Seckin AKIN pursued his Ph.D. in the area of perovskite solar cells. He was a visiting researcher at Prof. Michael Grätzel’s laboratory at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. Throughout his research career, Prof. Akin has dedicated his efforts to exploring various innovative materials for harnessing light energy. He conducts many projects supported by national and international agencies on the optimization of different layers of PSCs, and additive/interface engineering. The originality of Prof. Akin’s work is truly outstanding as can be deduced from the number of awards, patents and more than 90 scientific papers published in high impact journals in the field of device physics and advanced materials including Joule, Energy & Environmental Science, Advanced Materials, Advanced Energy Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, Science Advances, Nano Energy, and so on. These papers lead to the h-index of 40, with more than 5500 citations in the past five years. These studies spread from perovskite film formation, device stability mechanism, additive/interface engineering, composition engineering, to band alignment engineering. He has been also the supervisor of more than 10 postgraduate theses. He was awarded by the National Leader Researchers Program in 2020. He was also awarded the prestigious Science Academy’s Young Scientist Prize in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering (2021). He was recently awarded an entrepreneurship grant by the Individual Young Entrepreneur Program and owns a startup company engaged in product development in optoelectronic devices. Prof. Akin was invited to give an invited talk at E-MRS meeting at the “Perovskites: From Materials Science to Devices” Session.

Mücahit YILMAZ currently an associate professor at the Necmettin Erbakan University, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Science. He is also affiliated with the graduate program Nanoscience and Nanoengineering at the Institute of Natural Sciences of the same university.
Having a research experience on high temperature superconductors during his Ph.D.,  he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Middle East Technical University (METU) Center for Solar Energy Research and Application (GÜNAM) for nearly two years. During this time he studied silicon nanocrystal thin films. Later, he expanded his field of study to two-dimensional materials, thin films, and solar cells. Especially two dimensional materials (graphene and TMDC) and metal-oxide thin films are the focus of his current study. He has considerable experience in high-quality graphene fabrication and transfer. He succeeded to fabricate homogeneous large scale TMDC films by forming metal-oxide layer in reactive magnetron sputter system and then chalcogenization process. In addition, He has experience in the fabrication and characterization of different thin films such as MoS2, WS2, WSe2, MoO3, WO3, CdS, CdTe, SnO2, ZnO, TiO2, ZrO2, SiO2, Si3N4, AlN, TaN, Cu3N and more.
He has more than 20 publications on different topics, some of which have been published in high impact journals. He has also completed nearly 20 projects in which he worked as principal investigator and researcher. He is an expert in high vacuum systems, CVD, PVD (magnetron sputtering, thermal evaporation) systems and can perform advanced analysis in Raman spectroscopy and XRD/GIXRD, FPP, UV-Vis, optical profilometer techniques.