Dr Antonietta De Sio from the "Ultrafast Nano-Optics" working group has received the "Tingye Li Innovation Prize" of the Optical Society of America, endowed with 3,000 US dollars, for her work on the elucidation of light-induced charge transfer in organic solar cells in San José, California. 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.

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.

De Sio studied in Salerno, Italy, where she was born, and obtained a master's degree in electrical engineering in 2008. She completed her doctorate in 2012 at the Institute of Physics at the University of Oldenburg under Prof Dr Jürgen Parisi, before joining the research group of his colleague Lienau in 2013.

[22.05.15]