Michael Saliba
University of Stuttgart & Research Center Juelich
Biography
Prof. Michael Saliba is a full professor and the director of the Institute for Photovoltaics (ipv) at the University of Stuttgart. He holds a dual appointment at the Helmholtz Research Center J眉lich, Germany. His research focuses on a deeper understanding and improvement of optoelectronic properties of photovoltaic materials with an emphasis on emerging perovskites for a sustainable energy future. Prof. Saliba鈥檚 seminal work on multicomponent perovskites has established a general strategy for the combinatorial synthesis and exploration of novel materials. Michael Saliba also is the Speaker of the Graduate School for 鈥淨uantum Engineering鈥�. He was awarded a Starting Grant by the European Research Council.
Previously, Prof. Saliba was an Assistant Professor at TU Darmstadt, a Group Leader at Fribourg University and a Marie Curie Fellow at EPFL with research stays at Cornell and Stanford. He obtained his PhD at Oxford University and MSc degrees in Physics and Mathematics at Stuttgart University together with the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research.
Prof. Saliba has published 200 works attracting 50,000 citations and filed 5 patents in the fields of plasmonics, lasers, LEDs and perovskite optoelectronics. He was on the Early Career Board of Nano Letters, is on the Editorial Advisory Board of ACS Energy Letters and is a Senior Editorial Board Member of Materials Today. Clarivate lists him as a Highly Cited Researcher for six times in a row since 2018. He was awarded the Heinz-Maier-Leibnitz prize by the German Research Foundation (DFG), the Early Career Prize in Semiconductors by IUPAP, and named one of the World鈥檚 35 Innovators Under 35 by the MIT Technology Review; he is also a Fellow of the Internation Science Council. In addition, Prof. Saliba received the Kavli Foundation Early Career Lectureship in Materials Science from the Materials Research Society, the Curious Minds Award from Merck the EU-40 Materials Award from the European Materials Research Society, and the High Impact Award from the Helmholtz Association.
RSC affiliations
Editor-in-Chief, EES Solar