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Maria Antonietta Loi
Maria Antonietta Loi
Born	May 4, 1973 (age 51); Quartu Sant'Elena
Alma mater	University of Cagliari
	Scientific career
Institutions	Italian National Research Council ; Johannes Kepler University Linz

Maria Antonietta Loi (born 4 May 1973) is an Italian physicist who is a Professor of Optoelectronics at the University of Groningen and member of the Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials. Her research considers the development of functional materials for low-cost, high efficiency optoelectronic device. She was awarded the 2018 Netherlands Physical Society Physics prize (Physicaprijs). In 2020, she was elected Fellow of the American Physical Society. In 2022 she became a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) and of the European academy of Science (EurASc). Loi is Deputy Editor-in-chief of Applied Physics Letters.

Early life and education

Loi was born in Quartu Sant'Elena, Sardinia.^[1]^[2] She studied physics at the University of Cagliari. She was awarded honours for her undergraduate degree in 1997, before embarking upon a doctoral research program. After earning her PhD she moved to the Johannes Kepler University Linz, where she worked as a postdoctoral researcher on organic solar cells.^[3] After one year in Austria she returned to Italy, where she joined the Italian National Research Council Institute for Nanostructured Materials.^[4]

Research and career

In 2006, Loi was appointed Assistant Professor at the University of Groningen, and awarded a Rosalind Franklin Fellowship.^[5] Her early work considered the investigation of organic semiconductors and carbon nanotubes photophysical and optoelectronic properties.^[6] She was made Chair of the Department of Photophyics and OptoElectronics in 2011, and Full Professor in 2014.^[7]

Loi's research considers the development of solution processable semiconductors and hybrid nanomaterials.^[8] In particular, she has explored perovskites for solar cells and X-ray detectors.^[9]^[10] She has shown that Sn-based perovskites have intriguing physical properties such as showing photoluminescence from hot-carriers with long lifetimes.^[11]

Awards and honours

2011 Minerva Prize^[12]
2013 European Research Council Starting Grant^[13]
2013 Elected to AcademiaNet^[14]
2018 Physica Prize^[15]
2020 Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society^[16]
2022 European Research Council Advanced Grant^[17]
2022 Elected Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences^[18]^[19]
2022 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry
2022 Elected Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences^[20]

Selected publications

Haotong Wei; Yanjun Fang; Padhraic Mulligan; et al. (21 March 2016). "Sensitive X-ray detectors made of methylammonium lead tribromide perovskite single crystals". Nature Photonics. 10 (5): 333–339. doi:10.1038/NPHOTON.2016.41. ISSN 1749-4885. Wikidata Q60670575.
Shuyan Shao; Jian Liu; Giuseppe Portale; Hong-Hua Fang; Graeme R. Blake; Gert H. ten Brink; L. Jan Anton Koster; Maria Antonietta Loi (22 September 2017). "Highly Reproducible Sn-Based Hybrid Perovskite Solar Cells with 9% Efficiency". Advanced Energy Materials. 8 (4): 1702019. doi:10.1002/AENM.201702019. ISSN 1614-6832. Wikidata Q60670424.
Markus C Scharber; Markus Koppe; Jia Gao; et al. (1 January 2010). "Influence of the bridging atom on the performance of a low-bandgap bulk heterojunction solar cell". Advanced Materials. 22 (3): 367–370. doi:10.1002/ADMA.200900529. ISSN 0935-9648. PMID 20217720. Wikidata Q60671035.