Anna Fontcuberta i Morral explained

Honorific Prefix:Professor
Anna Fontcuberta i Morral
Citizenship:Spain, Switzerland
Awards:Rodolphe and Renée Haenny Fondation Prize (2012)
EPS Emmy Noether Distinction (2015)
Website:https://www.epfl.ch/labs/lmsc/
Education:Physics
Material Science
Alma Mater:University of Barcelona
Université Sorbonne Paris Nord
Ecole Polytechnique
Doctoral Advisor:Pere Roca i Cabarrocas
Academic Advisors:Harry A. Atwater
Discipline:Physics
Material Science
Workplaces:École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Main Interests:Nanotechnology
Semiconductor Nanostructures
Molecular-beam epitaxy
Solar cells

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral (born 1975) is a Spanish and Swiss physicist and materials scientist. Her research focuses on nanotechnology applied in the production of solar cells. She is a full professor at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and the head of the Laboratory of Semiconductor Materials.[1] [2]

Career

Fontcuberta i Morral studied physics at University of Barcelona and received her Bachelor's degree in 1997. In the following year she gained a diploma (Diplôme d'Etudes Approfondis, D.E.A.) in material sciences from Université Sorbonne Paris Nord. As a graduate student she joined the group of Pere Roca i Cabarrocas at Ecole Polytechnique in Palaiseau, France, and graduated in 2001 with a PhD on polymorphous silicon.[3] She then went to the California Institute of Technology to work as postdoctoral scholar with Harry A. Atwater.[4]

In 2003, she became a permanent research fellow at French National Centre for Scientific Research at the École Polytechnique. From 2004 to 2005 she was visiting scientist at California Institute of Technology. During this time she co-founded the startup company Aonex Technologies specialized in layer in the production of multi-junction solar cells.[5] Sponsored by a Marie Curie Excellence Grant she became team leader at the Walter Schottky Institute at the Technical University of Munich in 2005, where she also habilitated in physics in 2009.[6] [7] There, she started her independent research activities on arsenic-based nanowires.

In 2008, she joined the Institute of Materials Science & Engineering at the School of Engineering of EPFL as an assistant professor. In 2014 and 2019, she was successively promoted to associate and full professor.[8] She is the founder and head of the Laboratory of Semiconductor Materials.[9] Since January 2021, she is the associate vice-president for Centers and Platforms at EPFL.[10] She also served as the president of the EPFL WISH foundation between 2018 and 2020, a foundation whose goal is to support female students on campus to excel in their careers.[11]

Starting January 1, 2025, the Swiss Federal Council appointed her as the sixth President of EPFL for a 4-year term, succeeding Martin Vetterli. She is the first woman to hold the position.[12]

Research

Fontcuberta i Morral works on the boundaries of physics, material science and engineering, and focuses on quantum science, renewable energy production and sustainable material design.[13] [14] Her research ventures aim at the synthesis and characterization of semiconductor nano-structures and in particular on nano-wires for the application in new nano-electronic and nano-photonic systems.[15] [16] She studies novel semiconductors based on compounds and alloys such as germanium, germanium-tin, zinc phosphide, III-Arsenic’ and III-Antimony[17] [18] [19]

Distinctions

In 2012, she received EPFL's Rodolphe and Renée Haenny Fondation Prize.[20] In 2015, she was awarded the European Physical Society's Emmy Noether Distinction for "noteworthy women physicists".

She has received prestigious research grants from the European Research Council and the Swiss National Science Foundation.[21]

Selected works

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: LMSC. 2020-09-28. www.epfl.ch. en-GB.
  2. Web site: 25 new professors appointed at the two Federal Institutes of Technology ETH-Board. 2020-09-28. www.ethrat.ch. 2020-11-22. https://web.archive.org/web/20201122095524/https://www.ethrat.ch/en/media/releases/appointments-september19. dead.
  3. Fontcuberta i Morral. A. Roca i Cabarrocas. P. 2001-02-20. Shedding light on the growth of amorphous, polymorphous, protocrystalline and microcrystalline silicon thin films. Thin Solid Films. 383. 1–2. 161–164. 10.1016/s0040-6090(00)01596-0. 2001TSF...383..161F. 0040-6090.
  4. Book: Zahler. J.M.. Fontcuberta i Morral. A.. Chang-Geun Ahn. Atwater. H.A.. Wanlass. M.W.. Chu. C.. Iles. P.A.. Conference Record of the Twenty-Ninth IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, 2002 . Wafer bonding and layer transfer processes for 4-junction high efficiency solar cells . 2002. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1190783. New Orleans, LA, USA. IEEE. 1039–1042. 10.1109/PVSC.2002.1190783. 15006757. 978-0-7803-7471-3. 18500749.
  5. Web site: EPS Emmy Noether Distinction Spring 2015 for Women in Physics e-EPS. 2020-09-28. www.epsnews.eu.
  6. Web site: TUM Ambassador Anna Fontcuberta i Morral. 2020-09-28. en-US.
  7. Hetzl. Martin. Kraut. Max. Winnerl. Julia. Francaviglia. Luca. Döblinger. Markus. Matich. Sonja. Fontcuberta i Morral. Anna. Stutzmann. Martin. 2016-11-09. Strain-Induced Band Gap Engineering in Selectively Grown GaN–(Al,Ga)N Core–Shell Nanowire Heterostructures. Nano Letters. 16. 11. 7098–7106. 10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b03354. 27766884. 2016NanoL..16.7098H. 1530-6984.
  8. . 25 new professors appointed at the two Federal Institutes of Technology . ETH Board . 2019-09-26 . 2024-03-27.
  9. Web site: People. 2020-09-28. www.epfl.ch. en-GB.
  10. Web site: Vice Presidency for Academic Affairs (VPA). 2021-03-11. www.epfl.ch. en-GB.
  11. Web site: Current Team. 2021-03-11. wishfoundation-2. en.
  12. . Anna Fontcuberta i Morral named as new EPFL president . Bern, Switzerland . Federal Council . 2024-03-27 . 2024-03-27.
  13. Web site: Research. 2020-09-28. www.epfl.ch. en-GB.
  14. Krogstrup. Peter. Jørgensen. Henrik Ingerslev. Heiss. Martin. Demichel. Olivier. Holm. Jeppe V.. Aagesen. Martin. Nygard. Jesper. Fontcuberta i Morral. Anna. 2013-04-01. Single-nanowire solar cells beyond the Shockley–Queisser limit. Nature Photonics. en. 7. 4. 306–310. 10.1038/nphoton.2013.32. 1301.1068. 2013NaPho...7..306K. 6096888. 1749-4885.
  15. McIntyre. P.C.. Fontcuberta i Morral. A.. 2019-10-16. Semiconductor nanowires: to grow or not to grow?. Materials Today Nano. en. 9. 100058. 10.1016/j.mtnano.2019.100058. 209372728 . free.
  16. Fontcuberta i Morral. Anna. 2020-04-08. Nanostructured alloys light the way to silicon-based photonics. Nature. en. 580. 7802. 188–189. 10.1038/d41586-020-00976-8. 32269348. 2020Natur.580..188F. 0028-0836. free.
  17. Colombo. C.. Spirkoska. D.. Frimmer. M.. Abstreiter. G.. Fontcuberta i Morral. A.. 2008-04-28. Ga-assisted catalyst-free growth mechanism of GaAs nanowires by molecular beam epitaxy. Physical Review B. en. 77. 15. 155326. 10.1103/PhysRevB.77.155326. 2008PhRvB..77o5326C. 1098-0121.
  18. Spirkoska. D.. Arbiol. J.. Gustafsson. A.. Conesa-Boj. S.. Glas. F.. Zardo. I.. Heigoldt. M.. Gass. M. H.. Bleloch. A. L.. Estrade. S.. Kaniber. M.. 2009-12-31. Structural and optical properties of high quality zinc-blende/wurtzite GaAs nanowire heterostructures. Physical Review B. en. 80. 24. 245325. 10.1103/PhysRevB.80.245325. 0907.1444. 2009PhRvB..80x5325S. 2445/32932. 2683. 1098-0121.
  19. Dumcenco. Dumitru. Ovchinnikov. Dmitry. Marinov. Kolyo. Lazić. Predrag. Gibertini. Marco. Marzari. Nicola. Sanchez. Oriol Lopez. Kung. Yen-Cheng. Krasnozhon. Daria. Chen. Ming-Wei. Bertolazzi. Simone. 2015-04-28. Large-Area Epitaxial Monolayer MoS 2. ACS Nano. en. 9. 4. 4611–4620. 10.1021/acsnano.5b01281. 1936-0851. 4415455. 25843548.
  20. Vandevyver. Caroline. 2012-10-10. Rodolphe and Renée Haenny Prize 2012 - A. i Morral and H. Frauenrath. en.
  21. Web site: ERC FUNDED PROJECTS. 2021-03-05. ERC: European Research Council. en. 2021-01-13. https://web.archive.org/web/20210113223931/https://erc.europa.eu/projects-figures/erc-funded-projects/results. dead.

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