Maria Antonietta Loi (born 4 May 1973) is an Italian physicist who is a Professor of Optoelectronics at the University of Groningen and member of the Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials. Her research considers the development of functional materials for low-cost, high efficiency optoelectronic device. She was awarded the 2018 Netherlands Physical Society Physics prize (Physicaprijs). In 2020, she was elected Fellow of the American Physical Society. In 2022 she became a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) and of the European academy of Science (EurASc). Loi is Deputy Editor-in-chief of Applied Physics Letters.
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| Born | May 4, 1973 |
| Alma mater | University of Cagliari |
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| Institutions | Italian National Research Council Johannes Kepler University Linz |
Early life and education
editLoi was born in Quartu Sant'Elena, Sardinia.[1][2] She studied physics at the University of Cagliari. She was awarded honours for her undergraduate degree in 1997, before embarking upon a doctoral research program. After earning her PhD she moved to the Johannes Kepler University Linz, where she worked as a postdoctoral researcher on organic solar cells.[3] After one year in Austria she returned to Italy, where she joined the Italian National Research Council Institute for Nanostructured Materials.[4]
Research and career
editIn 2006, Loi was appointed Assistant Professor at the University of Groningen, and awarded a Rosalind Franklin Fellowship.[5] Her early work considered the investigation of organic semiconductors and carbon nanotubes photophysical and optoelectronic properties.[6] She was made Chair of the Department of Photophyics and OptoElectronics in 2011, and Full Professor in 2014.[7]
Loi's research considers the development of solution processable semiconductors and hybrid nanomaterials.[8] In particular, she has explored perovskites for solar cells and X-ray detectors.[9][10] She has shown that Sn-based perovskites have intriguing physical properties such as showing photoluminescence from hot-carriers with long lifetimes.[11]
Awards and honours
edit- 2011 Minerva Prize[12]
- 2013 European Research Council Starting Grant[13]
- 2013 Elected to AcademiaNet[14]
- 2018 Physica Prize[15]
- 2020 Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society[16]
- 2022 European Research Council Advanced Grant[17]
- 2022 Elected Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences[18][19]
- 2022 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry
- 2022 Elected Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences[20]
Selected publications
edit- Haotong Wei; Yanjun Fang; Padhraic Mulligan; et al. (21 March 2016). "Sensitive X-ray detectors made of methylammonium lead tribromide perovskite single crystals". Nature Photonics. 10 (5): 333–339. doi:10.1038/NPHOTON.2016.41. ISSN 1749-4885. Wikidata Q60670575.
- Shuyan Shao; Jian Liu; Giuseppe Portale; Hong-Hua Fang; Graeme R. Blake; Gert H. ten Brink; L. Jan Anton Koster; Maria Antonietta Loi (22 September 2017). "Highly Reproducible Sn-Based Hybrid Perovskite Solar Cells with 9% Efficiency". Advanced Energy Materials. 8 (4): 1702019. doi:10.1002/AENM.201702019. ISSN 1614-6832. Wikidata Q60670424.
- Markus C Scharber; Markus Koppe; Jia Gao; et al. (1 January 2010). "Influence of the bridging atom on the performance of a low-bandgap bulk heterojunction solar cell". Advanced Materials. 22 (3): 367–370. doi:10.1002/ADMA.200900529. ISSN 0935-9648. PMID 20217720. Wikidata Q60671035.
References
edit- ^ "Curriculum Vitae". University of Groningen. 2011-01-14. Retrieved 2021-06-29.
- ^ Perelaer, Jolke (2019-07-12). "Researcher Highlight: Maria Antonietta Loi". Advanced Science News. Retrieved 2021-06-29.
- ^ "Women in Energy". 2021-01-14. doi:10.1021/acsenergylett.0c02398.
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- ^ https://www.rug.nl/about-ug/work-with-us/rff/rosalind-franklin/
- ^ "Minerva Prize 2011 for Maria Antonietta Loi". University of Groningen. 2011-10-26. Retrieved 2021-06-29.
- ^ "Curriculum Vitae". University of Groningen. 2011-01-14. Retrieved 2021-06-29.
- ^ "Professor Maria Antonietta Loi receives Physics Prize 2018". University of Groningen. 2018-02-22. Retrieved 2021-06-29.
- ^ "'Gronings' materiaal vergroot mogelijk opbrengst zonnecel". NRC (in Dutch). Retrieved 2021-06-29.
- ^ "Op zoek naar de betere zonnecel". NRC (in Dutch). Retrieved 2021-06-29.
- ^ "Dr. Maria Antonietta Loi". 2019-Conference. Retrieved 2021-06-29.
- ^ "Minerva Prize 2011 for Maria Antonietta Loi". University of Groningen. 2011-10-26. Retrieved 2021-06-29.
- ^ "Three ERC Starting Grants awarded". University of Groningen. 2012-06-13. Retrieved 2021-06-29.
- ^ "Prof. Dr. Maria Antonietta Loi - AcademiaNet". www.academia-net.org. Retrieved 2021-06-29.
- ^ Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications.; https://www.physica.nl/
- ^ "Prof. Dr. Maria Antonietta Loi - Fellow American Physical Society".
- ^ "ERC Advanced Grants for three UG researchers". University of Groningen. 2012-04-26. Retrieved 2022-05-26.
- ^ "KNAW appoints Maria Antonietta Loi as member". University of Groningen. 2022-05-12. Retrieved 2022-05-26.
- ^ "Maria Antonietta Loi" (in Dutch). Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 7 April 2023.
- ^ https://www.eurasc.eu/members/m-a-loirug-nl/member/