Monday 1 June 2026 9:00am to Wednesday 3 June 2026 5:00pm
Great Hall, King's College London, Strand
About
This workshop will focus on photovoltaic and thermoelectric materials, which generate electricity from solar energy and waste heat, respectively. Achieving efficiency improvements in such materials requires a deeper understanding of the fundamental interactions that govern material properties, including electron-phonon and electron-electron interactions, as well as interactions with defects and external perturbations such as light. Recent advances in modelling techniques have enabled unprecedented insight into these processes. The workshop will bring together leading experts in these areas to discuss recent breakthroughs and identify new directions for dramatically enhancing the performance of thermoelectric and photovoltaic materials.
The workshop will feature a range of invited talks as well as contributed oral presentations, a poster session and discussions.
To register and submit abstracts for posters or contributed talk, please visit the workshop website:
https://thomasyoungcentre.org/event/tyc-8th-energy-materials-workshop/
Invited speakers:
+ Dr. Keith Butler, University College London, UK
+ Prof. Emiliano Cortes, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany
+ Dr. Jennifer Coulter, Flatiron Institute, USA
+ Prof. Janine George, Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany
+ Dr. Samuele Giannini, CNR Pisa, Italy
+ Prof. Feliciano Giustino, University of Texas Austin, USA
+ Prof. Maria Ibanez, Institute of Science and Technology, Austria
+ Prof. Jenny Nelson, Imperial College London, UK
+ Prof. Neophytos Neophytou, University of Warwick, UK
+ Prof. Yu Pan, Southwest University, China
+ Prof. Andrej Pustogow, Technical University of Vienna, Austria
+ Prof. Sivan Refaeli-Abramson, Weizman Institute of Science, Israel
+ Prof. Henning Sirringhaus, University of Cambridge, UK
+ Prof. Kevin Sivula, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland
+Prof. G. Jeffrey Snyder, Northwestern University, USA
+ Dr. Terumasa Tadano, National Institute for Materials Science, Japan
+ Prof. Matthieu Verstraete, University of Utrecht, Netherlands
The workshop is funded by Psi-k, CCP9 and CECAM.