Currently, I am working at the MPI for Solid State Research in the group of Prof. Bettina Lotsch. Also I am currently a member of eConversion Graduate Program and from 2020 to 2022 I have been a member of the student board which organized events for the graduate program. Furthermore, I was an organizer of INASCON2022 in Munich, mainly responsible for the website, public outreach and management.
My research is focused on the synthesis and characterisation of hybrid organic inorganic antimony halides. I am using single crystal x-ray diffraction, powder diffraction, DTA and different spectroscopy techniques to characterise the materials. Hybrid antimony halides can express the lone pair in different ways resulting in ferroeletric materials or materials with luminenesence properties. My focus is on these materials and how to tune the inorganic building units, the expression of the lone pair and in return their physical properties. To say it on one sentence: I am working on electronic and strutural templating effects of the organic cation in hybrid organic inorganic materials, to make new materials with defined structures to understand structure-property relationship.
Blahusch, J.; Fabini, D. H.; Jiménez-Solano, A.; Lotsch, B. V., Zeitschrift für anorganische und allgemeine Chemie 2021, 647 (8), 857–866.
Hatz, A.-K.; Calaminus, R.; Feijoo, J.; Treber, F.; Blahusch, J.; Lenz, T.; Reichel, M.; Karaghiosoff, K.; Vargas-Barbosa, N. M.; Lotsch, B. V., ACS Appl. Energy Mater. 2021, 4 (9), 9932–9943.