Biography:Laura Herz

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Laura Herz

FInstP
Born
Laura Maria Herz
EducationSchool Sisters of Notre Dame
Alma materUniversity of Bonn
University of Cambridge (PhD)
AwardsNevill Mott Medal and Prize (2018)
Scientific career
FieldsCondensed matter physics
semiconductors
Ultrafast spectroscopy
Photovoltaics
Conjugated polymers[1]
InstitutionsUniversity of Oxford
University of Cambridge
ThesisAggregation effects in conjugated polymer films studied by time-resolved photoluminescence spectroscopy (2002)
Websitewww-herz.physics.ox.ac.uk

Laura Maria Herz FInstP is a Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford. She works on femtosecond spectroscopy for the analysis of semiconductor materials.[1]

Early life and education

Herz studied physics at the University of Bonn and graduated in 1999, first of her class.[2] She worked for two years as an exchange student at University of New South Wales.[3] She joined the University of Cambridge for her doctoral studies, earning a PhD in 2002.[2][4] Here she worked on exciton and polaron dynamics in organic semiconductors.[5]

Research and career

After her PhD, Herz was appointed a postdoctoral research fellow at St John's College, Cambridge, in 2001.[2] She was awarded an Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Advanced Research Fellowship in 2006.[6] Herz became a Professor in 2010.[2]

Herz is an expert in perovskite semiconductors.[7] She has researched the origins of the high charge-carrier mobilities in perovskite materials.[8] She demonstrated that their high efficiency in solar cells was due to long charge-carrier diffusion lengths and non-Langevin recombination.[9][10] She identified that perovskite light emission is broad and can be used in Ultrafast lasers.[11] She recognised that the origin of this broadening is Fröhlich coupling to longitudinal optical phonons.[12]

Herz is also interested in self-assembly and nanoscale effects.[13] She works on Biomimetics light harvesting structures made of porphyrin nanorings[14][15] to explore delocalised excited states.[16][17] She is the co-director of the Imperial College London Centre for Doctoral Training in Plastic Electronic Materials.[2]

She appeared on the BBC Radio 4 show In Our Time in 2015.[18] She will join University of Bayreuth in 2018 to deliver a series of lectures.[19]

Awards and honours

Her awards and honours include:

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 {{Google Scholar id}} template missing ID and not present in Wikidata.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 "CV - Laura M Herz" (in en). https://www-herz.physics.ox.ac.uk/Herz_CV.html. 
  3. ↑ "Public Seminar Laura Herz - 31 March 2016" (in en). School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering. 2016-03-12. https://www.engineering.unsw.edu.au/energy-engineering/news/public-seminar-laura-herz-31-march-2016. 
  4. ↑ Herz, Laura Maria (2002). Aggregation effects in conjugated polymer films studied by time-resolved photoluminescence spectroscopy. jisc.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. OCLC 894595356. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.620191.
  5. ↑ Silva, Carlos; Russell, David M.; Dhoot, Anoop S.; Herz, Laura M.; Daniel, Clément; Greenham, Neil C.; Arias, Ana C.; Setayesh, Sepas et al. (2002). "Exciton and polaron dynamics in a step-ladder polymeric semiconductor: the influence of interchain order" (in en). Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 14 (42): 9803. doi:10.1088/0953-8984/14/42/302. ISSN 0953-8984. Bibcode: 2002JPCM...14.9803S. https://semanticscholar.org/paper/9a28c9c9e5e7ce2b724a19011e4cd17adbde3c34. 
  6. ↑ "KAUST Solar Center Research Conference 2016" (in en-US). https://ksc.kaust.edu.sa/Pages/2016-KAUST-Research-Conference-Speakers-Herz.aspx. 
  7. ↑ Johnston, Michael B.; Herz, Laura M. (2015-12-10). "Hybrid Perovskites for Photovoltaics: Charge-Carrier Recombination, Diffusion, and Radiative Efficiencies" (in EN). Accounts of Chemical Research 49 (1): 146–154. doi:10.1021/acs.accounts.5b00411. ISSN 0001-4842. PMID 26653572. 
  8. ↑ Herz, Laura M. (2017-06-08). "Charge-Carrier Mobilities in Metal Halide Perovskites: Fundamental Mechanisms and Limits" (in EN). ACS Energy Letters 2 (7): 1539–1548. doi:10.1021/acsenergylett.7b00276. ISSN 2380-8195. 
  9. ↑ UNSWSPREE (2016-04-04), UNSW SPREE 201603-31 Laura Herz - Charge-Carrier Diffusion in Hybrid Metal Halide Perovskites, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66O_YVhjyOY, retrieved 2018-09-17 
  10. ↑ Stranks, Samuel D.; Eperon, Giles E.; Grancini, Giulia; Menelaou, Christopher; Alcocer, Marcelo J. P.; Leijtens, Tomas; Herz, Laura M.; Petrozza, Annamaria et al. (2013). "Electron-Hole Diffusion Lengths Exceeding 1 Micrometer in an Organometal Trihalide Perovskite Absorber" (in en). Science 342 (6156): 341–344. doi:10.1126/science.1243982. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 24136964. Bibcode: 2013Sci...342..341S. https://semanticscholar.org/paper/f84ca57b651c85f23bbf9e7c8704051e961152ad. 
  11. ↑ Eperon, Giles E.; Stranks, Samuel D.; Menelaou, Christopher; Johnston, Michael B.; Herz, Laura M.; Snaith, Henry J. (2014). "Formamidinium lead trihalide: a broadly tunable perovskite for efficient planar heterojunction solar cells" (in en). Energy & Environmental Science 7 (3): 982. doi:10.1039/C3EE43822H. ISSN 1754-5692. 
  12. ↑ Wright, Adam D.; Verdi, Carla; Milot, Rebecca L.; Eperon, Giles E.; Pérez-Osorio, Miguel A.; Snaith, Henry J.; Giustino, Feliciano; Johnston, Michael B. et al. (2016-05-26). "Electron–phonon coupling in hybrid lead halide perovskites" (in En). Nature Communications 7: 11755. doi:10.1038/ncomms11755. ISSN 2041-1723. PMID 27225329. Bibcode: 2016NatCo...711755W. 
  13. ↑ "Speakers - IUPAC 2018" (in en-US). IUPAC 2018. http://photoiupac2018.com/speakers/. 
  14. ↑ Parkinson, Patrick; Kamonsutthipaijit, Nuntaporn; Anderson, Harry L.; Herz, Laura M. (2016-05-17). "Size-Independent Energy Transfer in Biomimetic Nanoring Complexes" (in EN). ACS Nano 10 (6): 5933–5940. doi:10.1021/acsnano.6b01265. ISSN 1936-0851. PMID 27176553. 
  15. ↑ Gong, Juliane Q.; Favereau, Ludovic; Anderson, Harry L.; Herz, Laura M. (2016-01-08). "Breaking the Symmetry in Molecular Nanorings" (in EN). The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 7 (2): 332–338. doi:10.1021/acs.jpclett.5b02617. ISSN 1948-7185. PMID 26735906. 
  16. ↑ Rousseaux, Sophie A. L.; Gong, Juliane Q.; Haver, Renée; Odell, Barbara; Claridge, Tim D. W.; Herz, Laura M.; Anderson, Harry L. (2015-09-25). "Self-Assembly of Russian Doll Concentric Porphyrin Nanorings" (in EN). Journal of the American Chemical Society 137 (39): 12713–12718. doi:10.1021/jacs.5b07956. ISSN 0002-7863. PMID 26378660. 
  17. ↑ Hoffmann, Markus; Kärnbratt, Joakim; Chang, Ming-Hua; Herz, Laura M.; Albinsson, Bo; Anderson, Harry L. (2008-06-23). "Enhanced π Conjugation around a Porphyrin[6] Nanoring" (in en). Angewandte Chemie International Edition 47 (27): 4993–4996. doi:10.1002/anie.200801188. ISSN 1433-7851. PMID 18506860. 
  18. ↑ "Michael Faraday, In Our Time - BBC Radio 4" (in en-GB). https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06s9rz9. 
  19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 Bayreuth, Universität. "Leading researcher from Oxford comes to the University of Bayreuth". https://www.physik.uni-bayreuth.de/en/news/2018/20180703-Bessel-Research-Award/index.html. 
  20. ↑ Physics, Institute of. "2018 Nevill Mott Medal and Prize" (in en-GB). http://www.iop.org/about/awards/subject/condensed-matter-and-nanoscale/mott-medallists/page_71722.html. 
  21. ↑ "Success for MPLS staff in Oxford University Student Union teaching awards — Mathematical Physical and Life Sciences Division" (in en). https://www.mpls.ox.ac.uk/news/success-for-mpls-staff-in-oxford-university-student-union-teaching-awards. 

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