Sascha is a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Physical Chemistry and Head of the Laboratory for Energy Materials at EPFL (Switzerland), while he is also maintaining strong ties with the Harvard community and in particular Winthrop House which he regularly visits as NRT and SCR member.

His team employs light-matter interactions to understand the next generation of soft semiconductors with the overarching goal of maximizing energy efficiency for a sustainable future by unlocking applications ranging from flexible light-weight solar cells & displays all the way to entirely new applications in quantum information processing.

Previously, he was a research group leader and Rowland Fellow at Harvard University’s Rowland Institute. Before starting his lab at Harvard, Sascha studied Chemistry at Heidelberg University (Germany) and completed a PhD in Physics at the University of Cambridge (UK), where he subsequently worked as EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellow.

Dr. Mahesh Gangishetty is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Rowland Institute at Harvard University. He earned his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Saskatchewan, Canada and M.Sc. in Chemistry from the Indian Institute of Technology in Roorkee. His research is focused on employing variety of optoelectronic materials for energy conversion applications. 

Alexander Romanov holds a PhD in synthetic inorganic and physical chemistry from Nesmeyanov Institute Russian Academy of Sciences. After several postdoctoral positions in the US and UK, he applied his experience in synthetic chemistry towards the discovery of the Carbene Metal Amide (CMA) materials for highly energy-efficient OLEDs. In 2019, he started his independent research career as a Royal Society University Research Fellow at the University of East Anglia. His work is focused on the molecular design towards multifunctional materials for various optoelectronic applications.