Jenny Nelson
Imperial College London, UK
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 solar cells based on molecular and hybrid materials.
Since 2010 she has been working together with the Grantham Institute for Climate Change to explore the mitigation potential of photovoltaic and other renewable, technologies. She has published over 200 articles in peer-reviewed journals, several book chapters and a book on the physics of solar cells. She was awarded the 2009 Institute of Physics Joule Prize and medal and the 2012 Royal Society Armourers and Brasiers Company Prize for her research.
Research areas:
- Multi-scale modelling of molecular electronic materials
- Device physics of organic and hybrid solar cells
- Electronic, spectroscopic and structural characterisation of molecular electronic materials
- Mitigation potential of solar photovoltaic technology
Christoph Brabec
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
Christoph J. Brabec received his PhD (1995) in Physical Chemistry from Linz University, Austria, and joined the group of Alan Heeger at UC Santa Barbara (USA) for a sabbatical. He joined the SIEMENS research labs (project leader) in 2001, Konarka in 2004 (CTO), Erlangen University (FAU - Professor for Material Science) in 2009, ZAE Bayern e.V. (scientific director and board member) in 2010, spokesman of the Interdisciplinary Center for Nanostructured Films (IZNF) in 2013 and became the director at FZ Jülich (IEK-11) in 2018 and spokesman of the profile center “FAU Solar” in 2023.
His research interests include all aspects of solution processing organic, hybrid and inorganic semiconductor devices with a strong focus on photovoltaics and renewable energy systems. His combined scientific and technological interests have supported the spin-out of companies. He has published over 800 peer reviewed articles, 100 patents and several books and book chapters. Thompson Reuters lists him for the last years consecutively as a highly cited researcher (HRC).
Jaephil Cho
Ulsan National Institute of Science & Technology, South Korea
Jaephil Cho is a UNIST Distinguished Professor in the Department of Energy & Chemical Engineering at Ulsan National Institute of Science & Technology (UNIST). He also served as a Director of the Battery R&D Center at UNIST, which conducts industry-oriented R&D collaborations with LG EnSol, Hyundai Motors, Samsung SDI, and SK On. After receiving his Ph.D. degree in Ceramic Engineering at Iowa State University in Ames, USA, in 1995, he was a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Materials Science & Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, USA until 1996. After working for Samsung SDI for cathode materials development, focusing on Ni-rich and Mn-rich oxides, for 6 years until 2002, he joined as an Assistant Professor at Kumoh National Institute of Science and Technology and Hanyang University in Korea until 2008. In 2009, he became a UNIST Professor. He was a director of the Samsung SDI- UNIST Future Batteries Research Center between 2013 and 2021 and was a Member of the Presidential Advisory Council on Science & Technology of the Republic of Korea from 2016 to 2017. His current research is focused mainly on electrode materials, cell design, interfacial characterizations, full cell manufacturing of Li-ion, all solid state, and Li batteries. He has published over 400 papers, with a h-index exceeding 120, and has also published over 150 patents and patent applications.
William Chueh
Stanford University, USA
Will Chueh is an Associate Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and in the Department of Energy Science & Engineering, a Senior Fellow of the Precourt Institute for Energy at Stanford University, and a faculty scientist at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. He leads a group of more than thirty researchers tackling the fundamentals of redox and electrochemical processes in the solid state. Additionally, he directs Stanford's StorageX Initiative that builds academic-industrial partnerships to accelerate the electrification of transportation and the penetration of intermittent renewable electricity in energy systems. He received his BS in applied physics, and his MS and PhD in materials science from Caltech. Prior to joining Stanford in 2012, he was a Distinguished Truman Fellow at Sandia National Laboratories. Chueh has received numerous honors, including the Humboldt’s Bessel Award (2021), MRS Outstanding Young Investigator Award (2018), Volkswagen/BASF Science Award Electrochemistry (2016), Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award (2016), Sloan Research Fellowship (2016), NSF CAREER Award (2015), Solid State Ionics Young Scientist Award (2013), Caltech Demetriades-Tsafka-Kokkalis Prize in Energy (2012), and the American Ceramics Society Diamond Award (2008). In 2012, he was named as one of the “Top 35 Innovators Under the Age of 35” by MIT’s Technology Review.
The Chueh group’s research are rooted in fundamental questions that underlie materials for energy storage and transformation:
- Understanding solid-state, redox and defect chemistries in ionic conductors, especially the local chemistry induced by disorder
- Probing dynamics and heterogeneities across atomic, mesoscopic and device scales through characterization and modeling.
- Controlling ionic and electronic transport by tuning materials chemistry
Kazunari Domen
The University of Tokyo, Japan
Kazunari Domen is a University Professor at the University of Tokyo and a Special Contract Professor at the Research Initiative for Supra-Material (RISM), Shinshu University, Japan.
Dr. Domen received his B.S. (1976), M.S. (1979), and Ph.D. (1982) honors in Chemistry from the University of Tokyo. He then joined the Chemical Resources Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1982 as an Assistant Professor and was subsequently promoted to Associate Professor in 1990 and Professor in 1996. He moved to the University of Tokyo as a Professor in 2004 and was cross-appointed by Shinshu University as a Special Contract Professor in 2017. He became a University Professor at the University of Tokyo in 2019.
His research interests include heterogeneous catalysis and materials chemistry, with a particular focus on surface chemical reaction dynamics, photocatalysis, solid acid catalysis, and mesoporous materials. Recently, his effort is focused on the development of photocatalysts for water splitting and the construction of practical solar hydrogen production systems.
He has published more than 800 original and review articles. His citation number is approximately 90,000 and h-index is 139 (January 2023; Web of Science).
Linda Nazar
University of Waterloo, Canada
ORCiD 0000-0002-3314-8197
Professor Nazar was educated at UBC and the University of Toronto where she received her Ph.D. degree in materials chemistry. She moved to Exxon Corporate Research to take up a Postdoctoral Fellowship. In 1987 she joined the Chemistry Department at the University of Waterloo, where she initiated her independent academic career. She was promoted to full professor in 2000 and established the Laboratory for Electrochemical Energy Materials. She has been an invited professor at the IMN/Université de Nantes, the Materials Science department in UCLA, the CNRS in Grenoble, France; and at Caltech as a Moore Distinguished Scholar (Dept of Materials Science) in 2010.
Dr. Nazar has achieved international recognition as a leader in the areas of solid state chemistry, electrochemistry, energy storage and materials science. She has co-authored over 245 publications garnering over 50,000 citations and an H-index of 106. She has also published 20 patents/patent applications. Dr. Nazar has presented her work in over 200 invited distinguished lectures, colloquia and seminars around the globe. She is listed in the 2014, 2016 and 2017 Highly Cited Research List (WoS), and the 2014 Web of Science’s Most Influential Scientific Minds.
Dr. Nazar is the recipient of several academic and professional honours and awards. She was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society (London) in 2020, of the Royal Society of Canada in 2012, and an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2015. Other awards include the Electrochemistry Society Battery Division Research award (2009), the International Battery Association award (2011), the IUPAC Distinguished Women in Chemistry/Chemical Engineering award (2011), the August-Wilhelm-von-Hofman Lecture award (German Chemical Society, 2013), the International Automotive Lithium Battery award (2017).
Jan Rossmeisl
University of Copenhagen
Jan Rossmeisl is a Professor of theoretical catalysis and heads the Center for High Entropy Alloy Catalysis at the Department of Chemistry at Copenhagen University. Before joining the University of Copenhagen in April 2015, Jan was an Associate Professor at the Technical University of Denmark. Jan holds master's (2000) and Ph.D (2004) degrees in physics from the Technical University of Denmark.
Jan has supervised more than 30 Ph.D. and Post-docs. He is a co-author of more than 200 publications and co-founder of two startup companies. He is a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher and recipient of the International Society of Electrochemistry's Alexander Kutsenov Prize (2019) and the RSCs John Jeyes Award.
Jennifer Wilcox
University of Pennsylvania, USA
Jennifer Wilcox is the Presidential Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering and Energy Policy at the University of Pennsylvania. Having grown up in rural Maine, Dr. Wilcox has a profound respect and appreciation for nature. That appreciation permeates her work; she focuses on minimizing the climate and environmental impacts of our dependence on fossil fuels.
Dr. Wilcox holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering and an M.A. in Chemistry from the University of Arizona and B.A. in Mathematics from Wellesley College. Dr. Wilcox's research takes aim at the nexus of energy and the environment, developing both mitigation and adaptation strategies to minimize negative climate impacts associated with society's dependence on fossil fuels. She has served on committees of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Physical Society to assess carbon capture methods and impacts on climate. She is the author of the first textbook on carbon capture, Carbon Capture, published in March 2012. She co-edited the CDR Primer on carbon dioxide removal in 2021.
Karen Wilson
Griffith University, Australia
ORCiD: 0000-0003-4873-708X
Karen is currently a Professor of Catalysis at the Centre for Catalysis and Clean Energy at Griffith University in Australia, and previously held professorial positions at RMIT University (2018-23) and Aston University (2013-17). At Aston, she was also the Research Director of the European Bioenergy Research Institute and held a prestigious Royal Society Industry Fellowship in collaboration with Johnson Matthey. Karen holds a BA and PhD from the University of Cambridge, and an MSc in heterogeneous catalysis from the University of Liverpool, and has also held academic positions at the University of York and Cardiff University. Karen’s research interests lie in the design of tuneable porous materials for sustainable biofuels and chemical production from renewable resources. Recent projects have spanned the conversion of biomass from municipal, agricultural or forestry waste to fuels and chemicals, and the transformation of bakery waste to additives for application in coatings and polymers. She has also worked on de-pollution technologies to remove organic contaminants from wastewater in the seafood industry and palm and olive oil plantations in South East Asia. Karen is Associate Editor of Sustainable Energy & Fuels (Royal Society of Chemistry), and Energy & Environmental Materials (Wiley) and Editorial Board member for Energy & Environmental Science (Royal Society of Chemistry). She is also a co-investigator and theme leader on the recently funded Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence, ‘Green Electrochemical Transformation of Carbon Dioxide’ - GetCO2.
