of Professor Younan Xia. He China. In early 2014, he became a Prin- was hired as an Assistant Professor at the cipal Investigator at ALS, where he University of S˜ao Paulo in 2011 and was focuses on in situ and operando Ambient promoted to Associate Professor in 2015. Pressure X-ray Photoelectron Spectros- He serves as an Editor of the Journal of copy (APXPS). His research interests span Materials Science and as an Associate the elds of electrochemical energy Editor of the Journal of the Brazilian conversion and storage, interfaces, catal- Chemical Society. He was one of the Bra- ysis, environmental chemistry, corrosion, zilian Delegates in the 3rd Transatlantic Pavel Cherepanov has started his path to and scientic innovation. Frontiers of Chemistry Symposium in an academic career aer receiving
Published on 06 June 2017. Downloaded 07/06/2017 05:53:35. 2013 and received the young scientist Master’s degree in Chemistry in 2006 at award (Hans Viertler Prize) from the the Saint-Petersburg State University, Brazilian Chemical Society in 2014. His Russia. A er graduation, he moved to research interests include the design and Toledo, Ohio in the US where he taught synthesis of well-dened nanomaterials undergraduate general, inorganic, and with controllable features for applica- physical chemistry lecture courses at tions in plasmonics and catalysis. several colleges. In 2012 he joined the research group of Dr Andreeva at the University of Bayreuth, Germany, to pursue his Ph.D. in Chemistry, which he obtained later in 2015. He is currently working as a Research Fellow at the Department of Chemical and Biomolec- ular Engineering, the University of Mel- bourne, Australia, where he is conducting Tanja Cuk obtained her Ph.D. in Applied research in the areas of electrochemistry Physics at Stanford University in 2007, and materials science. a er which she started her postdoctoral work at the University of California, Ber- keley on a Miller Postdoctoral Fellowship. In 2010, aer completing her fellowship, she went on to become an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chem- Patrick Cappillino began his academic istry at Berkeley, and a Faculty Scientist career in the Department of Chemistry for the Chemical Sciences Division at the
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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. chemistry approach to the synthesis of Her research focuses on the fundamental solid state materials for environmental mechanisms involved in converting and energy applications, including gas charge into fuel at solid–liquid interfaces, storage and electrocatalytic water for which she applies multiple time- splitting. resolved spectroscopies. She is sup- ported by the Condensed Phase Inter- faces and Materials Science program within the Department of Energy. She received the Air Force Office of Research Young Investigator Award and the Bakar Fellowship.
Neil Dasgupta is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engi- neering at the University of Michigan. He earned his Ph.D. from Stanford Univer- sity in 2011. Prior to joining the Univer- sity of Michigan in 2014, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the recipient of How does material form in uence func- an AFOSR Young Investigator Award tion? How do synthetic choices deter- (YIP), a 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award, mine material use? These are the the SME Outstanding Young questions that drive the research of Manufacturing Engineer Award, the AVS James Gardner. By combining synthetic Paul Holloway Young Investigator Award, tools and broad approaches to material and the American Society of Mechanical characterization, he aims to make and ’ Julio M. D Arcy is an Assistant Professor Engineers (ASME) Pi Tau Sigma Gold use new photoactive and electroactive ’ of Materials Chemistry at Washington Metal. His research focuses on the inter- materials. Each year humanity s demand University in St. Louis. He completed his section of nanotechnology, energy for energy and electricity increases. To Chemistry Ph.D. studies at UCLA in 2012, conversion, and manufacturing. meet these demands with our limited working for Professor Richard B. Kaner, resources is fundamentally a materials where he specialized in conducting poly- challenge. He is a spectroscopist by
Published on 06 June 2017. Downloaded 07/06/2017 05:53:35. mer chemistry and thin lm deposition training, but was drawn to materials technologies for optoelectronic applica- chemistry to address this challenge. His tions. He continued his studies as goal is to design simple and durable a postdoctoral fellow (2012–2014) at MIT materials that anyone can prepare, working for Professor Paula T. Hammond because it is up to all of us to make these at the Koch Institute where he worked on solutions a reality. layer-by-layer assembly, drug delivery technologies, and energy storage appli- cations. His group is focused on material synthesis of nanoarchitectures of redox active materials emphasizing the rational design of so organic electronics for energy storage technologies. The D’Arcy lab also explores additive manufacturing Alexey Ganin received his M.Sc. from the for engineering surfaces and structures Lomonosov Moscow State University, that advance so material processing and Russia in Materials Chemistry and his applications. Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry at the Max- Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Germany. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher in Professor Rosseinsky’s FRS group at the University of Liverpool. In 2013, he joined the University of Glasgow Ricardo Grau-Crespo studied Physics at as a Lecturer in Inorganic Chemistry. His the University of Havana, Cuba, and current research focuses on using a so- moved to the U.K. to obtain a Ph.D. (2006) in computational materials science in the
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groups of Professor Nora de Leeuw and Chemistry at the University of Liverpool. Program in 2013. He has published Professor Richard Catlow, FRS. Aer He is a graduate of the University of approximately 40 peer-reviewed papers postdoctoral and xed-term lectureship Nottingham, where he stayed to complete and holds over 10 patents. His research appointments at University College Lon- a Ph.D. under the supervision of Steve interests include organic/polymeric don, he took up a lectureship at the Howdle (Chemistry) and Paul Brown semiconductors for photovoltaics, thin- University of Reading, UK in 2013, where (Engineering), while collaborating closely lm transistors, photodetectors, and he leads a research group focused on the with Martyn Poliakof and Ed Lester, as biosensors. computational modelling of materials well as taking up placements in the USA with applications in energy (photo- (Eric Beckman, University of Pittsburg) catalytic and thermoelectric devices) and and Japan (Satoshi Yoda, NIAST). He then catalysis. joined Andy Cooper’s group at the University of Liverpool in 2008, initially as a postdoctoral researcher and later as a research coordinator. During this time he played a signicant role in the devel- opment of porous organic cages. He has worked in a wide range of areas across materials science, including synthesis, supercritical processing, polymer science, nanocomposites and porous materials. Tom was awarded the Euro- pean Young Chemist of the year award in Prashant Jain grew up in Bombay, where 2014. he completed his undergraduate educa- tion at the Institute of Chemical Tech- nology. He obtained his PhD in Physical Ken Hanson received a B.S. in Chemistry Chemistry working with M. A. El-Sayed at from Saint Cloud State University (2005). Georgia Tech, following which he was He went on to earn a Ph.D. under the a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard. Aer mentorship of Mark E. Thompson at the a Miller Fellowship at UC Berkeley he University of Southern California (2010) joined the UIUC faculty, where he is the I. and then worked as a postdoctoral C. Gunsalus Scholar and an Associate scholar for Thomas J. Meyer at the Professor (eff. Aug 2017) in the Depart-
Published on 06 June 2017. Downloaded 07/06/2017 05:53:35. University of North Carolina at Chapel ment of Chemistry and the Materials Hill (2010–2013). His independent Research Lab. Prof. Jain’s laboratory is research career at Florida State University advancing the understanding and control began in 2013 where his group works on of light-matter interactions on the nano- the design, synthesis and characteriza- scale, and the use of nanoscale imaging tion of photoactive molecules/materials Hui Huang is currently a Professor at the for the elucidation of chemical trans- for use in solar energy conversion, pho- College of Materials Science and Opto- formations and catalytic reactions in tocatalysis, and other applications. electronic Engineering, University of complex solid – areas in which his work Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS). He has been cited nearly 15,000 times. Prof. obtained his BA in Chemistry from Bei- Jain is also the lead developer of nano- jing Normal University, his MA from the DDSCAT, a toolkit for simulation-based Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy learning and the design of light-matter of Sciences and his Ph.D. from Dart- interactions and plasmonic phenomena. mouth College under the supervision of Professor Russell P. Hughes in 2008. From 2008 to 2010 he carried out his postdoctoral training with Professor Tobin J. Marks and Professor Antonio Facchetti at Northwestern University. In 2010, he joined the Renewable Energy Group at the Research Center of Con- ocoPhillips as a research scientist. He moved back to China to join UCAS as Tom Hasell is a Royal Society University a member of the Hundred Talents Research Fellow in the School of
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as a post-doctoral fellow. His current research is focused on ceramic and composite electrolytes for rechargeable batteries and low cost and sustainable electrochemical energy storage systems for large-scale ESS applications. He is also working as the CEO of an energy solution company, 4TOONE Corporation.
John Keith is an R. K. Mellon Faculty Tomas Leijtens obtained his Ph.D. from Fellow in Energy, a tenure-track Assistant Oxford University in 2014 under the Professor, at the University of Pitts- supervision of Professor Henry J. Snaith, burgh’s Department of Chemical and where his work focused on under- Petroleum Energy and is affiliated with standing charge transport mechanisms Pitt’s Center for Energy. He obtained and stability of dye sensitized and metal a B.A. from Wesleyan University and halide perovskite solar cells. From 2013– a Ph.D. from Caltech. He was then an 2015 he was a Marie Curie (ITN) fellow at Alexander von Humboldt postdoctoral the Center for Nano Science and Tech- fellow at the University of Ulm and then nology in Milan, where he investigated an Associate Research Scholar at Prince- Benjamin Le Droumaguet graduated photophysical processes and degradation ton University before starting at Pitt in from the Universit´e de Rennes, France, in metal halide perovskite semi- September 2013. His group studies where he obtained an M.Sc. degree in conductors under the supervision of Dr atomic scale chemical reaction mecha- molecular chemistry in 2004. Then, he Annamaria Petrozza. He currently holds nisms with computational chemistry to completed a Ph.D. thesis at the Universit´e a postdoctoral Marie Curie Fellowship as elucidate design principles for improved de Gen`eve, Switzerland in 2008 in the a researcher at Stanford University – catalysts and materials. When time eld of polymer protein bioconjugates working with Professor Michael McGe- permits, he plays the cello and is an avid under the supervision of Dr Kelly Velonia. hee. His present research is focused on chamber musician. He came back to France for a post- the development of small bandgap doctoral fellowship in the research perovskite absorbers and their use in all-
Published on 06 June 2017. Downloaded 07/06/2017 05:53:35. group of Professor Patrick Couvreur, perovskite tandem solar cells, though working on the synthesis of functional- studying the stability of metal halide ized biodegradable polymeric nano- perovskite absorbers is dear to his heart. particles for active targeting. In 2011, he In his free time, Tomas enjoys playing the was appointed Associate Professor at the guitar and nerding out on science jokes. Universit´e Paris-Est Cr´eteil, France, where he is currently leading his research directed towards advanced macromolec- ular engineering, materials surface chemistry and hybrid porous polymer- based materials with emphasis on sup- ported catalysis.
Youngsik Kim is an Associate Professor in the School of Energy and Chemical Engineering at the Ulsan National Insti- tute of Science & Technology (UNIST), Korea. He received his Ph.D. (2006, advisor: Professor Steve W. Martin) in Materials Science and Engineering from Kevin C. Leonard is an Assistant Iowa State University. Aer that, he Professor in the Chemical and Petroleum joined Professor John B. Goodenough’s Engineering Department at the Univer- group at The University of Texas at Austin sity of Kansas. He received his Ph.D. in
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Materials Science from The University of Investigator Award and the NIH Direc- Wisconsin – Madison in 2011 (Advisor: tor’s New Innovator Award. Marc A. Anderson), and subsequently was a postdoctoral fellow in Professor Allen J. Bard’s group at the University of Texas at Austin. He joined the faculty at the University of Kansas in 2013, and his current research interests include heterogeneous electrocatalysis, electro- catalytic nanomaterials and catalytic imaging via scanning electrochemical microscopy.
Fanxing Li is an Associate Professor at the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department at North Carolina State University. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Chemical Engineering from Jian Liu obtained his Ph.D. degree in Tsinghua University in 2001 and 2004 Physical Chemistry from the Dalian respectively. He received his Ph.D. at the Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Ohio State University in 2009. He has won Academy of Science in 2008. Subse- numerous awards including the Best quently, he moved to Australia and Ph.D. in Particle Technology Award, the worked as Postdoctoral Research Fellow U.S. National Science Foundation at AIBN, the University of Queensland. He CAREER Award, the SABIC Young started as a Lecturer at Curtin University Professional Award, the NC State Sigma in 2013 and was promoted to Senior Xi Faculty Research Award and was Lecturer in 2014. He has published >120 Chang-Zhi Li joined the faculty position named as an NC State University Faculty peer reviewed journal articles with over H at Department of Polymer Science and Scholar. 6900 citations ( -index of 43). He was Engineering of Zhejiang University in honoured with a prestigious UQ Foun- 2015, through the selection of Young dation Research Excellence Award and an 1000 Talents Global Recruitment Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship. His Program of China. Before that, he con- current research interests are nano-
Published on 06 June 2017. Downloaded 07/06/2017 05:53:35. ducted research at the University of reactor design, green chemical process, – Tokyo (2007 2010) and the University of and the utilization of CO2. Washington (2010–2015). He received B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Chemistry from Fudan University, with joint training at the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chem- istry, CAS. His research explores the boundaries and fundamentals of photon- to-electron conversion with cost-effective materials.
Darren J. Lipomi earned his undergrad- uate degree in chemistry from Boston University in 2005 and his Ph.D. at Har- vard University in 2010 with Professor George M. Whitesides. From 2010–2012, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the labo- ratory of Professor Zhenan Bao at Stan- Xinhui Lu is an Assistant Professor in the ford University. He began his Department of Physics at the Chinese independent position at UC San Diego in University of Hong Kong. She received 2012 and is now an Associate Professor in her B.S. degree in Physics from Nanjing the Department of Nano-Engineering. He University in 2004 and her Ph.D. degree is the recipient of the AFOSR Young in Physics from Yale University in 2010. Aer that, she served as a postdoctoral research associate at the Condensed
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Matter Physics and Materials Science Materials Science and Engineering at Department of Brookhaven National Stanford University. His research is Laboratory, USA for two years before focused on developing improved mate- joining the Department of Physics at rials for electrochemical energy systems CUHK. Her research interests lie in by understanding dynamic processes and experimental so condensed matter interfaces. He has published 50 scientic physics, including the morphology and papers, and he has received a variety of device performance of semiconducting awards, including the Materials Research organic materials, the bulk and surface Society Graduate Student Gold Medal and structure of functional thin lms, and the AFOSR Young Investigator Award. synchrotron X-ray scattering techniques.
Kazuhiko Maeda received a B.Sc. from the Tokyo University of Science (2003), an M.Sc. from the Tokyo Institute of Technology (2005) and a Ph.D. from The University of Tokyo (2007) under the supervision of Professor Kazunari Domen. From 2008–2009, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Pennsylvania State University with Professor Thomas E. Mallouk. In 2009, he joined The Univer- sity of Tokyo as an Assistant Professor. Moving to the Tokyo Institute of Tech- nology in 2012, he was promoted to Graham Newton obtained his Ph.D. in Yi-Chun Lu is an Assistant Professor in Associate Professor. From 2010–2014, he 2008 from the University of Glasgow, the Department of Mechanical and was a research fellow of the PRESTO/JST under the guidance of Lee (Professor Lee Automation Engineering at The Chinese program. His research interests include Cronin) before moving to the University University of Hong Kong (CUHK). She of Tsukuba, Japan, to work with Professor water splitting and CO2 reduction using received her B.S. degree from the semiconductor photocatalyst materials. Hiroki Oshio on a JSPS Postdoctoral National Tsing Hua University and Ph.D. Fellowship. He was made Assistant degree in Materials Science & Engi- Professor at the University of Tsukuba in
Published on 06 June 2017. Downloaded 07/06/2017 05:53:35. neering from the Massachusetts Institute 2011, before returning to the UK and the of Technology in 2012 (working with University of Nottingham in 2015. His Professor Yang Shao-Horn). Aer her research is focused on the development graduate studies, she worked as a Post- of redox- and photo-active advanced doctoral Fellow in the Department of molecular materials for applications in Chemistry at the Technische Universit¨at a range of technologies. Munchen¨ (working with Professor Hubert Gasteiger). She is the recipient of the Hong Kong Research Grants Council Early Career Award (2014) and the CUHK University Education Award (2016). Her research group has dynamic interests and has made extensive efforts in the elds of electrode and electrolyte design for Li- Matthew McDowell started at Georgia ion, metal–air and metal sulfur Tech in 2015 as an Assistant Professor batteries, redox-active solution chemistry with a joint appointment in the Geor- ff for redox-ow batteries, electrocatalysts ge W. Woodru School of Mechanical and electrode design for fuel cells/ Engineering and the School of Materials electrolyzers, and probing interfacial Science and Engineering. Prior to this phenomena governing electrochemical appointment, he was a postdoctoral energy conversion and storage processes. scholar in the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at the California Michele Pavone earned his Ph.D. in Institute of Technology. He received his Chemical Sciences (2007) from the Ph.D. in 2013 from the Department of University of Naples Federico II, Italy, where he is now Associate Professor of
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Physical Chemistry. Experiences abroad 10). He joined as Ramanujan faculty include several short-term research posi- fellow at the New Chemistry Unit, Jawa- tions as a visiting scholar at the Ecole harlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scien- Nationale Sup´erieure de Chimie de Paris tic Research, Bangalore in 2010. His (ENSCP) in France (2003–2004), one year broad research interests include the as a visiting research graduate student at development of solid-state inorganic Princeton University (2005–2006), and materials for various applications a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at ranging from renewable energy (fuel cell) Princeton University (2010–2012). His to condensed matter physics (magnetism research activity focuses on the applica- and transport properties). He has more tion of cutting-edge computational tools than 120 peer reviewed publications and to designing heterogeneous functional four patents. He was invited to and materials for energy conversion attended around 50 national and inter- processes, including electrodes for fuel national conferences. He is a member of Annamaria Petrozza was awarded cells, solar cells, and batteries. In the last the American Chemical Society, Royal an M.Sc. in Electronic Engineering at ’ ve years, he has been national coordi- Society of Chemistry, ASM international, Ecole Sup`erieure d Electricit´e (Paris, nator of two Italian projects on the Chemical Research Society of India, France) in 2003 and at Politecnico of rational design of nano-heterogeneous Material Research Society of India, Milan in 2004 under the T.I.M.E. (Top materials for solar energy conversion International Union of Crystallography, Industrial Manager in Europe) program. (FIRB Futuro in Ricerca) and on the Indian National Young Academy of In 2009, she received her Ph.D. in Physics development of effective rst-principles Science, and Society for Material Chem- from the University of Cambridge (UK) methods to study hybrid organic–inor- istry of India. Recently, a team led by him with a thesis on the study of optoelec- ganic interfaces (PRIN). He has been launched a start-up company named tronic processes at organic and hybrid awarded the Carla Roetti Medal 2016 for BREATHE Applied Sciences Pvt. Ltd. in semiconductor interfaces. From July 2008 best young researcher under 40 by the 2016 with the mission of reducing waste to December 2009, she worked as a research scientist at the Sharp Labora- Division of Chemical Theory and CO2 into useful chemicals and fuels. Computation of the Italian Chemical BREATHE entered into the seminal of tories of Europe, Ltd. on the development Society. the NRG COSIA carbon XPRIZE worth of new market competitive solar cell technologies. In January 2010, she moved $20M for the efficient reduction of CO2 originating from the coal power genera- to the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia as tion sector. He has been selected as an a Team Leader and, since October 2013, emerging investigator in various elds by she has held a Tenure Track Scientist ACS and IOP. He received the Materials position. Her research work mainly aims Published on 06 June 2017. Downloaded 07/06/2017 05:53:35. Research Society of India (MRSI) medal to shed light on interfacial optoelectronic in 2014 and was selected as a member of mechanisms with the goal of improving ffi the Indian National Young Academic of the e ciency and stability of solution Sciences (INYAS) in 2016. He is the exec- processable semiconductors and devices, ffi utive committee member in the Catalysis with special emphasis on highly e cient Research of India, Doctoral Advisory third generation solar cells. Committee member of Poornaprajna Institute of Scientic Research (PPISR), Bangalore, Editorial member of the Jour- nal of Solid State Chemistry and Advances Sebastian C. Peter received his B.Sc. in Chemistry and expert committee (1998) and M.Sc. (2000) degrees in member of the Technology Mission chemistry from St. Thomas College, Cal- Division, Department of Science and icut University, M.Tech. (2002) in indus- Technology, India. trial catalysis from the Cochin University of Science and Technology, and his Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Munster,¨ Germany (Professor Rainer Pottgen, 2006). He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Plank Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden, Germany (Professor Yuri Grin, 2006–07) Zoe Schnepp is passionate about green and Northwestern University, USA chemistry, both in her research and in its (Professor Mercouri Kanatzidis, 2007– potential for changing negative public
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perceptions of chemistry. With diverse solar fuels. She has a B.S. in Physics from interests in nanotechnology, catalysis, Harvey Mudd College. She has a joint and materials from biomass, she leads appointment with Colorado School of a growing group in the School of Chem- Mines, where she co-supervises graduate istry at the University of Birmingham, students, including Aaron Martinez and UK. Prior to her Birmingham Fellowship, Angela Fioretti. Aaron’s Ph.D. research she held Postdoctoral Fellowships in the focuses on both bulk synthesis and
International Center for Young Scientists epitaxial growth of ZnSiP2, with the goal at the National Institute for Materials of integration with silicon. Angela’s Ph.D. Science in Japan and the Max Planck research focuses on the development of
Institute for Colloids and Interfaces in ZnSnN2 photovoltaics using combinato- Germany. She received her Ph.D. from rial methods. Her students are co-advised the University of Bristol. In her spare by Eric Toberer, an Assistant Professor at time, she enjoys triathlon, mountain Thomas Stergiopoulos is a Lecturer at the Colorado School of Mines with a joint biking and playing hockey. Department of Chemistry, at Aristotle appointment at NREL, whose research University of Thessaloniki (Greece), focuses on designing complex semi- working on perovskite optoelectronics. conductors for optoelectronic and ther- He just nished a two year Marie Curie moelectric applications. IEF fellowship working at the Clarendon Laboratory at University of Oxford, with Professor Henry J. Snaith on perovskite solar cells. Before that, he took his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry, working at the National Centre for Scientic Research Demokritos (Greece), while being a visiting researcher for one year at the CNRS-Laboratoire Interfaces et Systemes Electrochimiques (LISE) in Paris (France). Besides doing science and raising two lovely young boys, Thomas is Morgan Stek obtained a B.E. in Mate- scouting players for his favourite basket- rials Engineering from Cal Poly SLO in ball team. 2005, an M.S. and Ph.D. in Materials
Published on 06 June 2017. Downloaded 07/06/2017 05:53:35. Science from Cornell University in 2009 Yuxin Tang obtained his B.S. and M.S. and 2010, respectively. He was then degrees at Nanjing University of Aero- a postdoctoral researcher at Ecole´ Poly- nautics and Astronautics in 2006 and technique F´ed´erale de Lausanne from 2008 respectively, and received his Ph.D. 2011–2013. He joined the University of in 2012 from Nanyang Technological South Carolina in 2013 as an Assistant University, Singapore. Currently, he is Professor in the Department of Chem- From le to right: Aaron Martinez, Angela a research fellow with Professor Xiaodong istry and Biochemistry and is the found- Fioretti, Adele Tamboli, and Eric Toberer. Chen at the same university. His research ing director of the South Carolina SAXS Adele Tamboli is a scientist at the interest is the rational design of advanced Collaborative. His research focuses on National Renewable Energy Lab in functional materials for energy conver- nanomaterials chemistry with an Golden, Colorado. Her research focuses sion and storage, including lithium-ion emphasis on self-assembly techniques on hybrid multijunction photovoltaics, batteries and solar-driven photocatalytic and atomic layer deposition. He is a serial which combine distinct classes of mate- applications. hobbyist and most recently is building rials into high efficiency devices. These and ying acrobatic quadcopters. architectures enable the use of new materials as alternatives to the conven- tional III–V materials, as well as integra- tion with silicon bottom cells. Adele received her Ph.D. in Materials from the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she worked on GaN/InGaN nano- cavity lasers, and did a postdoc at Cal- tech, where she studied III–V/Si microwire arrays for photovoltaics and
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she investigated excitonic dye-sensitized solar cells and has been working on dynamic phenomena in hybrid perov- skite solar cell devices during operation and materials during their growth and degradation during her postdoctoral research at Stanford University (USA) with a stipend from the Marcus and Amalia Wallenberg Foundation (Swe- den). She is currently co-affiliated with Lund University, Sweden and Helmholtz Center Berlin, Germany through an International Career Grant from the ff Francesca M. Toma is a Sta Scientist in Swedish research agency, co-funded by the Chemical Sciences Division at the the Marie Sklodowska Curie Actions. She Ergang Wang is an Associate Professor at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. She recently became a Young Investigator the Chalmers University of Technology. earned her M.S. from Padua University in Group leader, focusing on the scaling and He obtained his Ph.D. in Materials 2006, and her Ph.D. in Biophysics from in-process investigations of hybrid mate- Science in South China University of the International School of Advanced rials for printable optoelectronic devices Technology in 2008. Aer that, he joined Studies in Italy in 2009. She then moved at the Helmholtz Center Berlin for Mate- Chalmers as a postdoc in 2008–2011. He to the University of California Santa Bar- rials and Energy. bara as a Marie Curie Researcher in 2011, was appointed as an Assistant Professor and to the University of California Ber- in 2012 and Associate Professor in 2016 at keley in 2013. Her main research inter- Chalmers. The focus of his work is mainly ests lie in the synthesis and advanced on the design and synthesis of conju- characterization of integrated materials gated polymers and graphene-like mate- systems, to understand the structure– rials for applications in organic solar activity relationships that enable the cells, organic light-emitting diodes, light- development of novel functional archi- emitting electrochemical cells and tectures for solar fuel production. In OFETs. 2016, she was the recipient of the Alfredo di Braccio awarded by the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei to young chemists,
Published on 06 June 2017. Downloaded 07/06/2017 05:53:35. for her prolic, high-quality scientic contribution in different aspects of nanotechnology. When not in the lab, she likes exercising, cooking, and travelling. Fernando J. Uribe-Romo was born in Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico. He received a B.Sc. in Chemistry from the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education (ITESM) in Mexico in 2006 and a Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2011 under the supervision of Professor Omar M. Yaghi. He was then Hailiang Wang is an Assistant Professor a postdoctoral associate at Cornell in the Department of Chemistry at Yale University with Professor William R. University. He is also a faculty member of Dichtel. He joined the Chemistry the Energy Sciences Institute on Yale Department at the University of Central West Campus. Prior to joining Yale in Florida in the fall of 2013. His research 2014, he was a Philomathia Postdoctoral focuses on the synthesis of two- and Fellow in the Department of Chemistry at three-dimensional self-assembled poly- University of California, Berkeley. He Eva Unger is an Assistant Professor at the meric materials, in particular crystalline received his Ph.D. in chemistry from Department of Chemistry at Lund metal–organic and covalent-organic ffi Stanford University in 2012 and B.S. in University (Sweden), an a liated frameworks, for their applications in chemistry from Peking University in member of NanoLund. In her Ph.D. energy conversion, photocatalysis, charge 2007. He is a recipient of the Stanford studies at Uppsala University (Sweden), transport, and optical devices. Graduate Fellowship, the MRS Graduate
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Student Award (Silver), the ACS Division Postgraduate Award from the Australian of Inorganic Chemistry Young Investi- government. Aer receiving her Ph.D., gator Award, and the IUPAC Young she worked as a postdoc at Los Alamos Chemist Award. He is a 2016 Web of National Laboratory, and was awarded Science Highly Cited Researcher. His a Director’s Postdoctoral Fellowship to
group studies surface chemistry, solid research the atomic structure of low-CO2 state chemistry, and materials design for alkali-activated materials. Her research electrochemical energy storage and focuses on understanding and opti- conversion. mizing engineering and environmental materials, with an emphasis on control- ling the chemical mechanisms respon- sible for the formation and long-term
degradation of low-CO2 cements. This Gregory Welch obtained his B.Sc. in research spans multiple length and time Chemistry from the University of Calgary scales, utilizing advanced synchrotron in 2003 and worked in the laboratories of and neutron-based experimental tech- Dr Tristam Chivers and Dr Warren Piers. niques, and simulation methodologies. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of She is the recipient of a number of Windsor in 2008 under the supervision of awards including the Outstanding Dr Douglas Stephan where he helped to Student Research Prize from the Neutron develop the concept of Frustrated Lewis Scattering Society of America and an NSF Pairs. He then moved to UC-Santa Bar- CAREER Award. bara, where he studied organic solar cells as a NSERC postdoctoral fellow with Dr Mingfeng Wang is currently a Nanyang Guillermo Bazan. He began a faculty Assistant Professor in the School of position in 2012 as a Canadian Research Chemical and Biomedical Engineering at Chair at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nanyang Technological University, Sin- NS. In 2015 he relocated to the University gapore. He received his B.Sc. degree in of Calgary as a Canadian Research Chair Chemistry at Jilin University in 2001, in Solar Energy Materials and Devices. followed by his M.Sc. degree in Polymer His research interests are focused on the Chemistry and Physics under the super- design, synthesis, and characterization of vision of Professor Xi Zhang. In 2004, he organic pi-conjugated materials and their
Published on 06 June 2017. Downloaded 07/06/2017 05:53:35. joined Professor Mitchell A. Winnik’s application in organic electronics and group at the University of Toronto and catalysis. obtained his Ph.D. degree in Polymer Chemistry and Materials in 2009. Then he was awarded with a Postdoctoral Hui (Claire) Xiong is an Assistant Fellowship supported by the Natural Professor in the Micron School of Mate- Sciences and Engineering Research rials Science and Engineering at Boise Council of Canada (NSERC), and worked State University. She received a B.S. in with Professor Fred Wudl on organic Applied Chemistry and M.S. in Inorganic photovoltaics at the University of Cal- Chemistry from the East China University ifornia, Santa Barbara. He joined the of Science and Technology, and a Ph.D. School of Chemical and Biomedical degree in Analytical Chemistry from the Engineering at Nanyang Technological University of Pittsburgh. Between 2008– University in 2012. His current research 2012, she conducted postdoc work at focuses on polymeric materials with bio- Harvard University and Argonne National inspired structures and advanced func- Laboratory where her research involved tions for optoelectronic and biomedical electrochemical characterization of applications. Claire White is an Assistant Professor at micro-fabricated cathode materials for Princeton University in the Department micro-solid oxide fuel cells and develop- of Civil & Environmental Engineering and ment of novel nanostructured electrode the Andlinger Center for Energy and the materials for rechargeable batteries. She Environment. She completed her grad- received the NSF CAREER Award in 2015. uate studies in 2010 at the University of Her current research is focused on design Melbourne supported by an Australian and development of nanoarchitectured
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and defect-driven electrode materials, the Tong University at China in 2002 and study of electrolyte stability and ion- 2005. He obtained his Ph.D. from the irradiated electrode materials for energy Case Western Reserve University in 2010, systems. then he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Pennsylvania State University and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. His current research interests focus on functional materials for renewable energy and environmental remediation including perovskite solar cells, water splitting, and photocatalysis. He has published more than 70 peer-reviewed papers. Wei Zhang is a Lecturer at the School of Chemistry, University of Lincoln (UK) and an adjunct professor at the Depart- ment of Materials Science and Engi- neering, Hubei University (China), working on perovskite optoelectronics. In ’ Yusuke Yamauchi received his Bachelor s his Ph.D. work at Department of Chem- ’ degree (2003), Master s degree (2004) and ical & Biomolecular Engineering, Ph.D. (2007) from the Waseda University, National University of Singapore (Singa- Japan. Aer receiving his Ph.D., he joined pore), he studied dye sensitized solar the National Institute for Materials cells. Before that, he obtained his B.Sc. Science (NIMS) to start his own research and M.Sc. degrees in chemistry from group. In 2016, he joined the University Hubei University (China). His research of Wollongong as a full Professor. He interests include high efficiency and low- concurrently serves as an honorary group cost photovoltaics, functional nano- leader of NIMS, a visiting professor at materials (low dimensional semi- Yu Zhu is an Assistant Professor in the several universities (Tianjin University, conducting metal oxides, plasmonic Department of Polymer Science at The King Saud University and Waseda materials, and photonic crystals), and University of Akron. He earned his Ph.D. University), and an associate editor of prospective energy materials for opto- in Physical Chemistry at the University of APL Materials published by the American electronic applications. Cologne, Germany in 2007. Aer his post-
Published on 06 June 2017. Downloaded 07/06/2017 05:53:35. Institute of Physics (AIP). He has pub- doctoral training in Professor James lished 500 papers in international Tour’s group at Rice University, he joined refereed journals with 20 000 citations the Department of Polymer Science at (H-index 65). He was selected as one of The University of Akron in 2012. His the Highly-Cited Researchers in Chem- research interests focus on the controlled istry (Thomson Reuters) in 2016. synthesis and assembly of organic elec- tronic materials and nanomaterials, including conjugated small molecules and polymers, 2D materials, and metal– organic frameworks. His research group is dedicated to advancing the under- standing of structure–property relation- ships of those materials, particularly in the area of energy storage and organic electronics. He is a recipient of the NSF Yixin Zhao received his B.S. and M.S. CAREER Award. degree in Chemistry from Shanghai Jiao
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