Christoph BRABEC

Christoph J. Brabec holds the chair “materials for electronics and energy technology (i-MEET)” at the Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg. He is also the scientific director at the Helmholtz Institute Erlangen-Nuremberg for Renewable Energies. He received his PhD (1995) in physical chemistry from Linz university, joined the group of Prof. Alan Heeger at UCSB for a sabbatical, and continued to work on all aspects of organic semiconductor spectroscopy as assistant professor at Linz university with Prof. Serdar Sariciftci. He joined the SIEMENS research labs as project leader for organic semiconductor devices in 2001, finished his habilitation in physical chemistry in 2003 at Linz university and joined Konarka Technologies in 2004, where he held the position of the CTO. He is author and co-author of more than 600 papers and nearly 100 patents and patent applications and has a Hirsch index of > 70. He has been ranked among the Top 1% materials researchers worldwide by Thomson-Reuters continuously form 2013-2018