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My research interests are centered around the development of (supra)molecular materials for smart nanotechnologies that can respond to various external stimuli and adapt to their operation conditions, with a particular interest in renewable energy conversion in photovoltaics. I rely on a multidisciplinary approach and international collaborations at the interface of chemistry, physics, material science, and engineering in the design, synthesis, and characterisation of functional materials and devices. For more details on my research profile refer to the links and sections below.
Projects
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(Supra)molecular materials responsive to electric charge or light enable smart nanotechnologies
Materials that are responsive to physical stimuli, such as electric charge or light, are relevant for adaptable technologies. We are interested in the development of such stimuli-responsive (supra)molecular materials that preserve their functionality in the solid state and enable advanced control in functional devices.
Layered hybrid perovskites feature unique opto(electro)ionic properties
Layered hybrid perovskite materials based on organic spacers templating hybrid perovskite slabs, which are stable under operating conditions of voltage bias and light, are of interest to various optoelectronic and optoionic devices. We develop layered hybrid perovskites with enhanced functionalities towards smart nanotechnologies.
Operationally stable hybrid perovskite materials for renewable energy conversion
Hybrid organic-inorganic perovskites have emerged as one of the most promising materials in thin-film photovoltaics, yet their limited stability under operating conditions hampers practical applications. We strive to address this challenge by relying on (supra)molecular strategies to control the function of perovskite materials and devices.
Publications
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Other articles
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Oral contributions
Postdoctoral
- Invited speaker at the SPIE Optocs+Photonics Conference, Aug 2021, San Diego, USA.
- Invited speaker at International Conference on Materials for Humanity, July 2021, Singapore.
- Contributing talk at the E-MRS Online Conference, Energy Materials Symposium (Exotic Materials and Innovative Concepts for Photovoltaics), June 2021, Strasbourg, France.
- Invited speaker at the session Empowering citizens for the transition towards climate neutral and sustainable Europe, May 2021, EuroNanoForum, Portugal.
- Invited speaker at the OrgMatPerPV Online Conference, April 2021, nanoGe Meetings.
- Invited talk: Sustainability in solar-to-electric energy conversion, Nov 2020, EuChemS webinar.
- Tutorial talk on Templating Hybrid Perovskites, Oct 2020, HOPE-PV (Online School), Russia.
- Invited talk at the Theory of Condensed Matter Group, Oct 2020, Cambridge, UK.
- Invited talk: A Supramolecular Approach to Hybrid Perovskite Photovoltaics, Oct 2020, nanoGe Fall
Meeting (Symposium “FunPero”), Barcelona, Spain. - Contributing talk: A Supramolecular Approach to the Stability of Hybrid Perovskites, Aug 2020, Swiss Chemical Society Fall Meeting, Switzerland (virtual meeting).
- Keynote talk: Layered Hybrid Perovskites for Photovoltaics: Opportunities and Challenges, Aug 2020, Dutch Perovskite Workshop, AMOLF, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
- Selected talk: Supramolecular Engineering of Smart Nanomaterials for Energy Conversion, July 2020,
Lise Meitner Excellence Program Selection Symposium (Virtual), Berlin, Germany. - Invited talk: A Supramolecular Approach to Perovskite Stability, June 2020, nanoGe Meetup.
- Invited talk: Supramolecular Engineering for Hybrid Perovskite Photovoltaics, May 2020, Adlinger
Center, Princeton University, USA (Virtual). - Invited participant at the Bürgenstock Conference, April 2020, Brunnen, Switzerland.
- Invited talk: Supramolecularly Engineered Hybrid Perovskites for Photovoltaic Applications, Feb 2020, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart, Germany.
- Contributing talk: Supramolecular Engineering of Hybrid Layered Perovskite Materials for Stable
Perovskite Solar Cells, Nov 2019, NanoGe Conference, Berlin, Germany. - Invited talk: Supramolecular Engineering of Layered Perovskite Architectures, Oct 2019, Moscow Autumn Perovskite Photovoltaics International Conference, Moscow, Russia.
- Invited talk: Supramolecular Engineering – From Molecular Grippers to Hybrid Perovskite Solar Cells, Sep 2019, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon.
- Invited talk: Supramolecular Engineering of Hybrid Perovskite Solar Cells: From Molecular Modulation
to Layered Perovskite Architectures, July 2019, University of Tübingen, Germany. - Contributing talk: Supramolecular Engineering of Hybrid Perovskite Materials for Stable Perovskite Solar Cells, July 2019, IUPAC World Chemistry Congress (C7), Paris, France.
- Selected talk: Supramolecular Engineering of Functional Nanomaterials for Energy Conversion, July 2019, Lise Meitner Excellence Program Selection Symposium, Berlin, Germany.
- Contributing talk: Supramolecular Engineering of Layered Hybrid Perovskites for Stable Perovskite Solar Cells, July 2019, IUPAC World Chemistry Congress, Paris, France.
- Invited talk: Supramolecular Engineering – From Molecular Grippers to Hybrid Perovskite Materials, June 2019, University of Fribourg, Switzerland.
- Invited talk: Supramolecular Engineering Towards Stable and Efficient Hybrid Perovskite Solar Cells, May 2019, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany.
- Contributing talk: Multifunctional Molecular Modulation to Layered Two-Dimensional Architectures for Perovskite Solar Cells, May 2019, EMRS Conference, Nice, France.
- Invited talk: Supramolecular Engineering – From Molecular Machines to Hybrid Perovskite Solar Cells, April 2019, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart, Germany.
- Invited talk: From Molecular Modulation to Supramolecular Engineering for Highly Efficient and Stable Perovskite Solar Cells, Jan 2019, Swiss Snow Symposium, Saas Fee, Switzerland.
- Invited talk: Supramolecular Engineering and Molecular Modulation for Efficient and Stable Perovskite Solar Cells, Dec 2018, Conference in Molecular Electronics (ElecMol2018), Paris, France.
- Invited talk: From Molecular Machines to Supramolecular Engineering for Optoelectronics, Dec 2018, Institute Charles Sadron, University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France.
- Contributing talk: Molecular Engineering to Highly Efficient and Stable Perovskite Solar Cells, July 2018, Gordon Research Seminar: Electronic Processes in Organic Materials, Lucca, Italy.
Doctoral
- Contributing talk: Photoredox-Switchable Molecular Grippers: Radical Control of Molecular Machinery, Molecular Machines Nobel Prize Conference, Nov 2017, University of Groningen, The Netherlands.
- Invited talk: Photoredox-Switchable Molecular Grippers: Radical Control of Molecular Machinery, Institut Le Bel, Nov 2017, University of Strasbourg, France.
- Selected talk: Bioinspired Photoredox-Switchable Nanogrippers: Radical Control of Molecular
Machinery, Dec 2016, Kekulé Workshop – Women in Science, University of Bonn, Germany. - Invited talk: Photoredox-Switchable Molecular Grippers: Radical Control of Molecular Machinery, Nov 2016, Technical University of Graz, Austria.
- Contributing talk: Paramagnetic Molecular Grippers with Semiquinone Walls: The Elements of Six-State Redox Switches, Aug 2016, ElecMol2016, Paris, France.
- Contributing talk: Photoredox-Switchable Molecular Grippers: Paramagnetic Intermediates of Six-
State Redox Switches, July 2016, Gordon Research Seminar: Conductivity and Magnetism in Molecular Materials, Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts, USA. - Invited talk: Photoredox-Switchable Resorcin[4]arene Cavitands: Molecular Grippers, May 2015,
Max-Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion, Mülheim, Germany.
Poster presentations
Postdoctoral
- Poster: Supramolecularly Engineered Layered Perovskites for Hybrid Photovoltaics, July 2020, Gordon Research Conference: Electronic Processes in Organic Materials, Lucca, Italy.
- Poster: Supramolecular Engineering of Hybrid Perovskite Solar Cells, Oct 2019, International Conference on Perovskite Solar Cells and Optoelectronics (PSCO), Lausanne, Switzerland.
- Poster: From Molecular Modulation to Supramolecular Engineering in Perovskite Solar Cells, Sep 2019, Swiss Chemical Society Fall Meeting, Zurich, Switzerland.
- Poster: Multifunctional Molecular Modulation for Stable and Efficient Hybrid Perovskite Solar Cells, May 2019, HOPV Conference, Rome, Italy.
- Poster: From Molecular Modulation to Supramolecular Engineering for Hybrid Perovskite Solar Cells, March 2019, EuChemS Conference, Bremen, Germany.
- Poster: Molecular Engineering Towards Highly Efficient and Stable Perovskite Solar Cells, Sep 2018, Swiss Chemical Society Fall Symposium, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Doctoral
- Poster: From Molecular Machines to Highly Efficient and Stable Perovskite Solar Cells, July 2018, Gordon Research Conference: Electronic Processes in Organic Materials, Lucca, Italy.
- Poster: Photoredox-Switchable Molecular Grippers: Paramagnetic Intermediates of Six-State Redox Switches, June 2016, ISMSC, Seoul, Korea.
- Poster: Photoredox-Switchable Molecular Grippers: Paramagnetic Intermediates of Six-State Redox Switches, June 2016, Gordon Research Conference (GRC): Electronic Processes in Organic Materials, Lucca, Italy.
- Poster: Paramagnetic Photoredox-Switchable Molecular Grippers, Jan 2016 and Sep 2016, Swiss Chemical Society Industrial and Fall Symposium, Zurich, Switzerland.
- Poster: Photo/Redox-Switchable Resorcin[4]arene Cavitands, Sep 2014, Swiss Chemical Society Fall
Meeting, Zurich, Switzerland. - Poster: Student Symposium, June 2013, F. Hoffmann-La Roche, Basel, Switzerland
Conferences
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Oral contributions
Postdoctoral
- Invited speaker at the SPIE Optocs+Photonics Conference, Aug 2021, San Diego, USA.
- Invited speaker at International Conference on Materials for Humanity, July 2021, Singapore.
- Contributing talk at the E-MRS Online Conference, Energy Materials Symposium (Exotic Materials and Innovative Concepts for Photovoltaics), June 2021, Strasbourg, France.
- Invited speaker at the session Empowering citizens for the transition towards climate neutral and sustainable Europe, May 2021, EuroNanoForum, Portugal.
- Invited speaker at the OrgMatPerPV Online Conference, April 2021, nanoGe Meetings.
- Invited talk: Sustainability in solar-to-electric energy conversion, Nov 2020, EuChemS webinar.
- Tutorial talk on Templating Hybrid Perovskites, Oct 2020, HOPE-PV (Online School), Russia.
- Invited talk at the Theory of Condensed Matter Group, Oct 2020, Cambridge, UK.
- Invited talk: A Supramolecular Approach to Hybrid Perovskite Photovoltaics, Oct 2020, nanoGe Fall
Meeting (Symposium “FunPero”), Barcelona, Spain. - Contributing talk: A Supramolecular Approach to the Stability of Hybrid Perovskites, Aug 2020, Swiss Chemical Society Fall Meeting, Switzerland (virtual meeting).
- Keynote talk: Layered Hybrid Perovskites for Photovoltaics: Opportunities and Challenges, Aug 2020, Dutch Perovskite Workshop, AMOLF, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
- Selected talk: Supramolecular Engineering of Smart Nanomaterials for Energy Conversion, July 2020,
Lise Meitner Excellence Program Selection Symposium (Virtual), Berlin, Germany. - Invited talk: A Supramolecular Approach to Perovskite Stability, June 2020, nanoGe Meetup.
- Invited talk: Supramolecular Engineering for Hybrid Perovskite Photovoltaics, May 2020, Adlinger
Center, Princeton University, USA (Virtual). - Invited participant at the Bürgenstock Conference, April 2020, Brunnen, Switzerland.
- Invited talk: Supramolecularly Engineered Hybrid Perovskites for Photovoltaic Applications, Feb 2020, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart, Germany.
- Contributing talk: Supramolecular Engineering of Hybrid Layered Perovskite Materials for Stable
Perovskite Solar Cells, Nov 2019, NanoGe Conference, Berlin, Germany. - Invited talk: Supramolecular Engineering of Layered Perovskite Architectures, Oct 2019, Moscow Autumn Perovskite Photovoltaics International Conference, Moscow, Russia.
- Invited talk: Supramolecular Engineering – From Molecular Grippers to Hybrid Perovskite Solar Cells, Sep 2019, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon.
- Invited talk: Supramolecular Engineering of Hybrid Perovskite Solar Cells: From Molecular Modulation
to Layered Perovskite Architectures, July 2019, University of Tübingen, Germany. - Contributing talk: Supramolecular Engineering of Hybrid Perovskite Materials for Stable Perovskite Solar Cells, July 2019, IUPAC World Chemistry Congress (C7), Paris, France.
- Selected talk: Supramolecular Engineering of Functional Nanomaterials for Energy Conversion, July 2019, Lise Meitner Excellence Program Selection Symposium, Berlin, Germany.
- Contributing talk: Supramolecular Engineering of Layered Hybrid Perovskites for Stable Perovskite Solar Cells, July 2019, IUPAC World Chemistry Congress, Paris, France.
- Invited talk: Supramolecular Engineering – From Molecular Grippers to Hybrid Perovskite Materials, June 2019, University of Fribourg, Switzerland.
- Invited talk: Supramolecular Engineering Towards Stable and Efficient Hybrid Perovskite Solar Cells, May 2019, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany.
- Contributing talk: Multifunctional Molecular Modulation to Layered Two-Dimensional Architectures for Perovskite Solar Cells, May 2019, EMRS Conference, Nice, France.
- Invited talk: Supramolecular Engineering – From Molecular Machines to Hybrid Perovskite Solar Cells, April 2019, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart, Germany.
- Invited talk: From Molecular Modulation to Supramolecular Engineering for Highly Efficient and Stable Perovskite Solar Cells, Jan 2019, Swiss Snow Symposium, Saas Fee, Switzerland.
- Invited talk: Supramolecular Engineering and Molecular Modulation for Efficient and Stable Perovskite Solar Cells, Dec 2018, Conference in Molecular Electronics (ElecMol2018), Paris, France.
- Invited talk: From Molecular Machines to Supramolecular Engineering for Optoelectronics, Dec 2018, Institute Charles Sadron, University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France.
- Contributing talk: Molecular Engineering to Highly Efficient and Stable Perovskite Solar Cells, July 2018, Gordon Research Seminar: Electronic Processes in Organic Materials, Lucca, Italy.
Doctoral
- Contributing talk: Photoredox-Switchable Molecular Grippers: Radical Control of Molecular Machinery, Molecular Machines Nobel Prize Conference, Nov 2017, University of Groningen, The Netherlands.
- Invited talk: Photoredox-Switchable Molecular Grippers: Radical Control of Molecular Machinery, Institut Le Bel, Nov 2017, University of Strasbourg, France.
- Selected talk: Bioinspired Photoredox-Switchable Nanogrippers: Radical Control of Molecular
Machinery, Dec 2016, Kekulé Workshop – Women in Science, University of Bonn, Germany. - Invited talk: Photoredox-Switchable Molecular Grippers: Radical Control of Molecular Machinery, Nov 2016, Technical University of Graz, Austria.
- Contributing talk: Paramagnetic Molecular Grippers with Semiquinone Walls: The Elements of Six-State Redox Switches, Aug 2016, ElecMol2016, Paris, France.
- Contributing talk: Photoredox-Switchable Molecular Grippers: Paramagnetic Intermediates of Six-
State Redox Switches, July 2016, Gordon Research Seminar: Conductivity and Magnetism in Molecular Materials, Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts, USA. - Invited talk: Photoredox-Switchable Resorcin[4]arene Cavitands: Molecular Grippers, May 2015,
Max-Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion, Mülheim, Germany.
Poster presentations
Postdoctoral
- Poster: Supramolecularly Engineered Layered Perovskites for Hybrid Photovoltaics, July 2020, Gordon Research Conference: Electronic Processes in Organic Materials, Lucca, Italy.
- Poster: Supramolecular Engineering of Hybrid Perovskite Solar Cells, Oct 2019, International Conference on Perovskite Solar Cells and Optoelectronics (PSCO), Lausanne, Switzerland.
- Poster: From Molecular Modulation to Supramolecular Engineering in Perovskite Solar Cells, Sep 2019, Swiss Chemical Society Fall Meeting, Zurich, Switzerland.
- Poster: Multifunctional Molecular Modulation for Stable and Efficient Hybrid Perovskite Solar Cells, May 2019, HOPV Conference, Rome, Italy.
- Poster: From Molecular Modulation to Supramolecular Engineering for Hybrid Perovskite Solar Cells, March 2019, EuChemS Conference, Bremen, Germany.
- Poster: Molecular Engineering Towards Highly Efficient and Stable Perovskite Solar Cells, Sep 2018, Swiss Chemical Society Fall Symposium, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Doctoral
- Poster: From Molecular Machines to Highly Efficient and Stable Perovskite Solar Cells, July 2018, Gordon Research Conference: Electronic Processes in Organic Materials, Lucca, Italy.
- Poster: Photoredox-Switchable Molecular Grippers: Paramagnetic Intermediates of Six-State Redox Switches, June 2016, ISMSC, Seoul, Korea.
- Poster: Photoredox-Switchable Molecular Grippers: Paramagnetic Intermediates of Six-State Redox Switches, June 2016, Gordon Research Conference (GRC): Electronic Processes in Organic Materials, Lucca, Italy.
- Poster: Paramagnetic Photoredox-Switchable Molecular Grippers, Jan 2016 and Sep 2016, Swiss Chemical Society Industrial and Fall Symposium, Zurich, Switzerland.
- Poster: Photo/Redox-Switchable Resorcin[4]arene Cavitands, Sep 2014, Swiss Chemical Society Fall
Meeting, Zurich, Switzerland. - Poster: Student Symposium, June 2013, F. Hoffmann-La Roche, Basel, Switzerland
Organisation
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- 2021 – 2022 Organizer of the Spring MRS Meeting 2022 Symposium “EQ05”.
- 2020 – 2022 Organizing committee of the European Young Chemists’ Meeting 2022.
- 2020 – 2021 Chair of the NanoGe Spring Meeting 2021.
- 2019 – 2021 Co-organizer of the NanoGe Fall Meeting Symposium “PerEmer21”.
- April 2020 Organizer of the international nanoGe Online Meetup Conference on “Contemporary Challenges in Hybrid Perovskite Photovoltaics”.
- 2019 – 2020 Scientific committee for the International Conference for Photochemical Conversion and Storage of Solar Energy (IPS-23) in Lausanne, Switzerland.
- 2018 – 2022 Nominated and elected to chair the Gordon Research Seminars on “Electronic Processes in Organic Materials” while supporting the organization of the corresponding Gordon Research Conference taking place in Italy in 2020.
- 2018 – 2020 Organization of seminars at the Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering at EPFL on behalf of the Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces.
Membership
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1’389’320 CHF as principal investigator
by Prof. Anders Hagfeldt
(CHF 59’036). Role: Contributed to the grant application and coordination
Funding
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1’389’320 CHF as principal investigator
by Prof. Anders Hagfeldt
(CHF 59’036). Role: Contributed to the grant application and coordination