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Alexander Colsmann studied physics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, where he received his diploma in 2003. He worked on his diploma thesis "Light emission and transistor effect in organic semiconductors" in the group of Prof. Jochen Feldmann. In 2003 he joined the Optoelectronics group of Prof. Uli Lemmer at the University of Karlsruhe. In 2008 he was awarded his PhD for his thesis "Charge carrier transport layers for efficient organic semiconductor devices". Since then he has been leading the organic photovoltaics research group at the Light Technology Institute at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). In 2012 the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) awarded a 4.3 Mio. Euro early career researcher grant to Alexander Colsmann that is dedicated to the research on organic tandem solar cells. Further research interests include semi-transparent solar cells for building integration, organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs), printed electronics, polymer electrodes, charge carrier transport layers, electrical doping of organic semiconductors, copper indium diselenide (CIS) and perovskite solar cells.

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TOM AERNOUTS

TOM AERNOUTS

Dr Tom Aernouts is R&D leader of the Thin Film Photovoltaics group at imec. Over the last few years this activity has grown steadily with ...

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MATTHIAS AUF DER MAUR

MATTHIAS AUF DER MAUR

Since 2008 he is researcher with the Dept. of Electronics engineering of University of Rome "Tor Vergata".

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FILIPPO DE ANGELIS

FILIPPO DE ANGELIS

Filippo De Angelis is senior research scientist and deputy director at the CNR Institute of Molecular Sciences and Technology in Perugia, Italy.

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JULIAN BURSCHKA

JULIAN BURSCHKA

Julian Burschka is project leader in R&D of Merck group. Followed by Prof. Michael Graetzel of EPFL institute, he received the PhD degree with a thesis on "High performance solid-state mesoscopic solar cells".

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MARISKA DE WILD-SCHOLTEN

MARISKA DE WILD-SCHOLTEN

Mariska de Wild-Scholten: Director of SmartGreenScans. She has a Master of Science degree in Geochemistry from Utrecht University.

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BJÖRN NIESEN

BJÖRN NIESEN

Björn Niesen is a researcher of the Photovoltaics-Laboratory (PV-Lab) of Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL).

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MÓNICA LIRA-CANTÚ

MÓNICA LIRA-CANTÚ

Mónica Lira-Cantú is Group Leader of the Nanostructured Materials for Photovoltaic Energy Group of the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, ICN2.

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LUCIO CINA

LUCIO CINÀ

Lucio Cinà is a post-doc researcher of the Center of Hybrid and Organic Solar Energy (CHOSE) of the University of Rome "Tor Vergata".

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GERRIT BOSCHLOO

GERRIT BOSCHLOO

Gerrit Boschloo leads the hybrid solar cell research at Uppsala University at the department of Chemistry.

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ALEXANDER COLSMANN

ALEXANDER COLSMANN

Alexander Colsmann studied physics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, where he received his diploma in 2003.

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FRANCESCO BONACCORSO

FRANCESCO BONACCORSO

Francesco Bonaccorso gained a PhD from the Department of Physics, University of Messina in Italy after working at the Italian National Research Council, the Engineering Department of Cambridge University (UK) and the Department of Physics and Astronomy of Vanderbilt University (USA).

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