Giulia Grancini
University of Pavia
Biography
Prof. Giulia Grancini is the director of the PVsquared2 team at the University of Pavia (since 2019). She leads an internationally recognized solar facility for the development of new-generation efficient and low-cost solar energy, managing an international team of fifteen researchers.
She attracted 4.5 million Euros in funding from the EU (ERC Grant “HYNANO”, ERC POC “SPIKE”, MUR, Regional Funds) and she manages several collaborations with academics (Oxford, KAUST, Cambridge, EPFL, MIT) and industrial partners (EDISON, ENI, SOLARONIX) for technology transfer initiatives. Through her international career path – from PhD at Politecnico of Milano and Oxford University to Team leader for four years at EPFL (Switzerland), she contributed to the rise of emerging solar technologies in Europe, with pioneering contributions in the field of perovskite solar cells, putting her in the internationally recognized scientists arena working in this field.
For her track record - author of 150 peer-reviewed scientific papers (>21’000 citations) bringing her h index to 50 - she has been listed among the top 1% highly cited scientists in the world by Clarivate in 2019, 2020 and 2021. In 2019 she received the USERN Prize in Physical Science, the Swiss Physical Society Award in 2018 for Young Researcher and the IUPAP Young Scientist Prize in Optics.
She is currently the USERN Ambassador for Italy. In 2020 she was listed in the “100 experts project against stereotypes” which identified top Italian women scientists and she received the honour of “Cavaliere della Repubblica Italiana al Merito” from Italian President Mattarella. She has been recently appointed a member of the prestigious Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze.
RSC affiliations
Editorial board, Chem Soc Rev