Dr. Mahshid Ahmadi received her Ph.D. from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore in 2013. She then worked as a research technology consultant in a start-up solar cell company (HEE) in Dallas, Texas, USA. She is currently working as an assistant professor at Joint Institute for Advanced Materials (JIAM), Department of Materials Science, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Her research interest includes materials development and electronic device fabrication. Specially, her current research focuses on organic-inorganic halide perovskite photovoltaics and
high energy radiation detectors.

Dr. Annalisa Bruno is a Principal Scientist at the Energy ResearchInstitute at Nanyang Technological University (ERI@N) coordinating a team working on perovskite high-efficiency solar cells and modules by thermal evaporation. Annalisa is also a tenured Scientist at Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy, and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA). Previously Annalisa was a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at Imperial College London. Annalisa received her B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. Degrees in Physics from the University of Naples Federico II. Her research interests include perovskite light-harvesting and charge generation properties and their implementation in solar cells and optoelectronic devices.

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 Director of the Institute of Structure of Matter of the National Research Council and 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 founded the Center for Hybrid and Organic Solar Cells (CHOSE) which nowadays involve more than40 researchers dealing with the development of III generation solar cells (DSC, OPV and Perovskite) and on scaling-up of these technologies for industrial applications. CHOSE has generated 6 spin-off companies and a public/private partnership. Di Carlo is author/coauthor of more than 500 scientific publications in international journals, 13 patents and has been involved in several EU projects (three as EU coordinator)

Bruno Ehrler is leading the Hybrid Solar Cells group at AMOLF in Amsterdam since 2014 and is also a honorary professor at the University of Groningen since 2020. His group focuses on perovskite materials science, both on the fundamental level, and for device applications. He is recipient of an ERC Starting Grant and an NWO Vidi grant, advisory board member of the Dutch Chemistry Council, recipient of the WIN Rising Star award, and senior conference editor for nanoGe.

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. During this period, he worked on quantum dots, doped metal oxides and singlet fission photovoltaics. He obtained his PhD from the University of Cambridge under the supervision of Professor Neil Greenham, studying hybrid solar cells from organic semiconductors and inorganic quantum dots. He received his MSci from the University of London (Queen Mary) studying micro-mechanics in the group of Professor David Dunstan.

2022 Science Board member Netherlands Energy Research Alliance (NERA)
2021 Member steering committee National Growth fund application Duurzame MaterialenNL
2021 Member advisory board Dutch Chemistry Council
2020 Honorary professor Universty of Groningen for new hybrid material systems for solar-cell applications
2020 ERC starting Grant for work on aritifical synapses from halide perovskite
2019 Senior conference editor nanoGe
2018 WIN Rising Star award
2017 NWO Vidi Grant for work on metal halide perovskites
since 2014 Group Leader, Hybrid Solar Cell Group, Institute AMOLF, Amsterdam
2013 – 2014 Trevelyan Research Fellow, Selwyn College, University of Cambridge
2012-2013 Postdoctoral Work, University of Cambridge, Professor Sir Richard Friend
2009-2012 PhD in Physics, University of Cambridge, Professor Neil Greenham
2005 – 2009 Study of physics at RWTH Aachen and University of London, Queen Mary College, MSci University of London

Dr. Anurag Krishna is an R&D Project Leader at Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre (IMEC) and EnergyVille, Belgium, where his research activities focus on developing perovskite module technology. Previously, he has been a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow in the laboratory of Prof. Anders Hagfeldt and Prof. Michael Graetzel at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland. He obtained Ph.D. from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. The noble mission of his research is to facilitate sustainable and affordable low-carbon and green technology solutions for the world. On the fundamental side, his research interests focus on developing hybrid materials suitable for photovoltaic, optoelectronic, and nanoelectronic devices

Daniela Marongiu is associate professor at the Department of Physics of University of Cagliari (Italy). She obtained a PhD in Nanostructure and Nanotechnology in 2011 from the University of Milano-Bicocca, then she moved to University of Sassari and later in 2013 to Cagliari where she has been an associate professor since 2021. She was visiting researcher at Northwestern University (USA) and Energy Research Institute at NTU (Singapore) in 2019 and 2023. She studied a variety of nanomaterial-related topics and now her main scientific interests involve the growth and characterization of hybrid and all-inorganic halide perovskites in the form of thin films and single crystal heterostructures for energy applications. Recently she also focused on the synthesis of inorganic double-perovskite micro and nanocrystals with a high photoluminescence quantum yield in the visible range including the doping with rare earths such as Yb and Er for highly efficient NIR emitters and stable phosphors.

Alessandro Mattoni, received a master degree in physics at the University of Perugia and a PhD in solid state physics at the University of Padova. He is staff researcher of the Italian National Research Council (CNR) and in charge of the unit of Cagliari of the Istituto Officina dei Materiali, where he coordinates the theory group on the multiscale modeling of nanomaterials. A. Mattoni is author of more than 100 papers on international journals and coordinator of several projects on hybrid materials for photovoltaics and energy; he has been the principal investigator of several high-performance computing projects. A.M. developed the first interatomic force-field for classical molecular dynamics of hybrid perovskites.

Research Interests: Theoretical and computational methods for atomistic and multi-scale modeling of functional hybrid nanomaterials. Classical molecular dynamics, electronic structure methods including semi-empiricial tight binding and ab initio methods.