Marina Freitag Dr Marina Freitag is currently a Reader in Energy Materials and a Royal Society University Research Fellow at Newcastle University. She is developing new light-driven technologies that incorporate coordination polymers to solve the most important challenges in the research area, including issues of sustainability, stability and performance of hybrid PV. The development of such highly innovative concepts has given Marina international recognition, including recipient of the prestigious 2022 Royal Society of Chemistry Harrison-Meldola Memorial Prize 2022, and placed her at the heart of a new wave of sustainable optoelectronic devices.Her research into hybrid molecular devices, began during her doctoral studies (2007-2011, Rutgers University, NJ, USA) where she was awarded an Electrochemical Society Travel Award and Dean Dissertation Fellowship 2011. Dr Freitag moved to Uppsala University (2013-2015) for a postdoctoral research position, which focused on the implementation of alternative redox mediators, leading to a breakthrough today known as “zombie solar cells”. Dr Freitag was invited to further develop this work at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) with Prof. Anders Hagfeldt (July 2015-August 2016). From 2016-2020 she was appointed as Assistant Professor at Uppsala University, Sweden, where she received the Göran Gustaffsson Young Researcher Award 2019 Tomislav Friščić Tomislav Friščić is a Professor and Leverhulme International Chair in Green and Sustainable Chemistry at the University of Birmingham (UK). His team is developing strategies for safer, environmentally-friendly synthesis and the design of advanced functional materials. He is a co-author on over 300 peer-reviewed publications, book chapters and patent applications (4 granted so far), and is also a co-founder of two “CleanTech” start-up companies. He received his B.Sc. at the University of Zagreb with Branko Kaitner (2001), Ph.D. with Leonard MacGillivray at the University of Iowa (2006). He was a post-doctoral associate with William Jones (2006) at the Pfizer Institute for Pharmaceutical Materials Science, and Herchel Smith Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge (2008). He was a Professor and Tier-1 Canada Research Chair in Mechanochemistry and Solid-state Chemistry at McGill University until 2022. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, member of the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists of the Royal Society of Canada, corresponding member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, and a former Chair of the Canadian National Committee for Crystallography. His group’s work was recognized by awards, including the NSERC John C. Polany Award (2022), the Brusina Medal of the Croatian Society of Natural Sciences (2021), Award for Research Excellence in Materials Chemistry of the Canadian Society for Chemistry (2019), Royal Society of Canada Rutherford Medal (2018), Steacie Prize for Natural Sciences (2018), and others. Janine George Dr. Janine George received her PhD in computational and solid-state chemistry in 2017 from RWTH Aachen University, where she was advised by Richard Dronskowski. Her PhD was funded by the Fonds der chemischen Industrie. She then worked as a postdoctoral researcher and Marie Curie fellow in the laboratories of Geoffroy Hautier and Gian-Marco Rignanese at Université catholique de Louvain in Belgium, where she specialized on materials informatics and data-driven research. During her postdoc, she worked as a guest researcher in Volker Deringer’s group at the University of Oxford, which was funded by HPCEuropa3. She has been a junior group leader at the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung, BAM) and at the Friedrich-Schiller University in Jena since May 2021. Her research group is interested in data analysis and high-throughput computation for material discovery.
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