| Maria Antonietta Loi | |
| Birth Date: | 4 May 1973 |
| Birth Place: | Quartu Sant'Elena |
| Workplaces: | Italian National Research Council Johannes Kepler University Linz |
| Alma Mater: | University of Cagliari |
Maria Antonietta Loi (born 4 May 1973) is an Italian physicist who is a Professor of Optoelectronics at the University of Groningen and member of the Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials. Her research considers the development of functional materials for low-cost, high efficiency optoelectronic device. She was awarded the 2018 Netherlands Physical Society Physics prize (Physicaprijs). In 2020, she was elected Fellow of the American Physical Society. In 2022 she became a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) and of the European academy of Science (EurASc). Loi is Deputy Editor-in-chief of Applied Physics Letters.
Loi was born in Quartu Sant'Elena, Sardinia.[1] [2] She studied physics at the University of Cagliari. She was awarded honours for her undergraduate degree in 1997, before embarking upon a doctoral research program. After earning her PhD she moved to the Johannes Kepler University Linz, where she worked as a postdoctoral researcher on organic solar cells.[3] After one year in Austria she returned to Italy, where she joined the Italian National Research Council Institute for Nanostructured Materials.[4]
In 2006, Loi was appointed Assistant Professor at the University of Groningen, and awarded a Rosalind Franklin Fellowship.[5] Her early work considered the investigation of organic semiconductors and carbon nanotubes photophysical and optoelectronic properties.[6] She was made Chair of the Department of Photophyics and OptoElectronics in 2011, and Full Professor in 2014.[7]
Loi's research considers the development of solution processable semiconductors and hybrid nanomaterials.[8] In particular, she has explored perovskites for solar cells and X-ray detectors.[9] [10] She has shown that Sn-based perovskites have intriguing physical properties such as showing photoluminescence from hot-carriers with long lifetimes.[11]