Dr. Peter Bobbert

Biography

Peter Bobbert is an Associate Professor and part-time Professor at the University of Twente. He received his PhD from Leiden University in 1988, focusing on the theory of light scattering from rough surfaces. Following his doctoral work, he completed a postdoc at Utrecht University where he conducted electrochemical experiments relevant to his PhD research. He then acquired a postdoctoral fellowship from the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences and worked at Delft University of Technology on quantum phase transitions in arrays of Josephson junctions from 1989 to 1991. After a stint as a guest scientist at Harvard University studying vortex dynamics in these arrays, Bobbert joined Eindhoven University of Technology in 1991. Initially, he worked on ab initio electronic structure calculations of inorganic materials using Green-function approaches. Since 1998, he has focused on the theory of organic electronic devices, including organic field-effect transistors (OFETs), organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), and organic photovoltaic devices. He co-developed organic device modeling software with Philips Research, leading to the creation of the company Simbeyond, of which he is a co-founder. In 2016, he took on the role of part-time professor in the “Theory of Organic Hybrid Nanoelectronics” group at the NanoElectronics Department of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Twente. Bobbert is also the Associate Scientific Director at the Center for Computational Energy Research (CCER), where he has played a significant role in its establishment. He has published over 200 papers and accumulated over 7000 citations, with an H-index of 44 according to Google Scholar.

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