1. Laura Herz worked for two years as an exchange student at University of New South Wales.
13 Facts About Laura Herz
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Laura Herz joined the University of Cambridge for her doctoral studies, earning a PhD in 2002.
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Laura Herz was awarded an Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Advanced Research Fellowship in 2006 and an EPSRC Open Fellowship in 2024.
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Laura Herz joined the Department of Physics, University of Oxford as new faculty in 2003 and became a full professor in 2010.
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Laura Herz has researched the origins of the high charge-carrier mobilities in perovskite materials.
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Laura Herz demonstrated that their high efficiency in solar cells was due to long charge-carrier diffusion lengths and non-Langevin recombination.
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Laura Herz identified that perovskite light emission is broad and can be used in Ultrafast lasers.
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Laura Herz recognised that the origin of this broadening is Frohlich coupling to longitudinal optical phonons.
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Laura Herz appeared on the BBC Radio 4 show In Our Time in 2015.
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In 2024, Laura Herz was elected as Fellow of the Royal Society.
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Laura Herz is distinguished for her study of light-harvesting and energy-conversion pathways in emerging semiconductors.
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Laura Herz's research has pushed boundaries across interdisciplinary themes including light-matter interactions, charge-carrier dynamics, molecular self-assembly, biomimetic systems and nanoscience.
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Laura Herz's work has been central to guiding materials synthesis, chemical engineering and advancing technology for renewable energy conversion.