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Profile
| Academic position | Full Professor |
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| Research fields | Experimental and Theoretical Physics of Polymers,Electrochemistry |
| Keywords | Perovskite 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
| Country | Spain |
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| City | Leioa |
| Institution | Universidad del Pais Vasco |
| Institute | Basque Center for Materials, Applications and Nanostructures (BCmaterials) |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Hans-Jürgen Butt | Max-Planck-Institut für Polymerforschung, Mainz |
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| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/12/2008 |
Programme(s)
| 2008 | Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs |
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Publications (partial selection)
| 2012 | Jun-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 |
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| 2012 | Shahzada 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 |
| 2012 | Julian 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 |
| 2012 | Shahzada 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 |
| 2011 | Shahzada 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 |
| 2010 | Shahzada 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 |
| 2010 | Shahzada 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 |
| 2010 | Shahzada 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 |