Royal Society University Research Fellow, Cavendish Laboratory

M. Ibrahim Dar is a Royal Society University Research Fellow in the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge. From 2018 to 2020, he was an Advanced Swiss National Science Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellow in the group of Professor Sir Richard Friend, University of Cambridge. Prior to this, he worked as a Post-Doctoral Scientist with Professor Michael Graetzel at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Switzerland (2014-2018). For his postdoctoral research at EPFL, he was awarded the prestigious Zeno Karl Schindler-EPFL Prize for particular excellence in the field of sustainability and was twice awarded a special prize by the School of Basic Sciences, EPFL, Switzerland. During his PhD, he was awarded the Swiss Government Excellence Research Scholarships for two consecutive years (2012-2014), which allowed him to work in Professor Graetzel’s group as a guest PhD student.

Ibrahim’s interdisciplinary research in solid-state chemistry, physics, and nanoscience encompasses designing and understanding active materials (light absorbers/emitters) and charge conductors for their applications in devices.

The main research activities span:

• Developing Perovskite Devices
• Probing Interfacial Processes in Solar Cells and LEDs
• Tailoring of Mixed-conduction in Perovskite Semiconductors
• Nucleation and Crystallization of Solid-state Semiconductors at the Nano-regime