Did you attend the 2023 Horizons Symposium on electronic and energy materials in Berlin? Don’t worry if you missed out, catch up on all the excitement below!
In late September this year, the first annual Horizons Symposium finally took place at the Humboldt University of Berlin. Featuring exciting talks from our invited speakers and an engaging poster session, the breadth and quality of science presented was truly outstanding!
Hosted by Materials Horizons and Nanoscale Horizons, the two-day symposium was rounded off with a ‘meet the editor’ session led by Editorial Board Chair of Materials Horizons, Martina Stenzel. Overall, the symposium offered a unique opportunity for plenty of networking and discussing the future of materials for electronic and energy applications! We very much look forward to the 2024 event!
Meet our poster prize winners!
Materials Horizons and Nanoscale Horizons were delighted to award two poster prizes – congratulations to Vaidehi Lapalikar and Thorsten Schultz!!
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Dr. Thorsten Schultz Scientist, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie. Poster prize awarded for poster entitled: “Work function and energy level alignment tuning at Ti₃C₂Tx MXene surfaces and interfaces using (metal-)organic donor/acceptor molecules”Thorsten Schultz graduated from the University of Leipzig (Germany) in 2014 and obtained his PhD degree in physics in 2018 from the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin (Germany), working in the group of professor Norbert Koch on energy level alignment mechanisms at inorganic-organic semiconductor interfaces investigated with photoelectron spectroscopy. In 2019, he joined the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie as a Postdoc, deepening his experience in the field of photoelectron spectroscopy. He continued working on the energy level alignment manipulation at organic/inorganic semiconductor interfaces, culminating in a universal method to adjust the energy level alignment at such interfaces over a wide range by the insertion of thin molecular donor/acceptor interlayers, the so-called interlayer method. He is now permanently employed as a beamline scientist at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin and will be responsible for the ENERGIZE beamline after its completion, which will be dedicated to research on hybrid materials and energy efficient technologies. |
| Vaidehi Lapalikar Doctoral researcher, Technische Universität Dresden. Poster prize awarded for poster entitled: “Solution-processed electronics based on BiOI”“The RSC Horizons Symposium on electronic and energy materials gave me a particularly exciting opportunity to interact with a diverse spectrum of professionals associated with this field, ranging from doctoral students to established researchers, publishing editors, and experts doing pioneering work towards open science. The event left me thoroughly inspired and full of fresh ideas for the future!” |
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Congrats to our best student question winners!
The Royal Society of Chemistry was also delighted to award two special prizes for the best question asked by a student – we were overwhelmed by the many insightful questions from all attendees but were delighted to award Emily Albert and Anton Dzhong with a pair of colour changing RSC mugs for their excellent and engaging questions!
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Emily Albert Master student, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. Emily Albert is a Masters student in the group Supramolecular Systems led by Prof. Dr. Norbert Koch at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. “The Horizon Symposium provided a familiar and open-minded environment, perfect for asking questions as a student!” |
| Anton Dzhong Master student, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. Anton Dzhong is currently working on his Masters Thesis in Eva Unger’s Research Group at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin on Perovskite Solar Cell Materials. “The Symposium posed a great opportunity to explore the field of energy materials and it was fun having fruitful discussions with so many dedicated researchers!” |
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Thanks to all attendees, speakers and the organising committee for a truly engaging and enjoyable symposium – we look forward to meeting more of our community next year! Sign up to our journal email alerts to make sure you are the first to hear when registration opens!
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Photo gallery
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- Conference Chair Norbert Koch welcomes attendees to the conference
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- Renaud Demadrille kicks off the conference with a fascinating talk on PEDOT-based materials
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- An engaging poster session
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- Janet Macdonald provides a foundation for an exciting talk on nanocrystal synthesis
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- More discussion at the poster session
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- Vaidehi Lapalikar next to her winning poster!
