Martin Green is currently a Scientia Professor at the University of New South Wales and Director of the Australian National Energy Agency (ARENA) supported Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics. He was formerly a Director of CSG Solar, a company formed specifically to commercialise the University’s thin-film, polycrystalline-silicon-on-glass solar cell. His group's contributions to photovoltaics are well known including the development of the world’s highest efficiency silicon solar cells and the successes of several spin-off companies.

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Dr Tom Aernouts is R&D leader of the Thin Film Photovoltaics group at imec. Over the last few years this activity has grown steadily with state-of-the-art work in organic solar cells and recently also perovskite-based photovoltaics, next to inorganic materials like Kesterites for future replacement of the currently strongly growing CIGS thin film solar cells. Also the lab environment was drastically improved with setting-up the O-line infrastructure in 2009 at imec, allowing the processing and characterization of thin film solar cells and modules with area up to 15 x 15 cm². A next upgrade in 2018 enabled to extend the device size to 35x35cm². Dr Aernouts earned his Master of Science and PhD degree in Physics (in 2006) at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. Firstly, he worked on organic oligomer-based diode structures, afterwards continuing his research on organic photovoltaics at imec. There, his work focused on the processing and characterization of polymer-based organic solar cells and monolithic modules, introducing techniques like screen and inkjet printing. He has authored or co-authored more than 80 journal publications, book chapters and conference contributions. Also, his research group participates on a regular basis in a broad range of local and international projects, with the most recent example the coordination of the European H2020 project ESPResSo.

Joel W. Ager III is a Staff Scientist in the Materials Sciences Division of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and an Adjunct Professor in the Materials Science and Engineering Department, UC Berkeley. He is the Associate Program Leader of the Singapore Berkeley Initiative for Sustainable Energy (SinBeRISE)and a Principal Investigator in the Electronic Materials Program and in the the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (JCAP). He graduated from Harvard College in 1982 with an A.B in Chemistry and from the University of Colorado in 1986 with a PhD in Chemical Physics. After a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Heidelberg, he joined Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in 1989. His research interests include the fundamental electronic and transport characteristics of photovoltaic materials, development of new photoanodes and photocathodes based on abundant elements for solar fuels production, and the development of new oxide and sulfide based transparent conductors. Professor Ager is a frequent invited speaker at international conferences and has published over 280 papers in refereed journals. His work is highly cited, with over 19,000 citations and an h-index of 69 (Google Scholar

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

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

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

Juan A. Anta is Full Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University Pablo de Olavide, Seville, Spain. He obtained a BA in Chemistry in the Universidad Complutense of Madrid, Spain and carried out his PhD research at the Physical Chemistry Institut of the National Research Council of Spain. In 1997 and 1998 he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Theoretical Chemistry of the University of Oxford and from mid 1999 to mid 2000 he was research assistant at the Department of Chemistry of the Imperial College, London. His research focuses on solar cell modelling, random-walk methods applied to electron transport in nanostructured devices and disordered semiconductors, and device modeling in Dye-sensitised and perovskite solar cells

Peter Bäuerle received his Ph.D. in organic chemistry from the University of Stuttgart (Germany, 1985) working with Prof. F. Effenberger. After a post-doctoral year at MIT, Boston (USA, 1986), in the group of Prof. M.S. Wrighton, he completed his habilitation (1994) at the University of Stuttgart. After being Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Würzburg (Germany, 1994-95), he became Director of the Institute for Organic Chemistry II and Advanced Materials at the University of Ulm (Germany, since 1996). Current research interests of the group include development of novel organic semiconducting materials, in particular, conjugated poly- and oligothiophenes, structure-property relationships, self-assembling properties, and their applications in electronic devices, in particular organic solar cells. Results have been published in more than 280 peer-reviewed scientific papers, 8 book chapters and 12 patents. For his work in the field of plastic electronics he was awarded with the René Descartes Prize of the European Union (2000) and the Nozoe Memorial Lecture at ISNA-14 (USA, 2011). Guest Professorships at the University of Osaka (Japan, 2002), Université Rennes 1 (France, 2004), Melbourne (Australia, 2008), Shanghai (China, 2010), and Gainesville (USA, 2012) followed. He is co-founder of Heliatek GmbH, Dresden/Ulm, a spin-off company devoted for the production of organic solar cells (2006).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Thomas Bein obtained his PhD in Chemistry from the University of Hamburg (Germany) and the Catholic University Leuven (Belgium) in 1984. His major field of study encompassed catalytically active nanoclusters in porous hosts. He continued his studies as Visiting Scientist at the DuPont Central Research and Development Department in Wilmington, DE (USA). From 1986 to 1991 he was Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque (USA). In 1991 he joined Purdue University (Indiana) as Associate Professor, and was promoted to Full Professor of Chemistry in 1995. In 1999 he was appointed Chair of Physical Chemistry at the University of Munich (LMU), where he also served as Director of the Department of Chemistry. His current research interests lie in the synthesis and physical properties of functional nanostructures, with an emphasis on porous materials for targeted drug delivery and nanostructured materials for solar energy conversion. He has authored and co-authored more than 300 peer-reviewed publications.

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

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

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

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Juan Bisquert (pHD Universitat de València, 1991) is a Professor of applied physics at Universitat Jaume I de Castelló, Spain. He is the director of the Institute of Advanced Materials at UJI. He authored 360 peer reviewed papers, and a series of books including Nanostructured Energy Devices (1. Equilibrium Concepts and Kinetics, 2. Foundations of Carrier Transport) and 3. Physics of Solar Cells: Perovskites, Organics, and Photovoltaics Fundamentals (CRC Press).  His h-index 82, and is currently a Senior Editor of the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. He conducts experimental and theoretical research on materials and devices for production and storage of clean energies. His main topics of interest are materials and processes in perovskite solar cells and solar fuel production. He has developed the application of measurement techniques and physical modeling of nanostructured energy devices, that relate the device operation with the elementary steps that take place at the nanoscale dimension: charge transfer, carrier transport, chemical reaction, etc., especially in the field of impedance spectroscopy, as well as general device models. He has been distinguished in the 2014-2017 list of ISI Highly Cited Researchers.

 

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

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

Hendrik (Henk) Bolink obtained his PhD in Materials Science at the University of Groningen in 1997 under the supervision of Prof. Hadziioannou. After that he worked at DSM as a materials scientist and project manager in the central research and new business development department, respectively. In 2001 he joined Philips, to lead the materials development activity of Philips´s PolyLED project.

Since 2003 he is at the Instituto de Ciencia Molecular (ICMol )of the University of Valencia where he initiated a research line on molecular opto-eletronic devices. His current research interests encompass: inorganic/organic hybrid materials such as transition metal complexes and perovskites and their integration in LEDs and solar cells.

1. Personal details Prof. Dr. Mischa Bonn Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research Ackermannweg 10 D-55128 Mainz Male; born, 25/01/71, Nijmegen (NL), married +1. Nationality: Dutch (NL) 2. Education Undergraduate: University of Amsterdam; MSc in Physical Chemistry (highest honors), 10/05/93 Graduate: AMOLF / University of Eindhoven; PhD in Physical Chemistry, 18/12/96 Postdoctoral: Fritz Haber (Max Planck) Institut (Wolf/Ertl group), Berlin, Germany, 1997�1999 Postdoctoral: Columbia University (Heinz group) NY, USA, 1998-2001 (totaling ~6 months). 3. Appointments 4/2011-present Director at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany 5/2013-present Honorary Professor (Chemistry Dept.) University of Mainz 6/2005�present Extraordinary Professor (Physics Dept.) University of Amsterdam 1/2004�3/2012 Group Leader at FOM-Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics 1/2003�1/2004 Scientific Advisor at FOM-Institute for Plasma Physics �Rijnhuizen� 1/2003�9/2009 Associate professor (tenured) at Leiden University (Chemistry Dept.) 8/1999�12/2002 Assistant professor (fixed term) at Leiden University (Chemistry Dept.)

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

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

Christoph J. Brabec is holding the chair “materials for electronics and energy technology (i-MEET)” at the materials science of the Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg. Further, he is the scientific director of the Erlangen division of the Bavarian research institute for renewable energy (ZAE Bayern, Erlangen).
He received his PhD (1995) in physical chemistry from Linz university, joined the group of Prof Alan Heeger at UCSB for a sabbatical, and continued to work on all aspects of organic semiconductor spectroscopy as assistant professor at Linz university with Prof. Serdar Sariciftci. He joined the SIEMENS research labs as project leader for organic semiconductor devices in 2001 and joined Konarka in 2004, where he was holding the position of the CTO before joining university.
He is author and co-author of more than 150 papers and 200 patents and patent applications, and finished his habilitation in physical chemistry in 2003.

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

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

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

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

Born in the Netherlands,David Cahen studied chemistry & physics at the Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem (HUJ), Materials Research and Phys. Chem. at Northwestern Univ, and biophysics of photosynthesis (postdoc) at HUJ and the Weizmann Institute of Science, WIS. After joining the WIS faculty he focused on alternative sustainable energy resources, in particular various types of solar cells. In parallel he researches hybrid molecular/non-molecular systems, focusing on understanding and controlling electronic transport across (bio)molecules. He is a fellow of the AVS and the MRS. He heads WIS' Alternative, sustainable energy research initiative.

Petra Cameron is an associate professor in Chemistry at the University of Bath.

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

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

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

I am an assistant professor at Stanford University.

Dr. Chen received Ph. D. from the Photonic Program in EPFL Switzerland at 2009 under the supervision of Prof. Michael Graetzel. His research topic was focused on solid-state dye sensitized solar cells. Then he moved to Monash University in Australia as a post-doctoral research fellow with Prof. Udo Bach. He joined the Dept. of Photonic in National Cheng Kung University (Tainan, Taiwan) in 2010 and became associate Professor in 2014. Currently his research interests are in the area of various photovoltaic devices including dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs), hybrid organic-inorganic perovskite-based solar cells (HOIPs) and semiconductor-sensitization solar cells. Meanwhile, he is also involved in developing synthetic and characterization methods for nano-crystalline, thin film, semiconductor compound materials with photovoltaic applications.

Yi-Bing Cheng is a professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Monash University, Australia and an elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering. He specialises in inorganic materials and composites. His major research interest is in the area of solution processed solar cells. He worked in dye sensitised solar cells (DSSC) for many years and developed technologies for printing of flexible DSSC devices. His current research has been mainly focused on the development of materials and processing technologies for perovskite solar cells. He has published over 450 research papers and 20 patents. He currently also holds a Thousand Talent Professor position at Wuhan University of Technology, China and has set up a Printed Optoelectronics Laboratory in the university.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Associate Professor, Chemistry Department, University of Colorado, Boulder

Adjunct Professor, National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Enrique Cánovas graduated on Applied Physics at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (2002). After that, he realized a two-years Master of Advanced Studies at Universidad de Valladolid working on the spectroscopic characterization of native and operation-induced defects in high power laser diodes. From 2004 to 2006 he made a second Master of Advanced Studies at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Institute of Solar Energy, IES); training focus was on the fabrication, characterization and optimization of solid state solar cells. In 2006 he joined the group of Prof. Martí  and Prof. Luque at IES, where he completed PhD studies on the spectroscopic characterization of novel nanostructures aiming ultra-high-efficiency solar cells. His PhD studies included two placements (covering 9 months in total) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (USA - with Prof. W. Walukiewicz) and Glasgow University (Scotland - with Prof. Colin Stanley). Between 2010 and 2012 he worked as a postdoc at FOM Institute AMOLF (Amsterdam - The Netherlands, Prof. M. Bonn) on the characterization of carrier dynamics in sensitized solar cell architectures. Between 2012 to 2018 he lead the Nanostructured Photovoltaics Group at Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (Mainz, Germany). Since April 2018, Enrique Canovas works at IMDEA Nanoscience where he was appointed Assistant Research Proffesor (tenure-track).  His research interests cover all aspects of photovoltaics, nanotechnology and charge carrier dynamics.

Filippo De Angelis is senior research scientist and a deputy director at the CNR Institute of Molecular Sciences and Technology, in Perugia, Italy. He is the founder and leader of the Computational Laboratory for Hybrid/Organic Photovoltaics. He earned a BS in Chemistry in 1996 and a PhD in Theoretical Inorganic Chemistry in 1999, both from the University of Perugia. He is an expert in the development and application of quantum mechanical methods to the study of hybrid/organic photovoltaics and materials for energy applications. He is Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences. He has published >270 papers with > 17000 citations.

Aldo Di Carlo is Full Professor of Optoelectronics and Nanoelectronics at the Department of Electronics Engineering of the University of ROme "Tor Vergata". His research focuses on the study and fabrication of electronic and optoelectronic devices, their analysis and their optimization. Di Carlo is Director of the Center for Hybrid and Organic Solar Cells (CHOSE) which involve more than 30 researchers dealing with the development of organic solar cells (DSC, OPV and Perovskite) and on scaling-up of these technologies for industrial applications. CHOSE has generated 5 spin-off company and a public/private partnership. Di Carlo is author/coauthor of more than 300 scientific publications in international journals, 13 patents and has been involved in several EU projects (two as EU coordinator)

Eric Wei-Guang Diau received his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, in 1991. Before joining at Department of Applied Chemistry, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, as a faculty member since 2001, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Emory University (1993-1995), University of Queensland (1995-1996), Stanford Research Institute, International (1996-1997) and California Institute of Technology (1997-2001).  He is interested on studying relaxation kinetics in condensed matters, in particular interfacial electron transfer and energy transfer dynamics in many solar energy conversion systems. His current research is focusing on the developments of novel functional materials for next-generation solar cells, including perovskite solar cells (PSC). He received “Outstanding Research Award” from MRS Spring Meeting & Exhibit on April, 2014 and “Sun Yat Sen Academic Award” from Sun Yat Sen Academic and Cultural Foundation on October, 2014. He has published over 180 peer-reviewed papers with H-index 51. He has been granted over 14 patents. He is currently Distinguished Professor at Department of Applied Chemistry and Science of Molecular Science, National Chiao Tung University.

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

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

James Durrant is Professor of Photochemistry in the Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London and Ser Cymru Solar Professor, University of Swansea. His research addresses the photochemistry of new materials for solar energy conversion targeting both solar cells (photovoltaics) and solar to fuel (i.e.: artificial photosynthesis. It is based around employing transient optical and optoelectronic techniques to address materials function, and thereby elucidate design principles which enable technological development. His group is currently addressing the development and functional characterisation of organic solar cells and photoelectrodes for solar fuel generation. More widely, he leads the UK�s Solar Fuels Network and the Welsh government funded S�r Cymru Solar initiative. He has published over 300 research papers and 5 patents, and was recently awarded the 2012 Tilden Prize by the RSC.

Professor Vladimir Dyakonov holds the Chair of Experimental Physics (Energy research) on the Faculty of Physics and Astronomy of Julius-Maximilian University of Würzburg, Germany since 2004 and he is the Scientific Director of the Bavarian Centre of Applied Energy Research (ZAE Bayern) since 2005. He studied physics at the University of St. Petersburg and received his doctorate at the A. F. Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute in 1996. Since 1990, he has been a visiting researcher at the universities of Bayreuth (Germany), Antwerp (Belgium) and Linz (Austria). He finished his habilitation in experimental physics at the University of Oldenburg (Germany) in 2001. In 2007-2009 he was the Vice-dean of the Faculty of Physics and Astronomy, in 2010-2011 the managing director of Institute of Physics and in 2013-2015 he was the Dean of the Faculty of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Würzburg. Dyakonov’s main research interests are in the fields of thin-film photovoltaics, semiconductor spectroscopy and functional energy materials, in general.

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

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

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

- PhD in Physics, University of Basel, Switzerland - Post-Doctoral Research Assistant, BASF AG, Ludwigshafen, Germany: Molecular Science - Maitre d’Enseignement et de Recherche, Univ. Geneva, Switzerland - Biological Molecules - Team-leader, Institute of Quantum Electronics, ETH Zurich, Switzerland - Habilitation & vein legendi in Physics, University of Basel, Switzerland, 1998 - Since 1998: Full Professor in Photophysics / Nano-Optics / Nano-Physics at TU Dresden, School of Science Profile: Nanoscale research of quantum nanostructures: magnetic, optical. electronic, molecular; application to magnetic textures, charged domain walls, near-field metamaterials, etc.

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

Lioz Etgar obtained his Ph.D. (2009) at the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology and completed post-doctoral research with Prof. Michael Grätzel at EPFL, Switzerland.  In his post-doctoral research, he received a Marie Curie Fellowship and won the Wolf Prize for young scientists. Since 2012, he has been a senior lecturer in the Institute of Chemistry at the Hebrew University. On 2017 he received an Associate Professor position. Prof. Etgar was the first to demonstrate the possibility to work with the perovskite as light harvester and hole conductor in the solar cell which result in one of the pioneer publication in this field. Recently Prof. Etgar won the prestigious Krill prize by the Wolf foundation. Etgar’s research group focuses on the development of innovative solar cells. Prof. Etgar is researching new excitonic solar cells structures/architectures while designing and controlling the inorganic light harvester structure and properties to improve the photovoltaic parameters.

Jacky Even was born in Rennes, France, in 1964. He received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Paris VI, Paris, France, in 1992. He was a Research and Teaching Assistant with the University of Rennes I, Rennes, from 1992 to 1999. He has been a Full Professor of optoelectronics with the Institut National des Sciences Appliquées, Rennes,since 1999. He was the head of the Materials and Nanotechnology from 2006 to 2009, and Director of Education of Insa Rennes from 2010 to 2012. He created the FOTON Laboratory Simulation Group in 1999. His main field of activity is the theoretical study of the electronic, optical, and nonlinear properties of semiconductor QW and QD structures, hybrid perovskite materials, and the simulation of optoelectronic and photovoltaic devices.

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

Antonio Facchetti is a co-founder and the CTO of Polyera Corporation. He obtained a Ph.D in Chemical Sciences from the U. Milan (Italy) and carried out postdoctoral research at the University of California-Berkeley and at Northwestern University, where he is currently an Adjunct Professor of Chemistry. Dr. Facchetti has published about 275 research articles, 7 book chapters, and holds about 60 patents. He received the 2009 Italian Chemical Society Research Prize, the team IDTechEx Printed Electronics Europe 2010 Award, and he is a 2010 Kavli Fellow, a 2012 American Association for the Advanced of Science (AAAS) Fellow, and a 2013 Materials Research Society (MRS) Fellow. He was selected among the "Top 100 Materials Scientists of the past decade (2000-2010)" by Thomson Reuters. . He is the founder and Editor in Chief of Organic Photovoltaics, an associate Editor of the International Journal of Analytical Chemistry, and serves in the Editorial Advisory Board of Journal of Applied Polymer Science Dr. Facchetti’s research interests include organic semiconductors and dielectrics for thin-film transistors, conducting polymers, molecular electronics, organic second- and third order nonlinear optical materials, and organic photovoltaics.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Richard Friend holds the Cavendish Professorship of Physics at the University of Cambridge. His research encompasses the physics, materials science and engineering of semiconductor devices made with carbon-based semiconductors, particularly polymers. His research advances have shown that carbon-based semiconductors have significant applications in LEDs, solar cells, lasers, and electronics. His current research interests are directed to novel schemes – including ideas inspired by recent insights into Nature’s light harvesting – that seek to improve the performance and cost of solar cells.

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

Daniel R. Gamelin received his B.A. in chemistry from Reed College, spent a year as a visiting scientist at the Max-Planck-Institut für Strahlenchemie, and earned his Ph.D. in chemistry from Stanford University working with Edward I. Solomon in the fields of inorganic and bioinorganic spectroscopies. Following a postdoctoral appointment working with Hans U. Güdel (University of Bern) studying luminescent inorganic materials, he joined the chemistry faculty at the University of Washington, Seattle (2000), where he presently holds the Harry and Catherine Jaynne Boand Endowed Professorship in Chemistry. His research involves the development of new inorganic materials with unusual electronic structures that give rise to desirable photophysical, photochemical, magnetic, or magneto-optical properties. He is presently an Associate Editor for the Royal Society of Chemistry journal Chemical Communications.

Germ� Garcia-Belmonte (1964) received his Ph.D. degree at UNED, 1996. He worked from 1988 at CIEMAT, Madrid, on experimental and theoretical research in the area of digital processing of nuclear signal. He joined the Universitat Jaume I, Castell�, in 1992 and currently works as Professor of Applied Physics (2010) at the Department of Physics (Photovoltaic and Optoelectronic Devices Group). He studied intercalation processes in oxides and polymer films by impedance methods. 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.

Sixto Gim�nez (1973, M. Sc. Physics 1996, Ph. D. Physics 2002) is researcher at Universitat Jaume I de Castell� (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.

Feliciano Giustino is Full Professor or Materials at the University of Oxford. He holds an M.Sc. in Nuclear Engineering from Politecnico di Torino and a Ph.D. in Physics from the Ecole Polytechnique F\'ed\'erale de Lausanne. Before joining the Department of Materials at Oxford he was a postdoc at the Physics Department
of the University of California at Berkeley. He specialises in electronic structure theory and the atomic-scale design of advanced functional materials for solar energy harvesting. He is author of ~100 research papers and one book on Materials Modelling using Density Functional Theory. He is Associate Editor of Computational Materials Science, and the recipient of a Leverhulme Research Leadership Award. In 2017 he was elected the 2017/18 the Mary Shepard B. Upson Visiting Professor in Engineering within the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Cornell University.

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

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

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

Professor of Physical Chemistry at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Michael Graetzel, PhD, directs there the Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces. He pioneered research on energy and electron transfer reactions in mesoscopic systems and their use to generate electricity and fuels from sunlight. He invented mesoscopic injection solar cells, one key embodiment of which is the dye-sensitized solar cell (DSC).  DSCs are meanwhile commercially produced at the multi-MW-scale and created a number of new applications in particular as lightweight power supplies for portable electronic devices and in photovoltaic glazings. They engendered the field of perovskite solar cells (PSCs) that turned our to be the most exciting break-through in the recent history of photovoltaics. He received a number of prestigious awards, of which the most recent ones include the RusNANO Prize, the Zewail Prize in Molecular Science, the Global Energy Prize, the Millennium Technology Grand Prize, the Samson Prime Minister’s Prize for Innovation in Alternative Fuels, the Marcel Benoist Prize, the King Faisal International Science Prize, the Einstein World Award of Science and the Balzan Prize. He is a Fellow of several learned societies and holds eleven honorary doctor’s degrees from European and Asian Universities. According to the ISI-Web of Science, his over 1500 publications have received some 230’000 citations with an h-factor of 219 demonstrating the strong impact of his scientific work.

 

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

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

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

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

Over the last few years Antonio Guerrero has been involved in the development of new semiconductors materials, their characterization and understanding their physical properties. After completing a PhD on the development of new organometallic catalysts for the production of polymers he took a job at Cambridge Display Technology. During four years Antonio developed some of the state of the art materials used in polymer Light Emitting Diodes (P-LEDs). Currently, Antonio is interested in gaining understanding on the operational principles of organic solar cells. At the group of Photovoltaic and Optoelectronic devices in Castell�n (Spain) he is developing some Impedance Spectroscopy modeling tools to understand the electrical response of OPVs.

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

Philippe Guyot-Sionnest is a professor at the University of Chicago appointed jointly in the departments of physics and chemistry.[1][2] He works in the field of colloidal semiconductors and metal nanocrystals.

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

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

Anders Hagfeldt is Professor in Physical Chemistry at EPFL, Switzerland. He obtained his Ph.D. at Uppsala University in 1993 and was a post-doc with Prof. Michael Grätzel (1993-1994) at EPFL, Switzerland. His research focuses on the field of mesoporous dye-sensitized solar cells, specifically physical chemical characterization of mesoporous electrodes for different types of optoelectronic devices. He has published more than 370 scientific papers that have received over 35,000 citations (with an h-index of 90). He was ranked number 46 on a list of the top 100 material scientists of the past decade by Times Higher Education. In 2014, 2015 and 2016 he was on the list of Thomson Reuter’s Highly Cited Researchers. He is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala, and the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences in Stockholm. He is a visiting professor at Uppsala University, Sweden and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Assistant Professor 2008-present Michigan State University Postdoctoral Fellow 2006-2008 Northwestern University Ph.D., Chemistry 2006 California Institute of Technology Research Interests: Inorganic chemistry, renewable energy technology, investigations of homogeneous and heterogeneous electron-transfer reactions, synthesis of novel nanostructured materials, development and investigations of photovoltaic and photoelectrochemical cells

Dr. Liyuan Han is the managing researcher of Center for Green Research on Energy and Environmental Materials, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS). He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Osaka Prefecture in 1988. He worked at SHARP Corporation since 1993, and started on the research of dye-sensitized solar cells. He has renewed the world record efficiency of dye-sensitized solar cells (cell and module) for several times. On 2008, he moved to NIMS, and established a research on next generation solar cells. Recently, he moved to research perovskite solar cells and achieved the first certified efficiency of 15% with cell area larger than 1 cm2. He is an inventor in more than 100 patents and an author in ca 200 scientific publications such as Science, Nature Energy, Advanced Materials in the field of next generation solar cells. His current research interests involve fundamental research in perovskite solar cells, dye-sensitized solar cells, and organic solar cells.

Thomas Hannappel is W3 full professor (physics) at Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany, department ‘Photovoltaics’, since 2011. Before, he was provisional head of the Institute “Materials for Photovoltaics” at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin and lecturer at the Free University Berlin, where he received his state doctorate in 2005. At Technical University Berlin he obtained his PhD in Physics with studies on ultrafast dynamics of photo-induced charge carrier separation in dye solar cells, he performed at Fritz-Haber-Institute Berlin of the Max-Planck-Society. In 2003/04 he conducted research on silicon/III-V-interfaces at National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Colorado. His current investigations are focused on high-performance solar cells and critical interfaces and he is a key player in the fields solar energy conversion and reactions of critical semiconductor interfaces including silicon/ and germanium/III-V-interfaces, and nano- and quantum-structures.

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

Sophia Haussener is an Assistant Professor heading the Laboratory of Renewable Energy Science and Engineering at the Ecole Polytechnique F�d�rale de Lausanne (EPFL). Her current research is focused on providing design guidelines for thermal, thermochemical, and photoelectrochemical energy conversion reactors through multi-physics modelling and experimentation. Her research interests include: thermal sciences, fluid dynamics, charge transfer, electro-magnetism, and thermo/electro/photochemistry in complex multi-phase media on multiple scales. She received her MSc (2007) and PhD (2010) in Mechanical Engineering from ETH Zurich. She was a postdoctoral researcher at the Joint Center of Artificial Photosynthesis (JCAP) and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) between 2011 and 2012. She has published over 40 articles in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings, and 2 books. She has been awarded the ETH medal (2011), the Dimitris N. Chorafas Foundation award (2011), and the ABB Forschungspreis (2012). She serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy and as a deputy head of the Swiss Competence Center of Energy Research on storage.

The author was graduated from Osaka University in 1978 and received Ph.D from Osaka University in 1983. He joined R&D Center in Toshiba from 1978 to 2000, during which the author was engaged in development of ULSI lithography, solar cells direct methanol fuel cells, and polysilane. He joined polysilane research in Robert West group of Wisconsin University (US) from 1988 to 1990. He is a professor of Kyushu Institute of Technology (National Institute) since 2001. His research interest is printable solar cells.

Thomas Heine graduated in physics from TU Dresden under the guidance of Gotthard Seifert, with research stages in Montréal (Dennis R. Salahub) and Exeter (Patrick Fowler). After postdoctoral stages in Bologna (Francesco Zerbetto) and Geneva (Jacques Weber) he obtained the venia legendi in Physical Chemistry at TU Dresden. In 2008 he was appointed as Associated Professor of Theoretical Physics/Theoretical Materials Science at Jacobs University and was promoted to Full Professor in 2011. Since 2015 he holds the Chair of Theoretical Chemistry at University of Leipzig, Germany. His research interests include molecular framework compounds, two-dimensional materials, theoretical spectroscopy, and the development of methods and software for materials science.

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Prof. Z. Hens received his PhD in applied physics from Ghent University in 2000, worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Utrecht University and was appointed professor at the Ghent University department of inorganic and physical chemistry in 2002. His research concerns the synthesis, processing and characterization of colloidal nanocrystals.

Laura Herz is a Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford. She received her PhD in Physics from the University of Cambridge in 2002 and was a Research Fellow at St John's College Cambridge from 2001 - 2003 after which she moved to Oxford. Her research interests lie in the area of organic and organic/inorganic hybrid semiconductors including aspects such as self-assembly, nano-scale effects, energy-transfer and light-harvesting for solar energy conversion.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Christian Klinke studied physics at the University of Karlsruhe (Germany) where he also obtained his diploma degree in the group of Thomas Schimmel. In March 2000 he joined the group of Klaus Kern at the Institute of Experimental Physics of the EPFL (Lausanne, Switzerland). Then from 2003 on he worked as Post-Doc at the IBM TJ Watson Research Center (Yorktown Heights, USA) in the group of Phaedon Avouris. In 2006 then he became member of the Horst Weller group at the Universitiy of Hamburg (Germany). In 2007 he started as assistant professor at the University of Hamburg. In 2009 he received the German Nanotech Prize (Nanowissenschaftspreis, AGeNT-D/BMBF). His research is supported by an ERC Starting Grant 2012. Since 2013 he is a Heisenberg fellow of the German Funding Agency DFG.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Name: Prof. Dr. Efrat Lifshitz Place and Date of Birth: Haifa, Israel � 5 July 1956 Family Status: Married + three children Office Address: Schulich Faculty of Chemistry, Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute, Solid State Institute, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Technion City, Haifa 32000, Israel Tel.: (+972-4) 829-3987 (office); (+972-52) 664-2111 (mobile) E-Mail: ssefrat@tx.technion.ac.il WWW https://sites.google.com/site/elifgrouptech/ Academic Degrees 1976�1979 B.Sc., with distinction, Chemistry, July 1979 Department of Chemistry, The Hebrew University Jerusalem, Israel 1979�1981 M.Sc., Chemistry, August 1981 Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA 1979�1983 Ph.D., Physical Chemistry, December 1983 Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA Academic Appointments 2005�present Full Professor, Schulich Faculty of Chemistry 2012 Visiting professor, Renewable Energy Center Columbia University, New York, USA 2006 Visiting Professor, Department of Physical Chemistry University of Lyon-1, Lyon, France 1997�2005 Associate Professor, Schulich Faculty of Chemistry 2003 Visiting Professor, Department of Physical Chemistry Hamburg University, Hamburg, Germany 1994�1997 Senior lecturer with tenure, Schulich Faculty of Chemistry 1996 Visiting Professor, Department of Chemistry University of California, Berkeley, USA 1989�1994 Senior lecturer, tenure track, Schulich Faculty of Chemistry 1986�1989 Research Associate, Department of Chemistry University of Michigan, USA 1984�1985 Post doctoral Fellow, Isotope Department Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 1979�1983 Research and Teaching Assistant, Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan, USA Research interest and professional Experience

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

Robert Lovrincic obtained his PhD in physics from Heidelberg University in 2009. In 2010 he joined the group of Prof. David Cahen at the Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel) as a Minerva and Marie-Curie fellow. He has been a group leader at the Innovationlab in Heidelberg since 2013. His main expertise is the vibrational and structural characterization of electronic materials.

Joseph M. Luther obtained B.S. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from North Carolina State University in 2001. At NCSU he began his research career under the direction of Salah Bedair, who was the first to fabricate a tandem junction solar cell. Luther worked on growth and characterization high-efficiency III-V materials including GaN and GaAsN. His interest in photovoltaics sent him to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) to pursue graduate work. He obtained a Masters of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Colorado while researching effects of defects in bulk semiconductors in NREL�s Measurements and Characterization Division. In 2005, He joined Art Nozik�s group at NREL and studied semiconductor nanocrystals for multiple exciton generation for which he was awarded a Ph.D. in Physics from Colorado School of Mines. As a postdoctoral fellow, he studied fundamental synthesis and novel properties of nanomaterials under the direction Paul Alivisatos at the University of California and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. In 2009, he rejoined NREL as a senior research scientist. His research interests lie in the growth, electronic coupling and optical properties of colloidal nanocrystals and quantum dots.

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Bio Professional Preparation M.S. in Chemistry, with Honours, University of Bari, Italy, 1996 Ph.D. in Chemistry, University of Bari, Italy, 2001 Research interests Prof. L. Manna is an expert of synthesis and assembly of colloidal nanocrystals. His research interests span the advanced synthesis, structural characterization and assembly of inorganic nanostructures for applications in energy-related areas, in photonics, electronics and biology.

Dr. Martínez-Pastor obtained his degree and PhD in Physics (honored with the annual prize) by the University of Valencia in 1985 and 1990, respectively. Since 1994 he occupies a permanent position at the University of Valencia and became Full Professor in June 2008. His international experience includes 3 years of postdoctoral stays at the European Laboratory of Non Linear Spectroscopy (Florence, Italy) and at the �cole Normale Sup�rieure (Paris, France). He is specialized in Semiconductor Physics, particularly optical properties of quantum heterostructures and nanostructures based on III-V semiconductors, but more recently he has opened and leaded new research lines in nanotechnology: development of nanomaterials (colloidal metal and semiconductor nanocrystals, nanocomposites based on these nanocrystals embedded in polymers and oxides) and applications to photonics/plasmonics for telecom, sensing and photovoltaics. He is author/co-author of around 175 research publications in peer review journals (150) and conference papers in special book issues or proceedings, other than 5 patents and promotor of a spin-off company.

Hedi Mattoussi has been a professor at the Florida State University, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry since August 2009. Prior to that, he spent 12 years working as a senior Research Scientist at the US Naval Research Laboratory (Washington, DC). He earned a Ph.D. in Condensed Matter Physics from the University of Pierre & Marie Curie (Paris VI) in 1987, and a Habilitation to direct Research in Materials Physics (also from Paris VI) in 1994. His research experiences include postdoctoral stays at the Polymer Science Department, University of Massachusetts Amherst, and at MIT, Center for Materials Science. His group presently focuses on the development of inorganic nanoparticles and clusters (including semiconductor QDs, metallic and magnetic nanocrystals and fluorescent metal clusters such as those made of Au and Ag), their structural and optical characterization, and the development of effective schemes to interface them with biological receptors. His group has also been exploring the use of those materials in sensor development and live cell imaging. He is a fellow of the Royal society of Chemistry, the American Physical Society and the American Chemical society. He is also an Associate Editor of Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. Homepage: http://www.chem.fsu.edu/~mattoussi/

Dr. Karl Mayrhofer, born 1977, studied Technical Chemistry at the TU Vienna and received his PhD in 2006, after specializing on the catalysis of fuel cell reactions in his thesis and during a 2 year research stay in the group of Nenand Markovic at the LBNL in Berkeley. As a post-doc in the group of Prof. Matthias Arenz at the Physical Chemistry Department of the TU Munich he proceeded with fundamental studies of activity and stability of size-selected catalysts as well as applied studies of high-surface area catalysts. In 2010 he became group leader at the Max-Planck-Institut fuer Eisenforschung, and headed the research in Electrocatalysis. In 2015 he has been appointed as Professor for Electrocatalysis at the newly founded Helmholtz-Institute Erlangen-Nuernberg of the FZ Juelich, which will focus on photovoltaics and hydrogen technologies.

Iain McCulloch holds positions as Professor of Chemical Science within the Division of Physical Sciences and Engineering of KAUST, and a Chair in Polymer Materials within the Chemistry Department at Imperial College. He is also a co-founder and director of Flexink Limited. He is co-inventor on over 60 patents and co-author on over 300 papers with a current h-index of 68. His papers have been cited over 19000 times, including two papers with over 1000 citations. He was cited in Thompson Reuters “Global Top 100 Materials Scientists, 2000-10, Ranked by Citation Impact” at number 35 globally and number 2 in the UK, and was listed on ISI Highly Cited Researchers List 2014, based on ESI Highly Cited Papers 2002-2012. He was awarded the 2009 Royal Society of Chemistry, Creativity in Industry Prize, the 2014 Royal Society of Chemistry Tilden Prize for Advances in Chemistry and a 2014 Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award.

Michael D. McGehee is a Professor in the Materials Science and Engineering Department and a Senior Fellow of the Precourt Institute for Energy. His research interests are patterning materials at the nanometer length scale, semiconducting polymers and solar cells. He has taught courses on nanotechnology, nanocharacterization, 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 won the 2007 Materials Research Society Outstanding Young Investigator Award. He is a technical advisor to Next Energy, PLANT PV, Plextronics and Sinovia.

Professor Andries Meijerink (50) received his degree in Chemistry (Cum Laude) in 1986 at the Utrecht University in The Netherlands. He continued with his PhD research at the same university where he worked in the group of Prof. George Blasse on the luminescence of new x-ray storage phosphors. After receiving his PhD degree (Cum Laude) in 1990 he joined the group of Prof. John Wright at University of Wisconsin in Madison as a post-doctoral fellow. Back in The Netherlands he worked in the field of luminescence spectroscopy as an associate professor. At the age of 32 he was appointed at the chair of Solid State Chemistry in the Debye Institute of the Utrecht University. From 2004 to 2007 he served as Dean of Chemistry. In addition to fulfilling this administrative responsibility he leads an active research group that focuses on the optical spectroscopy of lanthanide ions in solids and of nanocrystalline semiconductor quantum dots. In the field of lanthanide ions his recent work involves fundamental research on finding new concepts also related to applications in solar cells, LEDs and scintillators. The research on nanocrystalline quantum dots is aimed at unraveling the influence of quantum confinement and surface effects on the electronic structure of quantum dots through optical spectroscopy and using the quantum dots as labels in bio-imaging. The research has resulted in over 280 publications and 10 patents. The work is highly cited (H-index 58) and is presented at many international conferences in invited and key-note lectures. For his research Andries Meijerink has received national and international recognition, including prestigious awards like the DSM Award for Chemistry and Technology (1989), the Shell Incentive Award (1995), the Gold Medal of the Royal Dutch Chemical Society (1999) and the Centennial Award for Luminescence and Display Materials from the Electrochemical Society (2002). In 2009 he was elected into the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences (KNAW).

Professor Meredith is professor of materials physics at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. He is currently an Australian Research Council Discovery Outstanding Research Award Fellow, co-director of the Centre for Organic Photonics and Electronics, and Director of the UQ Solar Initiative. His research involves the development of new sustainable high-tech materials for applications such as solar energy and bioelectronics, and he particularly specialises in the transport physics and electro-optics of disordered semiconductors. Professor Meredith is also the co-founder of several start-up companies including XeroCoat and Brisbane Materials Technology. He is the recipient of numerous awards including the Premier of Queensland’s Sustainability Award (2013) and is widely recognised for his contributions to innovation and the promotion of renewable energy in Australia. He serves on several advisory boards including the Premier of Queensland’s Climate Change Council, the Australian Solar Thermal Research Initiative Strategic Advisory Board, and the Australian Renewable Energy Agency Technical Advisory Board. He originally hails from South Wales, was educated at Swansea University and Heriot-Watt University, and was DTI Postdoctoral Fellow at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge before spending 6 years as an industrial scientist with Proctor and Gamble.

Alf Mews studied chemical engineering and chemistry, and received his PhD in 1994 working on core-shell semiconductor nanocrystals From 1995 to 1996 he worked as a Post Doc in Berkeley and Munich on microscopic techniques such as single nanocrystal spectroscopy. Between 1997 and 2003 he did his “Habilitation” in Mainz entitled: “Investigation of nano structures with microscopic methods: Material science on the nanometer scale”. In 2004 he was appointed Professor for Physical Chemistry at the University of Siegen and in 2008 he moved to the University of Hamburg. His main research topic is the investigation of fundamental optical and electronic properties of individual nanostructures using combinations of several microscopic and spectroscopic techniques.

Gerald Meyer received his undergraduate degree in Chemistry and Mathematics at the State University of New York at Albany before completion of his Ph.D. in Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he worked on photo-electrochemistry under the supervision of Arthur B. Ellis. After a post-doctoral position with Thomas J. Meyer at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, he began a faculty position at Johns Hopkins University where he now holds the Bernard N. Baker Chair. The Meyer research group interests focus on molecular excited states, electron transfer, coordination chemistry, materials chemistry, dye sensitized solar cells, and catalysis.

Subodh Mhaisalkar is the Tan Chin Tuan Centennial Professor in the School of Materials Science & Engineering at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. Subodh is also the Executive Director of the Energy Research Institute @ NTU (ERI@N), a pan-University multidisciplinary research institute for innovative energy solutions. Prior to joining NTU in 2001, Subodh has over 10 years of research and engineering experience in the microelectronics industry and his areas of expertise and research interests includes semiconductor technology, perovskite solar cells, printed electronics, and energy storage. Subodh received his Bachelors’ degree from IIT-Bombay and his MS/Ph.D. degrees from The Ohio State University.

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 100 papers in International Journals (Hirsch index 37), 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.

I did my Ph.D. thesis at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. My research (combined experiment and theory) focused on electronic excitations at metallic surfaces. Then I moved to Yale University, where I performed my post-doc research in the field of mesoscopic physics, studying ‘Universal Conductance Fluctuations’ in diffusive 2D-electron systems and quantum-chaos signatures in the conductance of ballistic ‘chaotic billiards’ defined in the 2D electron gas. After joining the Racah Institute of Physics (at the Hebrew University) as a faculty member in 1993, my research interests moved to hybrid superconductor, nanostructured semiconductor and composite-material systems, and more recently to solar-cell materials. The investigations in superconductivity address the phase-diagram of the cuprate high-temperature superconductors, and proximity effects in superconductor/nanoparticles hybrids and superconductor/ferromagnet bilayers, where we find evidence for induced triplet-pairing superconductivity. Our studies of nanostructured semiconductors span form the electronic level structure of individual nanocrystals to the (photo)transport properties of their assemblies. In metal-insulator nano-composites we treat fundamental issues such as the emergence of a percolation-like transition in the tunneling-transport regime. Finally, we also investigate polycrystalline CIGSe films in order to understand why solar-cells prepared with them as absorbers outperform their single-crystal counterparts. A unique aspect of our research is that we combine various local-probe methods, mainly scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy and various AFM-based techniques, with ‘global’ transport, optical and magnetic measurements. This combination is highly effective for studies of nanostructured and non-homogeneous materials and can provide deep insight into the microscopic origin of the global behavior of such complex systems.

Dr. Minteer is a USTAR Professor of Chemistry at University of Utah. She has co-authored over 170 publications. Her research group is currently focused on studying bioelectrocatalysis, including: enzyme cascades for bioelectrocatalysis and organelle bioelectrocatalysis for sensing and energy conversion applications. Her research in enzymatic bioelectrocatalysis is focused on both the bioengineering of natural enzymatic metabolic pathways for bioanodes for biofuel cells as well as enzyme discovery and enzyme engineering for non-natural complete oxidation pathways for biofuels. Her research in organelle-based bioelectrocatalysis is focused on the use of mitochondria to catalyze the complete oxidation of pyruvate and fatty acids at the anode of fuel cells as well as the unique biochemical actuation properties of mitochondria that allow for the use of mitochondria for self-powered explosive sensing.

David Mitzi received a B.S.E. in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University in 1985 and a Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Stanford University in 1990. In 1990, he joined the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center and initiated a program examining structure-property relationships, low-cost thin-film deposition techniques and device applications for a variety of electronic materials (e.g., oxides, halides, chalcogenides, organic-inorganic hybrids). Between 2009 and 2014 he managed the Photovoltaic Science and Technology department at IBM, with a focus on developing solution-processed high-performance inorganic semiconductors for thin-film photovoltaic (PV) devices. In July 2015, Dr. Mitzi moved to the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at Duke University as a professor. He holds a number of patents and has authored or coauthored more than 180 papers and book chapters.

1947/05/25 borne in Okayama, Japan 1974/07 -1983/09 Scientist at Argonne National Lab 1983/10-1988/09 Associate Professor, Tokoku University 1988/10-2012/03 Professor, University of Tokyo 2012/04-present Fellow, National Institute for Materials Science

Tsutomu (Tom) Miyasaka received his Doctor of Engineering from The University of Tokyo in 1981. He joined Fuji Photo Film, Co., conducting R&Ds on high sensitivity photographic materials, lithium-ion secondary batteries, and design of an artificial photoreceptor, all of which relate to electrochemistry and photochemistry. In 2001, he moved to Toin University of Yokohama (TUY), Japan, as professor in Graduate School of Engineering to continue photoelectrochemistry. In 2006 to 2009 he was the dean of the Graduate School. In 2004 he has established a TUY-based company, Peccell Technologies, serving as CEO. In 2005 to 2010 he served as a guest professor at The University of Tokyo.

His research has been focused to light to electric energy conversion involving photochemical processes by enhancing rectified charge transfer at photo-functional interfaces of semiconductor electrodes. He has contributed to the design of low-temperature solution-printing process for fabrication of dye-sensitized solar cells and solid-state hybrid photovoltaic (PV) cells. Since the discovery of the organic inorganic hybrid perovskite as PV material in 2006 and fabrication of high efficiency PV device in 2012, his research has moved to R&Ds of the lead halide perovskite PV device. He has promoted the research field of perovskite photovoltaics by organizing international conferences and by publishing many papers on enhancement of PV efficiency and durability, overall citation number of which is reaching more than 5,000 times. In 2009 he was awarded a Ministry of Science & Education prize on his achievements of green sustainable solar cell technology. In 2017 he received Chemical Society of Japan (CSJ) Award. He is presently directing national research projects funded by Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).

Aditya D. Mohite is the principle investigator of the Light to Energy team, a part of Materials Synthesis & Integrated Devices (MPA-11) at Los Alamos National Laboratory. His research interests include synthesis, characterizations, fabrication and photophysics of integrated devices based on emerging novel materials with the ultimate goal of developing high efficiency thin film light to energy conversion technologies such as photovoltaics, photo-catalysis etc. He has published 70+ peer reviewer papers including journals like Science, Nature, Nature Materials, Nature Nano, Nano Letters, ACS Nano, Advanced Materials etc. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Louisville in 2008. After 3 years of postdoctoral work at Rice University and Los Alamos National Laboratory and now is a Staff Scientist since Jan 2012.

David Mooney is the Pinkas Family Professor of Bioengineering in the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and a Core Faculty Member of the Wyss Institute. His laboratory designs biomaterials to make cell and protein therapies effective and practical approaches to treat disease. His team created the first biomaterial-based, therapeutic cancer vaccine, currently in a clinical trial for melanoma. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and the National Academy of Medicine. He has won numerous awards, including the Clemson Award from the SFB, MERIT award from the NIH, Distinguished Scientist Award from the IADR, Phi Beta Kappa Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, and the Everett Mendelsohn Excellence in Mentoring Award from Harvard College. His inventions have been licensed by twelve companies, leading to commercialized products, and he is active on industrial scientific advisory boards.

Iván Mora-Seró (1974, M. Sc. Physics 1997, Ph. D. Physics 2004) is researcher at Universitat Jaume I de Castelló (Spain). His research during the Ph.D. at Universitat de València (Spain) was centered in the crystal growth of semiconductors II-VI with narrow gap. On February 2002 he joined the University Jaume I. From this date until nowadays his research work has been developed in: electronic transport in nanostructured devices, photovoltaics, photocatalysis, making both experimental and theoretical work. Currently he is associate professor at University Jaume I and he is Principal Researcher (Research Division F4) of the Institute of Advanced Materials (INAM). Recent research activity was focused on new concepts for photovoltaic conversion and light emission based on nanoscaled devices and semiconductor materials following two mean lines: quantum dot solar cells with especial attention to sensitized devices and lead halide perovskite solar cells and LEDs, been this last line probably the current hottest topic in the development of new solar cells.

I obtained my PhD degree in applied physics at Ghent University in 2009, studying near-infrared lead salt quantum dots. This was followed by a postdoc project on quantum dot emission dynamics at Ghent University and the IBM Zurich research lab. In 2012 I joined the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, where I lead the Nanocrystal Photonics Lab in the Nanochemistry Department. The research in our group spans from the synthesis of novel fluorescent nanocrystals to ultrafast optical spectroscopy and photonic applications based on colloidal nanocrystals.

Paul Mulvaney is an ARC Laureate Fellow (2011-2015) and Professor of Chemistry in the School of Chemistry and Bio21 Institute at the University of Melbourne. He received his PhD degree at the University of Melbourne in 1989, working on surface electron transfer kinetics with Professor Franz Grieser and Dr Dani Meisel at Argonne National Laboratory in Chicago. He worked for 4 years at the Hahn-Meitner Nuclear Research Institute in Berlin with Professor Arnim Henglein before returning as a QEII Fellow in 1993. His interests include the electron transfer reactions of semiconductor nanocrystals, surface forces, nanomechanics, surface plasmon spectroscopy, redox catalysis and solar energy conversion. His group is developing plasmonic and FRET based detection platforms for defence applications. To date he has published some 220 scientific papers. He is co-inventor on 5 commercialised patents. Professor Mulvaney currently serves on the editorial boards of six journals and on the advisory board of the Australian Nanotechnology Network. He was made a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Sciences in 2009.

Neyde Yukie Murakami Iha received her B.S., M.S. and PhD. degrees from the University of São Paulo, Brazil and did postdoctoral work at the Ochanomizu University, Tokyo, Japan, and at the Radiation Laboratory, University of Notre Dame, IN, USA. She has served on number of boards and was President of the International Relations of Instituto de Química – USP from April 2010 to May 2011 and a Council Member of the International Relations of the University of São Paulo from May 2010 to August 2011. Associate Professor since 1998, she coordinates the Laboratory of Photochemistry and Energy Conversion at the Chemistry Institute of the University of São Paulo (USP), http://www2.iq.usp.br/docente/?id=neydeiha. Her research interests include photochemistry and photophysics of photoresponsive species, in particular coordination compounds, and assemblies for solar energy storage and conversion, as well as photoluminescent sensors and light emitting devices or molecular machines capable of mimicking geometry regulators by optically lengthening and contracting coordinated ligands in trans and cis configurations. The concept of photoelectrochemical solar cell based on dye-sensitization of nanostructured n-TiO2 (named by us as Dye-Cell) has been extended to an investigation on Solar Fuels in collaboration with Prof. Thomas J. Meyer and his research group at the University of North Carolina. The pathway from academic research to technological innovation is being experienced by Dye-Cell (4 patents), which has been selected by the Brazilian Ministry of Science and Technology (MCT) as an innovative product in the energy sector and received an Honorable Mention Prêmio Governador do Estado.

Dr. Md. K. Nazeeruddin received M.Sc. and Ph. D. in inorganic chemistry from Osmania University, Hyderabad, India. His current research focuses on Dye-sensitized solar cells, Hydrogen production, Light-emitting diodes and Chemical sensors. He has published more than 400 peer-reviewed papers, nine book chapters, and inventor of 49 patents. The high impact of his work has been recognized with invitations to speak at over 100 international conferences. He appeared in the ISI listing of most cited chemists, and has more than 10000 citations with an h-index of 93. He is directing, and managing several industrial, national, and European Union projects on Hydrogen energy, Photovoltaics (DSC), and Organic Light Emitting Diodes. He was awarded EPFL Excellence prize in 1998 and 2006, Brazilian FAPESP Fellowship in 1999, Japanese Government Science & Technology Agency Fellowship, in 1998, Government of India National Fellowship in 1987-1988. Recently he has been appointed as World Class University (WCU) professor for the period of March 1, 2009 ~ December 31, 2012 by the Korea University, Jochiwon, Korea.

Nate Neale received his B.A. degree in chemistry from Middlebury College in 1998, where he studied radical substitution reactions at activated arenes and the binding mode of cisplatin, a common commercial anti-cancer drug, to a model DNA fragment. His scientific training continued as a graduate student under Prof. T. Don Tilley at the University of California, Berkeley, investigating the mechanism by which a transition-metal catalyst facilitates the polymerization of stannanes to polystannanes, a class of inorganic polymers with unique optical and electronic properties. As a postdoctoral researcher at NREL, he worked on controlling the synthesis and surface chemistry of TiO2 nanostructures for dye-sensitized solar cells in the laboratories of Dr. Arthur J. Frank. After a brief stint at the University of Colorado, Boulder, during which time he worked in collaboration with Dr. Frank, Dr. Arthur J. Nozik, and Prof. David Jonas on photoelectrodes for photoelectrochemical water splitting, he returned to NREL as a staff scientist in 2008. His current research interests are focused on tailoring the chemical structure and photophysics of nanostructured inorganic semiconductors and catalysts for photovoltaics, solar fuels, and related energy conversion and storage concepts.

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Prof. Dieter Neher studied physics at the University of Mainz. In 1990 he gained his PhD with Prof. G. Wegner. From 1990-1992 he was a research associate at the Optical Sciences Centre, Tucson, Arizona and at the Centre for Research in Electrooptics and Lasers, Orlando, Florida with Prof. G. Stegeman. 1992 he joined again Prof. G. Wegner at the MPI-P, heading the group Electrooptical Phenomena in Polymers. Following his habilitation in November 1998, he became Professor of Soft Matter Physics at the Institute for Physics and Astronomy at the University of Potsdam. Current research interests are electrical, optical and optoelectronic processes in conjugated materials.

Jenny Nelson is a Professor of Physics at Imperial College London, where she has researched novel varieties of material for use in solar cells since 1989. Her current research is focussed on understanding the properties of molecular semiconductor materials and their application to organic solar cells. This work combines fundamental electrical, spectroscopic and structural studies of molecular electronic materials with numerical modelling and device studies, with the aim of optimising the performance of plastic solar cells. She has published around 200 articles in peer reviewed journals, several book chapters and a book on the physics of solar cells.

Martin Neukom studied System Engineering at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland. After a research experience at its Institute of Computational Physics, he joined the spin-off company Fluxim which develops and distributes the simulation software setfos. He is experienced in numerical simulation and transient electrical characterization of organic solar cells. Currently he is a student in the photovoltaics master program at Albert-Ludwigs University Freiburg, Germany. Beside that he is politically engaged as Member of Parliament in the canton of Zurich.

Thuc-Quyen Nguyen is a professor in the Center for Polymers and Organic Solids and the Chemistry & Biochemistry Department at University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). She received her Ph.D. degree in physical chemistry from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 2001 under the supervision of Professor Benjamin Schwartz. Her thesis focused on photophysics of conducting polymers. She was a research associate in the Department of Chemistry and the Nanocenter at Columbia University working with Professors Louis Brus and Colin Nuckolls on molecular self-assembly, nanoscale characterization and molecular electronics. She also spent time at IBM Research Center at T. J. Watson (Yorktown Heights, NY) working with Richard Martel and Phaedon Avouris. Her current research interests are structure-function-property relationships in organic semiconductors, electronic properties of conjugated polyelectrolytes, interfaces in optoelectronic devices, charge transport in organic semiconductors and biological systems, and device physics. Recognition for her research includes the 2005 Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, the 2006 National Science Foundation CAREER Award, the 2007 Harold Plous Award (one of the UCSB's two most prestigious faculty honors), the 2008 Camille Dreyfus Teacher Scholar Award, the 2009 Alfred Sloan Research Fellows, and the 2010 National Science Foundation American Competitiveness and Innovation Fellows.

Anders Nilsson received a PhD in physics at Uppsala University, Sweden (1989) in the laboratory created by Kai Siegbahn. He is a professor in Chemical Physics at Stockholm University and visiting professor in Chemical Engineering at Stanford University. He received the Lindbomska Award at the Swedish Royal Academy of Science, the Royal Oscar Award at Uppsala University in 1994, the Shirley Award in Berkeley 1998, the Humboldt Award for senior scientist in 2010 and was awarded honorable doctor at Denmarks Technical University in 2015. His research interests include synchrotron radiation and x-ray laser spectroscopy and scattering, chemical bonding and reactions on surfaces, ultrafast science heterogeneous catalysis, electrocatalysis in fuel cells, photocatalysis for converting sunlight to fuels, structure of water and aqueous solutions.

Abraham received B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from the Hebrew University (Jerusalem), and Ph.D degree from Tel Aviv University (Israel) in 1972. He is presently an emeritus professor of Chemistry at Tel Aviv Univesrity and a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. He is a Member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the US National Academy of Science.

Daniel G. Nocera is the Patterson Rockwood Professor of Energy at Harvard University. He is widely recognized in the world as a leading researcher in renewable energy. His group has pioneered studies of the basic mechanisms of energy conversion in biology and chemistry with a particular focus on multielectron transformations and the coupling of protons to electron transfer (i.e., proton-coupled electron transfer). A recent focus in the group has been to exploit this mechanistic knowledge for the generation of solar fuels. His group has recently accomplished a solar fuels process that captures many of the elements of photosynthesis and he has now translated this science to produce the artificial leaf. This discovery sets the stage for a storage mechanism for the distributed, deployment of solar energy. Other areas of interest in the group include the development of proton-coupled electron transfer and its application to radical enzymology, the development of new cancer therapies by creating nanocrystal chemosensors for metabolic tumor profiling, the creation of spin frustrated materials, which has culminated in the discovery of the quantum spin liquid, and the invention of molecular tagging velocimetry technique for the measurement of highly turbulent fluid flows.

David J. Norris is currently the Director of the Optical Materials Engineering Laboratory and Professor of Materials Engineering at ETH Zurich. He received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Chemistry from the University of Chicago (1990) and MIT (1995), respectively. After an NSF postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, San Diego, he joined the NEC Research Institute in Princeton in 1997 where he led a photonics research group. He then became an Associate Professor (2001-2006) and Professor (2006-2010) of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at the University of Minnesota. In 2010, he moved to his current position at ETH Zurich. Prof. Norris is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He received the Golden Owl award at ETH in 2012 for excellence in teaching. He was awarded an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council (2014-2019). In 2015, he was the recipient of the Max R�ssler Prize.

Professor Arthur J. Nozik is Research Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Colorado, Boulder; the Senior Research Fellow Emeritus at the U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL); and a Founding Fellow of the NREL/University of Colorado Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute. Nozik has been Associate Director of the Los Alamos/NREL Energy Frontier Research Center (Center for Advanced Solar Photophysics) and the founding Scientific Director of the Colorado Center for Revolutionary Solar Photoconversion. Professor Nozik's research interests include size quantization effects in semiconductor quantum structures, including multiple exciton generation from a single photon; and the applications of unique effects in nanostructures and nanoscience to advanced approaches for solar photon conversion to electricity and fuels; He has published over 250 papers and book chapters in these fields , written or edited 6 books, holds 11 U.S. patents, has delivered over 350 invited, Plenary, and Keynote talks and serves on many Scientific Advisory Boards and Committees. He received the 2013 Heinz Gerischer Award from the European Section of the Electrochemical Society, the 2011 ACS Esselen Award at Harvard University, the 2009 Science Award from the U.N. IREO, the 2008 Eni Award in Science and Technology(from President of Italy), and the 2002 Research Award of the Electrochemical Society. Dr. Nozik was Senior Editor of The Journal of Physical Chemistry for 13 years, and is on the editorial advisory board of the Journal of Energy and Environmental Sciences and Nano Energy. Dr. Nozik is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Royal Society of Chemistry

Brian O’Regan has been involved in renewable energy science since 1976 when he constructed and characterized a residential solar water heater. He began his studies on photoelectrochemistry and dye sensitization of TiO2 in 1987 at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, under Prof. Marc Anderson, receiving a M.S. degree in 1990. After a year in the laboratory of Prof. M. Grätzel at EPFL, he attended the University of Washington, Seattle. There he worked on solid-state DSSCs with Profs. Martin Goutermann and Dan Schwartz, receiving a Ph.D. degree in 1999. He has subsequently worked at the Energy Research Centre Netherlands and is presently a research lecturer at the Imperial College, London. His research interests include all aspects of dye-sensitized solar cells, including photophysics, heterogeneous electron transfer, and material science. His research also involves polymer photovoltaics, and tools for surface characterization of nanostructured interfaces.

Dr. Ton Offermans is a senior R&D engineer in the Integrated Light Management Section of CSEM. He studied applied physics at the University of Technology Eindhoven and received his PhD degree in the field of organic photovoltaics. Before joining CSEM he worked as researcher on light emitting tiles at Materia Nova, asbl. At CSEM he is responsible for research on OPV. He is workpackage leader in the SUNFLOWER project.

Dr. Selina Olthof studied Physics at the University Stuttgart (Germany) and wrote her master thesis in the group of Klaus Kern at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Physics. In 2010, Dr. Olthof received her Ph.D. from the University of Dresden (Karl Leo), followed by a two year postdoctoral research stay at Princeton University with Antoine Kahn. Currently, she is head of a Junior Research Group at the University of Cologne in the Department of Chemistry. Her research is centered around enhancing the understanding of the electronic structure of novel semiconducting materials, with a focus on organic semiconductors and hybrid perovskites.

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Frank Osterloh is an inorganic chemist working on nanostructured solar energy conversion devices. He received MA and PhD degrees in chemistry in 1994 and 1997 from the Carl von Ossietzky University in Oldenburg, Germany, after working under the guidance of the late Prof. Siegfried Pohl. He then completed postdoctoral training at Harvard University with Prof. Richard H. Holm, after which he joined the faculty at the Chemistry Department at the University of California, Davis, in 2000. Frank Osterloh’s current research interests are centered on the chemical and physical properties of inorganic nanomaterials, and on their electro- and photocatalytic functions.

Luis Otero, Profesor de la Universidad nacional de Río Cuarto (UNRC) e Investigador Científico Independiente del Consejo Nacional de investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), es Doctor en Ciencias Químicas (1994) y Director del Grupo de Optoelectrónica Orgánica de la UNRC, compuesto por nueve investigadores y estudiantes de postgrado. Dirige en la actualidad tres proyectos financiados por la UNRC, el CONICET y la Agencia Nacional de Promoción Científica y Técnica (ANPCYT) sobre la temática general: "Investigación y desarrollo de nuevos materiales con propiedades optoelectricas y bioactivas". Ha dirigido cinco tesis doctorales, estando otras tres en ejecución. Ha dirigido y codirigido 26 proyectos de investigación (8 de cooperación internacional con España, Japón y Alemania). Es autor de 54 trabajos científicos y árbitro revisor de 15 revistas científicas internacionales. El grupo ha desarrollado trabajos de investigación sobre la generación de efectos fotoeléctricos, a través del proceso de sensibilización espectral de electrodos semiconductores que involucraron una serie de moléculas orgánicas sintéticas. Por otra parte, se ha estudiado el comportamiento electroquímico de películas y dispositivos electrocrómicos formados por varios polímeros con el objetivo de construir dispositivos totalmente plásticos. Se ha demostrado que por medio de la ingeniería molecular se puede modular las propiedades optoelectrónicas de nuevos materiales. Todas estas características dan a los nuevos materiales una alta potencialidad para su aplicación en optoelectrónica orgánica.

Jonathan Owen received a B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a Ph.D. in Chemistry from CalTech. As a graduate student in the lab of Professor John Bercaw he studied the kinetics and mechanism of methane C-H activation. In 2005 he joined the lab of Professor Paul Alivisatos as a Petroleum Research Fund Alternative Energy Fellow to study the crystallization and derivatization of colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals. In 2009 he joined the faculty at Columbia University as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry where his group continues to study the synthesis and surface chemistry of colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals. For this work, he has received early career awards from the Department of Energy, the National Science Foundation, 3M, and DuPont.

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 100 papers (H factor 36) 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 .

CURRICULUM VITAE 1. DATOS PERSONALES Nombres y apellidos: Helena Pardo Minetti Teléfono: 598 2 6131066 – 598 95886546 E-mail: hpardo@fq.edu.uy 2- TÍTULOS OBTENIDOS a) Títulos de grado y posgrado: -Bachiller en Química, Facultad de Química, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay, Febrero de 1997. -Maestría en Química, Facultad de Química, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay, Julio de 1999. -Doctorado en Química, Facultad de Química, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay, Abril de 2007. 4- CARGOS DESEMPEÑADOS Posiciones Académicas y Cargos Ocupados Posición actual: - Profesora Adjunta, G. 3, 35 hs./sem., Efectivo, Dedicación Total, de la Cátedra de Física, DETEMA, Facultad de Química desde noviembre de 2008 hasta el presente. 5. ACTIVIDADES DE INVESTIGACIÓN 5.1 - Actividades de creación de conocimiento documentadas 5.1.a Publicaciones Artículos científicos o académicos publicados Las publicaciones listadas a continuación poseen referato: 1. “Ultrathin (0 0 1) and (1 0 0) TiO2(B) sheets: Surface reactivity and structural properties”, Fernández-Werner, L., Faccio, R. , Juan, A., Pardo, H., Montenegro, B., Mombrú, Á.W., Applied Surface Science, Volume 290, 30 January 2014, Pages 180-187. 2. "Hybrid compounds based on fullerene and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons with absorption in the near infrared region”. ÁLVARO MOMBRÚ; RICARDO FACCIO; PARDO, H. Computational and Theoretical Chemistry, 2013. 3. "Raman characterization of bulk ferromagnetic nanostructured graphite”, PARDO, H.; KHAN, D.; RICARDO FACCIO; ARAÚJO MOREIRA, F. M.; FERNANDEZ-WERNER, L.; MAKAROVA, T.; MOMBRÚ, A. W. Physica B - Condensed Matter, v.: 407 16, p.: 3206 - 3209, 2012. 4. "Physical properties of nanofluid suspension of ferromagnetic graphite with high Zeta potential”, SOUZA, N. S.; RODRIGUES, A. D.; CARDOSO, C. A.; PARDO, H.; FACCIO, R.; MOMBRÚ, A. W.; GALZERANI, J. C.; SERGEENKOV, S.; ARAÚJO-MOREIRA, F.M. . Physics Letters A, v.: 376 4, p.: 544 - 546, 2012. 5. "Stability Issues and Structure-Sensitive Magnetic Properties of Nanofluid Ferromagnetic Graphite”. Journal of Nanofluids, N. S. SOUZA; S. SERGEENKOV; A. D. RODRIGUEZ; C. A. CARDOSO; PARDO, H.; R. FACCIO; A. W. MOMBRÚ; F. M. ARAÚJO MOREIRA, v.: 1 2, p.: 143 - 147, 2012. 6. “Current trends in materials for dye sensitized solar cells”. Recent Patents on Nanotechnology, RICARDO FACCIO; FERNANDEZ-WERNER, L.; ÁLVARO MOMBRÚ; PARDO, H. v.: 51, p.: 46 - 61, 2011. 7. “Encapsulación de quercetina en nano y micro-emulsiones alimenticias”. INN@TEC, XAVIER, M.; IRIS MIRABALLES; PARDO, H.; ÁLVARO MOMBRÚ; LÓPEZ T.; MEDRANO C. A. v.: 6 37, 2011. 8. “Re(V) complexes formed by metal-assisted solvolysis of di-(2-pyridyl)ketone: synthesis, X-ray studies, redox behavior and DFT calculations”. PEJO C.; PARDO, H.; MOMBRÚ, A.; CERDÁ, M. F.; GANCHEFF, J.S.; R. CHIOZZONE; R. GONZALEZ, Inorganica Chimica Acta, v.: 3761, p.: 105 - 111, 2011. 9. “Electronic and Structural Distortions in Graphene Induced by Carbon Vacancies and Boron Doping”. FACCIO R.; FERNANDEZ-WERNER, L.; PARDO, H.; GOYENOLA, C.; MOMBRÚ A. W.; VENTURA, O, N. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2010. 10. "Synthesis of 9-Substituted-1,8-Dioxooctahydroxanthenes by an Efficient Iodine-Catalyzed Cyclization”, LILIANA E. LUNA; RAQUEL M. CRAVERO; RICARDO FACCIO; PARDO, H.; MOMBRÚ, A.; SEOANE G. European Journal of Organic Chemistry, p.: 3052 - 3057, 2009. 11. “Mechanical properties of graphene nanoribbons”, RICARDO FACCIO; P. A. DENIS; PARDO, H.; CECILIA GOYENOLA; MOMBRÚ, A., Journal of Physics Condensed Matter, v.: 21, 2009. 12. "Manifestation of finite temperature size effects in nanogranular magnetic graphite”, SERGEENKOV, S.; SOUZA, N.S.; SPEGLICH, C.; RIVERA, V.A.G.; CARDOSO, C.A.; PARDO, H.; MOMBRÚ, A.W.; ARAÚJO-MOREIRA, F.M. Journal of Applied Physics, v.: 106 11, 2009. 13. "Temperature oscillations of magnetization observed in nanofluid ferromagnetic graphite”, SERGEENKOV, S.; SOUZA, N.S.; SPEGLICH, C.; RIVERA, V.A.G., CARDOSO, C.A.; PARDO, H.; MOMBRÚ, A. W.; ARAÚJOMOREIRA, F.M. Journal of Physics Condensed Matter, v.: 49 21, 2009. 14. "Synthesis, characterization, and magnetic properties of room-temperature nanofluid ferromagnetic graphite”. SOUZA, N.S.; SPEGLICH, C.; RIVERA, V.A.G.; CARDOSO, C.A.; PARDO, H.; MOMBRÚ, A. W.; ARAÚJO-MOREIRA, F.M., Applied Physics Letters, v.: 23 95, 2009. 15. “Magnetism induced by single carbon vacancies in a three-dimensional graphitic network”, FACCIO, R.; H. PARDO; P. A. DENIS; R. YOSHIKAWA OEIRAS; F. M. ARAÚJO MOREIRA; M. VERÍSSIMO-ALVES; A. W. MOMBRÚ. Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, v. 77, p. 03541-03541, 2008. 16. “Synthesis and characterization of stable room temperature bulk ferromagnetic graphite”, PARDO, H.; FACCIO, R.; ARAÚJO MOREIRA, FM; DE LIMA, OF; MOMBRU A W, Carbon, 44, p565, 2006. 17. "Synthesis, spectroscopic characterization and crystal structure of disulfamethoxazole diaquo Ni(II)monohydrate" TORRE, M.H; CALVO, S; PARDO, H; MOMBRÚ A W. Journal of Coordination Chemistry, 58(6):513-520, 2005. 18. “Structural and magnetic study of LaBaCoCuO5+”. SUESCUN, L; JONES, C Y; CARDOSO, C A; LYNN, JW; TOBY, B H; ARAÚJO MOREIRA, F M; DE LIMA, OF; PARDO, H; MOMBRÚ A W. Physical Review B -Condensed Matter And Materials Physics, v. 71, 2005. 19. “Multilevel ferromagnetic behavior of stable room temperature bulk magnetic graphite”. MOMBRÚ A W; PARDO, H; FACCIO, R; DE LIMA, O F; LANFREDI, A J C; CARDOSO, C A; LEITE, E R; ZANELATTO, G; ARAÚJO MOREIRA, F. M. Physical Review B - Condensed Matter And Materials Physics, v. 71, n. 100404(R), 2005. 20. “Extrinsic properties of colossal magnetoresistive samples”, Lisboa-Filho P.N., Mombrú A.W., Pardo H., Ortiz W.A., Leite E.R., Solid State Comm., vol. 130, 1-2, 31-36, 2004. 21. “Structure and magnetism in REBaCuFeO5 (RE = Er,Tm,Lu)”, Mombrú A.W., Marimon da Cunha J.B., Goeta A.E., Araújo-Moreira F.M., Lisboa-Filho P.N., Pardo H., Andersen K.H., Materia, 8, 3, 294-301, 2003. 22. “Preparation and crystal structure of new Samarium complexes with glutamic acid”, Torres J., Kremer C., Pardo H., Suescun L., Mombrú A., Castiglioni J., Domínguez S., Mederos A., Kremer E., J. Mol. Struct. 660 (1-3), 99-106, 2003. 23. “Cu(II) complexation with His-Gly and His-Ala. X-Ray structure of Cu(his-gly)2(H2O)2.6H2O”, G. Facchin, M. H. Torre, E. Kremer, E. J. Baran, A. Mombrú, H. Pardo, M. P. Araujo, A. A. Batista, A. J. Costa-Filho, Inorgánica Chimica Acta, 355:442-448, 2003. 24. “Sm(III) complexation with small peptides. Crystal structures of Sm2(Gly-Val)4(H2O)8(ClO4)6.2H2O”, Julia Torres, Carlos Kremer, Eduardo Kremer, Helena Pardo, Silvia Russi, Álvaro Mombrú, Sixto Domínguez, Alfredo Mederos, Inorgánica Chimica Acta, 355, 442-448, 2003. 25. “Influence of precessing conditions on the crystal structure and magnetic behavior of La0.7Ca0.3MnO3+ samples”, Lisboa-Filho P.N., Mombrú A.W., Pardo H., W.A. Ortiz, E.R. Leite, J.Phys. Chem. Solids, vo. 64, 4, 583-591, 2003. 26. “Low Temperature Magnetic properties of LuBaCuFeO5+ and TmBaCuFeO5+, A. W. Mombrú. A. E. Goeta, H. Pardo, P. N. Lisboa-filho, L. Suescun, R. A. Mariezcurrena, O. N. Ventura, R. Behak, K. H. Andersen and F. M. Araujo-Moreira, Journal of Solid State Chemistry (166), 251-258, 2002. 27. “Sm(III) Complexation with amino acids. Crystal structures of Sm2(Pro)6(H2O)6(ClO4)4 and Sm(Asp)(H2O)4(Cl)2”, Julia Torres, Carlos Kremer, Eduardo Kremer, Helena Pardo, Leopoldo Suescun, Alvaro Mombrú, Sixto Domínguez, Alfredo Mederos, Regine Herbs-Irmer and Juan M. Arrieta, J. Chem. Soc., Dalton Trans., 4035-4041, 2002. 28. “Structural study in the (La,Nd)2-xSrxCuO4 system”, Mombrú A.W., Ivanov S., Pardo H., Suescun L., Faccio R., Rabuffetti F., Physica C – Superconductivity, 2001. 29. “Influence of oxygen disorder on the magnetic properties of LaBaCuFeO5+: an EXAFS and neutron diffraction study”, Alvaro W. Mombrú, Helena Pardo, Leopoldo Suescun, Brian Toby, Wilson A. Ortiz, Fernando Araújo-Moreira, Carlos A. Negreira, Physica C – Superconductivity (356), 149-159, 2001. 30. “Sm(III) complexation with -amino acid X-Ray crystal structure of Sm2(Hala)4(H2O)8(ClO4)4(Cl)2”, Julia Torres, Carlos Kremer, Eduardo Kremer, Helena Pardo, Leopoldo Suescun, Alvaro Mombrú, Sixto Domínguez, Alfredo Mederos, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 323-324, 119-124, 2001. 31. “(S)Tricarbonyl[(1-2,3,4-(5R,6S)-1chloro-5,6dimethoxycyclohexa-1,3 diene)]iron(0)", Mombrú A.W., Russi S., Suescun L., Pardo H., Mariezcurrena R., Cavalli G. & Seoane G. Acta Crystallographica Section C. C56, 820-821, 2000. 32. "1,3-bis(diphenylphosphino)propanetriclorooxorhenium(V)", Suescun L., Mombrú A. W., Mariezcurrena R., Pardo H., Russi S., Kremer C, Rivero M & Kremer E.. Acta Crystallographica Section C. C56, 930-931, 2000. 33. "1,4,4-trimethyl-9-phenil-8-oxa-9-azabicyclo3.2.2non-6-en-one", Russi S, Pardo H, Heinzen H., Dias E., Moyna P., Mariezcurrena R, Suescun L & Mombrú A. Acta Crystallographica Section C. C56, 672-673, 2000. 34. “Bis[chlorobis(1,10-phenanthroline-N,N')(thiourea-S)nickel(II)]chloride nitrate diethanol solvate", Suescun L., Mombrú A.W., Mariezcurrena R., Pardo H., Russi S. & Baggio R., Acta Crystallographica Section C., C56, 179-181, 2000. 35. “Poly[[aqua(aqua(2,2’bipyridine-N,N’) cadmium(II)]-3-sulfito-O:O:O’] hydrate”, M. Harvey, S. Baggio, R. Baggio, H. Pardo, Acta Crystallographica Section C, C55, 1278-1280, 1999. 36. “A New Structure in the REBaCuFeO5+ Series: LaBaCuFeO5+. Structure and Magnetic Properties in the La1-xPrxBaCuFeO5+ System”, H. Pardo, W. A Ortiz, F. M. Araújo-Moreira, E. Quagliata, K. Prassides, R. Mariezcurrena, Mombrú A W, Physica C – Superconductivity (313)1-2 , 115-120, 1999. 37. “Frustrated Magnetization in PrxLa1-x BaCuO5+Fe”, W. A. Ortiz, H. Pardo, F. M. Araújo-Moreira, E. Quagliata, K. Prassides, R. Mariezcurrena y A. W. Mombrú, Materials Science Forum, V. 302/303, 353, 1999. 38. “(1S-2S-5S-6S)-5,6-diacetoxy-3,4-dihidroxy-4-methyl-1-cyclohexene”, Silvia Russi, Leopoldo Suescun, Álvaro W. Mombrú, Helena Pardo, Raúl A. Mariezcurrena, Margarita Broveto y Gustavo Seoane, Acta Crystallographica Section C, C55, 1347-1349, 1999. 39. “Mixed stacking and stoichiometry in the structure of a -molecular compound tris(fluorene)-tetrakis(1,3,5 trinitrobezene)”, Mariezcurrena R., Russi S., Mombrú A., Suescun L., Pardo H., Tombesi O., Frontera M., Acta Crystallographica Section C, C55, 1170-1173, 1999. 40. “Two absorption furosemide prodrugs”, Álvaro W. Mombrú, Raúl Mariezcurrena, Leopoldo Suescun, Helena Pardo, Eduardo Manta, Carolina Prandi, Acta Crystallographica Section C, C55, 413-416, 1999. 41. “Identificación de los aniones del grupo del cloruro por cromatografía en papel y HPTLC”, Laura Elena, Vilma Rouco, Alicia Mollo, Helena Pardo, 1996, Anuario Latinoamericano de Educación Química, Vol. II, 255-258. Artículos científicos o académicos aceptados para su publicación 1. “Contenedores, instrumentos y pigmentos: una aproximación arqueométrica a los procesos de producción y uso en las sociedades del holoceno tardío en los humedales del Santa Lucía, Uruguay”, Laura Beovide, Maira Malán, Elena Vallve, Alejandro Trujillo, Mirian Mejía, Helena Pardo, Ricardo Faccio, Alvaro Mombrú, Mariela Pistón. Chungara, Revista de Antropología Chilena, 2014, en prensa. Capítulos de libros 1. “Vacancies in 3-D graphene: Electronic structure studies”, Ricardo Faccio; Pardo, H.; F. M. Araujo-Moreira; Mombrú, A. The Carbon Nanoworld: From Graphene to Nanotubes.. p.: 135 - 154, 2011, Transworld Research Network, Kerala, India. 2. “Nanomateriales con potenciales aplicaciones tecnológicas desarrollados en el Centro NanoMat, Polo Tecnológico de Pando, Facultad de Química”, Pardo, H., 2010, Las Nanotecnologías en Uruguay. v.: 1 , 1, p.: 35 - 44, Organizadores: Luis Foladori & Adriana Chiancone, http://www.extension.edu.uy/sites/extension.edu.uy/files/NT_URUGUAY.pdf 3. “Mechanical Properties of Graphene and Derived Nanostructures”, RICARDO FACCIO; FERNANDEZ-WERNER, L.; PARDO, H.; CECILIA GOYENOLA; PABLO A. DENIS; MOMBRÚ, A., , 2010, Physics and Applications of Graphene - Theory. INTECH , Viena, Austria. 5.1.b Desarrollos tecnológicos (productos o procesos, patentes, informes técnicos) PATENTE PCT: “Processo de preparacao de materiais grafíticos magnéticos e materiais assim preparados”, Pardo H., Mombrú A.W., Araújo-Moreira F.M., 16/6/04. PI0402338-2. Actualmente esta patente ya está inscripta (o en proceso de inscripción) en la totalidad de la Comunidad Europea, Estados Unidos, Canadá, China, México, Rusia, India, Ucrania, Sudáfrica, Corea, Japón Noruega, Brasil y Uruguay. Licenciamiento de patentes Por su interés tecnológico la patente anteriormente detallada ha sido licenciada en junio de 2005 por parte de la empresa brasileña Compañía Nacional de Grafite. 5.2 Dirección de tesis de posgrado - “Desarrollo de una matriz biopolimérica de colágeno tipo I con la incorporación de nanopartículas de quitosano-aa (l-ácido ascórbico) para el tratamiento de lesiones dérmicas”, 2013. Tipo de orientación: Tutor principal. Nombre del orientado: Luciana Pereira. Facultad de Química - UdelaR, Uruguay, Magister en Química. - “Síntesis de nanopartículas bioactivas con actividad antibacteriana e incorporación en película comestible biodegradable de potencial aplicación en productos alimentarios”, 2013. Tipo de orientación: Cotutor. Nombre del orientado: Patricia Zimet. Facultad de Química - UdelaR, Uruguay, Doctorado en Química. - “Evaluación de la actividad antitumoral de un extracto de orujo de uva Tannat”, 2012.Tipo de orientación: Cotutor. Nombre del orientado: Mariel Flores. Facultad de Ciencias-UdelaR, Uruguay, Maestría en Ciencias Biológicas. - “Diseño y preparación de nanomateriales carbonosos para espintrónica”, 2011. Tipo de orientación: Cotutor. Nombre del orientado: Sebastían Piriz. Facultad de Química - UdelaR, Uruguay, Doctorado en Química. - “Optimización de propiedades en materiales avanzados”, 2011. Tipo de orientación: Tutor principal. Nombre del orientado: Mariano Romero. Facultad de Química - UdelaR, Uruguay, Doctorado en Química. 5.3 Premios y/o distinciones recibidos - Investigador nivel I del Sistema Nacional de Investigación (SNI) (Nacional) ANII. 2011. - Investigador nivel I del Sistema Nacional de Investigación (SNI) ANII. 2009 - Artículo seleccionado en Highlights 2009 Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, IOP (Internacional) Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, IOP. 2009 - Premio Morosoli Institucional para el Centro NanoMat (Nacional) Fundación Lolita Rubial. 2010 - Premio al mejor póster en el V Congreso Iberoamericano de Sensores, V Congreso Iberoamericano de Sensores V Congreso Iberoamericano de Sensores. 2006 - Investigador nivel I, en marco del llamado del Fondo Nacional de Investigadores DINACYT, 2004. 5.4 Asociaciones científicas a las que pertenece - Investigadora grado 3, asociada del PEDECIBA en el Área de Química, desde el año 2008. - Miembro de la Sociedad Uruguaya de Física (SUF) desde el año 1997. - Miembro fundador de la Asociación Uruguaya de Carbono desde el año 2013. - Miembro de la International Union of Crystallogarphy (IUCR) desde el año 2013. 6 - Actividades de Enseñanza en los últimos 5 años 6.1 Principales cursos universitarios dictados 6.1.a Actividades a nivel de grado. - Dictado de clases prácticas y parte de las teóricas correspondientes al curso de Física 103 (Plan 2000), 2000-2005. Carreras: Ing. Química, Ing. Alimentos, Químico y Licenciado en Química. Se viene actuando como responsable del mencionado curso desde el año 2005 en conjunto con Leopoldo Suescun. - Dictado de clases prácticas y parte de las teóricas correspondientes al curso de Física 003 (Plan 2000), 2005. Carrera: Química Farmacéutica. Se viene actuando como responsable del mencionado curso desde el año 2005 en conjunto con Leopoldo Suescun. - Dictado del curso: “Química del Estado Sólido”, CRYSSMAT-Lab, Cátedra de Física, Facultad de Química, Universidad de la República, 2001-2013. Carreras: Químico de Materiales y Licenciado en Química. Se viene actuando como responsable del mismo desde el año 2005. Este curso sirve, asimismo, como curso para estudiantes de posgrado. - Dictado de clases prácticas del curso de Física 102 (Plan 2000). Cátedra de Física, Facultad de Química, Universidad de la República, 2000 – 2003 y 2012-2014. Carreras: Ing. Química, Química Farmacéutica, Ing. Alimentos, Químico y Licenciado en Química. - Dictado de clases teóricas del curso: “Física del Estado Sólido”, CRYSSMAT-Lab, Cátedra de Física, Facultad de Química, Universidad de la República, 1998-2013. Carreras: Químico de Materiales y Licenciado en Química. Este curso sirve, asimismo, como curso para estudiantes de posgrado. - Cooparticipación en el dictado del tema “Difracción de rayos X”, del curso de Química II de la Licenciatura en Geología, Facultad de Ciencias. 2008-2013. - Dictado de clases prácticas del curso de Química Analítica Cualitativa en dicha Cátedra. 1991-1996. - Dictado de clases prácticas correspondientes a los Cursos de Física I y Física II (plan 1980), 1997 -2000. 6.1.b Actividades a nivel de posgrado - Dictado del curso: “Introducción a la Nanotecnología”. Dirigido al Diplomado de Especialista en Farmacia Industrial –DEFI-. Duración: 15 hs. Facultad de Química, UdelaR. 2014. - Dictado de clases teóricas y prácticas del curso “Preparación, Propiedades y Simulación de Nanomateriales”, Duración: 3 semanas. Facultad de Química, Pando-Montevideo, Uruguay. PEDECIBA QUIMICA. 2013. - Dictado del curso “Nanosistemas con aplicación en salud humana. Formulación, preparación y caracterización físico-química”. Duración: 1 semanas. Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas y Farmacéuticas. 2012. - Dictado de una clase teóricas del curso “Microscopía de Fuerza Atómica aplicada a la investigación en Ciencias Biológicas, Biomédicas, Química y Física”. Duración: 30 hs. Instituto de Investigaciones Científicas Clemente Estable, Montevideo, Uruguay. 2010. - Dictado de clases teóricas del curso “Método de Preparación y Caracterización de Nanomateriales Cerámicos”. Duración: 30 hs. Facultad de Química, Montevideo, Uruguay. PEDECIBA QUÍMICA. 2009. - Dictado de clases teóricas del curso “Bases de la nanociencia”. Duración 30 hs. Facultad de Química, Montevideo, Uruguay. PEDECIBA-ANII. 2009. - Dictado de clases teóricas del curso: “Elementos de química física del estado sólido aplicado a la corrosión”, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad de la República, 2007. - Dictado de clases teóricas del curso: “Cristalografía aplicada a la Estructura Química”, CRYSSMAT-Lab, Cátedra de Física, Facultad de Química, Universidad de la República, 1996-1998. Este curso sirvió, asimismo, como curso para estudiantes de grado. Carreras: Magíster en Química - PEDECIBA 7- Actividades de Gobierno y Gestión Universitaria - Electa como miembro del Consejo de la Facultad de Química en carácter de suplente por el Orden Docente por el período 2014-2018. Facultad de Química, UdelaR. - Miembro del Comisión Directiva del Instituto Polo Tecnológico de Pando en carácter de titular por el Orden Docente. Facultad de Química. UdelaR. 2013-2014. - Integrante de la Comisión de Reválidas de la Facultad de Química en carácter de titular por el Orden Docente. 2000-2002. - Integrante de la Comisión de Edificio de la Facultad de Química en carácter de titular por el Orden Docente. 2006-2014. - Integrante de la Comisión de seguimiento e implementación de incubadora de emprendimientos de la Facultad de Química. 2008. - Integrante de la Comisión Coordinadora del plan de estudio 2000 de la Facultad de Química en carácter de suplente por el orden Docente. 2010-2014. 8- Gestión - Viene desempeñado desde su instalación en el año 2009 la gestión de la plataforma de nanotecnología –Centro NanoMat- del Instituto Polo Tecnológico de Pando. En este marco se viene actuando como responsable de las distintas actividades de vinculación Academia-Empresa desarrolladas por la plataforma y que implican la promoción de la plataforma, la elaboración de propuestas, anteproyectos y proyectos, y la presentación de informes periódicos de avance. Quien suscribe actualmente está dirigiendo proyectos de investigación y desarrollo de productos para tres empresas nacionales líderes de su sector.

Nam-Gyu Park is professor and SKKU-Fellow at School of Chemical Engineering and adjunct professor at Department of Energy Science, Sungkyunkwan University. He got Ph.D. in Inorganic Solid State Chemistry from Seoul National University in 1995. He worked at ICMCB-CNRS, France, from 1996 to 1997 and at National Renewable Energy Laboratory, USA, from 1997 to 1999 as postdoctoral researchers. He worked as Director of Solar Cell Research Center at Korea Institute of Science and Technology from 2005 to 2009 and as a principal scientist at Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute from 2000 to 2005 before joining Sungkyunkwan University in 2009. He has been doing researches on high efficiency mesoscopic solar cells including perovskite solar cell and dye-sensitized solar cell since 1997. He is pioneer in solid state perovskite solar cell, which was first developed in 2012. He received awards, including Scientist Award of the Month (MEST, Korea), KyungHyang Electricity and Energy Award (KEPCO, Korea), KIST Award of the Year (KIST, Korea) and Dupont Science and Technology Award (Dupont Korea), SKKU fellowship, and MRS Outstanding Research Award (MRS, Boston) and WCPEC Paper Award (Kyoto, Japan). He published over 230 scientific papers, including Science, Nature Materials, Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Energy and Nature Communications, 80 patent applications and 8 book chapters. He received H-index of 67 as of May, 2017.

Bruce Parkinson received his BS in chemistry at Iowa State University in 1972 and his PhD from Caltech in 1977 and was a post-doctoral scientist at Bell Laboratories in 1978. He then spent time at the Ames Laboratory and the Solar Energy Research Institute (now known as the National Renewable Energy Laboratory). He moved to the Central Research and Development Department of the DuPont Company in 1985 and in 1991 he became Professor of Chemistry at Colorado State University until his recent departure to join the Department of Chemistry and the School of Energy Resources at the University of Wyoming. His current research covers a wide range of areas including materials chemistry, surface chemistry and photoelectrochemical energy conversion. He has more than 220 peer-reviewed publications and holds 5 US patents.

CCVV. Alejandro P�rez Rodr�guez Alejandro P�rez-Rodr�guez (Phys. Deg. 1984, PhD 1987) is Full Professor in the Department of Electronics of the University of Barcelona. In 2005-2009 he was Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Physics of the University, where he coordinated the installation of a new Laboratory of Micro and Nanotechnologies. Since October 2009 he is ascribed to the Catalonia Institute for Energy Research (IREC) as Head of the Solar Energy Materials & Systems Group in the Department of Advanced Materials for Energy. His research activities and interests are centred on Optical and structural assessment of processes in semiconductor technologies and on the development of new technologies for high efficiency low cost solar cells based on compound chalcogenide semiconductors and third PV device generation. He has coordinated up to 20 research projects in the National Spanish R+D+i programs, as well as 11 International projects funded by different European programmes (four of them as General Coordinator of the Project, from Human Capital and Mobility, FET-IST and, more recently FP7 NMP-Energy 2011, Marie Curie (IAPP 2011, IEF 2013) and SOLARERANET programmes), 5 bilateral cooperative actions between France and Spain and Germany and Spain, and 4 industrial projects. He is co-author of 318 scientific publications (including 160 papers in ISI international journals and 9 invited reviews), with an h factor of 29, and an average of 456 citations per year in the last 4 years and has supervised 8 Master Thesis and 10 Doctoral Thesis.

Laurie Peter received his B.Sc. and Ph.D. from the University of Southampton (UK). After a period working at the Fritz Haber Institute in Berlin in the group of the late Heinz Gerischer, he returned to the Southampton before moving to the University of Bath, where he has been Professor of Physical Chemistry since 1993. He partially 'retired' in 2009 and is currently spending 6 months at the Ludwig Maximillian University in Munich working in the group of Professor Thomas Bein. Laurie Peter's interest sinclude fundamental studies of dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs), research into inorganic thin film solar cells based on sustainable materials such a copper zinc tin sulfide and photoelectrochemical water splitting. He has developed a number of experimental techniques such as intensity modulated photocurrent spectroscopy (IMPS) and charge extraction that are used to characterize DSCs and water splitting systems. He has also developed in situ microwave methods for investigating photoelectrochemical reactions. At present he is attempting to understand the kinetics and mechanisms of light-driven oxygen evolution at iron oxide electrodes.

Annamaria Petrozza received her PhD in Physics from the University of Cambridge (UK) in 2008 with a thesis on the study of optoelectronic processes at organic and hybrid semiconductors interfaces under the supervision of Dr. J.S. Kim and Prof Sir R.H. Friend. From July 2008 to December 2009 she worked as research scientist at the Sharp Laboratories of Europe, Ltd on the development of new market competitive solar cell technologies (Dye Sensitized Solar cells/Colloidal Quantum Dots Sensitized Solar cells). Since January 2010 she has a Team Leader position at the Center for Nano Science and Technology -IIT@POLIMI. She is in charge of the development of photovoltaic devices and their characterization by time-resolved and cw Photoinduced Absorption Spectroscopy, Time-resolved Photoluminescence and electrical measurements. Her research work mainly aims to shed light on interfacial optoelectronic mechanisms, which are fundamental for the optimization of operational processes, with the goal of improving device efficiency and stability.

- PhD in Heidelberg, Germany (Heidelberg University and Technical University Braunschweig): Advanced methods in electron microscopy for visualization of morphology of organic semiconductors - Since beginning 2014: Post doc at EMAT (Electron Microscopy for Materials Science), University of Antwerp, Belgium, with Sara Bals and Gustaaf van Tendeloo, working on even more advanced methods within the Sunflower programme

Christof Pflumm studied Physics at the University of Karlsruhe, where he also received his PhD. As a postdoc, he investigated the feasibility of electrically pumped organic lasers by device simulations in Uli Lemmers group in Karlsruhe. After a postoc year at Imperial College he joined Merck in 2006. In his time there he worked on the development of different material classes and is now heading a group dedicated to improve the understanding of OLEDs.

Ioana Pintilie received her PhD degree in physics in 1996 from the University of Bucharest, Romania, with a thesis on photoelectric properties of ferroelectric-semiconductor structures. This research topic brought her two awards in 2000, the Dragomir Hurmuzescu Award for Physics given by the Romanian Academy and the Award for Excellence in Research and Innovation, by the Romanian Ministry of Research and Education. Between 2000 and 2008 she has worked abroad in Institute for Crystal Growth, Berlin, Hamburg University and Oslo University on topics related to the electrical active defects in materials and structures and their impact on the devices electrical performance. In 2008 she has ended a Humboldt fellowship on radiation damage in Silicon particle detectors for LHC-CERN in Hamburg University. Currently she has a Senior Researcher 1st degree position in National Institute of Materials Physics, is the Convener of the “Material/Defect Characterization” research line within the RD50-CERN collaboration and the Coordinator of the 8SEE/2014 (EEA-JRP-RO-NO-2013-1) Project “Perovskites for Photovoltaic Efficient Conversion Technology”. She has 162 ISI Articles (researcherid.com: Pintilie, Ioana (C-4545-2011, 2 patents and contributed to the developing of 6 products for UV-VIS-IR detection.

Almantas Pivrikas has graduated physics faculty of Vilnius University in Lithuania from where he received the Bachelor degree in general physics. He continued the studies and obtained master’s degree from the same university’s Department of Solid State Electronics and Condensed Matter headed by Prof. Gytis Juska. Here he actively participated in development and implementation of novel at that time Charge Extraction by Linearly Increasing Voltage (CELIV) technique to study charge transport inorganic and organic semiconductors. For PhD studies he joined the group of Prof. Ronald Osterbacka at Abo Akademi University in Finland where he continued the research of charge transport in various organic materials and devices. Here he discovered unexpected phenomena of reduced photocarrier recombination in disordered organic materials which is named non-Langevin bimolecular recombination. After receiving a PhD degree Almantas took a 4 year contract for an assistant professor position in the group of Prof. Niyazi Serdar Sariciftci, in Physical Chemistry Department and Linz Institute for Organic Solar Cells (LIOS) at Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria. Here he further developed powerful transient techniques for charge transport and recombination studies in operational devices such as organic solar cells, field effect transistors etc. To continuing his carrier in academic research he joined the group headed by Prof. Paul Burn and Paul Meredith, School of Chemistry Molecular Biosciences and Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics at The University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia.

1993-1997 PhD, U Texas at Austin 1997-1998 Postdoc, Yale U 1998-2010 Prof, U Washington at Seattle 2010-2014 Prof, U Rochester, NY 2014-current Prof. U. Southern California

Agnieszka Pron studied chemistry at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poland and at Lund University in Sweden. She completed her Ph.D. in 2011 under the supervision of Prof. Klaus Muellen at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz. She then joined the group of Prof. Mario Leclerc at Laval Univeristy, Quebec City, Canada, as a post-doctoral fellow. There she investigated structure-property relationships of new pi-conjugated systems for solar cell applications. Since 2013, she is working in Merck Chemicals Ltd as a research scientist in organic photovoltaics team.

Beth Pruitt is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University and Director of the Stanford Microsystems Laboratory. Her research focuses on the development of novel processes and micromachined sensors and actuators for measuring micro-mechanical behavior and the analysis, design, manufacture and control of integrated electro-mechanical systems. Applications include biomedical metrologies leveraging nanofabricated devices and cellular-scale biological test platforms for the study of mechanobiology. She was honored with the NSF CAREER award, DARPA Young Faculty Award, the Anita Borg Institute’s Denice Denton Emerging Leader Award, a Clayman Institute Fellowship, and is a Stanford Faculty Scholar. Current lab support is comprised of NSF, NIH, DARPA, CIRM and Stanford Bio-X grants. Prior to earning her Ph.D., Beth was an officer in the U.S. Navy at the engineering headquarters for the Navy nuclear program then a Systems Engineering Instructor at the U.S. Naval Academy, where she also taught offshore sailing. She is a Fellow of the ASME and AIMBE.

M.C.Pujol born on 6th September 1973, is a member of the physics and crystallography teaching team at the University Rovira I Virgili. M. C. Pujol’s research career started in 1997, with her collaboration in the research performed in the group of physical chemistry, just after she became a member of the group Physics and Crystallography of Materials (FiCMA). M.C. Pujol graduated from the University Rovira I Virgili with a degree in Chemistry in 1996 and later achieved a PhD from the same University in 2001. From that time she has been always working in the field of material physics, and more specially related with optical materials. Her profile acquired during these 15 years of research conforms to a strong basis in material physics and crystallophysics. During her post-doc stage at the Institute from Transuranium Elements (Karlsruhe, Germany), during 2002 and 2003 (ITU- Joint research center of the European Commission), she was also engaged in the preparation and synthesis of new ceramic UO2 compounds. Her high rate of production of papers, with an average impact factor and a relatively high H factor (an average paper citation of 13), assures the constancy in her work. In the last years, she has been leading her own project related to the synthesis of nanocrystals and their characterization in the framework of RyC program supported by the Education and Science Ministry of Spain and European Social Fund under RYC2004-1453, and also, co-directing 5 thesis of PhD students. In this same context, these results have already been published in international journals (around 80 publications till now). Currently she is an Associate professor in the research group FiCMA, University Rovira i Virgili, 2009- till present.

Prof. Yabing Qi is Unit Director of Energy Materials and Surface Sciences Unit at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (https://groups.oist.jp/emssu). He received his B.S., M.Phil., and Ph.D. from Nanjing University, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and University of California Berkeley, respectively. Prof. Qi has published 70+ research articles (30+ articles on perovskite solar cells) and is the inventor for 11 patents/patent applications. His research interests include perovskite solar cells, surface/interface sciences, lithium-ion batteries, organic electronics, energy materials and devices.

Andrew M. Rappe is a Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his A. B. in "Chemistry and Physics" summa cum laude from Harvard University in 1986, and his Ph. D. in "Physics and Chemistry" from MIT in 1992. He was an IBM Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Berkeley before starting at Penn in 1994. Andrew received an NSF CAREER award in 1997, an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship in 1998, and a Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award in 1999. He was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2006. Andrew is one of the two founding co-directors of Pennergy: the Penn Center for Energy Innovation. He is also one of the founding co-directors of the VIPER honors program at Penn, the Vagelos Integrated Program in Energy Research. His current research interests revolve around ferroelectric phase transitions in oxides, surface chemistry and catalysis of complex oxides, and the interplay between the two: a) He helped establish relationships between composition and ferroelectric phase transition temperature in bismuth-containing perovskites oxides, b) He predicted that changing chemical vapor composition above a ferroelectric oxide could reorient its polarization, c) He revealed the mechanism of domain wall motion in ferroelectric oxides, d) He showed that changing ferroelectric polarization dramatically changes catalytic activity of supported metal films and nanoparticles, and e) He uses computational materials design to invent new ferroelectric photovoltaics for solar applications.

Erwin Reisner received his education and professional training at the University of Vienna (with Prof Bernhard K. Keppler), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (with Prof Stephen J. Lippard) and the University of Oxford (with Prof Fraser A. Armstrong) before starting his independent career as a University Lecturer at Cambridge and Fellow of St. John’s College in 2010. He holds an EPSRC Career Acceleration Fellowship and heads the Christian Doppler Laboratory for Sustainable SynGas Chemistry. His group develops artificial photosynthesis by combining chemical biology, synthetic chemistry and materials chemistry.

Peter Reiss is researcher at the Institute of Nanoscience & Cryogenics, CEA Grenoble, and Head of Laboratory of Molecular, Organic and Hybrid Electronics (LEMOH). He graduated (1997) from University of Karlsruhe, Germany, and earned his PhD in inorganic chemistry under the supervision of Prof. Dieter Fenske (2000). His research activities focus on the development of synthesis methods for different kinds of colloidal nanocrystals and semiconductor nanowires, the surface functionalization of nanocrystals by “tailor-made” ligands resulting in novel nanoscale building blocks and the assembly of these building blocks into structurally controlled functional materials for optoelectronics. The studied applications range from fluorescent markers for biological labelling and detection over the development of efficient emitters for LEDs and displays to new strategies for nanocrystal based energy conversion and storage. Dr. Reiss acts as Associate Editor for Nanoscale Research Letters and Journal of Nanomaterials and co-organizes the international conference series « NaNaX – Nanoscience with Nanocrystals ».

Professor Sidney J.L. Ribeiro Institute of Chemistry- São Paulo State University- UNESP; CP 355 Araraquara-SP, 14801-970 Brazil; Tel. +551633019631; Fax +551633019636; e-mail- sidney@iq.unesp.br or sjlribeiro@yahoo.com.br; skype- sidneyribeiro Full Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the Institute of Chemistry of the São Paulo State University- UNESP, Araraquara-SP, Brazil (ResearchID- E-9864-2012 MyCitations (academic google)- Sidney J.L. Ribeiro). Member of the Board of the Journal of Non-Crystaline Solids and the Journal of Sol-Gel Science and Technology. -Research projects deal with Inorganic Chemistry and its implications in Materials Science, Spectroscopy and Education in Chemistry. On going projects deal with: -Fundamentals and applications (photonics and medicine) of natural polymers (Bacterial Cellulose, Fibroin); -Optical properties of organic-inorganic hybrids; -Waveguides (optical fibers, thin films); -Porous Materials and luminescent markers for Medicine. Supervision of 20 MSc´s, 21 PhD´s, 9 pos-doc researchers. Scientific production-ISI WebOfScience (November 1, Ribeiro SJL)- 260 papers with 4092 citations (h=33). -19 patents. -Invited Reseracher at NIRIM - National Institute for Research in Inorganic Materials - Tsukuba, Japão (Prof. T. Inoue), 1999; -Visiting Professor at the Physics Dept of the University of Trento, Trento- Italy (Prof. M. Montagna, 2000); -Visiting Professor at the Physics Dept of the University of Angers, Angers- France (Prof. A, Monteil, 1998 and 2002); -Visiting Professor at the Chemistry Dept of the Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (Prof. L.F.C. Oliveira, 2006); -Visiting Professor at the Physics Dept of the University of Aveiro, Aveiro- Portugal (Prof. L.D. Carlos, 2007); Visiting Professor at the Chemistry Dept of the University of Toulouse III, Toulouse – France (Prof. Marc Verelst, 2010).

Andrey L. Rogach is a Chair Professor of Photonics Materials at the Department of Physics and Materials Science, and the Founding Director of the Centre for Functional Photonics at City University of Hong Kong. He received his Ph.D. in chemistry (1995) from the Belarusian State University in Minsk, and worked as a staff scientist at the University of Hamburg (Germany) from 1995 to 2002. From 2002–2009 he was a lead staff scientist at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich (Germany), where he completed his habilitation in experimental physics. His research focuses on synthesis, assembly and optical spectroscopy of colloidal semiconductor and metal nanocrystals and their hybrid structures, and their use for energy transfer, light harvesting and light emission. His name is on the list of Top 100 Materials Scientists and on the list of Top 20 Authors publishing on nanocrystals in the past decade by Thomson Reuters, ISI Essential Science Indicators. Andrey Rogach is an Associate Editor of ACS Nano, and holds honorary appointments at Trinity College Dublin (Ireland), Xi’An Jiaotong University, Jilin University and Peking University (China).

Biography. Gregory S. Rohrer is the W.W. Mullins Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, the Head of the Materials Science and Engineering Department at Carnegie Mellon University. He received his bachelor's degree in Physics from Franklin and Marshall College in 1984 and his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 1989. He has authored more than 210 publications and received the NSF Young Investigator Award (1994), the Roland B. Snow Award of the American Ceramic Society (1998), the Ross Coffin Purdy Award of the American Ceramic Society (2002), the Richard M. Fulrath Award of the American Ceramic Society (2004), and the Robert B. Sosman Award of the American Ceramic Society (2009).

Beatriz Roldan Cuenya is currently a Chair Professor in the Department of Physics at the Ruhr-University Bochum (Germany). She moved from the University of Central Florida (USA) where she was a professor of Physics till 2013. She carried out her postdoctoral research in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of California Santa Barbara (2001-2003). Prof. Roldan obtained her PhD in Physics from the University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany) summa cum laude in 2001. She completed her M.S./B.S. in Physics with a minor in Materials Science at the University of Oviedo, Spain in 1998. During her academic career Prof. Roldan received an Early CAREER Award from the US National Science Foundation (2005) and the international Peter Mark Memorial award from the American Vacuum Society (2009). She is the author of 86 peer-reviewed publications and 3 book chapters and has given over 100 invited talks. She presently serves in the editorial advisory board of the Surface Science journal and in the Advisory Committee of the Office of Basic Energy Sciences of the US Department of Energy. Prof. Roldan’s research program explores the novel physical and chemical properties of size and shape-selected nanostructured materials, with emphasis on advancing the field of nanocatalysis through in situ and operando characterization of catalysts at work.

Federico Rosei has held the Canada Research Chair in Nanostructured Organic and Inorganic Materials since 2003. He is Professor and Director of Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Énergie, Matériaux et Télécommunications, Université du Québec, Varennes (QC) Canada. Since January 2014 he holds the UNESCO Chair in Materials and Technologies for Energy Conversion, Saving and Storage. He received MSc and PhD degrees from the University of Rome “La Sapienza” in 1996 and 2001, respectively. Dr. Rosei’s research interests focus on the properties of nanostructured materials, and on how to control their size, shape, composition, stability and positioning when grown on suitable substrates. He has extensive experience in fabricating, processing and characterizing inorganic, organic and biocompatible nanomaterials. He has published over 200 articles in prestigious international journals (including Science, Nature Photonics, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Advanced Materials, Angewandte Chemie Int. Ed., Journal of the American Chemical Society, Advanced Functional Materials, Nanoletters, ACS Nano, Biomaterials, Small, Physical Review Letters, Nanoscale, Chem. Comm., Applied Physics Letters, Physical Review B, etc.), has been invited to speak at over 200 international conferences and has given over 170 seminars and colloquia and 20 public lectures in 42 countries on all inhabited continents. His publications have been cited over 5700 times and his H index is 41. In 2014, he has been elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He is Member of the European Academy of Sciences, Fellow of the American Physical Society, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Fellow of SPIE, Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK), Fellow of the Institute of Physics, Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Metallurgy and Mining, Fellow of the Institute of Nanotechnology, Senior Member of the IEEE, Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada, Member of the Global Young Academy, Fellow of the Australian Institute of Physics and Member of the Sigma Xi Society. He has received several awards, including the FQRNT Strategic Professorship (2002–2007), the Tan Chin Tuan visiting Fellowship (NTU 2008), the Senior Gledden Visiting Fellowship (UWA 2009), Professor at Large at UWA (2010–2012), a Marie Curie Post-Doctoral Fellowship from the European Union (2001), a Canada Research Chair since 2003 (renewed in 2008 for a second five year term) a Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Award from the Alexander von Humboldt foundation (2011), the Rutherford Memorial Medal in Chemistry from the Royal Society of Canada (2011), the Herzberg Medal from the Canadian Association of Physics (2013), the Brian Ives lectureship award from ASM international / Canada Council (2013), the Award for Excellence in Materials Chemistry from the Canadian Society for Chemistry (2014), the NSERC EWR Steacie Memorial Fellowship (2014), the José Vasconcelos Award for Education from the World Cultural Council (2014), the IEEE NTC Distinguished Lectureship 2015, the Lash Miller Award from the Canada Section of the Electrochemical Society, the Chang Jiang Scholar Award from the Government of China, the Khwarizmi International Award (2nd Prize) from the Iran Research Organization for Science and Technology (IROST) and the Recognition for Excellence in Leadership from the American Vacuum Society.

Jan Rossmeisl is Professor of theoretical chemistry at Department of Chemistry and the Nano-Science center at Copenhagen University. Before joining University of Copenhagen in April 2015, Jan was an Associate Professor and group leader for the theoretical catalysis group at Department of Physics at the Technical University of Denmark Jan holds master’s (2000) and Ph.D (2004) degrees in physics from the Technical University of Denmark. Since 2007 supervisor of more than 20 Ph.D and Post docs. Coauthor of more than 110 publications in peer reviewed journals, co-inventor of 4 patents and co-founder of two startup Companies. Research interests includes: electrocatalysis, energy conversion, atomic scale simulations, rational interface design for catalysis.

Avner Rothschild is an associate professor at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering of the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. He graduated from the Technion (BSc in Physics and in Materials Engineering in 1997, PhD in 2003) and had a postdoc at MIT (2003 - 2006). Since 2006 he is a faculty member at the Technion, where he is heading the Electroceramic Materials & Devices research group. His research focuses on metal-oxide thin films and devices for energy conversion and storage (solar cells, photoelectrochemical cells, solid oxide fuel cells and electrolysis cells) and on oxide electronic devices. He is affiliated with the Grand Technion Energy Program (GTEP), the Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute (RBNI) and the Israeli Center of Research Excellence on Solar Fuels (I-CORE).

Prof. Dr. Beat Ruhstaller is founder of Fluxim and lecturer at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences ZHAW in Winterthur, Switzerland. After a Diploma in Physics from ETH Zürich he obtained his PhD in Physics at the University of California, Santa Cruz (USA), in 2000. He was a postdoc at the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory in the display technology group before joining ZHAW, where he headed the Institute of Computational Physics from 2007 to 2010. In 2006 he founded Fluxim which he has managed as CEO since 2011. Fluxim has successfully brought R&D tool innovations from the lab to the OLED and solar cell market. He has been performing research on both optical, electronic and thermal processes in light-emitting and light-harvesting (organic) semiconductor devices.

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

Alberto Salleo is currently an Associate Professor of Materials Science at Stanford University. Alberto Salleo graduated as a Fulbright Fellow with a PhD in Materials Science from UC Berkeley in 2001 working at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory on laser-induced optical breakdown in fused silica. From 2001 to 2005 Salleo was first post-doctoral research fellow and successively member of research staff at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, where he worked with Bob Street on device and materials physics of disordered and polymeric semiconductors. In 2005 Salleo joined the Materials Science and Engineering Department at Stanford as an Assistant Professor. While at Stanford, Salleo won the NSF Career Award, the 3M Untenured Faculty Award, the SPIE Early Career Award and the Tau Beta Pi Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award. Salleo is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Electronic Materials and a Principal Editor of MRS Communications.

Ted Sargent received the B.Sc.Eng. (Engineering Physics) from Queen's University in 1995 and the Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering (Photonics) from the University of Toronto in 1998. He holds the rank of Professor in the Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto, where he holds the Canada Research Chair in Nanotechnology and serves as a KAUST Investigator. His book The Dance of Molecules: How Nanotechnology is Changing Our Lives (Penguin) was published in Canada and the United States in 2005 and has been translated into French, Spanish, Italian, Korean, and Arabic. He is founder and CTO of InVisage Technologies, Inc. He is a Fellow of the AAAS “...for distinguished contributions to the development of solar cells and light sensors based on solution-processed semiconductors.” He is a Fellow of the IEEE “... for contributions to colloidal quantum dot optoelectronic devices.”

Dr. Edgardo Saucedo obtained his PhD in Materials Physic at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain. In 2007, he joined IRDEP (Paris, France), and he has more than three year postdoctoral experience in France. Currently, he is the responsible of the Solar Energy Materials and Systems laboratory at IREC (Barcelona, Spain) with a “Ramon y Cajal” researcher fellow. He holds three patents and has authored more than 135 papers in high impact factor journals. He has an h-index of 25 and more than 2200 citations, and 3 patents. He has been involved in more than 15 European and Spanish Projects and is the coordinator of the ITN Marie Curie network Kestcell (www.kestcells.eu) and he has supervised 6 PhD Thesis (7 under supervision) in the thin film photovoltaic field. He has more than 10 years of experience working in the development of thin film photovoltaic technologies and he is now focused on new advanced material and processes as well as in chemical physical vapor synthesis routes for solar energy materials.

Prof. Dr. Roland Scheer (born 1959) studied electrical engineering and physics. He received his PhD at the Technical University Berlin with a thesis on chalcopyrite solar cells. From 1994 on he was leading scientist at the Helmholtz-Centre-Berlin. In 2002 he was visiting scientist at the National Institute for Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Japan. Scheer was co-founder of several companies, published more than 150 papers, and prepared a monograph on “Chalcogenide Photovoltaics” at Wiley. Since 2010 he holds the chair for photovoltaics at the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg. His fields of interest are chalcogenide and other thin film solar cells covering structural and electronic properties of materials and devices.

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Tobias D. Schmidt received his PhD in Physics from the University of Augsburg in 2013 with a work on efficiency analysis and degradation effects in organic light-emitting diodes. Thereafter, he stayed at University of Augsburg at a Postdoc. His main field of research covers organic light-emitting diodes with a focus on efficiency analysis, excitonic lifetime changes, molecular orientation promising new emitting concepts and degradation effects.

In February 2011, Professor Thomas J. Schmidt (*1970) became Chair of Electrochemistry atETH Zurich combined with the appointment as Head of the Electrochemistry Laboratory at Paul Scherrer Institute in Villigen, Switzerland. Since 2014 Prof. Schmidt is also Director of the Swiss Competence Center for Energy Research (SCCER) Heat & Electricity Storage. He received his University Diploma in Chemistry from the University of Ulm/Germany in 1996 and his PhD in Chemistry from the same University in 2000. That same year he joined the group of P.N. Ross and N.M. Markovic at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory as a Chemist Postdoctoral Fellow. During this period, he intensively studied the fundamentals of electrocatalysis of fuel cell reactions. He continued to work with G.G. Scherer at Paul Scherrer Institut in Villigen/Switzerland on the development of membrane electrode assemblies (MEAs) using radiation-grafted membranes and on oxygen electrocatalysis with oxide containing catalysts. Since fall 2002, he was working in the industrial development of high temperature membrane electrode assemblies and its components (membranes, catalysts, electrodes) using polybenzimidazole based membranes at BASF Fuel Cell. During these eight years in industries, Dr. Schmidt led the high-temperature MEA R&D activities as Director R&D and helped to successfully commercialize the BASF Fuel Cell Celtec® MEAs. Prof. Schmidt currently serves as Associate Editor of the Journal of the Electrochemcial Society and the ECS Electrochemistry Letters. In fall 2010, he received the Charles W. Tobias Young Investigator Award from the Electrochemical Society. He was awarded the Otto-Monsted Visiting Professorship at the Technical University of Denmark (Lyngby) in 2013.

Curriculum Vitae - Professor Wolfgang Schuhmann Address: Analytische Chemie - Elektroanalytik & Sensoric; Center for Electrochemical Sciences - CES; Ruhr-Universität Bochum; Universitätsstr. 150, D-44780 Bochum, Germany; FAX: +49 234 3214683; Tel: +49 234 3226200; E-mail: wolfgang.schuhmann@rub.de Homepage: http://www.rub.de/anachem Academic Background: 1982 Diplom (Chemistry), University of Karlsruhe 1987 PhD (Physical Chemistry), Technical University Munich 1987–1995 Group leader "Amperometric Biosensors", Technical University Munich 1990 Visiting scholar at University of Texas, Austin (Prof. A. Heller) 1993 Habilitation (Chemistry) Technical University Munich 1996–present Professor of Analytical Chemistry, Ruhr-University Bochum Research Activities: Micro- and nanoelectrochemistry; development of tools for microelectrochemistry (scanning electrochemical microscopy - SECM); electrochemical robotics und combinatorial electrochemistry; modified electrodes for biosensors; DNA assays; local visualization of electrochemical activity on surfaces with applications in corrosion; material chemistry; electrocatalyst development; fuel cells, biofuel cells, Li batteries, photoelectrochemistry; carbon nanotubes as electrode materials; electrochemical deposition of catalyst nanoparticles; noble-metal free electrocatalysts; photocatalysis; photoinduced electron transfer, artificial photosynthesis; biofuel cells Awards and Honors: Biosensors & Bioelectronics Award – 2000; Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) – 2005; Julius-von-Haast Fellowship Award of the Royal Society of New Zealand and the Humboldt Foundation – 2008; Katsumi-Niki-Award of the International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE) – 2011; Fellow of the International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE) -2012 Publications: 440 papers and 30 patents; h-index: 52

Hiroshi Segawa (born 1961) is a professor at Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST), The University of Tokyo, Japan. He obtained his Ph.D. in Molecular Engineering from Graduate School of Engineering of Kyoto University in 1989 and was Research Associate (1989-1995) at the division of Molecular Engineering of Graduate School of Engineering at Kyoto University. He held an additional researcher post (1994-1997) of PRESTO project of Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST). In 1995 he joined the University of Tokyo as Associate Professor of Department of Chemistry at Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. From 1997 he has also been in charge of Department of Applied Chemistry at Graduate School of Engineering. In 2006 Professor Segawa joined the three faculties of RCAST, Department of Chemistry at Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and Department of Applied Chemistry at Graduate School of Engineering at the University of Tokyo. In 2010, he was appointed director of Academic-Industrial Joint Laboratory for Renewable Energy of RCAST. Currently he is one of core researcher of FIRST Program (Funding Program for World-Leading Innovative R&D on Science and Technology) which is selected top 30 researchers with highest potential from various science fields by Cabinet office, Government of Japan. He is one of the experts in the field of electrochemical solar cells. His research group are focused on construction of photo-energy conversion system. Currently the object is the efficiency enhancement of the meso-structured solar cells. Additionally, he is developing an energy-storable dye-sensitized solar cell.

1.Professor (2015 – present), School of Energy and Chemical engineering, UNIST, Korea 2.Adjunct professor (2016-present), KRICT, Korea 3.Professor (2013-2015), Department of Energy Science, Sungkyunkwan University 4.Research Fellow (2013-2015), Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology (KRICT) 5.Post Doc., Department of Material Science and Engineering, Cornell University, USA 6.Ph. D., Inorganic Materials Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea 7.B. S., Chemistry, Kyungpook National University, Korea Research interests: Solar Energy Conversion, Nanostructured Inorganic/Organic Hybrid solar cells, Functional Inorganic-Organic Hybrid Materials, Sol-Gel Process of Inorganic Materials etc.

Prof. Qing Shen received her Bachelor’s degree in physics from Nanjing University of China in 1987 and earned her Ph.D. degree from the University of Tokyo in 1995. In 1996, she joined the University of Electro-Communications, Japan and became a full professor in 2016. In 1997, she got the Young Scientist Award of the Japan Society of Applied Physics. In 2003, she got the Best Paper Award of the Japan Society of Thermophysical Properties and the Young Scientist Award of the Symposium on Ultrasonic Electronics of Japan. In 2014, she got the Excellent Women Scientist Award of the Japan Society of Applied Physics. She has published nearly 140 peer-reviewed journal papers and book chapters. Her current research interests focus on solution processed nano-materials and nanostructures, semiconductor quantum dot solar cells and perovskite solar cells, and especially the photoexcited carrier dynamics (hot carrier cooling, multiple exciton generation, charge transfer at the interface) in perovskite solar cells, quantum dot and dye sensitized solar cells, organic-inorganic hybrid solar cells.

Laurens Siebbeles (1963) is leader of the Opto-Electronic Materials Section and deputy head of the Dept. of Chemical Engineering at the Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands. His research involves studies of the motion of electrons in novel nanostructured materials that have potential applications in e.g. solar cells, light-emitting diodes and nanoelectronics. Materials of interest include organic nanostructured materials, semiconductor quantum dots, nanorods and two-dimensional materials. Studies on charge and exciton dynamics are carried out using ultrafast time-resolved laser techniques and high-energy electron pulses in combination with quantum theoretical modeling.

Kevin Sivula obtained a PhD in chemical engineering from UC Berkeley in 2007. In 2011, after leading a research group in the Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces at EPFL, he was appointed tenure track assistant professor. He now heads the Laboratory for Molecular Engineering of Optoelectronic Nanomaterials (http://limno.epfl.ch) at EPFL.

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Henry Snaith undertook his PhD at the University of Cambridge, working on polymer blend photovolatics under the supervision of Prof. Sir. Richard Friend. He then spent two years at the EPFL, in Switzerland, as a post doc working on solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells under the guidance of Prof. Michael Gr�tzel. He returned to the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge to take up a Junior Research Fellowship for Clare College in October 2006, and moved to the Clarendon Laboratory of Oxford Physics in October 2007, where he now Lectures and 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. He has made a number of significant advances for emerging solar cells, including the first demonstration of �gyroid� structured titania for dye solar cells, and the recent discovery of efficient thin film perovskite solar cells

Jonathan E Spanier is a professor of materials science and engineering, of physics, and of electrical engineering at Drexel University. He received the PhD in applied physics from Columbia University with Irving P. Herman, and was a postdoctoral fellow in physical chemistry at Harvard University with Hongkun Park. He joined Drexel University in 2003. Recipient of the US Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in 2007, he was a Louis and Bessie Stein Family Fellow and the Japan Trust NICT Fellow, and he was an invited participant in the National Academy of Engineering Frontiers of Engineering at UC Riverside in 2014. Author of more than 75 publications principally involving semiconductor nanostructures, ferroelectrics and light-matter interactions, he presently investigates the growth and electronic and optoelectronic properties of perovskites.

Joachim P. Spatz joined the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems as a Director for the Dept. of New Materials and Biosystems in 2004 (former MPI for Metals Research). From this time on he is also a Full Professor at the University of Heidelberg and head of the Dept. of Biophysical Chemistry. He was an Associated Professor for Biophysical Chemistry at the University of Heidelberg from 2000-2004. From 1999-2000 he received his habilitation in Physics at the University of Ulm. He was a postdoc in the group of Professor Jacques Prost at the Institut Curie, Paris, in 1997 and 1998. He received his Diploma in Physics (1994) and his Ph.D. in Physics (1996) from the University of Ulm under the supervision of Prof. Martin Möller (now at DWI & RWTH Aachen).

Adolfo Speghini was born in Verona in 1963. He received the master degree in Chemistry "maxima cum laude" at the University of Padova, in June 1988 and the PhD degree in Chemical Sciences in 1992. After a post doctoral fellowship at the University of Verona, he has been Researcher at the University of Verona (1997-2006). From October 2006, he is Associate Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Verona. He has been a member for three years of the Administrative Board of Directors of the University of Verona. He has been a member of the Organizing Committee of the Conference IV KIMIC (Fourth Italian-Korean Joint Meeting on Inorganic Chemistry) which has taken place in Malcesine, Italy, in October 2006. He has worked in foreign Universities and Institutions (Concordia University, Montreal, Canada; Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain, Madrid, Spain; Institute of Low Temperatures and Structure Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, Wroclaw, Poland). He has been teaching numerous courses in the fields of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry. He has published more than 250 papers in the field of Chemistry and Optical Spectroscopy of Inorganic Materials (with Hirsch index h of 36). He collaborates with Departments and Institutions of Italian (Padova, Parma, Venezia, Trento, Cagliari, Catania, Trieste, Pavia, Sassari) and foreign (Concordia-Montreal, TU-Graz, Kent-Canterbury, Lyon, Autonoma-Madrid, Wroclaw) Universities. His scientific interests are mainly in the synthesis, characterization and spectroscopic properties of crystalline, nanocrystalline and amorphous systems doped with lanthanide and transition metal ions. He is also a referee for several international journals.

Jan. 2013- present: ICFO-NEST Fellow, ICFO- The Institute of Photonic Science, Barcelona, Spain Jan. 2012 � Dec. 2012: Post-Doctoral Researcher, ICFO- The Institute of Photonic Science, Barcelona, Spain Sept. 2010- Aug. 2011: Chief Technical Officer, Shenke PV, Shanghai, China Oct. 2009- Jul. 2010: Post-Doctoral Researcher, EPSRC PhD+, Materials Department, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom 2006- 2009: D.Phil. University of Oxford, Materials Department, St. Peter�s College, Thesis title: �Inorganic Semiconductor Nanoparticles for Photovoltaics�, Supervisors: Dr. Jason M. Smith, Dr. Andrew A.R. Watt 2004-2005: M.Phil. University of Cambridge, Micro- and Nanotechnology Enterprise, Materials Department, Judge Institute of Management, Hughes Hall 1999- 2004: B.Sc. Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Natalie Stingelin(-Stutzmann)FRSC is a Reader of Functional Organic Materials, Imperial College, with prior positions at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge; the Philips Research Laboratories, Eindhoven; and ETH Zürich. She also was an External Senior Fellow at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies and is Associate Editor of the RSC journal ‘Journal of Materials Chemistry C’. She has published >100 papers, has 4 granted patents and 4 pending applications. She received a prestigious €1.2 Million ERC Starting Independent Researcher Award 2011.

Peter Strasser is the chaired professor of �Electrochemistry for energy conversion and storage� at the Chemical Engineering Division of the Department of Chemistry at the Technical University of Berlin. Prior to his appointment, he was Professor at the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Houston. Before moving to Houston, Prof. Strasser served as Senior Member of staff at Symyx Technologies, Inc., Santa Clara, USA. In 1999, Prof. Strasser earned his doctoral degree in Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry from the �Fritz-Haber-Institute� of the Max-Planck-Society, Berlin, Germany, under the direction of the 2007 Chemistry Nobel Laureate, Professor Gerhard Ertl. In the same year, he was awarded the �Otto-Hahn Research Medal� by the Max-Planck Society. In 1996, Dr. Strasser was visiting scientist with Sony Central Research, Yokohama, Japan. He studied chemistry at Stanford University, the University of Tuebingen, and the University of Pisa, Italy. Professor Strasser is interested in the fundamental Materials Science and Catalysis of electrified liquid solid interfaces, in particular for renewable energy conversion, energy storage, production of fuels and chemicals.

Dr. Tze-Chien Sum is an Associate Professor at the Division of Physics and Applied Physics, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (SPMS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU) where he leads the Femtosecond Dynamics Laboratory. He is presently the Associate Dean (Research) at the College of Science. Tze-Chien received his Ph.D. in Physics from the National University of Singapore (NUS) in 2005, for the work in proton beam writing and ion-beam spectroscopy. His present research focuses on investigating light matter interactions; energy and charge transfer mechanisms; and probing carrier and quasi-particle dynamics in a broad range of emergent nanoscale and light harvesting systems. Tze-Chien received a total of 11 teaching awards from NUS and NTU, including the coveted Nanyang Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2006 and the 2010 SPMS Teaching Excellence Honour Roll Award. Most recently, he received the 2013 SPMS Young Researcher Award; the Institute of Physics Singapore 2014 World Scientific Medal and Prize for Outstanding Physics Research; the 2014 Nanyang Award for Research Excellence (Team); and the 2015 Chemical Society of Japan Asian International Symposium Distinguished Lectureship Award. More information can be found at http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/tzechien/spms/index.html

Ingmar Swart studied chemistry and physics at Utrecht University, the Netherlands from 1999 - 2004. His research projects dealt with synthesis and spectroscopy of colloidal nanocrystals. As part of his studies, he spent a research semester in the group of Prof. dr. S.R. Leone at the University of California, Berkeley. There, he worked on the exciton dynamics in ZnO nanostructures. He returned to Utrecht for his Ph.D. studies under supervision of Prof. dr. F.M.F. de Groot and Prof. dr. ir. B.M. Weckhuysen. His graduate research focused on spectroscopy and theoretical modeling of (i) catalysts under reaction conditions and (ii) catalytic model systems. He graduated in 2008 (Cum Laude, highest distinction awarded). Upon completion of his Ph.D. he worked with Prof. dr. P. Liljeroth and Prof. dr. D. Vanmaekelbergh on scanning probe microscopy of colloidal quantum dots. In 2009, he was awarded a Rubicon scholarship by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific research to study chemistry at the single molecule level in the group of Prof. dr. J. Repp at the University of Regensburg, Germany. As of March 2012, Ingmar is an assistant professor at the Debye Institute for Nanomaterials Science, Utrecht University.

Dmitri Talapin is a Professor of Chemistry at University of Chicago. His research interests revolve around inorganic nanomaterials, spanning from synthetic methodology to device fabrication, with the desire of turning colloidal nanostructures into competitive materials for electronics and optoelectronics. He received his doctorate degree from University of Hamburg, Germany in 2002 under supervision of Horst Weller. In 2003 he joined IBM Research Division at T. J. Watson Research Center as a postdoctoral fellow to work with Chris Murray on synthesis and self-assembly of semiconductor nanostructures. In 2005 he moved to Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory as a staff scientist at the Molecular Foundry and finally joined faculty at the University of Chicago in 2007. His recent recognitions include MRS Outstanding Young Investigator Award (2011); Camille Dreyfus Teacher Scholar Award (2010); David and Lucile Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering (2009); NSF CAREER Award (2009) and Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship (2009).

Ram�n 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.

[1] Nao Terasaki received B.A., M.S. and Ph.D. degree in engineering from Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, in 1998, 2000 and 2003, respectively. Currently, he is a senior researcher of National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan. He has worked on photo energy and signal conversion using bio-component such as reconstructed photosystem I or II, ultimate functional molecular unit in nature. His current research interests include mechanoluminescent (ML) technology such as ML evaluation on social structures, in vivo bio mechanics mapping via near-infrared (NIR)-ML sensor and ubiquitous ML light source for photo-therapy.

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After obtaining PhD in Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry from the Friedrich-Schiller University of Jena (Germany) in 1992, he worked at BASF AG Ludwigshafen as a postdoctoral fellow. Subsequently he joined the University of Bayreuth, followed by habilitation in Macromolecular Chemistry. After a short research stay at General Electric Global Research Center, Niskayuna, USA, he accepted the Professorship for Applied Functional Polymers under the Elite Network Bavaria Program of Macromolecular Science at the University of Bayreuth. Thelakkat is leading the independent Laboratory of Solar Cell Research at the University of Bayreuth, he is at present the spokesperson for the chemistry department and is also member of the faculty adivisory council. He is coordinator for the EU-India research project, LARGECELLS and the Bavarian research consortia, SOLTECH. He has 137 international publications and 16 patents.

A key theme running through the research activities of Thelakkat is the design, development and application of complex, multifunctional organic and hybrid systems, especially built up of charge transport molecules, charge generation materials, and chromophores. Thelakkat has been working with novel concepts on organic semiconductors and photovoltaic devices for many years. During this period, his group has specialized in tailor-made synthesis of functional molecules, polymers and blockcopolymers for charge transfer and energy transfer studies. Starting from his doctoral work, which dealt with the synthesis and characterization of conducting polymers belonging to the class of poly(arylene vinylenes), he has intensified his expertise in the design and architecture of organic semiconductors towards OLEDs, OFETs and OPV. He is an expert for combinatorial material and device screening for organic devices. At present his research group is intensively involved in multifunctional self-assembling block copolymers, bridged donor-acceptor systems, light harvesting dyes, photoswitchable systems and diverse organic devices.

Susanna Thon is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the group of Ted Sargent at the University of Toronto, working on colloidal quantum dot solar cells. She completed her PhD in physics at the University of California Santa Barbara in 2010 with a dissertation on quantum optics. Her research interests include photonic and materials engineering for nanostructured photovoltaics.

David Tilley was born in Atlanta, Georgia (U.S.A.) and received his Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry from the University of Georgia in 2002. He then pursued his graduate studies at the University of California, Berkeley under the direction of Professor Matthew B. Francis and received his Ph.D. in Chemistry in 2007. He then moved to Princeton University for postdoctoral studies with Professor Erik J. Sorensen before receiving a National Science Foundation fellowship that allowed him to join the laboratories of Professor Michael Graetzel at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland in 2009. In 2011, he acquired his current position as Group Leader of the Solar Fuels group.

Prof. Dr. Ayodhya N. Tiwari Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics EMPA (Swiss Federal Laboratories for Material Science and Technology) Ueberlandstrasse 129, CH-8600 Duebendorf, Switzerland Tel: +41-58-765 41 30 (Direct), 41-58-765 11 11(Central) Fax: +41-58-765 11 22 e-mail: ayodhya.tiwari@empa.ch Research and development expertise Thin film and nano-composite devices including sensors/detectors and energy converters, especially thin film solar cells for terrestrial and space applications. Development and performance monitoring of large area solar modules. Applied research for industrial objectives in the field of solar energy. Science and technology of single crystal (hetero-epitaxial), polycrystalline, nano-crystalline composite thin films and thick films with special emphasis on semiconductors and oxides. Thin film deposition techniques for multifunctional materials. Investigation of multi-functionality of layers, heterostructures and applications. Characterisation methods of layers and interfaces, especially structural, chemical, optical and electrical properties. Laser scribing and patterning. Laser beam induced current measurements and analyses of microscopic defects. Development of various thin film deposition equipments and knowledge transfer for development of large area industrial plants.

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Wolfgang Tress is currently working as a scientist at LPI, EPFL in Switzerland, with general interests in developing and studying novel photovoltaic concepts and technologies. His research focuses on the device physics of perovskite solar cells; most recently, investigating recombination and hysteresis phenomena in this emerging material system. Previously, he was analyzing and modeling performance limiting processes in organic solar cells.

Alessandro Troisi received his PhD in Bologna (Italy) in 2002 working on charge transport in DNA. After postdoctoral work at Northwestern University (USA) and Bologna in 2005 he joined the faculty of the University of Warwick where, since 2010, he is professor of physical chemistry. His interests include charge transport in organic materials (polymeric and molecular), electron transport through single molecules, microscopic modeling of solar cells and theory of selfassembly. He is the recipient of the Marlow Medal of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2007 and the ERC-Starting investigator award in 2009.

John A. Turner, Ph. D., is a Research Fellow at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. He received his B.S. degree in Chemistry from Idaho State University, his Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry from Colorado State University, and completed a postdoctoral appointment at the California Institute of Technology before joining the Laboratory (then the Solar Energy Research Institute) in 1979. His research is primarily concerned with enabling technologies for the implementation of hydrogen systems into the energy infrastructure. His research topics include the direct conversion (photoelectrolysis) systems for hydrogen production from sunlight and water, catalysts for the hydrogen and oxygen reactions, materials for advanced fuel cell membranes, and corrosion studies of fuel cell metal bipolar plates. Other work involves the study of electrode materials for high energy density lithium batteries and fundamental processes of charge transfer at semiconductor electrodes. He has twice received the Midwestern Research Institute President’s Award for Exceptional Performance in Research. In addition, he has received the Hydrogen Technical Advisory Panel award for Research Excellence, an Idaho State University Outstanding Achievement Award (2006), the Japanese Society of Coordination Chemistry Lectureship Award, and six Outstanding Mentor Awards from the US Department of Energy for his work with undergraduate students. He is the author or co-author of over 160 peer-reviewed publications in the areas of photoelectrochemistry, fuel cells, batteries, general electrochemistry and analytical chemistry. He is a Fellow of the Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute, a joint institute between NREL and the University of Colorado, Boulder. He was a 2012-2014 Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecturer and is a co-Editor of the Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy, an AIP journal. Email address: John.Turner@nrel.gov

Eva Unger received her PhD degree from the University of Uppsala, Sweden, on excitonically enhanced dye-sensitized solar cells under the supervision of Gerrit Boschloo in 2012. Consecutively, she joined the group of Prof. Michael McGehee at Stanford University, USA, as a Marcus and Amalia Wallenberg postdoctoral fellow, for postdoctoral studies. During this period, she investigated hybrid perovskite based solar cell devices with a focus on studying hysteresis phenomena and material formation. Since 2014, she has been an independent postdoctoral fellow at the division of Chemical Physics and Lund University, Sweden, where she now holds an assistant professor position. Eva Unger currently works as a visiting researcher at the Helmholtz-Center Berlin, Germany. Her current research focus are stable higher band gap hybrid perovskite materials for hybrid tandem applications.

Alexander Urban studied physics at the University of Karlsruhe (TH) and at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland. He obtained his PhD in 2010 from the LMU Munich at the Chair for Photonics and Optoelectronics of Professor Jochen Feldmann working on optothermal manipulation of phospholipid membranes and optical printing. In 2011 he joined the Laboratory for Nanophotonics (LANP) at Rice University, Houston, USA, as a postdoctoral researcher, working with Professor Naomi Halas. Here he continued to study plasmonics, focusing on steam generation in plasmonic suspensions and three-dimensional clusters of metallic nanoparticles. In 2014 he returned to the Chair for Photonics and Optoelectronics at the LMU Munich as a group leader. As such, his current research interests are still in plasmonics, but also in novel, exciting light-emitting nanoparticles, such as carbon dots and organic/inorganic perovskite nanocrystals. His group uses optical spectroscopy to investigate the fundamental properties of nanocrystals, and learn how to exploit them for application ranging from photodetectors and solar cells to LEDs and lasers.

Dr. Paolo Vacca is Head of Materials Chemistry Laboratory in Central REsearch of SAES Getters SPA. He is managing the development of active hybrid composites with functional gettering properties based on macromolecular chemistry and polymer science. He received a diploma in chemistry from the University of Salerno, Italy, in 1999 studying Macromolecular Chemistry and then a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering developing a study of charge transport and injection in organic semiconductor devices. He worked on polymer waveguides at the Pirelli Labs, Milan (2001-2003), and on OLED and PLED devices for ENEA (2003-2008). IN 2008 Paolo strated his experience in SAES. Dr. Vacca is author and coauthor of more than 30 scientific papers in international journals and more that 10 patent families.

Vanmaekelbergh's research started in the field of semiconductor electrochemistry in the 1980s; this later evolved into the electrochemical fabrication of macroporous semiconductors as the strongest light scatterers for visible light, and the study of electron transport in disordered (particulate) semiconductors. In the last decade, Vanmaekelbergh's interest shifted to the field of nanoscience: the synthesis of colloidal semiconductor quantum dots and self-assembled quantum-dot solids, the study of their opto-electronic properties with optical spectroscopy and UHV cryogenic Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and Spectroscopy, and electron transport in electrochemically-gated quantum-dot solids. Scanning tunnelling spectroscopy is also used to study the electronic states in graphene quantum dots. More recently, the focus of the research has shifted to 2-D nano structured semiconductors, e.g. honeycomb semiconductors with Dirac-type electronic bands.

Born in 1968, BSc/MSC in Chemical Physics in 1989/1990 and PhD in Chemistry in 1995 from the Université Pierre & Marie Curie in Paris, France. Postdoc and visiting researcher at Uppsala University, Sweden; UT Austin; UNESCO Centre for Macromolecules & Materials, Stellenbosch University, and iThemba LABS, South Africa; Glenn T. Seaborg Center, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Texas Materials Institute; EPFL, Switzerland; University of Queensland, Australia, and NTU, Singapore; Independent scientist at NIMS, Tsukuba, Japan for 8 years. 111 publications (71 SCI) with over 7000 citations since the year 2000; Top 1% scientist in Materials Science. Essential Science Indicators (Jan. 2014) shows 241 citations/paper for Materials Science and 82 citations/paper for All Fields; He has presented over 300 lectures/seminars. He’s now a 1000-talent Scholoar Professor, the co-founder and co-director of the newly established International Research Center for Renewable Energy, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China and the founding editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Nanotechnology since 2003

Latha Venkataraman received her Bachelor’s degree in Physics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1993 and her PhD in Physics from Harvard University in 1999 working under the guidance of Prof. Charles Lieber. In 2003, she joined Columbia University as a research scientist. She then joined the faculty of Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics at Columbia University in 2007 where she is currently an Associate Professor.

Fiorenzo Vetrone is a Professor at INRS-EMT, Université du Québec since October 2010. He is an expert in the synthesis of fluorescent nanoparticles as well as in their characterization, both physical and morphological as well optical. His current research is centered on developing multifunctional nanoplatforms based on novel fluorescent nanoparticles and implementing them to applications in biology. Prof. Vetrone has received numerous prizes and awards from the province of Benevento (Italy), the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada, the Royal Society (UK), and the Canadian Cancer Society. The impact of his work has been highlighted in both the scientific and popular press and has been invited to present his research findings at conferences worldwide. Prof. Vetrone has co-authored over 60 papers in prestigious international journals and his work has been cited over 3600 times (h-index= 33).

Viola Vogel is a Professor in the Department of Health Science and Technology heading the Laboratory of Applied Mechanobiology at the ETH Zürich, Switzerland. Trained as a Physicist and with her graduate research conducted at the Max-Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, she spent two years as postdoctoral fellow at the University of California Berkeley. As faculty member, she joined the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Washington/Seattle in 1990 and moved there through the ranks to Full Professor. She was the Founding Director of the Center for Nanotechnology at the University of Washington (1997-2003) prior to her move to Switzerland in 2004, where she initially joined the Department of Materials. She serves on various advisory boards worldwide and has received major honors and awards, including the Otto-Hahn Medal of the Max-Planck Society 1988, the “First Award” from the Institute of General Medicine (National Institutes of Health USA, 1993-98), the Julius Springer Prize 2006 for Applied Physics, the ERC Advanced Grant (European Research Council 2008-13), the International Solvay Chair in Chemistry Brussels 2012, and an Honorary Degree Doctor of Philosophy from Tampere University, Finland 2012. She also served as a Rapporteur for the Max-Planck Society, Physical-Chemical Technical Division (2012-2013), as Panel Member Representing the European Research Council at the World Economic Forum in Davos (2013), as Jury Member for the Queen of Elizabeth Prize for Engineering (2015), and is a Member of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council in Nanotechnology (2014-2016). She exploits nanotechnology tools to decipher how bacteria and mammalian cells and micro-tissues exploit mechanical forces to recognize and respond to material properties and their native environments. Her discoveries in single molecule and cell mechanics and how protein stretching switches their function, as well as in the field of mechanobiology have a wide range of technical and medical implications. In collaboration with clinicians, several technologies are currently carried towards preclinical studies.

2010- Associate Professor (Kyoto University) 2003–2010 Assistant Professor (Nagoya University) 2003 Ph D. Kyoto Univeristy 2000 Visiting Student (Boston College, USA) 1998 B Kyoto Univeristy

Prof. Aron Walsh holds the Chair in Materials Design at Imperial College London. He was awarded his Ph.D in Chemistry from Trinity College Dublin and later worked at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, University College London, and University of Bath. His research combines technique development and applications at the interface between solid-state chemistry and physics. In 2015 he was awarded the EU-40 prize from the Materials Research Society for his work on the theory of solar energy materials. Group website: https://wmd-group.github.io

Dunwei Wang graduated from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2000 with a B.S. degree in chemistry. He was then trained at Stanford University (with Hongjie Dai) between 2000 and 2005, where his Ph.D. thesis was awarded the Prize for Young Chemists by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry. After two years’ of postdoctoral study with James R. Heath at Caltech, he joined the faculty of Boston College and is currently an Assistant Professor of Chemistry there. His research concerns the development of new nanoscale materials that can be used for efficient solar energy conversion and storage. He is a recipient of an NSF CAREER award, a Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC) Catalyst award, and a Sloan Fellowship.

Dr Mingkui Wang received his PhD degree in physical chemistry in 2004 from the Chinese Academy of Science. In 2005 he joined the group of Prof. Ulrich Stimming as an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Technische University at Munich. He then joined Prof. Michael Gr鋞zel抯 group at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne as a post-doctoral fellow. Since 2010 he has been a professor at the Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology. His research interests include the development of next-generation solar cells and the application of electrochemistry to the elucidation of fundamental phenomena in photonics. His work has obtained over 6500 citations so far with an h-index of 37.

2011- present, Associate Professor, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. 2006- 2011, Asssistant Professor, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. 2005- 2006, Research Fellow, Materials Research Lab, Pennsylvania State University, USA 2000- 2005, Ph.D. , School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Maryland, USA 1995-1999, B.S., School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanjing University, China

Dr. Peng Wang is now a professor of Department of Chemistry, Zhejiang University. His research interest centers on material innovation, device engineering, and understanding of the charge and energy transfer processes for efficient photovoltaic devices. He has received several awards, including the 2009 CAS-Bayer Young Scientist Award, the 2012 CSS-RSC Young Chemist Award, and the 2013 Young Scientist Award of CAS.

In 1990 Wehrspohn started his studies of physics at Univ. of Oldenburg and prepared his PhD at the École Polytechnique, F in 1997. He worked as scientist at the Philips Research Labs, UK. End 1999 he started as group leader at the Max-Planck-Institute Halle. He became Full Professor in Exp. Physics at the University of Paderborn in 2003. Since June 2006 Wehrspohn has been working as Full Professor in Exp. Physics of the Univ. of Halle-Wittenberg and as Director of Fraunhofer IMWS at Halle/Saale.

Ulrike Woggon studied Physics at the Friedrich-Schiller University Jena and the Humboldt-University in Berlin, Germany. In 1985 she received her PhD in Experimental Physics from the Humboldt-University in Berlin. In 1992 she was awarded with a grant for habilitation by the German National Science Foundation (DFG) and went to the group of Prof. Klingshirn were she conducted research on semiconductor quantum dots using various methods of ultrafast laser spectroscopy and nonlinear optics. In 1995 she got the habilitation from the University of Kaiserslautern with a thesis on "Optical Properties of Semiconductor Quantum Dots" which has been published as a monograph in Springer Tracts in Modern Physics in 1996. From 1993 to 1997 she was in charge of a research group on optical spectroscopy of II-VI quantum dots at the Institute of Applied Physics at the University of Karlsruhe. In 1997 she became a full-time Professor at the Department of Physics in Dortmund, heading a group of about 10 members working on problems of quantum coherence in semiconductor nanostructures, photonic structures and microsphere cavities, single-dot spectroscopy at nanocrystals and quantum dots and quantum-dot based devices. In 2008, she became a Professor at the Institute of Optics and Atomics Physics of the Technical University Berlin (TU). Ulrike Woggon has published more than 190 peer-reviewed journal papers and several book chapters. Her current research interests are focused on ultrafast spectroscopy of semiconductor quantum dots, on nanophotonics, in particular semiconductor nanostructures of mixed 0D-2D dimensionality, and nanoplasmonics with hybrid materials. She is a member and Fellow of the Optical Society of America (OSA), a member of the Material Research Society (MRS), and the German Physical Society (DPG). For OSA she was one of the Program Chairs of the International Quantum Electronics Conference (IQEC), San Francisco 2004 and served several times as committee member in the QELS subcommittee "Nanooptics and Nanoplasmonics" in 2000 (San Francisco), 2001 (Baltimore), 2006 (Long Beach), and 2008 (San Jose).

Vanessa Wood is a professor in the Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering at ETH Zurich, where she heads the Laboratory for Nanoelectronics. Before joining ETH in 2011, she was a postdoctoral associate in the laboratory of Professor Yet-Ming Chiang and Professor Craig Carter in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at MIT, performing research on novel lithium-ion battery systems. She received her MSc and PhD from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. Her graduate work was done in the group of Professor Vladimir Bulović and focused on the development of optoelectronic devices containing colloidally synthesized quantum dots.

Eli Yablonovitch is Director of the NSF Center for Energy Efficient Electronics Science (E3S), a multi-University Center based at Berkeley. After a career in industry and Universities, he is now Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley, where he holds the James & Katherine Lau Chair in Engineering. He contributed the 4n2 light-trapping factor to solar cells, which is used commercially in most solar panels world-wide. He introduced the benefit of strained quantum well lasers, an idea which is widely employed in most semiconductor lasers. He is regarded as a Father of the Photonic BandGap concept, and he coined the term "Photonic Crystal".

Koichi Yamashita obtained his PhD from Kyoto University in 1982 supervised by Prof. Kenichi Fukui. He was postdoctoral fellow with Prof. William H. Miller at the University of California, Berkeley for 1982-84. He moved to Okazaki in 1984 to join the group of Prof. Keiji Morokuma as Research Associate at Division of Theoretical Study of Institute of Molecular Science. In 1991 he became Senior Researcher at Institute of Fundamental Chemistry directed by Prof. Kenichi Fukui. In 1994 he moved to Tokyo to join the group of Prof. Kimihiko Hirao as Associate Professor in Department of Applied Chemistry at University of Tokyo. He has been Full Professor at the University of Tokyo since 1997.

Dr. Yanfa Yan has held the Ohio Research Scholar Chair in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at The University of Toledo, USA since 2011 and is a faculty member in the Ohio�s Wright Center for Photovoltaics Innovation and Commercialization (PVIC). Previously, he was a Principal Scientist at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), USA. Dr. Yan�s expertise includes theoretical study of electronic properties and defect physics of semiconductors and nano scale characterization of microstructures, interfaces, and defects in thin-film photovoltaic materials. Dr. Yan is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.

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. Yang Yang The Carol and Lawrence E. Tannas Jr. Endowed Chair in Engineering Department of Materials Science and Engineering, UCLA PhD: Physics and Applied Physics, U-Mass.,Lowell, 1992; Advisors: Prof. Sukant Tripathy (deceased) and Jayant Kumar MS.: Physics and Applied Physics, U-Mass.,Lowell, 1988 Advisor: Prof. Y.Y. Teng (deceased) BS.: Physics, National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan, 1982 Prof. Yang's major researches are in the solar energy and highly efficient electronic devices. He has more than 230 refereed papers (including book chapters); 43 patents (filed or issued), and 120 invited talks. His H-Index is ~82 as January 2014. His major contribution in the organic solar energy is in the understanding of polymer morphology and the influence on device performance; the invention of inverted organic solar cell, and inverted tandem solar cell; and transparent solar cells. In the past few years, Yang has created several record-high efficiencies in polymeric solar cells. Other researches he participated are: organic memory devices, solution processible graphene, and solution processible CIGS/CZTS solar cells. He has a group of 25 student and postdocs. Since 2001, he has produced 28 PhD degrees, 10 MS degrees; among them, 9 of his students have become faculty. His technology has enabled the formation of 5 startups. Honors and Awards: The Carol and Lawrence E. Tannas Jr. Endowed Chair in Engineering, July 2011 Director, Nano Renewable Energy Center of California NanoSystem Inst., UCLA. (2007-now) Top Hot Researcher in 2010, Science Watch (published by Thomas Reuters) Highest cited Paper in 2010, Advanced Functional Materials Highest cited Paper in 2008-2010, Journal of American Chemical Society (JACS) IEEE Photovoltaic Field Expert, 2009. Semiconductor Research Association Invention Award 2008. NSF Career Award: 1998; 3M Young Investigator Award, 1998. Professional EXPERIENCE UCLA (1997-present): The Carol and Lawrence E. Tannas Jr. Endowed Chair in Engineering, July 2011 Nano Renewable Energy Center, California Nano-System Institute, Director, (2007-present). Materials Science and Engineering, Professor (02-now), Asso. Prof. (98-02), Asst. Prof. (97-98) EFL Tech. (Brisbane, Australia), Chair of Scientific Advisory Board (2012-present) EFL Tech is a startup to commercialize the transparent solar cell for portable electronics. Solarmer Energy Inc., Chief Scientist (2006-present) Solarmer Energy Inc. is a startup co-funded by Yang, their business is in the commercialization of polymer solar cells. 1992-1996, UNIAX Corporation (now Du Pont Display) in Santa Barbara Postdoc (92 -93; advisor: Prof. Alan Heeger, Nobel Laureate, 2000) and Staff Scientist (93-96) Participated in research on polymer LEDs, transistors, and conducting polymers. 1991-1992, University of California-Riverside, Chemistry Department Postdoc (supervisor: Prof. B. Kohler (deceased)) Laser spectroscopy and hole-burning experiments. Prof. Yang's Selective Publications His H-index is ~82 as of January 2014 (1) High-efficiency solution processable polymer photovoltaic cells by self-organization of polymer blends, Gang Li, Vishal Shrotriya, Jinsong Huang, Yan Yao, Tom Moriarty, Keith Emery and Yang Yang, Nature Materials Volume: 4 Issue: 11, 864-868, 2005 Times Cited: 2002 (2) Polymer solar cells with enhanced open-circuit voltage and efficiency, Hsiang-Yu Chen, Jianhui Hou, Shaoqing Zhang, Yongye Liang, Guanwen Yang, Yang Yang, Luping Yu, Yue Wu and Gang Li., Nature Photonics, 3, 11, Pages: 649-653, 2009 Times Cited: 427 (3) Programmable polymer thin film and non-volatile memory device, Jianyong Ouyang, Chih-Wei Chu, Charles R. Szmanda, Liping Ma, Yang Yang, Nature Materials, 3, 12, 918-922, 2004 Times Cited: 322 (4) Polyaniline nanofiber/gold nanoparticle nonvolatile memory, Ricky Jia-Hung Tseng, Jiaxing Huang, Jianyong Ouyang, Richard B. Kaner, and Yang Yang, Nano Letters, 5, 6, 1077-1080, 2005 Times Cited: 319 (5) Synthesis, Characterization, and Photovoltaic Properties of a Low Band Gap Polymer Based on Silole-Containing Polythiophenes and 2,1,3-Benzothiadiazole, Jianhui Hou, Hsiang-Yu Chen, Shaoqing Zhang, Gang Li, and Yang Yang., Journal of the American Chemical Society, 130, 48, 16144-16145, 2008 Times Cited: 284 (6) High-throughput solution processing of large-scale graphene, Vincent C. Tung, Matthew J. Allen, Yang Yang and Richard B. Kaner., Nature Nanotechnology, 4, 1, 25-29, 2009 Times Cited: 254 (7) "Solvent annealing" effect in polymer solar cells based on poly(3-hexylthiophene) and methanofullerenes, Gang Li, Yan Yao, Hoichang Yang, Vishal Shrotriya, Guanwen Yang, and Yang Yang, Advanced Functional Materials, 17, 10, 1636-1644, 2007, Times Cited: 254 (8) Investigation of annealing effects and film thickness dependence of polymer solar cells based on poly(3-hexylthiophene), Gang Li, Vishal Shrotriya, Yan Yao, and Yang Yang., Journal of Applied Physics, 98, 4, 043704(5 pages), 2005 , Times Cited: 229 (9) Recent Progress in Polymer Solar Cells: Manipulation of Polymer: Fullerene Morphology and the Formation of Efficient Inverted Polymer Solar Cells, Li-Min Chen, Ziruo Hong, Gang Li, and Yang Yang, Advanced Materials ,21, 14, 1434-1449, : 2009, Times Cited: 196 (10) Accurate measurement and characterization of organic solar cells, Vishal Shrotriya, Gang Li, Yan Yao, Tom Moriarty, Keith Emery, and Yang Yang., Advanced Functional Materials, 16, 15, 2016-2023, 2006 , Times Cited: 181 (11) Low-Temperature Solution Processing of Graphene-Carbon Nanotube Hybrid Materials for High-Performance Transparent Conductors; Tung, VC; Chen, LM; Allen, MJ; Kaner, R., and Yang, Y., Nano Letters, 9 (5), 1949-1955 (2009); Times Cited: 114 (12) Synthesis of a Low Band Gap Polymer and Its Application in Highly Efficient Polymer Solar Cells; Hou, JH; Chen, HY; Zhang, SQ; Yang, Y.et al; JACS, 131(43), 15586- 629 (2009); Times Cited: 136 (13) Effect of solvent mixture on the nanoscale phase separation in polymer solar cells; Yao, Y; Hou, JH; Xu, Z; Li, G., Yang, Y.; Adv. Func. Mat., 18, 1783-1789 (2008). Times Cited: 106 (14) Manipulating regioregular poly(3-hexylthiophene): [6,6]-phenyl-C-61-butyric acid methyl ester blends - route towards high efficiency polymer solar cells; Li, G; Shrotriya, V; Yao, Y; Huang, J., Yang, Y.; Journal of Materials Chemistry, 17 (30), 3126-3140 (2007), Times Cited: 120 (15) Patterning organic single-crystal transistor arrays, A. L. Briseno, S. Mannsfeld, M. M. Ling, S. Liu, R. J. Tseng, C. Reese, M. E. Roberts, Y. Yang, Z. Bao; Nature, 444, 913, (2006). Times Cited: 272 (16) Digital memory device based on tobacco mosaic virus conjugated with nanoparticles; Tseng, RJ; Tsai, CL; Ma, LP; Ouyang, J., Ozkan, C.S., Yang, Y.; Nature Nanotech, 1, 72, (2006) Times Cited: 145 (17) Efficient inverted polymer solar cells; Li, G; Chu, CW; Shrotriya, V; Huang, J., and Yang, Y. Appl. Phys. Lett., 88, Pages: 253503-253505 (2006), Times Cited: 85 (18) Regioregular copolymers of 3-alkoxythiophene and their photovoltaic application; Shi, CJ; Yao, Y; Yang, Y; Pei, Q.; JACS, 128, 27, p. 8980-8986 (2006); Times Cited: 137 (19) Electrical switching and bistability in organic/polymeric thin films and memory devices, Yang, Y; Ouyang, J; Ma, LP; et al.; Adv. Func. Mat. 16, 1001-1014 (2006). Times Cited: 184 (20) Achieving high-efficiency polymer white-light-emitting devices; Huang, JS; Li, G; Wu, E; Yang, Y.Adv. Mat. 18, 114-117, (2006). Times Cited: 163 (21) Transition metal oxides as the buffer layer for polymer photovoltaic cells; Shrotriya, V; Li, G; Yao, Y; Yang, Y.; Applied Physics Letters: 88(7), Pages: 073508-510 (2006); Times Cited: 132 (22) High-performance organic thin-film transistors with metal oxide/metal bilayer electrode; Chu, C.W., Li, S-H., Chen, C-W., Shrotriya, V., & Yang, Y., Appl. Phys. Lett., 87,193508 (2005) Times Cited: 100 (23) Investigation of annealing effects and film thickness dependence of polymer solar cells based on P3HT; Li, G; Shrotriya, V; Yao, Y; & Yang, Y., JAP 98, 043704, (2005). Times Cited: 229 (24) Organic donor-acceptor system exhibiting electrical bistability for use in memory devices; Chu, CW; Ouyang, J; Tseng, HH; Yang, Y.; Adv. Mat. 17 (11) p. 1440 (2005) Times Cited: 140 (25) Nonvolatile electrical bistability of organic/metal-nanocluster/organic system, Ma, LP; Pyo, S; Ouyang, J; Yang, Y., Appl. Phys. Lett. 82, 1419-21, (2003). Times Cited: 213 (26) High-performance polymer light-emitting diodes doped with a red phosphorescent iridium complex, Chen, FC; Yang, Y; Thompson, ME; Appl. Phys. Lett., 80, 2308 (2002). Times Cited: 155 (27) Organic electrical bistable devices and rewritable memory cells, Ma, LP; Liu, J; Yang, Y; Applied Physics Letters, 80, 16, p. 2997-2999 (2002). Times Cited: 260 (28) Solvation-induced morphology effects on the performance of polymer-based photovoltaic devices, Liu, J; Shi, YJ; Yang, Y, Adv. Func. Mat., 11 (6), p. 420-424, (2001), Times Cited: 150 (29) Device performance and polymer morphology in polymer light emitting diodes: The control of device electrical properties and metal/polymer contact, Liu, J; Shi, YJ; Ma, LP; Yang, Y J. Appl. Phys., 88, 605, (2000). Times Cited: 95 (30) Device performance and polymer morphology in polymer light emitting diodes: : the control of thin film morphology and device quantum efficiency;; Shi, Y; Liu, J; Yang, Y; J. Appl. Phys., 87, 4254 (2000). Times Cited: 249 (31) Polymer electroluminescent devices processed by inkjet printing: I. Polymer light-emitting logo, Bharathan, J; Yang, Y, Appl. Phys. Lett., 72, 2660, (1998). Times Cited: 255 (Citation number is from: www.researchid.com)

Dr Kui Yao is a Principal Scientist, and the Program Manager for the material-critical Sensors and Transducers Programme at Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE), A*STAR (Agency for Science, Technology and Research), Singapore. He is also an Adjunct Professor in School of Material Science and Engineering (MSE), Nanyang Technical University. During 1998 - 1999, he worked in the Materials Research Laboratory (MRL), The Pennsylvania State University, USA. Previously, he was a postdoctoral fellow in Microelectronic Center, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, during 1995-1997. His research areas cover smart materials and their applications as sensors, actuators and transducers, with a focus on ferroic, piezoelectric, and dielectric materials.

Chen-Yu Yeh was born in 1968. He received his BS in chemistry from National Chung Hsing University in 1990, his MS from National Taiwan University in 1992, and his PhD from Michigan State University in 1999 under the guidance of professor Chi-Kwong Chang. After postdoctoral studies at MIT with Professor Daniel G. Nocera and at National Taiwan University with Professor Shie-Ming Peng, he joined the Department of Chemistry at National Chung Hsing University in 2002. His current research covers synthesis of porphyrins and porphyrin arrays for use in solar cells.

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 150 papers in refereed journals, 4 book chapters and over 60 invited lectures. He is the entrepreneur of four start-up companies that utilize 8 of his patents. All papers and patents are energy related (photovoltaics, batteries, materials for energy conversion and storage. 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, the Michael Landau Research Prize in Renewable Energy and the IVS Research Excellence Prize.

Jin Zhang received his B.Sc. degree in Chemistry from Fudan University, Shanghai, China, in 1983 and his Ph.D. in physical chemistry from University of Washington, Seattle in 1989. He was a postdoctoral research fellow at University of California Berkeley from 1989 to 1992. In 1992, he joined the faculty at UC Santa Cruz, where he is currently full professor of chemistry and biochemistry. Zhang’s recent research interests focus on design, synthesis, characterization, and exploration of applications of advanced materials including semiconductor, metal, and metal oxide nanomaterials, particularly in the areas of solar energy conversion and biomedical detection/therapy. He has authored over 220 publications and two books. Zhang has been serving as a senior editor for JPC published by ACS since 2004. He is a Fellow of AAAS, APS, and ACS.

Kai Zhu is currently a senior scientist in the Chemistry and Nanoscience Center at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). He received his PhD degree in physics from Syracuse University in 2003. Before this position, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Basic Science Center at NREL, focusing on fundamental charge carrier conduction and recombination in photoelectrochemical cells, especially dye-sensitized solar cells. Dr. Zhu’s research on dye-sensitized solar cells involves the development of advanced electrode materials/architectures, basic understanding of charge transport and recombination processes in these electrodes, and thin-film solar cell development/characterization/modeling. His recent research has centered on both basic and applied research on perovskite solar cells, including perovskite material development, device fabrication and characterization, and basic understanding of charge carrier dynamics in these cells. In addition to solar conversion applications, his research interests have also included III-Nitride wide-bandgap semiconductors for high-power blue and UV light emitting diodes and ordered nanostructured electrodes for Li-ion batteries and supercapacitors.

Xiaoyang Zhu is a Professor of Chemistry at Columbia University. He received a BS degree from Fudan University in 1984 and a PhD from the University of Texas at Austin in 1989. After postdoctoral research with J. Mike White at UT-Austin and Gerhard Ertl at the Fritz-Haber-Institute, he joined the faculty at Southern Illinois University as an Assistant Professor in 1993. In 1997, he moved to the University of Minnesota as an Associate Professor, later a Full Professor and Merck endowed Professor. In 2009, he returned to Austin as the Vauquelin Regents professor of Chemistry. On January 1st, 2013, Zhu moved to Columbia University and assumed his current position. His honors include a Dreyfus New Faculty Award, a Cottrell Scholar Award, a Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Award, and Fellow of the American Physical Society. Among his professional activities, he serves on the editorial/advisory boards of Progress in Surface Science, Accounts of Chemical Research, & Chemical Physics.

Celso de Mello Donega is an Associate Professor in the Chemistry Department of the Faculty of Sciences at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. His expertise is in the field of synthesis and optical spectroscopy of luminescent materials. His research is focused on the chemistry and optoelectronic properties of nanomaterials, with particular emphasis on colloidal nanocrystals and heteronanocrystals.

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PhD candidate at Philips Research Eindhoven and the Eindhoven University of Technology

Roel van de Krol is head of the Insitute for Solar Fuels at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin fuer Materialien und Energie (HZB), and professor at the Chemistry Department of TU Berlin. After earning his PhD from TU Delft in 2000 and a postdoctoral stay at M.I.T. (USA), he returned to TU Delft where he was an assistant professor until 2012. At HZB, his research focuses on the development of materials and devices for the photoelectrochemical conversion of sunlight to chemical fuels. Understanding how surface and bulk defects in thin films and nanomaterials affect light absorption, charge transport, recombination and catalytic activity is at the heart of these efforts.