Natalie Banerji
2017-2023 Full Professor
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Bern, Switzerland.
2015-2017 Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry, University of Fribourg, Switzerland.
2014-2015 Assistant Professor (SNSF funded)
Department of Chemistry, University of Fribourg, Switzerland.
2011-2014 Ambizione Fellow (SNSF funded)
Institute of Chemical Sciences & Engineering, EPF Lausanne, Switzerland.
Host: Prof. Jacques Moser.
2009-2011 Postdoctoral Researcher (SNSF funded)
University of California, Santa Barbara, USA.
Host: Prof. Alan J. Heeger (Nobel Laureate Chemistry 2000).
2009 Ph.D. Degree in Chemistry
Physical Chemistry Department, University of Geneva, Switzerland.
Director: Prof. Eric Vauthey
2003 Diploma Degree in Chemistry
University of Geneva, Switzerland.
Prizes and Awards
2016: ERC Starting Grant
2015: Grammaticakis-Neumann Prize by the Swiss Chemical Society.
2008: Award for the best oral presentation, EMPA Ph.D. Student’s Symposium, St. Gallen, Switzerland.
2006: Invitation to the 56th Lindau Meeting of Nobel Laureates, dedicated to Chemistry, Lindau, Germany.
2004: Prize for the best Chemistry Diploma, by Ciba Spécialités Chimiques, Monthey SA.
Funding
(Total ~6’200’000 CHF)
2019 – 2023 Horizon 2020 FET-OPEN: 310’000 €
‘Mixed Ionic and Electronic Transport in Conjugated Polymers for Bioelectronics’
2019-2023 SNSF Project Funding: 1’044’574 CHF
‘Bulk and Interfacial Processes in (Doped) Organic Semiconductors’
2017-2022 ERC Starting Grant 2016 (European Comm.): 1’498’275 €
‘Organic Semiconductors Interfaced with Biological Environments – OSIRIS’ (~ 11% success rate)
2015-2022 Principal Investigator in the ‘NCCR MUST’ by the SNSF: 550’000 CHF
National Center of Competence in Research for Molecular Ultrafast Science and Technology
2015-2019 Beneficiary of the Marie-Curie Innovative Training Network ‘INFORM’ (European Comm.): 230’826 €
‘Interfaces in Opto-electronic Thin Film Multilayer Devices’
2014-2018 SNSF Stipend Professor Fellowship: 1’600’000 CHF (grant PP00P2_150536)
‘A Mechanistic Approach to Organic Electronics’
2012-2014 SNSF Ambizione Fellowship: 585’705 CHF (grant PZ00P2_136853)
‘Conjugated D-A Copolymers: Understanding Their Optoelectronic Functioning in Organic Solar Cells’
2009-2011 SNSF Fellowship for Prospective Researchers: US$ 79’400 (grant PBGEP2-125859)
For post-doctoral stay at the University of California, Santa Barbara
2005-2012 Various Travel Grants: 11’000 CHF
SNSF, DYNA (European Science Foundation), Marc Birkigt Foundation, SCS, European Laser Infrastructure
Selected Invited Talks
2021 EMRS Spring Meeting (online)
2020 MRS Fall Meeting (online)
2020 RSC Photophysics and Photochemistry Group Early Career Members Meeting (online)
2020 Department Seminar , Physics, TU Munich (online)
2020 Department Seminar , Materials and Biological Physics Group, University of Sheffield (online)
2020 NanoGe HOPV Conference (online)
2019 Department Talk at IAPP (TU Dresden Germany)
2019 PC Colloquium ETH (Zürich, Switzerland)
2019 TSRC: The Role of Assembly in Dictating the Functionality and Applications of Organic Semiconductors (Telluride, USA)
2019 29th International Conference on Photochemistry (Boulder, Colorado, USA)
2019 14th International Symposium on Functional π-Electron Systems (Berlin, Germany)
2019 Advances in Organic and Hybrid Electronic Materials (AOHEM) (Dubrovnik, Croatia)
2019 NanoGe INFORM Conference (Valencia, Spain)
2019 3rd Generation Photovoltaic Technologies and Beyond (KAUST)
2018 SEPOMO ITN Meeting (Oxford, UK)
2018 MRS Fall Meeting (Boston, USA)
2018 AFM2018 (Kolmården Vildmarkshotellet, Sweden)
2018 International Conference on Organic Electronics – 2018 (Bordeaux, France)
2018 Gordon Research Conference on Hybrid Electronic and Photonic Materials and Phenomena (Hongkong)
2018 SPIE Photonics Europe 2018 (Strasbourg, France)
2018 Excitonics for Photonic Applications Winterschool (Les Houches, France)
2017 Regulating the Interfacial Physicochemical Processes of Organic Semiconductors by Design (Telluride, USA)
2017 12th International Conference on Optical Probes of Organic and Hybrid Semiconductors (Québec, Canada)
2017 13th International Symposium on Functional π-Electron Systems (Hong Kong)
2017 Spring Meeting, European Materials Research Society (EMRS 2917) (Strasbourg, France)
2017 APS March Meeting 2017 (American Physical Society) (New Orleans, USA)
2017 Imperial College Center for Plastic Electronics Winterschool (Bergün, Switzerland)
2016 European Optical Society Bi-Annual Meeting 2016 (Berlin, Germany)
2016 Future of Chemical Physics, AIP Publishing Horizons Conference (Oxford, UK)
2016 Symposium on Solar Light to Chemical Energy Conversion (Diablerets, Switzerland)
2016 Perspectives on Photonics – Investigating the Route from Materials to Devices (Gstaadt, Switzerland)
2016 Internt. Conf. on Optical, Optoelectronic and Photonic Materials and Applications (Montreal, Canada)
2016 Gordon Research Conference on Electronic Processes in Organic Materials (Lucca, Italy)
2016 Central European Conference on Photochemistry (Bad Hofgastein, Austria)
2015 SPIE Conference “Organic Photovoltaics XVI” (San Diego, USA)
2015 Materials Research Society (MRS) Spring Meeting (San Francisco, USA, 2 talks)
2015 NCCR MUST Annual Meeting (Engelberg, Switzerland)
2014 Excitonic Photovoltaics (XPV) 2014 (Telluride, USA)
2014 Next Generation Solar, Photovoltaics Canada, National Scientific Conference (Montreal, Canada)
2013 5th Internt. Symposium on Emergence of Highly Elaborated Pi-Space and Its Function (Nagoya, Japan)
2013 Structure-Property Relationships of Molecular Precursors to Organic Electronics (CECAM, Switzerland)
2013 Young Faculty Meeting 2013 (Bern, Switzerland)
Institutional Responsibilities
2015- Member of Nomination Committees (Universities of Bern and Fribourg)
2016-2017 President of the Chemistry Department (University of Fribourg)
2015-2017 Local Research Commission of the Swiss National Science Foundation (University of Fribourg)
2014-2017 Safety Committee (President until 2016) (Chemistry Department, University of Fribourg)
2014-2016 Faculty Library Commission (University of Fribourg)
2014-2016 Foundation Board of the ‘Paul-Rhyner Stiftung’ (University of Fribourg)
2005-2009 ‘Conseil de Section de chimie et biochimie’ and ‘Conseil de Faculté des sciences’ (University of Geneva)
Panels and Boards
2021- Associate editor of ‘Nature PJ Flexible Electronics’
2021- Editorial board of IOP J.Phys. Energy
2019- Member of the R’Equip Evaluation Commission by the SNSF
2018- Member of the PRIMA Evaluation Commission by the SNSF
2017- Editorial Advisory Board Member of the ‘Journal of Physical Chemistry’
2017- Editorial Board Member of ‘Nature PJ Flexible Electronics’
2017 Guest Editor for Chimia issue ‘The Power of Spectroscopy’
2016- Delegate of the Photochemistry Section of the SCS for the Grammaticakis-Neumann Prize Committee
2014-2018 Swiss Management Committee of COST Action MP1307 ‘StableNextSol’
Outreach
2019 Fokus Forschung (University of Bern, Switzerland)
2018 Chemie am Samstag (University of Bern, Switzerland)
2018 Lunch Talk Gleichstellung (University of Bern, Switzerland)
2013/18 NCCR-MUST Annual Meeting (Women Scientist Workshop, Engelberg, Switzerland)
2016 Career Focus Article in Optics & Photonics News
2015 Forum des 100 de l’Hebdo, organized by the Swiss magazine L’Hebdo
2015/16 Organization of the 26th and 27th Paul Rhyner Talk, Fribourg
2015/16 Schweizer Jugend Forscht lab visit (University of Fribourg, Switzerland)
2015 Stages WINS (Women IN Science and technology) (University of Fribourg, Switzerland)
2015 Articles in Freiburger Nachrichten
2015 Café Scientifique, Café du théâtre de l’Equilibre, Fribourg