Sascha is a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Physical Chemistry and Head of the Laboratory of Energy Materials at EPFL. He is also part of the SCR of Winthrop House at Harvard.
Sascha’s team employs light-matter interactions to understand the next generation of soft semiconductors with the overarching goal of maximizing energy efficiency for a sustainable future by unlocking applications ranging from flexible light-weight solar cells & displays all the way to entirely new applications in quantum information processing.
Previously, he was a Research Group Leader and Rowland Fellow at Harvard University’s Rowland Institute. Before starting his lab at Harvard, Sascha studied Chemistry at Heidelberg University (Germany) and completed a PhD in Physics at the University of Cambridge (UK), where he subsequently worked as EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellow.
Sascha is also a Forbes 30under30 honoree and has been a first-gen student. Aside from his passion for sustainable energy technologies, Sascha loves cooking, baking, lifting weights, and dogs! You can read more about Sascha in his interview with Angewandte Chemie here.