| Project | ESR 3 : Spin Effects in Organic Solar Cells |
Moritz Riede is Associate Professor for Soft Functional Nanomaterials in the Department of Physics at the University of Oxford, UK. Before moving to Oxford, he worked in Germany at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE and the University of Freiburg as PhD student, and at the Technische Universität Dresden as postdoctoral research and head of a junior research group. His academic research is currently focussed on organic solar cells, a new solar cell technology that has potential for light-weight, cheap, flexible, large area, long-living and efficient solar cells. This kind of emerging solar cell is based on organic semiconductors, i.e. the same material class that is used in OLED displays of many modern smartphones. The investigations range from fundamental studies in the photophysics of organic semiconductors to the optimisation of organic solar cells.