Virginia Lafranconi

holds a Bachelor's degree (2021) in Chemistry from the Università degli Studi di Milano, during which she had the opportunity to study in Sweden as an Erasmus exchange student at Uppsala University, where she became interested in energy and the environment. For her bachelor thesis, she researched porphyrin-based dye-sensitised solar cells. With her commitment to innovation and a greener future, she completed her Master's degree in Low Carbon Technologies and Sustainable Chemistry at the University of Bologna (2023), during which she gained practical experience in photovoltaics and completed an internship at the IMS Institute in Bordeaux in the group of Prof. Guillaume Wantz. Guillaume Wantz.
There she worked on the synthesis of organic solar cells, in which chlorinated solvents are replaced by aqueous dispersions of polymer nanoparticles, and investigated the thermal stability of polymer-based layers for the production of solar cells for hybrid applications.
In January 2024, she moved to Graz to continue her PhD within the MSCA-DN programme OPVStability, which aims to develop innovative stabilisation tools for interfacial and bulk heterojunction morphology in OPV and is mainly carried out at Graz University of Technology under the supervision of Gregor Trimmel.