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I am Professor of Energy Materials and Optoelectronics in the Department of Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology and Department of Physics (Cavendish Laboratory), University of Cambridge. I am also a Fellow of Clare College. I graduated from the University of Adelaide in 2007 with a BA (German and Applied Mathematics), BSc Hons (Physics and Physical Chemistry) and a University Medal. I then completed my PhD as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, receiving the 2012 Institute of Physics Roy Thesis Prize. From 2012-2014, I was a Junior Research Fellow at Oxford University and Worcester College, Oxford, before holding a Marie Curie Fellowship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2014-2016). I established my research group (@Strankslab) in Cambridge in 2017, and we are also part of the Optoelectronics Group in the Department of Physics.My research focuses on the optical and electronic properties of emerging semiconductors including halide perovskites, carbon allotropes and organic semiconductors for low-cost electronics applications such as photovoltaics and lighting. I received the 2016 IUPAP Young Scientist in Semiconductor Physics Prize, the 2017 Early Career Prize from the European Physical Society, the 2018 Henry Moseley Award and Medal from the Institute of Physics the 2019 Marlow Award from the Royal Society of Chemistry, the 2021 IEEE Stuart Wenham Award, the 2021 Leverhulme Prize in Physics, the 2021 EES Lectureship, the 2022 Lem Prize and 2024 Blavatnik Finalist Award.I am a TED Fellow and was listed by the MIT Technology Review as one of the 35 under 35 innovators in Europe. I am a co-founder of Swift Solar, a startup developing lightweight perovskite PV panels, and Sustain/Ed, a not-for-profit developing education for school-age children around climate change solutions. I am also an Associate Editor at the AAAS journal Science Advances, and sit on the Editorial Board for the journals ACS Energy Letters and Advanced Energy Materials.You can find my publications, media activities and details of ongoing projects on my group webpage (http://www.strankslab.com).

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