Maria Antonietta Loi
Full Professor & Principal Investigator
Maria Antonietta Loi studied physics at the University of Cagliari in Italy where she received the PhD in 2001. In the same year she joined the Linz Institute for Organic Solar cells, of the University of Linz, Austria as a postdoctoral fellow. Later she worked as researcher at the Institute for Nanostructured Materials of the Italian National Research Council in Bologna, Italy. In 2006 she became assistant professor and Rosalind Franklin Fellow at the Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials of the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. She is now full professor in the same institution and chair of the Photophysics and OptoElectronics group.
She has published more than 240 peer-reviewed articles on photophysics and optoelectronics of different types of materials. In 2013 she has received an ERC Starting Grant and in 2022 and ERC Advanced Grant from the European Research Council. She currently serves as deputy editor of Applied Physics Letters and she is member of the international advisory board of several international journals in physics and materials physics. In 2018 she received the Physicaprijs from the Dutch physics association for her outstanding work on organic-inorganic hybrid materials. In 2020 she became fellow of the American Physical Society. In 2022 she became fellow of the Dutch Academy of Science (KNAW), of the European Academy of Science (EURASC) and fellow of the Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Maria Antonietta Loi
Full Professor & Principal Investigator
Maria Antonietta Loi studied physics at the University of Cagliari in Italy where she received the PhD in 2001. In the same year she joined the Linz Institute for Organic Solar cells, of the University of Linz, Austria as a postdoctoral fellow. Later she worked as researcher at the Institute for Nanostructured Materials of the Italian National Research Council in Bologna, Italy. In 2006 she became assistant professor and Rosalind Franklin Fellow at the Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials of the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. She is now full professor in the same institution and chair of the Photophysics and OptoElectronics group.
She has published more than 240 peer-reviewed articles on photophysics and optoelectronics of different types of materials. In 2013 she has received an ERC Starting Grant and in 2022 and ERC Advanced Grant from the European Research Council. She currently serves as deputy editor of Applied Physics Letters and she is member of the international advisory board of several international journals in physics and materials physics. In 2018 she received the Physicaprijs from the Dutch physics association for her outstanding work on organic-inorganic hybrid materials. In 2020 she became fellow of the American Physical Society. In 2022 she became fellow of the Dutch Academy of Science (KNAW), of the European Academy of Science (EURASC) and fellow of the Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
David Garcia Romero
Senior Scientist
David Garcia Romero is a Postdoc at the University of Groningen in the Photophysics and OptoElectronics group (POE). After a MSc degree in Advanced Material Science and Engineering at Imperial College London, he received a PhD in Organic photovoltaics from the University of Groningen in 2025. He has focused on studying the optoelectronic properties of the new generation of non-fullerene acceptor molecules and their implementation into efficient solar cells. He also collaborated in projects related to quantum dot photodetectors and perovskite solar cells. He is currently a postdoc in the same group in Groningen, where he is involved in the fabrication of efficient and stable tin-lead perovskite solar cells.
David Garcia Romero
Senior Scientist
David Garcia Romero is a Postdoc at the University of Groningen in the Photophysics and OptoElectronics group (POE). After a MSc degree in Advanced Material Science and Engineering at Imperial College London, he received a PhD in Organic photovoltaics from the University of Groningen in 2025. He has focused on studying the optoelectronic properties of the new generation of non-fullerene acceptor molecules and their implementation into efficient solar cells. He also collaborated in projects related to quantum dot photodetectors and perovskite solar cells. He is currently a postdoc in the same group in Groningen, where he is involved in the fabrication of efficient and stable tin-lead perovskite solar cells.