Francisco Fabregat Santiago (B.Sc. in Physics at Universitat de Valencia and University of Leeds in 1995 , Ph.D. from Universitat Jaume I in 2001) joined Universitat Jaume I in 1998 where he is currently full Professor at Physics Department and active member Institute of Advanced Materials (INAM). Among others he made several research stays at Uppsala University, Imperial College, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. He authored more than 100 peer reviewed papers and 5 book chapters, that accumulate more than 11000 cites with an h-index of 54. Prof. Fabregat-Santiago 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 films and devices including ZnO and TiO2 nanostructured films (nanocolloids, nanorods and nanotubes), dye sensitized solar cells, perovskite solar cells, electrochromic materials and liquid and solid state hole conductors. His current interests are focused in the in the analysis of the fundamental properties of nano and bio materials for their application in solar cells, water decontamination, bio-energy, sensors and in the (photo)electrochemical production of added value chemicals.

Giulia is Associate Professor at Physical Chemistry Unit at University of Pavia, leading the PVsquared2 team, and running the European Grant ERCStG Project “HYNANO”aiming at the development of advanced hybrid perovskites materials and innovative functional interfaces for efficient, cheap and stable photovoltaics. Within this field, Giulia contributed to reveal the fundamental lightinduced dynamical processes underlying the operation of such advanced optoelectronic devices whose understanding is paramount for a smart device development and for contributing to the transition of a green economy.

Giulia received an MS in Physical Engineering in 2008 and obtained her PhD in Physics cum laude in 2012 at the Politecnico of Milan. Her experimental thesis focused on the realisation of a new femtosecond-microscope for mapping the ultrafast phenomena at organic interfaces. During her PhD, she worked for one year at the Physics Department of Oxford University where she pioneered new concepts within polymer/oxide solar cell technology. From 2012-2015, she was a post-doctoral researcher at the Italian Institute of Technology in Milan. In 2015, she joined the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) with a Co-Funded Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship. From 2016 to 2019, she has been awarded by the Swiss Ambizione Energy Grant providing a platform to lead her independent research group at EPFL focused on the developemnt of new generation hybrid perovskite solar cells.

She is author of 90 peer-reviewed scientific papers bringing her h-index to 44 (>13’000 citations), focused on developement and understanding of the interface physics which governs the operation of new generation solar cells.

Recently, she received the USERN prize in Physical Science, the Swiss Physical Society Award in 2018 for Young Researcher and the IUPAP Young Scientist Prize in Optics. She is currently USERN Ambassador for Italy and board member of the Young Academy of Europe.

More can be found at https://pvsquared2.unipv.it.

Weblink: https://people.epfl.ch/giulia.grancini?lang=en

Elizabeth von Hauff received her BSc in honours Physics from the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada in 2000, and an MSc in Physics (2001) from the University of Oldenburg, Germany. She completed her PhD in 2005 on charge carrier transport in organic semiconductors. After post doc research from 2006 – 2011 she completed her habilitation in experimental physics. In 2011 Elizabeth accepted a joint appointment as Associated Professor between the Institute of Physics at the University of Freiburg and the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE). From 2013 - 2021 Elizabeth was an Associate Professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. In 2021 she was appointed as Director of the Fraunhofer FEP and Professor of Coating Technologies for Electronics at the TU Dresden.  Her research interests are the investigation of fundamental questions in organic and hybrid solar energy material systems within the context of real applications.