Dr. Amita Ummadisingu

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Biography

Amita Ummadisingu holds a Doctorate in Chemistry from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), where she worked with Professor Michael Grätzel to unravel the formation of three-dimensional hybrid perovskite materials for highly efficient solar cells. Her findings were presented at the 67th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Chemistry in 2017. She gained her doctorate in 2018 and subsequently served as a postdoctoral scientist at EPFL. In 2019, she joined the University of Cambridge as a Swiss National Science Foundation Fellow hosted by Professor Henning Sirringhaus at the Cavendish Laboratory, focusing on charge transport physics in three-dimensional and novel two-dimensional perovskites. In 2022, she joined University College London as a lecturer in the Department of Chemical Engineering. As an emerging researcher, Ummadisingu has been involved in numerous collaborative projects and has received accolades including the Clariant CleanTech Award from the Swiss Chemical Society in 2018. Her research interests encompass nature-inspired solutions in chemical engineering, particularly in the context of sustainable energy.

Research Interests

Experience

Lecturer

2022-01-01 — Present

University College London, Department of Chemical Engineering • London, United Kingdom

Teaching and conducting research in Nature-Inspired Chemical Engineering.

Research Associate

2019-01-01 — 2022-01-01

University of Cambridge, Department of Physics • Cambridge, United Kingdom

Research on charge transport in perovskite materials.

Postdoctoral Research Scientist

2018-01-01 — 2019-01-01

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne • Lausanne, Switzerland

Investigated hybrid perovskite materials for solar cell applications.