International award for a young researcher from Oldenburg: Antonietta De Sio from the ‘Ultrasfast Nano-Optics’ research group at the Institute of Physics has received the ‘Tingye Li Innovation Prize’, worth US$3,000, in San José, California.
With this award, the Optical Society of America recognises De Sio’s work on elucidating light-induced charge transfer in organic solar cells. Named after a pioneer in the fields of optics and photonics, the prize was awarded for the first time this year at the internationally renowned ‘Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics’ (CLEO), which attracted more than 6,000 participants. It is intended to honour early-career researchers for innovative research or research ideas.
Dr Antonietta De Sio conducts research in Prof. Dr Christoph Lienau’s research group and uses optical spectroscopy techniques with extremely high temporal resolution to elucidate the fundamental mechanisms of light-to-current conversion in organic nanomaterials.
The 33-year-old studied in her Italian hometown of Salerno and obtained a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering in 2008. She completed her PhD in 2012 at the University’s Institute of Physics under Prof. Dr Jürgen Parisi, before joining the research group of his colleague Prof. Lienau in 2013.
