Prof. Dr. Shahzada Ahmad

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsExperimental and Theoretical Polymer Physics,Electrochemistry
KeywordsPerovskite solar cells, Solar cells, conducting polymers, Energy Materials, ionic liquids, electrodeposition,electrocatalysis, Energy Storage
Honours and awards

2023: Leonardo Fellowship

2020: Fellow, European Academy of Sciences

2020: Fellow Royal Society of Chemistry

2019: Young Investigator Medal-2019 Royal Academy of Engineering, Spain

2018: Distinguished Scientist (under 40) World Economic Forum

2017: Member Young Academy of Europe

2016: European Research Council Consolidator grant

Current contact address

CountrySpain
CityLeioa
InstitutionUniversidad del Pais Vasco
InstituteBasque Center for Materials, Applications and Nanostructures (BCmaterials)

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Hans-Jürgen ButtMax-Planck-Institut für Polymerforschung, Mainz
Start of initial sponsorship01/12/2008

Program(s)

2008Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2012Jun-Ho Yum, Etienne Baranoff, Florian Kessler, Thomas Moehl, Shahzada Ahmad, Takeru Bessho, Arianna Marchioro, Elham Ghadiri, Jacques-E. Moser, Chenyi Yi, Md. K. Nazeeruddin, Michael Grätzel A cobalt complex redox shuttle for dye-sensitized solar cells with high open-circuit potentials. In: Nature Communications, 2012, 1-8
2012Shahzada Ahmad,Takeru Bessho, Florian Kessler, Etienne Baranoff, Julien Frey, Chenyi Yi, Michael Grätzel, Mohammad K. Nazeeruddin: A new generation of Platinum and Iodine free highly efficient Dye-sensitized solar cells. In: Physical Chemistry and Chemical Physics, 2012, 10631-10639
2012Julian Burschka, Vincent Brault, Shahzada Ahmad, Livain Breau, Mohammad K. Nazeeruddin, Benoît Marsan, Shaik M. Zakeeruddin, Michael Grätzel Influence of counter electrode on the photovoltaic performance of Dye- sensitized solar cells based on disulfide/thiolate redox electrolyte. In: Energy and Environmental Science, 2012, 6089-6097
2012Shahzada Ahmad,Dell'Orto, Jun-Ho Yum, Florian Kessler, Mohammad K. Nazeeruddin, Michael Grätzel: Towards flexibility: Platinum and TCO free plastic cathodes for Dye sensitized solar cells. In: Chemical Communication, 2012, 9714-9716
2011Shahzada Ahmad,Timo Carstens, Rüdiger Berger, Hans-Jürgen, Butt, Frank Endres: Surface Polymerization of (3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) Probed by using Scanning Tunneling Microscope on Au(111) in ionic liquids. In: Nanoscale, 2011, 251-257
2010Shahzada Ahmad,Jun-Ho Yum, Zhang Xianxi,Michael Grätzel, H.-J. Butt,Mohammad K. Nazeeruddin,: Dye-sensitized solar cells based on poly (3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) counter electrode derived from ionic liquids*. In: Journal of Materials Chemistry, 2010, 1654-1658
2010Shahzada Ahmad,Jun-Ho Yum,Hans-Jürgen Butt,Mohammad K. Nazeeruddin,Michael Graetzel: Efficient Platinum-Free Counter Electrodes for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell Applications. In: ChemPhysChem, 2010, 2814-2819
2010Shahzada Ahmad;Rüdiger Berger, Hadayat Ullah Khan;Hans-Jürgen Butt : Electrical field assisted growth of poly(3-hexylthiophene) layers employing ionic liquids: microstructure elucidated by scanning force and electron microscopy . In: Journal of Materials Chemistry, 2010, 5325-5334