Harmonizing organic photovoltaics research and development among academia and industry

Eva M. Herzig is a professor at the Institute of Physics of the University of Bayreuth. She received her PhD from the University of Edinburgh (UK) and worked in industry on renewable energies and as a postdoc at the Technical University of Munich (Germany). Her group focuses on nanostructure control via processing and the characterization of thin films, applying time-resolved, multi-modal measurement methods to resolve structures on the nanoscale with a current focus on organic and hybrid energy materials.

Feng Gao is a professor and Wallenberg Scholar at Linköping University in Sweden. He received his PhD from the University of Cambridge (UK) in 2011, followed by a Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoc fellowship at Linköping University. His group currently focuses on research into solution-processed energy materials and devices, mainly based on organic semiconductors and metal halide perovskites.

Jonas Bergqvist is CTO at Epishine AB. He holds a master’s degree in applied physics and a doctoral degree in biomolecular and organic electronics from Linköping University, Sweden. Jonas has 15 years of experience within organic solar cells and is one of the cofounders of Epishine AB, where he leads the technology development of roll-to-roll manufacturing of printed organic solar cells for indoor applications.

Maria A. Loi is a professor at the Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials of the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. She received a PhD in physics from the University of Cagliari, Italy, in 2001. She has been a postdoctoral fellow at the Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Austria, and at the National Research Council in Bologna, Italy. She joined the University of Groningen in 2006 as a Rosalind Franklin Fellow, and she became full professor in the same institution in 2014. She focuses on the investigation of the photophysics of unconventional semiconductors and in their application into optoelectronic devices.

Sebastian B. Meier is the director of OPV technology and manufacturing at ASCA GmbH & Co. KG. He holds a diploma degree in materials science and a doctoral degree in engineering from the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. He has 15 years of industrial experience in the field of organic and printed electronics and is author and co-author of numerous scientific publications in recognized international journals as well as patents in the field of organic light-emitting devices and solar cells.