Henk J. Bolink
Group Leader
Henk J. Bolink is a Professor at the University of Valencia and PI of the ERC Advanced Grant project HELD. Henk obtained his Ph.D. in Materials Science at the University of Groningen in 1997. After that he worked at DSM as a materials scientist and project manager. In 2001 he joined Philips, to lead the materials development activity of Philips’s PolyLED project. Since 2003 he is at the Instituto de Ciencia Molecular (ICMol) of the University of Valencia. He is the head of the Molecular Opto-Electronic Devices group supervising approximately 10 Ph.D. students and several post-docs. His current research interests encompass: inorganic/organic hybrid materials such as transition metal complexes and perovskites and their integration in LEDs and solar cells.
Email: henk.bolink(at)uv.es
Tel: +34 9635 44416
Michele Sessolo
Associate professor
Michele Sessolo is Associate Professor in the Department of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Valencia. He received his degree in Chemistry from the University of Padova (Italy) in 2006. He later moved to the University of Valencia where he received a M.Sc. and Ph.D. (2010) for his work on organic light-emitting diodes. He spent 2 years as Marie Curie Fellow in the Bioelectronics Dept. at the Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne (France), working on the application of conducting polymer to electrophysiology. In 2013 he rejoined the University of Valencia, first as a Juan de la Cierva Fellow and later as a Ramón y Cajal fellow, working on innovative perovskite optoelectronic devices. He leads the research line on perovskite photodetector technology.
Email: michele.sessolo(at)uv.es
Tel: +34 9635 44993
Daniel Tordera
Associate Professor
Daniel Tordera is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physical Chemistry at the University of Valencia. He received his Ph.D. in Nanotechnology at the University of Valencia in 2014, where he studied organic electronic systems based on ionic materials for light emission. He was CEO of Lec-Val Lighting, a spin-off created to commercialize the results obtained during his Ph.D. Subsequently, he spent two years as a postdoctoral researcher at Linköping’s University in the field of optics and plasmonics for energy and sensing applications. After that he worked as a Senior Researcher at TNO Holst Centre focusing on image sensors and leading the development on near infrared photodetector solutions. His current research interests are in the topics of organic and perovskite photodetectors and light-emitting electrochemical cells.
Email: daniel.tordera(at)uv.es
Tel: +34 9616 25642
Cristina Roldán Carmona
Ramón y Cajal Fellow
Cristina Roldán Carmona is a Ramón y Cajal researcher at the Institute of Molecular Science (ICMol) at the University of Valencia (UVEG). She studied Chemistry in the University of Córdoba (UCO), and completed her Master degree in Chemistry and Material Science at the same university. She received her Ph. D. in 2014, working on self-organized systems investigated by interfacial spectroscopy and microscopic techniques; and thin films of semiconductors for optoelectronic applications. In 2015 she moved as postdoctoral researcher to the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, EPFL (Suiza), and one year later to Energypolis EPFL-Valais, where she worked as Senior Scientist focusing on novel perovskite materials for photovoltaics. She has recently joint the University of Valencia as distinguished CIDEGENT researcher and Ramon y Cajal Fellow..
Email: cristina.roldan(at)uv.es
Tel: +34 9635 44156
Lidón Gil-Escrig
Postdoctoral researcher
Lidón received her PhD in 2017 from University of Valencia under the supervision of Dr Bolink and Dr Sessolo. Her work focused mainly on vacuum multi-layer perovskites-based opto-electronic devices. She was a post-doctoral researcher at the Helmholtz centre of Berlin with Dr Albrecht. Her research was based on vacuum-processed perovskite solar cells. Lidón is now post-doctoral researcher at Henk Bolink’s group.
Email: lidon.gil(at)uv.es
Tel: +34 9635 44131
Kassio P. S. Zanoni
Juan de la Cierva Fellow
Kassio was a doctorate student in IQ-USP, Brazil, from 2010 to 2016, with an one-year abroad-internship in the University of North Carolina, USA, and received his PhD in Chemistry in April 2016. He was a postdoctoral researcher in Instituto de Física de Sao Carlos-USP from 2016 to 2019. Currently, he is a postdoctoral researcher at the Universidad de Valéncia, Spain. His main interests lie on fabrication and characterization of new materials for optoelectronics, such as perovskite solar cells, and has collaborations on molecular engineering and photobehavior of coordination compounds, in special Ir(III) complexes.
Email: kassio.zanoni(at)uv.es
Tel: +34 9635 44428
Federico Ventosinos
Postdoctoral researcher
Federico Ventosinos is a Maria Zambrano researcher at the Institute of Molecular Science (ICMol) at the University of Valencia (UVEG). He studied the Degree of Physics in the Faculty of Mathematics, Astronomy and Physics (FaMAF) in the University of Cordoba (UNC), Argentina. Then he received the Ph. D. in Physics in 2013 in the University of Litoral (UNL), in Santa Fe, Argentina. The topic of his research was advanced characterization of semiconductors for photovoltaics. Later that year he moved to Paris, France, where he did to postdoctoral stages, the first in GeepS (Paris-Saclay) where he continued to work in advances characterization techniques of semiconductors, then in LPICM (Ecole Polytechnique/CNRS) where he studied silicon based tandem solar cells. He returned to Argentina in 2017 where he got a permanent position (Assistant Researcher of CONICET) in IFIS Institute (Santa Fe) and Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Chemistry Engineering (FIQ-UNL). In 2022 he won a Maria Zambrano scholarship to focus in the advanced characterization techniques for perovskite based materials and solar cells in the Molecular Optoelectronic Devices group.
Email: federico2.Ventosinos(at)uv.es
Tel: +34 9635 44131
Maximiliano Senno
Postdoctoral researcher
Maximiliano Senno obtained his Chemical engineering degree in 2016 at the Universidad Tecnológica Nacional (UTN) in San Francisco, Argentina, and he did his PhD Thesis in Physics on synthesis and computational modelling of hybrid perovskite films with mixed A-site cations at the Universidad Nacional del Litoral (UNL) in Santa Fe, Argentina. He was also Assistant Professor in Computational Physics and Statistical Mechanics at the Facultad de Ingeniería Química (FIQ-UNL).
Currently he is a Postdoctoral Researcher in MOED group, working on induced degradation techniques and computational modelling (Molecular Dynamics, DFT, Machine Learning) of hybrid perovskite materials for photovoltaic applications..
Email: Maximiliano.Senno(at)uv.es
Tel: +34 9635 44263
Vladimir Held
Postdoctoral researcher
Vladimir received his PhD in 2023 from the Comenius University in Bratislava under the supervision of Dr. Peter Siffalovic. His research was based on the vacuum deposition of perovskites. He mainly focused on the in-situ X-ray and photoluminescence studies of perovskite growth during vacuum deposition. Currently, he is a post-doctoral researcher at MOED working on perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells.
Email: vladimir.held(at)uv.es
Tel: +34 9635 44264
Yunseong Choi
Postdoctoral researcher
Yunseong Choi received his Ph.D. from the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), South Korea, in 2023. His doctoral dissertation is titled ‘Vacuum Deposition Engineering toward Highly Efficient, Stable, and Scalable Perovskite Solar Cells.’ His research focuses on understanding the vacuum deposition-based perovskite growth mechanism and developing high-performance, large area perovskite solar cells. His research interests also include perovskite-based tandem solar cells and perovskite-based optoelectronic devices.
Email: yunseong.choi(at)uv.es
Tel: +34 9635 44389
Jorge Ferrando
Technician
Graduated in ETT Electronic Systems by The University of Valencia, Spain. He develops, since 2008, mainly tasks of programming and instrumentation control, as well as characterization of optoelectronic molecular devices and start-up thin film deposition systems.
Email: jorge.ferrando(at)uv.es
Tel: +34 9635 44419
María Monrabal
Technician
Maria completed her B.Sc. in Chemistry from the University of Valencia, Spain. She continued her studies with a PhD in Chemistry in the group of Prof. E. Coronado at the University of Valencia. Later on, she started to work in the group of Dr. Bolink as a Research technician and as support for the management of research projects.
Email: maria.monrabal(at)uv.es
Tel: +34 9635 44105
Arghanoon Moeini
PhD Candidate
Arghanoon has a B.Sc. in Chemical engineering from Tehran North University, Iran. She received a Master´s degree in Industrial chemistry from Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona with a focus on the electrochemistry of 3D printed energy storage devices. Currently she is a Ph.D. student in Molecular Opto-Electronic Devices (MOED) group with the focus on development of tandem solar cells mainly with tin-lead perovskites.
Email: arghanoon.moeini(at)uv.es
Tel: +34 9635 44131
Isabella Antony
PhD Candidate
Isabella completed her Bachelors (2017) and her Masters (2019) in Chemistry from Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Mohali, India. She is currently a PhD student in MOED group and focuses on development of luminescent perovskites using vacuum deposition methods.
Email: Isabella.Kalluvila(at)uv.es
Tel: +34 9635 44428
Manuel Piot
Pre-doctoral researcher
Manuel obtained his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Materials Science and Engineering at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédéral de Lausanne in Switzerland.
Being interested in renewable energy conversion, he did his Master thesis on the topic of perovskite solar cells at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin.
He is currently a pre-doctoral researcher in the MOED group, working on silicon-perovskite tandems solar cells.
Email: manuel.piot(at)uv.es
Tel: +34 9635 44263
Sofía Chozas Barrientos
Pre-doctoral researcher
Sofía obtained her B.Sc in Chemistry from the University of Paris, France.
She was then awarded a scholarship by the European Commission to take part
in the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master’s Degree Program and obtained a joint
M.Sc degree in Chemical Nano-Engineering from the University of
Aix-Marseille (France), from the Wroclaw University of Science and
Technology (Poland), and from the University of Rome Tor Vergata (Italy).
She is now working as a pre-doctoral researcher in the MOED group and focuses on the
fabrication of Perovskite/Silicon tandem solar cells.
Email: sofia.chozas(at)uv.es
Tel: +34 9635 44263
Michele Forzatti
PhD Candidate
Michele graduated as B.Sc. in Chemistry from University of Milan and received his Master’s degree in Physical Chemistry at University of Florence.
He is currently a Ph.D. candidate interested in perovskite-based charge transport and light-emitting materials to be integrated in organic light-emitting diodes based on TADF.
Email: michele.forzatti(at)uv.es
Tel: +34 9635 44264
Javier E. Sebastian Alonso
Pre-doctoral researcher
Javier E. Sebastian Alonso graduated in 2021 on a Chemical Engineering BSc at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain) with a thesis project focused on the application of Silver Nanowires for semi-transparent Perovskite Solar Cells (PSCs) at Uppsala University (Sweden). There, he remained for his MSc in Chemistry for Renewable Energy, while working on Solid State Dye – Sensitized (ss-DSC) and Time Dependent Density Functional Theory (TD-DFT) calculations on the photophysical properties of several donor-acceptor-donor dyads candidates of performing Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescent (TADF). On 2022 he graduated on his MSc with a joint project between UU and the University of Groningen (The Netherlands) on Carbazole Based Self – Assembled Monolayers as Hole Transport Layer for Efficient and Stable Cs0.25FA0.75Sn0.5Pb0.5I3 PSCs. He´s current work at MOED focuses on the Scalability of highly efficient PSCs via vacuum co-evaporation with improved Stability and possible Space applications.
Email: javier.sebastian(at)uv.es
Tel: +34 9635 44428
Serhii Derenko
PhD Candidate
Serhii obtained his Bachelor’s and Master’s in Physics at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine. He is currently a Ph.D. student in MOED group and focuses on perovskite-based photodetectors.
Email: serhii.derenko(at)uv.es
Tel: +34 9635 44737
Joost Reinders
PhD Candidate
Joost obtained his B.Sc. in Materials Science from Fontys University of Applied Sciences in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. Here, he graduated on the work of probing the charge equilibration of core@shell titania-coated gold nanorods at the nanoscale. He continued his study at Utrecht University where he graduated on his M.Sc. in Nanomaterials Science, with his thesis on the bandgap engineering of double perovskites for enhanced photochemical activity. He is now working as a pre-doctoral researcher in the MOED group, where he focuses on the fabrication of thermoelectric materials
Email: joost.reinders(at)uv.es
Tel: +34 9635 44263
Lennart van den Hengel
PhD Candidate
In 2023, Lennart completed a green energy-focused master’s degree in Applied Physics at Delft University, graduating on sequential vapor deposition of perovskites. In parallel he ran a van der Graaff electron accelerator as a technician in the Optoelectronic Materials group. At MOED Lennart will focus on vapour transport deposition.
Email: Lennart.Den(at)uv.es
Tel: +34 9635 44263
Inma Gomar Fernández
PhD Candidate
Inma completed her B.Sc. in Chemistry (2022) and received her Master’s degree in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (2023) at University of Valencia. She is now working as a pre-doctoral researcher in the MOED group and focuses on the fabrication perovskites solar cells using Close-Space Sublimation.
Email: maria.i.gomar(at)uv.es
Tel: +34 9635 44428
