Our former PhD student Paz Sebastiá Luna got the first prize for the Best Doctoral Thesis from the Nanoscience and Molecular Materials Group of the Spanish Chemical and Physical Royal Societies (GENAM by its initials in Spanish).
The Awards ceremony will take place in the next fall.
The thesis, entitled: “Low toxicity metal halide semiconductors for optoelectronics and thermoelectrics”, was directed by Professor Henk Bolink and Dr. Francisco Palazón.
During her PhD, Dr. Sebastiá Luna developed several semiconductor thin films for renewable energy applications. In particular, she focused on low-toxicity alternatives to lead-based perovskites and chalcogenides for photovoltaics, light-emission, and thermoelectrics. Her work was rightly recognized by an important number of highly-cited publications and now also by this important national prize.
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