Giulia Grancini (born May 5, 1984) is an Italian

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who is a Professor of Chemistry at the

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. Her work considers new materials for photovoltaic devices, including perovskites and polymer-based materials. In 2020, Grancini was named the

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Journal of Materials Chemistry Lecturer.

Early life and education

Grancini was born in

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. She attended the Polytechnic University of Milan. During her doctorate degree she spent one year at the

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, where she investigated polymer solar cells. Grancini returned to

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, where she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia. She spent a year as a visiting researcher at the University of Utah working on the physics of hybrid materials with Zeev Vardeny.

Research and career

Grancini investigates the interfaces of optoelectronic devices, including organic and organic-inorganic perovskites. She moved to the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in 2015, where she was awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship to join the research group of Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin. At EPFL she established her own independent research group looking at novel materials for photovoltaics. She was awarded a Swiss National Science Foundation Ambizione Energy grant to study multi-dimensional interfaces for efficient and stable perovskite solar cells. She has pioneered hybrid two- and three-dimensional perovskite systems, which can demonstrate high stability and impressive performance in photovoltaic devices. Grancini makes use of ultra-fast spectroscopies to study the dynamics of the photoexcited states of perovskite materials. In 2018, Grancini was awarded a

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Starting Grant. Her proposal, HYbrid NANOstructured multi-functional interfaces for stable, efficient and eco-friendly photovoltaic devices, looks to realise environmentally friendly perovskites and metal-organic frameworks. She was appointed to the faculty at the

in 2019, where she leads the ''PVsquared2'' team.

Awards and honours

* 2015: Edison Company & Alessandro Volta Foundation National Award for Physics * 2017: International Union of Pure and Applied Physics Young Scientist Prize in Optics * 2019: Elected Vice Chair Selection Committee of the Young Academy of Europe * 2019: Swiss Physical Society Award in Applied Physics * 2020:

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Ambassador for Italy * 2020:

Journal of Materials Chemistry Lectureship * 2020: 100 Donne nella Scienza Contro gli Stereotipi

Selected publications

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References

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