Sameera is a graduate student at SDLE Center
- Enrolled in PhD program in Materials Science and Engineering in August 2019
Alma mater: University of Hyderabad (UoH), India
- Integrated M.Sc (I.M.Sc) in Chemical Sciences
Previous research experiences
a. Master’s project
- Inorganic materials for photovoltaic applications
- Under the guidance of Prof. K. Muralidharan, School of Chemistry, UoH
b. The Chennupati and Vidya Jagadish Endowment Fund short-term project
- At The Australian National University (ANU) in 2018 during May-July 2018
- Worked under the supervision of Prof. Hoe Tan at the Research School of Physics and Engineering, ANU
- Studied the effect of InP nanopillar treatment on improving photoelectrochemical water splitting
c. Summer research internship
- Dr. Moloy Sarkar’s group at the School of Chemical Sciences
- At the National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER), Bhubaneshwar, India during May-July 2017
- Worked on studying the Forster resonance energy transfer between core-shell quantum dots and J-aggregates.
Current project: Towards50 project, which aims at studying different packaging materials and module architecture in order to increase PV module lifetimes to 50 years
Research interests: Solar cells, lamination, degradation studies
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sameera-nalin-venkat-209a77120/
