13 Facts About Jenny Nelson

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Jenny Nelson is Professor of Physics in the Blackett Laboratory and Head of the Climate change mitigation team at the Grantham Institute - Climate Change and Environment at Imperial College London.

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Jenny Nelson's research is devoted to characterising the materials used to build and improve photovoltaic devices, which convert energy from the Sun into electricity.

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Jenny Nelson applies a range of tools that include physical models, simulation and experiments to optimise the performance of such devices through their composite materials.

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Jenny Nelson uses information describing the electronic, optical and structural properties of these materials to inform the design of her devices, an approach that has garnered strong interest from industry.

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Since 2010, Jenny Nelson has been studying the potential of photovoltaic technologies to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide that is emitted during the generation of electricity, lessening the impact on climate change.

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Jenny Nelson is the author of a popular textbook, The Physics of Solar Cells.

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Jenny Nelson's research has focused on the development of detailed physical descriptions of novel nanostructured or disordered materials, the quantitative validation of model results against experimental data, and above all, the application of physical science to address the challenges in energy supply, in particular, in the area of photovoltaic energy conversion.

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Jenny Nelson is ranked by the Institute for Scientific Information as one of the top 100 materials scientists in the world on the basis of the impact of her journal papers published between 2000 and 2010.

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Alongside her chair at Imperial, Jenny Nelson is Ser Cymru Joint Chair and Professor of Physics at SPECIFIC, Swansea University.

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Jenny Nelson was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2014.

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Jenny Nelson is distinguished for the development of fundamental physical models, simulation tools and experiments to discover and exploit relationships between the performance of photovoltaic devices and the physical and chemical properties of the constituent materials.

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Jenny Nelson has driven advances in the science and design of quantum semiconductor heterostructures, nanocrystalline oxide, conjugated molecular and hybrid organic-inorganic materials.

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In 2016 Jenny Nelson won the Institute of Physics Faraday Medal and Prize, for "pioneering advances in the science of nanostructured and molecular semiconductor materials".