News - M2N Research Group Eindhoven

20 November 2020
Congratulations to Dr. Bart Saes, who successfully defended his PhD thesis "Unconventional Chromophores for Organic Solar Cells"
7 October 2020
A warm welcome to Bruno Branco who started the last two years of his PhD in the eSCALED project today.
15 September 2020
A warm welcome to Wietse van Geel who started his PhD today.
1 September 2020
A warm welcome to Ludovico Riccardi who started the last two years of his PhD in the eSCALED project today.
1 July 2020
A warm welcome to Willemijn Remmerswaal who started her PhD today.
30 April 2020
Dario’s paper Advances in Solution‐Processed Multijunction Organic Solar Cells was among the the top 10% most downloaded papers in Advanced Materials. Of work published in Advanced Materials between January 2018 and December 2019, it received some of the most downloads in the 12 months following online publication.
30 April 2020
Dario’s paper Solution‐Processed Tin Oxide‐PEDOT:PSS Interconnecting Layers for Efficient Inverted and Conventional Tandem Polymer Solar Cells was among the the top 10% most downloaded papers in Solar RRL. Of work published in Solar RRL between January 2018 and December 2019, it received some of the most downloads in the 12 months following online publication.
23 April 2020
Congratulations to Prof. Peter Bobbert with his promotion to Full Professor at the TU/e in "Computational Nanophysics"
10 March 2020
Xander de Vries, Reinder Coehoorn and Peter Bobbert published their paper High energy acceptor states strongly enhance exciton transfer between metal organic phosphorescent dyes in Nature Communications.
3 March 2020
Congratulations to Dr. Aart Ligthart, who successfully defended his PhD thesis "Experimental study of the exciton dynamics in organic light-emitting diodes towards an mechanistic description"
16 January 2020
Peter Bobbert co-author of the Nature paper “Classification with a disordered dopant atom network in silicon”
15 January 2020
Congratulations to Dr. Giulio Simone, who successfully defended his PhD thesis "Organic Photodiodes"

17 October 2019
Congratulations to Dr. ir. Gaël Heintges, who successfully defended his PhD thesis "Influencing the photovoltaic properties and aggregation of diketopyrrolopyrrole based polymers via structural modification".
14 October 2019
A warm welcome to Alessandro Caiazzo who started his PhD today.
18 September 2019
Congratulations to Dr. Xander de Vries , who successfully defended his PhD thesis "Charge and exciton transport in organic semiconductors: The role of molecular vibrations"
2 September 2019
A warm welcome to Mahyar Taherpour who started his PhD today.
1 September 2019
Congratulations to Christoph Hauenstein for winning the award for best talk at Krutyń summer school 2019
28 June 2019
Mengmeng Li 's paper on polymorphism of a semiconducting polymer has been published today in Nature Communications . More info can also be found on the TU/e site and Nature's Device & Materials Engineering blog.
12 June 2019
Congratulations to Kunal Datta for winning a Poster Prize at the Next-Gen IV: PV Materials Conference in Groningen, for his poster "Photoinduced Halide Segregation in Wide-Bandgap Perovskites"
6 June 2019
Congratulations to Dr. Robin Willems, who successfully defended his PhD thesis "Relating energy levels of organic semiconductors to solar cell performance"

18 December 2018
Congratulations to Pieter van Thiel for receiving his MSc diploma Chemical Engineering.
10 December 2018
Congratulations to Dr. Dario Di Carlo Rasi for successfully defending his PhD thesis "Tandem, triple and quadruple junction polymer solar cells"
26 November 2018
A warm welcome to Olivera Vuković who started her PhD research in the eSCALED project today.
22 November 2018
A warm welcome to Dr. Miaomiao Li who started her postdoc research in our group today.
25 October 2018
Congratulations to Dr. Fallon Colberts for successfully defending her PhD thesis " Processing organic photovoltaic layers from and on water".
11 October 2018
Congratulations to Kunal Datta for winning the STOOR Education Award for the best tutor in 2nd year courses at the Applied Physics Department.
26 September 2018
Congratulations to Dr. Vikas Negi for successfully defending his PhD thesis "Exploring the process-structure-property relationship of organic solar cells by high performance computer simulations".
25 September 2018
Congratulations to Dr. Ameneh Najafi for successfully defending her PhD thesis "Emergent magnetism in intercalated epitaxial graphene by hydrogen and tungsten".
17 September 2018
Congratulations to Edward Imhof and Tom van der Pol for receiving their MSc diplomas Chemical Engineering
15 September 2018
A warm welcome to Tom van der Pol who started his PhD project today
14 September 2018
Congratulations to Yuze Li for receiving his MSc diploma Sustainable Energy Technology.
12 September 2018
Congratulations to Dr. Ruurd Heuvel for successfully defending his PhD thesis "Conjugated polymers for organic solar cells with reduced photon energy loss”
1 September 2018
A warm welcome to Xiao Ma who started his PhD project today.
26 -29 August 2018
We had the great pleasure to welcome all the participants and the lectures for the ORZEL Summer School on OPV.
1 August 2018
Welcome to Dr. Dong Zhang who started as post-doctoral researcher to strengthen our interactions with Solliance
16 July 2018
Congratulations to Dr. Mengmeng Li who has been awarded a Veni Grant 2018 from NWO for research on "Polymer monolayer electronics". He is one of the eight Veni laureates at the TU/e this year.
1 July 2018
A warm welcome to Bas van Gorkom who started his PhD project today.
28 June 2018
Congratulations to Dr. Bardo Bruijnaers for successfully defending his PhD thesis “Lead halide perovskite solar cells”.
15 June 2018
Today we paid our last respect to Rein Rumphorst who passed away on June 8 at the age of 92. We will remember Rein as a unique electronics expert and a man who extended a helping hand to anyone who wanted it. For an obituary see Cursor.
14 June 2018
Congratulations to Bas van Gorkom for receiving his MSc diploma Sustainable Energy Technology.
31 May 2018
Congratulations to Robin Willems for winning the Wiley Poster Prize at the HOPV 2018 conference in Benidorm for his poster “Accurate determination of HOMO energies in conjugated diketopyrrolopyrrole-based polymers for predicting the open-circuit voltage of organic photovoltaic devices”
and to Junke Wang for winning the RSC Poster Prize at the HOPV 2018 in Benidorm conference for his poster “Surface modification of tin oxide transport layer with fullerenes for efficient perovskite solar cells”.
24 May 2018
Congratulations to Dr. Alessia Senes for successfully defending her PhD thesis “Orientation of transition dipole moments in solution processed small molecular emitters”.
14 March 2018
Congratulations to Annelore Aarts for receiving her MSc diploma Chemical Engineering.
10 January 2018
Congratulations to Dr. Andrey Gorbunov for successfully defending his PhD thesis “Ferroelectric switching phenomena in organic dielectrics and semiconductors”.
1 January 2018
Welcome back to Dr. Koen Hendriks who started his Veni project “Ambipolar Molecules for Non-Aqueous Redox flow Batteries” with DIFFER.

13 December 2017
Congratulations to Eric Schiepers for receiving his MSc diploma Chemical Engineering.
12 December 2017
Congratulations to Benjamin Feleki for winning the Poster Prize at the Meeting Materials Conference in Noordwijkerhout for his poster “Towards Lead‐free Organometal Halide Perovskite Solar Cells for Steel Substrates”.
16 October 2017
A warm welcome to Kunal Datta who started his PhD project today.
1 October 2017
A warm welcome to Dr Haijun Bin who started as a postdoc today.
1 October 2017
A warm welcome to Matt Dyson who started as a researcher today.
28 September 2017
Congratulations to Dr. Qiang (Mike) Wang for successfully defending his PhD thesis “Solution-processed small-molecule organic solar cells”.
15 September 2017
Congratulations to Kunal Datta for receiving his MSc diploma Sustainable Energy Technology.
23 June 2017
Xander de Vries has won the Best Poster Award at the Optical Probes 2017 (OP2017) Conference in Quebec, Canada.
1 July 2017
A warm welcome to Dr. Anna Todinova who started as a postdoc today.
24 May 2017
Congratulations to Dr. Bardo Bruijnaers for winning the RSC Poster Prize at the HOPV 2017 conference in Lausanne for his poster “The impact of oxygen on charge carrier recombination in planar p-i-n perovskite solar cells”.
6 April 2017
Professor Peter Bobbert gave his inaugural lecture “Bij nader inzien: nano-elektronica onder de loep” at the University of Twente where he has been appointed as professor of Theory of Organic and Hybrid Nanoelectronics.
20 March 2017
A warm welcome to Niels de Vries who started his PhD project today.
1 March 2017
Congratulations to Dr. Mengmeng Li who has been awarded a “Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Individual Fellowship’ from the European Commission in the Horizon 2020 program. The grant is worth nearly 166,000 euros for two years.
1 February 2017
A warm welcome to Benjamin Feleki who started his PhD project today.
12 January 2017
Congratulations to Dr. Andrea Massé for successfully defending his PhD thesis “Multiscale modelling of charge transport in organic devices: from molecule to device”.

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