Dr. Sawanta S. Mali Ph. D., FMASc

Currently, I am working as a Marie Sklodowska- Curie  Actions COFUND Energy for Future (E4F) Fellow (Marie-Curie COFUND Programme coordinated by Iberdrola) at Smart Materials Research and Device Technology (SMaRDT) Group, Department of Pure & Applied Chemistry, under Dr. Aruna Ivaturi. My research proposal for E4F fellowship is focused on fabrication of multijunction perovskite solar cells.

Before joining to University of Strathclyde, I worked as Associate Research Professor at Chonnam National University, S. Korea. I was also worked as An outstanding overseas young researcher & Assistant Research Professor under National Research Foundation of Korea (KRF), Brain-Pool (BP) Program at Polymer Energy Materials Laboratory (PEML), under Prof. Chang Kook Hong, Professor at School of Applied Chemical Engineering, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, South Korea (2014-2021). From December 2012-2016, I worked as a Research Professor at Chonnam National University Gwangju South Korea, where I started perovskite research area from scratch and now our group competing with world efficiency. I am recipient of the prestigious “Best Ph. D. thesis Award” by the International Solvothermal and Hydrothermal Association (ISHA)-2014, France. I received my Ph. D. degree in Physics (2013) from Shivaji University Kolhapur, M. S. India in 2013 in Polymer solar cell based on nanostructured metal oxides under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Pramod S. Patil, Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Shivaji University Kolhapur with fully funded fellowship from DAE-BRNS, Mumbai India.

Major publications: Nature Energy, Energy & Environmental Science, Advanced Materials, Materials Today, Advanced Energy Materials, ACS Energy letter, Advanced Functional Materials, Nano Today, Nano Energy, Matter, Nano Letters, JMCA, etc. with total number of publications over 250 and more than 10000 citations.

Research Interest

Perovskite solar cells, Tandem solar cells, defect analysis, upscaling, onsite implementation.

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