"Printed Photovoltaics Towards the Ultimate Goal of Commercialization"

Tayebeh Ameri

Dr. Tayebeh Ameri became a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in the Institute for Materials and Processes, Chemical Engineering discipline at the University of Edinburgh in December 2020. She carried out her Ph.D. research in Konarka GmbH Austria and received her Ph.D. degree in Engineering Sciences from the Johannes Kepler University Linz, in 2010. Afterward, she conducted her postdoctoral and Habilitation research in the Institute of Materials for Electronics and Energy Technology (i-MEET), Department of Material Science and Engineering at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU). From 2018 till 2020, Dr. Ameri was a team leader and lecturer in the chair of Physical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry at the University of Munich (LMU). She is also the scientific mentor of the start-up SERINO, recently founded by the Medical Valley Award, on the development of the next generation of IR-detectors for medical applications.

Dr. Ameri’s research involves the development of printed optoelectronics with a focus on photovoltaic and photodetector technologies. She has authored over 120 peer-reviewed publications/book chapters, which are cited over 8900 times (Google Scholar). Dr Ameri has received several prestigious awards including Christiane-Nüsslein-Volhard-Stiftung, Wolfgang Finkelnburg, and Arnold Sommerfeld Awards. In November 2020, she was awarded a fellowship in the Heisenberg Programme of the German Research Foundation (DFG). Dr. Ameri is selected as one of the WES Top 50 Women in Engineering (WE50) 2021: Engineering Heroes.