Prof. Dr. Frédéric Laquai
Chair Holder
Department of Chemistry
Physical Chemistry and Spectroscopy of Energy Materials
Short CV
- 04/2024 – today: W3 Professor of Physical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, LMU Munich, Germany
- 08/2024 – today: Adjunct Professor of Applied Physics, KAUST, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
- 08/2021 - 06/2024: Interim Director of the KAUST Solar Center (KSC), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal - Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
- 07/2021 - 07/2024: Professor of Applied Physics, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal - Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
- 06/2016 - 07/2021: Associate Director of the KAUST Solar Center (KSC), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal - Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
- 03/2015 - 06/2021: Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, King
Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal - Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - 08/2008 - 12/2015: Max Planck Research Group Leader (approx. equivalent to Assistant Professor without tenure), Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany
- 08/2006 - 07/2008: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge (UK)
- 2006 Doctorate at University of Mainz (Germany)
- 1999 – 2003 Diploma Study at University of Oldenburg (Germany), Cambridge (UK), and Marburg (Germany)
Research areas
- Ultrafast Spectroscopy
- Emerging Semiconductor Materials
- Photovoltaics
- Photocatalysis
- Photochemistry
Important publications
- Y. Gao, J. Liu, F. H. Isikgor, M. Wang, J. I. Khan, S. De Wolf, F. Laquai*, "Probing Ultrafast Interfacial Carrier Dynamics in Metal Halide Perovskite Films and Devices by Transient Reflection Spectroscopy", ACS Appl. Mater. Inter. 2022, 14 (30), 34281-34290.
- M. Wang*, Y. Gao, K. Wang, J. Liu, S. De Wolf, F. Laquai*, "Photo-induced enhancement of lattice fluctuations in metal-halide perovskites", Nat. Comm. 2022, 13, 1, 1-9.
- J. I. Khan*, M. A. Alamoudi, N. Chaturvedi, R. S. Ashraf, M. N. Nabi, A. Markina, W. Liu, T. A. Dela Peña, W. Zhang, O. Alévêque, G. T. Harrison, W. Alsufyani, E. Levillain, S. De Wolf, D. Andrienko, I. McCulloch, F. Laquai*, "Impact of Acceptor Quadrupole Moment on Charge Generation and Recombination in Blends of IDT-Based Non-Fullerene Acceptors with PCE10 as Donor Polymer", Adv. Energy Mater. 2021, 2100839 (Coverpage).
- S. Karuthedath, J. Gorenflot, Y. Firdaus, C. S. P. De Castro, G. T. Harrison, A. H. Balawi, T. A. Dela Peña, A. Markina, W. Liu, R.-Z. Liang, A. Sharma, S. H. K. Paleti, W. Zhang, Y. Lin, E. Alarousu, D. H. Anjum, P. M. Beaujuge, S. De Wolf, I. McCulloch, D. Baran, T. D. Anthopoulos, D. Andrienko*, and F. Laquai*, “Intrinsic Efficiency Limits in Low-bandgap Non-fullerene Acceptor Organic Solar Cells”, Nat. Mater. 2021, 20, 378-384.
- A. H. Balawi, Z. Kan, J. Gorenflot, P. Guarracino, N. Chaturvedi, A. Privitera, S. Liu, Y. Gao, L. Franco, P. Beaujuge, and F. Laquai*, “Quantification of Photophysical Processes in All-polymer Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells”, Solar RRL 2020, 4 (6), 2000181.
- S. Karuthedath, Y. Firdaus, R-Z. Liang, J. Gorenflot, P. M. Beaujuge, T. D. Anthopoulos, F. Laquai*, “Impact of Fullerene on the Photophysics of Ternary Small Molecule Organic Solar Cells”, Adv. Energy Mater. 2019, 201901443.
- S. Karuthedath, A. Melianas, Z. Kan, V. Pranculis, M. Wohlfahrt, J.I. Khan, J. Gorenflot, Y. Xia, O. Inganäs, V. Gulbinas, M. Kemerink, and F. Laquai*, “Thermal Annealing Reduces Geminate Recombination in TQ1:N2200 Based Organic Solar Cells”, J. Mater. Chem. A 2018, 6, 7428-7438.
- J. Gorenflot*, A. Paulke, F. Piersimoni, J. Wolf, Z. Kan, F. Cruciani, A. El Labban, D. Neher, P.M. Beaujuge, F. Laquai*, “From Recombination Dynamics to Device Performance: Quantifying the Efficiency of Exciton Dissociation, Charge Separation, and Extraction in Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells with Fluorine-Substituted Polymer Donors”, Adv. Energy Mater. 2018, 8 (4), 1701678.
- F. Etzold, I.A. Howard, N. Forler, A. Melnyk, D. Andrienko, M.R. Hansen, F. Laquai*, "Sub-ns Triplet State Formation by Non-Geminate Recombination in PSBTBT:PC70BM and PCPDTBT:PC60BM Organic Solar Cells", Energy Environ. Sci. 2015, 8, 1511-1522.
- I.A. Howard, R. Mauer, M. Meister, F. Laquai*, "Effect of Morphology on Ultrafast Free Carrier Generation in Polythiophene:Fullerene Organic Solar Cells", J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2010, 132 (42), 14866-14876.