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Pedro Afonso Magalhães Centeno

Pedro Afonso Magalhães Centeno

Researcher

Pedro Centeno obtained his Masters degree in Micro and Nanotecnology Engineering in 2018 at NOVA School of Science and Technology and was granted an honorable mention for his Master thesis merit in APREN2019 Prize. In January of 2021, Pedro enrolled his PhD at Materials Research Center (CENIMAT) and Center of Excellence in Microelectronics and Optoelectronics Processes (CEMOP) in the Faculty of Science and Technology of NOVA University, in partnership with the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL).

Rodrigo Ferrão Paiva Martins

Rodrigo Ferrão Paiva Martins

Researcher

Rodrigo Martins is Full Professor at the Department of Materials Science at NOVA School of Science and Technology, member of the Portuguese Academy of Engineering since 2009 and member of the European Academy of Sciences since 2016. He was awarded the gold medal and merit, distinction by the Municipality of Almada for its achievements in R&D.

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Shrabani Panigrahi

Shrabani Panigrahi

Researcher

Academic Profile M.Sc. (2003-2005) in Physics from Vidyasagar University, Paschim Medinipur, West Bengal, India. Ph.D. (2014) From University of Calcutta ( Department of Solid State Physics, IACS, Kolkata, India.) Advisor: Prof. Durga Basak Thesis Title: “Structure, microstructure and photophysical properties of ZnO based nanocomposites”. - Main scientific interests Synthesis of different types of oxide materials: I am expertise to fabricate different types of semiconducting nanomaterials such as ZnO,TiO2, CdS, ZnS, CuS etc. in various forms such as nanorods, nanowires, QDs etc.

Sirazul Haque

Sirazul Haque

Researcher

Sirazul Haque earned his PhD in Advanced Materials and Processing (Nanophononics) in June, 2022 from NOVA School of Science and Technology. His research in PhD was being carried out in the field of nanophotonics, mainly developing novel optical strategies in thin film solar cells (particularly in ultrathin perovskite solar cells) for improving their efficiency, flexibility and stability.

Tiago Pinto Mateus

Tiago Pinto Mateus

Researcher

Tiago received his B.Sc. (2008) and M.Sc. (2010) degrees in Materials Engineering from Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa. He worked at the R&D department of Solar Plus - Produção de Painéis Solares SA (2009-2010), a Portuguese company dedicated to the manufacturing, marketing and development of Thin Film solar modules based on amorphous silicon semiconductors were he researched in the area of nanostructured silicon solar cells deposited by PECVD.

Ugur Deneb Yilmazer Menda

Ugur Deneb Yilmazer Menda

Researcher

Deneb received her PhD degree in Physics in Yildiz Technical University-Istanbul, Turkey. Her thesis was based on electrical characterization of silicon heterojunction (HIT) solar cells. After her doctoral studies she started to focus on organic-inorganic hybrid perovskite solar cells. She currently works in SuperSolar project (https://sites.fct.unl.pt/supersolar) to fabricate colloidal quantum-dot intermediate band solar cells (CQD-IBSCs) based in perovskite host materials, and improved with light trapping structures (photonics), to attain high power conversion efficiency and high stability.