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 RRL2020, 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. A2018, 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.