Dr. Ludmila Cojocaru  will give a talk on  “Sustainable and Rechargeable Solar Cells”. All are welcomed to join. Please register here (contact form) if you wish to attend the lecture.

Speaker : Dr. Ludmila Cojocaru (Visiting Researcher, Toin University of Yokohama)

Speaker's Profile:

• Ludmila Cojocaru, born in the Republic of Moldova, received her PhD from Bordeaux University (France) for her work on the physical chemistry of condensed materials and their application in liquid-state dye-sensitized solar cells. Subsequently, she was awarded by the Japan Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS) as a first post-doc fellow in the framework of the Japanese-French Associate Laboratory for Next generation Photovoltaic Cells (LIA Next-PV) (LiaNextPV) at the University of Tokyo, and, then, continue working in a national (NEDO) Japanese project at the same University. Her work in Japan was focused on the solidification of liquid-state dye-sensitized solar cells then moved to the perovskite solar cells. As a pioneer working in the field of perovskite solar cells since the earlier stage of their discovery, she concentrated her work on the fabrication of high-performance devices focusing on the interfaces engineering of perovskite and provide a possible reason for the origin of IV hysteresis. Later, she moved to the University of Freiburg (Germany), focusing on the evaporation of perovskite for tandem solar cells application, working in collaboration with Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy (Germany). Before taking up her current position, she also worked as a Junior Researcher at Bordeaux University (France) in an Initiative of Excellence “Make Our Planet Great Again”, where she was enaged in the project which focused on the fabrication of sustainable energy conversion-storage devices by combining perovskite solar cells and supercapacitors, devices connected through a common electrode based on carbon extracted from biomass.