Ellen Moons
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Ellen Moons | |
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.jpg) Moons in 2024 | |
| Alma mater | Weizmann Institute of Science |
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| Institutions | University of Cambridge Delft University of Technology École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Cambridge Display Technology Karlstad University |
| Thesis | Linking the interfacial chemistry and physics of CuInSe₂- and CdTe-based photovoltaic cells and diodes (1995) |
Ellen Moons is a Belgian materials scientist who is a professor at Karlstad University. Her research considers the organisation of molecules and materials in thin films. She is mainly interested in organic and hybrid materials for solution processed photovoltaics.
Moons is from Belgium.[1] As an undergraduate, she studied physics at Ghent University.[2] After finishing her physics studies with a licentiate degree, she was awarded a scholarship by the Israeli Foreign Ministry, and spent half a year at the Weizmann Institute in Israel.[2] She decided to stay for doctoral studies, and worked at the Department of Materials and Interfaces at the Weizmann Institute of Science alongside David Cahen.[1] Her doctoral research considered photovoltaic cells based on thin film copper indium diselenide and cadmium telluride.[3] These thin film photovoltaics have lower costs than silicon based devices, and have a small carbon footprint.[citation needed] Moons was a postdoctoral researcher at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and at the Delft University of Technology from 1996 to 1998. Her research considered dye-sensitised solar cells.[4]
In 1998, Moons worked as a research associate at the University of Cambridge, and worked alongside Richard Friend.[citation needed]. During this time she held a joint position as a research scientist at Cambridge Display Technology, 1998-2000, where she worked on polymer light-emitting diodes.[5] Since October 2000 she is affiliated to Karlstad University in Sweden.
She has been elected to the position of Secretary General of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences starting in 2026.[6]
