PhD Position in High Performance Organic Photovoltaics

Opportunity summary

Employment type: FULLTIME. The Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics and Thin-Film Energy Devices (SDU CAPE), Mads Clausen Institute, University of Southern Denmark (SDU), invites applications for a 3-year PhD position within the DFF funded project LuminOPV. The position is open from Dec. 1, 2026, and the specific start date will be agreed with the successful candidates.What we offer The PhD position is a part of the SDU CAPE research center at the Mads Clausen Institute, SDU, where we focus on designing, developing, and bringing forward new sustainable solar energy conversion and storage technologies, in particular new thin film solar cells and modules. The DFF LuminOPV project will explore aggregation-induced emission (AIE)-active molecular materials to control photophysical processes, molecular organization, and energy losses in organic photovoltaics. Complementary interface engineering and passivation strategies will be employed to optimize charge extraction, suppress interfacial defects, enhance operational stability, and facilitate scalable organic solar cells and modules. This PhD project focuses specifically on the design and development of AIE-active molecular materials for next-generation organic photovoltaics. The project will be part of the DFF1 project, and research stays abroad is part of the position1 …

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