Rubén Darío Costa Riquelme

Rubén D. Costa got his B.Sc/M.Sc in Chemistry from the University of Valencia (Spain) in 2006. His PhD was performed at the Institute for Molecular Science at the University of Valencia where he graduated in 2010 (>30 publications and 3 awards: IUPAC Prize for Young Chemists, RSEQ Nanomatmol Prize 2010, PhD Prize 2010 by the U. Valencia). From 2011 to 2013, he was a Humboldt Postdoctoral Researcher at the U. Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU) working on nanocarbon-based solar cells (>15 paper and finalist of the VI SUSCHEM post-doc award). In 2014, he got the Liebig Scholarship, heading the hybrid optoelectronics lab at FAU with a focus on sustainable lighting and photovoltaics. In 2017, he moved part of his group to IMDEA Materials (Spain) and he further expanded it to the U. Waseda (Japan) as Associate Professor in 2018. Since 2020, Prof. Costa is the head of the Chair of Biogenic Functional Materials at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). He is a well-reputed scientist in hybrid optoelectronics as highlighted by his academic achievements: >180 papers; 1 edited book; >35 awards/fellowships; h-index of >50.