Principle Investigator

	Dr Zhuoying Chen - CNRS Researcher (Chargée de Recherche), LPEM, ESPCI Paris/Sorbonne Université/Université PSL – Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches – Group leader of Micro & Nano Characterization (MNC) Group of LPEM – Education/career path – Tel : +33 1 40 79 45 84 – Email: zhuoying.chen (at) espci.fr – Office: Research building D013 (ESPCI Vauquelin Campus)

	Daniel Gilarranz Garcia PhD candidate (2025-2028), Sorbonne Université – PhD thesis subject: Narrow bandgap solar cells based on solution-processed nanomaterials – Office: Research building D011 (ESPCI Vauquelin Campus)

	He Yu PhD candidate (2023-2027), Université PSL – PhD thesis subject: Colloidal light management methods for solution-processed solar cells – Office: Research building D005 (ESPCI Vauquelin Campus)

	Jiazhuo Nie PhD candidate (2022-2026), Université PSL (co-supervised with Lionel Aigouy) – PhD thesis subjet: Perovskite solar cells and local electro-optical measurements – Office: Research building D005 (ESPCI Vauquelin Campus)

	Yingchao Ren PhD candidate (2022-2026), Sorbonne Université (co-supervised with Charlotte Tripon-Canseliet) – PhD thesis subjet: Colloidal nanoparticles for energy conversion and photoconductive switches – Office: Research building D011 (ESPCI Vauquelin Campus)

	Wei Zhou PhD candidate (2022-2026), Université PSL (co-supervised with Alexei Chepelianskii and Miguel Monteverde, LPS-Université Paris Saclay) – PhD thesis subjet: Nanoparticles, Nanowire, and Nanosheets: From Synthesis to Applications – Office: Research building D011 (ESPCI Vauquelin Campus)

Previous members

• Dr. Dongjiu Zhang (PhD defended in 2025).
• Dr. Zhuoqun Fang (PhD defended in 2024, now postdoc at Suzhou Laboratory, China)
• Dr. Mahima Chaudhary (PhD defended in 2022, now postdoc at SATIE LAB, University of Gustave Eiffel)
• Dr. Chenghao Xin (PhD defended in 2022, now at BYD Auto, China)
• Dr. Zhelu Hu (PhD defended in 2020, Lauréat 2021 du prix de thèse 2020 (winner of thesis award) by GDR NAME, postdoc in our group during 2020-2021, now associate professor at Nanjing Tech University, China)
• Miss Parinaz Eshghi (Master M2 graduated in 2020, now Research assistant at PIAIS, Iran)
• Dr. Hengyang XIANG (PhD defended in 2019, now lecturer at Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China)
• Dr. Mathilde SCHOENAUER (PhD defended in 2018, now at Athénée Fernand Blum, Belgium)
• Miss Tingting NIU (Master M1 student 2016-2017, afterwards she studied for a PhD thesis at Tongji University, China, now at Saint Gobain, Shanghai, China)
• Mr. Alexis Prel (Master M1 student graduated in 2016, afterwards he studied for a PhD thesis at University of Strasbourg, now at Modo Energy, USA)
• Miss Julianna PANIDI (Master M2 student graduated in 2015, afterwards she studied for a PhD at Imperial College London, now lecturer-fellow at Univeristy of Edinburgh, UK)
• Dr. Zhenhua SUN (Post-doc from 2013 to 2015, now professor at Shenzhen University, China)
• Dr. Zhixiong CAO (PhD student of Centrale Marseille defended in 2014, now professor at Gannan Medical University, China)
• Mr. Lounès LOUNIS (Master M2 graduated in 2014, afterwards he studied for a PhD thesis at INSP Paris, now as Data Scientist at Geopost)
• Miss. Maria ULFA (Master M2, graduated in 2013, afterwards she studied a PhD thesis at Chimie ParisTech, now at National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN), Indonesia)
• Mr. Sylvain Chevalier (1st year-student of ESPCI and worked in my lab for research internship, now at Saint-Gobain Research Paris)
• Mr. Mejdi Jedidi (Master M2 from Aix-Marseille Université graduated in 2011)

• Optoelectronic applications of solution-processed nanomaterials (i.e. organic conjugated polymer, colloidal nanocrystal quantum dots, and organic-inorganic hybrid compounds) in the form of :

Photovoltaic diodes (solar cells)
(Photo-)Field-effect transistors
Photodetection

• Charge transport properties of the above-mentioned systems

Research Projects

• 2025 - 2028 Project coordinator of ANR PRC "NBG_SolarCells": Unlocking the Bottlenecks for Solution-Processed Narrow Bandgap Solar Cells with Less or No Lead
• 2023-2028 Project participant of PEPR TASE AMI "MINOTAURE" projet: Multimodal approach combining In situ, ex situ and Operando CharacterisAtion with SimUlations for Highly REliable Next Generation Photovoltaics
• 2018 - 2021 French-side principal investigator of the PROCES project: “Physics of degradation in organic, nanocrystal, and hybrid solar cells”, ANR International France-Allemagne
• 2016 - 2018 Project partners of PSL (Paris Sciences et Lettres) - projets structuration de la recherche: "UP-converting fluorescent NAnoparticles for novel applications in Nanophotonics (UPNAN)"
• 2013 - 2017 Principal investigator of the SUNLIGHT project: “Solution-processed nanocrystal photovoltaics from environmentally benign and earth-abundant elements”, FP7-PEOPLE-2011-CIG Marie Curie Career Integration Grant
• 2012 - 2015 Principal investigator of ANR JCJC "PvCoNano" project: “Photovoltaic Devices based on Colloidal Nanocrystals as Light Harvesters”