International award for a young scientist from Oldenburg: Antonietta De Sio from the "Ultrafast Nano-Optics" working group at the Institute of Physics has received the "Tingye Li Innovation Prize", worth 3,000 US dollars, in San José, California.
The Optical Society of America honoured De Sio's work on the elucidation of light-induced charge transfer in organic solar cells. The prize, named after a pioneer in the research fields of optics and photonics, was awarded for the first time this year at the internationally renowned "Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics" (CLEO) with more than 6,000 participants. It is intended to honour young scientists for innovative research or research ideas.
Dr Antonietta De Sio conducts research in the working group of Prof. Dr Christoph Lienau and uses optical spectroscopy methods with extremely high temporal resolution to elucidate the fundamental mechanisms of light-current conversion in organic nanomaterials.
The 33-year-old studied in her native Salerno, Italy, and obtained a Master's degree in electrical engineering in 2008. She completed her doctorate at the University's Institute of Physics under Prof Dr Jürgen Parisi in 2012 before joining his colleague Lienau's research group in 2013.
