Dr. Gerrit Boschloo

Biography

Gerrit Boschloo studied Molecular Sciences at Wageningen Agricultural University (the Netherlands), obtaining a degree (Landbouwkundig Ingenieur) in 1991. His examination work was in Physical Chemistry involving photochemical production of hydrogen using Ru(bpy)3 colloidal RuO2. He performed his PhD research at Delft University of Technology from 1992 to 1996 in the Applied Inorganic Chemistry group led by Professor J. Schoonman, under the supervision of Dr. Goossens. He defended his Ph.D. thesis entitled "Solar Energy Conversion Porphyrin-Sensitized Titanium Dioxide" on December 10th, 1996. Boschloo held post-doctoral positions at University College Dublin with Professor D.J. Fitzmaurice, focusing on spectroelectrochemistry of porous nanostructured metal oxides, and at Uppsala University with Professor Anders Hagfeldt on p-type NiO dye-sensitized solar cells. From 2005 to 2008, he was employed as a researcher at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. Currently, he is a Professor of Physical Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry - Ångström Laboratory, Uppsala University, where he leads the solar cell research group. His main research interests include advanced photoelectrochemical characterization of dye-sensitized solar cells and in-depth investigations into lead halide perovskite solar cells. He is the author of more than 290 peer-reviewed articles and has an H-index of 90, appearing on the Highly Cited Researchers list in 2018. Boschloo serves as an associate editor for ACS Applied Energy Materials from 2019 to 2024 and is a co-founder of Dyenamo AB.

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