After six years working as PostDoc and leading a junior research group on organic photovoltaics at the Institut für Angewandte Photophysik (IAPP) of the Technical University of Dresden, Germany, I joined the Oxford's Department of Physics as University Lecturer in the Condensed Matter Physics Subdepartment and Wolfson College as governing body fellow in 2013. My research interests are renewable energies and energy policy in general and organic photovoltaics in particular (although there are admittedly sunnier places than the UK...). My further interests include open science, support of early stage researchers as well as the special responsibility of researchers towards society and how to best tackle global challenges.
From 2014 to 2019, I was member of the Global Young Academy, an international academy of 200 early to mid career researchers from all disciplines who share the passion for research for the benefit for society. These five years, which included three years serving on the elected Executive Committee, one of which as Co-Chair, were intense, but more than worthwhile and rewarding, and a unique opportunity for being active at the interface between research and society with an amazing group of like-minded people. In December 2023, I was elected Fellow of the International Science Council, supporting and promoting science as a global public good.
In January 2020, Grey Christoforo, James Ball, Henry Snaith and I co-founded Ark Metrica, solving problems one measurement at a time focussing on open science hardware and software. More recently, Dr Pascal Kaienburg, Chris Charles and I co-founded TerraChange Solar, a venture in the space of organic photovoltaics. We graduated from Oxford's Climate Stream in the Creative Destruction Lab in 2024, won in the category "Emerging Tech" in Oxfordshire Business Awards and completed StartLife Accelerate in 2025.