M.A. (Maria Antonietta) Loi, Prof

Maria Antonietta Loi studied physics at the University of Cagliari in Italy where she received the PhD in 2001. In the same year she joined the Linz Institute for Organic Solar cells, of the University of Linz, Austria as a post doctoral fellow. Later she worked as researcher at the Institute for Nanostructured Materials of the Italian National Research Council in Bologna Italy.

In 2006 she became assistant professor and Rosalind Franklin Fellow at the Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials of the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. She is now full professor in the same institution and chair of the Photophysics and OptoElectronics group. She has published more than 300 peer review articles in photophysics and optoelectronics of nanomaterials. She serves as editor-in-chief of Applied Physics Letters and she is member of the international advisory board of several international journals.

In 2013 she has received an ERC Starting Grant and in 2022 and ERC Advanced Grant from the European Research Council. In 2018 she received the Physicaprijs from the Dutch physics association for her outstanding work on organic-inorganic hybrid materials. In 2020 she became fellow of the American Physical Society. In 2022 she was elected fellow of the Dutch Academy of Science (KNAW). In the same year she became fellow of the European Academy of Science (EURASC) and of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

-------------------------------

Personal data

• Name: Prof. Dr Maria Antonietta Loi
• Sex: Female
• Date and place of birth: 04/05/73 Quartu Sant’Elena (Ca), Italy
• Nationality: Italian
• Country of residence: The Netherlands

Employments

• From May 2014: Full professor of Photophysics and OptoElectronics
  
• From July 2011: Chair of the department Photophysics and OptoElectronics 
• From April 2010: Associate professor (with ius promovendi) of Photophyics and Optoelectronics, University of Groningen, The Netherlands.
• March 2006-March 2010: Assistant Professor (tenure-track) - University of Groningen, The Netherlands.
• January 2003 - January 2006: Researcher at the Istituto per lo Studio di Materiali Nanostrutturati - Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (Italian National Research Coucil), Bologna, Italy.
• February 2002-January 2003: Post Doctoral position at the Istituto per lo Studio di Materiali Nanostrutturati Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (Italian National Research Coucil), Bologna, Italy.
• 2001-2002: Post Doctoral position (in the framework of EUROMAP training network) at the Linz Institute for Organic Solar Cells, Physical Chemistry, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria.  

Education

• 1997-2000: Ph.D. in Physics, at the Università di Cagliari, Italy.

• 1997: Degree in Physics with honors, at the Università di Cagliari, Cagliari.

Publications 

• 300 papers in international journals, 4 book chapters

• H index 72 (source: ISI Web of Science, April 2024)  

• H index 83 (source: Google Scholar, April 2024)  

Recognitions

Fellow of the Dutch Academy of Science (KNAW) (2022)

Fellow of the European Academy of Science (EURASC) (2022)

Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (2022)

Fellow American Physical Society (2020)

Physica Prize (2018)

Minerva Prize (2011)