Prof. Lioz Etgar

Biography

Lioz Etgar obtained his Ph.D. (2009) at the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology and completed post-doctoral research with Prof. Michael Grätzel at EPFL, Switzerland. In his post-doctoral research, he received a Marie Curie Fellowship and won the Wolf Prize for young scientists.
Since 2012, he has been a senior lecturer in the Institute of Chemistry at the Hebrew University.
On 2017 he received an Associate Professor position.
Prof. Etgar was the first to demonstrate the possibility to work with the perovskite as light harvester and hole conductor in the solar cell which result in one of the pioneer publication in this field. Recently Prof. Etgar won the prestigious Krill prize by the Wolf foundation.
Etgar’s research group focuses on the development of innovative solar cells. Prof. Etgar is researching new excitonic solar cells structures/architectures while designing and controlling the inorganic light harvester structure and properties to improve the photovoltaic parameters.

 

CONTACT INFORMATION

The Institute of Chemistry, 
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Edmond J. Safra Campus
Givat Ram, Jerusalem 91904, Israel

email: lioz.etgar@mail.huji.ac.il
Phone: 00972 2 6585325 
Mobile: 00 972 53 285 1448