Laura Herz

Short description: Physicist

Laura Herz

FInstP

Born|

Laura Maria Herz

Education| School Sisters of Notre Dame
Alma mater| University of Bonn
University of Cambridge (PhD)
Awards| Nevill Mott Medal and Prize (2018)
Scientific career
Fields| Condensed matter physics
semiconductors
Ultrafast spectroscopy
Photovoltaics
Conjugated polymers[1]
Institutions| University of Oxford
University of Cambridge
Thesis| Aggregation effects in conjugated polymer films studied by time-resolved photoluminescence spectroscopy (2002)
Website| www-herz.physics.ox.ac.uk

Laura Maria Herz FInstP is a Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford. She works on femtosecond spectroscopy for the analysis of semiconductor materials.[1]

## Contents

* 1 Early life and education
* 2 Research and career
* 2.1 Awards and honours
* 3 References
* 4 External links

## Early life and education

Herz studied physics at the University of Bonn and graduated in 1999, first of her class.[2] She worked for two years as an exchange student at University of New South Wales.[3] She joined the University of Cambridge for her doctoral studies, earning a PhD in 2002.[2][4] Here she worked on exciton and polaron dynamics in organic semiconductors.[5]

## Research and career

After her PhD, Herz was appointed a postdoctoral research fellow at St John's College, Cambridge, in 2001.[2] She was awarded an Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Advanced Research Fellowship in 2006.[6] Herz became a Professor in 2010.[2]

Herz is an expert in perovskite semiconductors.[7] She has researched the origins of the high charge-carrier mobilities in perovskite materials.[8] She demonstrated that their high efficiency in solar cells was due to long charge-carrier diffusion lengths and non-Langevin recombination.[9][10] She identified that perovskite light emission is broad and can be used in Ultrafast lasers.[11] She recognised that the origin of this broadening is Fröhlich coupling to longitudinal optical phonons.[12]

Herz is also interested in self-assembly and nanoscale effects.[13] She works on Biomimetics light harvesting structures made of porphyrin nanorings[14][15] to explore delocalised excited states.[16][17] She is the co-director of the Imperial College London Centre for Doctoral Training in Plastic Electronic Materials.[2]

She appeared on the BBC Radio 4 show In Our Time in 2015.[18] She will join University of Bayreuth in 2018 to deliver a series of lectures.[19]

### Awards and honours

Her awards and honours include:

* 2018 Institute of Physics Nevill Mott Medal and Prize[20]
* 2018 Oxford University Student Union Outstanding Graduate Supervisor[21]
* 2018 Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Friedrich-Wilhelm-Bessel Award[19]

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 {{Google Scholar id}} template missing ID and not present in Wikidata.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 "CV - Laura M Herz" (in en). https://www-herz.physics.ox.ac.uk/Herz_CV.html.
3. ↑ "Public Seminar Laura Herz - 31 March 2016" (in en). School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering. 2016-03-12. https://www.engineering.unsw.edu.au/energy-engineering/news/public-seminar-laura-herz-31-march-2016.
4. ↑ Herz, Laura Maria (2002). Aggregation effects in conjugated polymer films studied by time-resolved photoluminescence spectroscopy. jisc.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. OCLC 894595356. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.620191.
5. ↑ Silva, Carlos; Russell, David M.; Dhoot, Anoop S.; Herz, Laura M.; Daniel, Clément; Greenham, Neil C.; Arias, Ana C.; Setayesh, Sepas et al. (2002). "Exciton and polaron dynamics in a step-ladder polymeric semiconductor: the influence of interchain order" (in en). Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 14 (42): 9803. doi:10.1088/0953-8984/14/42/302. ISSN 0953-8984. Bibcode: 2002JPCM...14.9803S. https://semanticscholar.org/paper/9a28c9c9e5e7ce2b724a19011e4cd17adbde3c34.
6. ↑ "KAUST Solar Center Research Conference 2016" (in en-US). https://ksc.kaust.edu.sa/Pages/2016-KAUST-Research-Conference-Speakers-Herz.aspx.
7. ↑ Johnston, Michael B.; Herz, Laura M. (2015-12-10). "Hybrid Perovskites for Photovoltaics: Charge-Carrier Recombination, Diffusion, and Radiative Efficiencies" (in EN). Accounts of Chemical Research 49 (1): 146–154. doi:10.1021/acs.accounts.5b00411. ISSN 0001-4842. PMID 26653572.
8. ↑ Herz, Laura M. (2017-06-08). "Charge-Carrier Mobilities in Metal Halide Perovskites: Fundamental Mechanisms and Limits" (in EN). ACS Energy Letters 2 (7): 1539–1548. doi:10.1021/acsenergylett.7b00276. ISSN 2380-8195.
9. ↑ UNSWSPREE (2016-04-04), UNSW SPREE 201603-31 Laura Herz - Charge-Carrier Diffusion in Hybrid Metal Halide Perovskites, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66O_YVhjyOY, retrieved 2018-09-17
10. ↑ Stranks, Samuel D.; Eperon, Giles E.; Grancini, Giulia; Menelaou, Christopher; Alcocer, Marcelo J. P.; Leijtens, Tomas; Herz, Laura M.; Petrozza, Annamaria et al. (2013). "Electron-Hole Diffusion Lengths Exceeding 1 Micrometer in an Organometal Trihalide Perovskite Absorber" (in en). Science 342 (6156): 341–344. doi:10.1126/science.1243982. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 24136964. Bibcode: 2013Sci...342..341S. https://semanticscholar.org/paper/f84ca57b651c85f23bbf9e7c8704051e961152ad.
11. ↑ Eperon, Giles E.; Stranks, Samuel D.; Menelaou, Christopher; Johnston, Michael B.; Herz, Laura M.; Snaith, Henry J. (2014). "Formamidinium lead trihalide: a broadly tunable perovskite for efficient planar heterojunction solar cells" (in en). Energy & Environmental Science 7 (3): 982. doi:10.1039/C3EE43822H. ISSN 1754-5692.
12. ↑ Wright, Adam D.; Verdi, Carla; Milot, Rebecca L.; Eperon, Giles E.; Pérez-Osorio, Miguel A.; Snaith, Henry J.; Giustino, Feliciano; Johnston, Michael B. et al. (2016-05-26). "Electron–phonon coupling in hybrid lead halide perovskites" (in En). Nature Communications 7: 11755. doi:10.1038/ncomms11755. ISSN 2041-1723. PMID 27225329. Bibcode: 2016NatCo...711755W.
13. ↑ "Speakers - IUPAC 2018" (in en-US). IUPAC 2018. http://photoiupac2018.com/speakers/.
14. ↑ Parkinson, Patrick; Kamonsutthipaijit, Nuntaporn; Anderson, Harry L.; Herz, Laura M. (2016-05-17). "Size-Independent Energy Transfer in Biomimetic Nanoring Complexes" (in EN). ACS Nano 10 (6): 5933–5940. doi:10.1021/acsnano.6b01265. ISSN 1936-0851. PMID 27176553.
15. ↑ Gong, Juliane Q.; Favereau, Ludovic; Anderson, Harry L.; Herz, Laura M. (2016-01-08). "Breaking the Symmetry in Molecular Nanorings" (in EN). The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 7 (2): 332–338. doi:10.1021/acs.jpclett.5b02617. ISSN 1948-7185. PMID 26735906.
16. ↑ Rousseaux, Sophie A. L.; Gong, Juliane Q.; Haver, Renée; Odell, Barbara; Claridge, Tim D. W.; Herz, Laura M.; Anderson, Harry L. (2015-09-25). "Self-Assembly of Russian Doll Concentric Porphyrin Nanorings" (in EN). Journal of the American Chemical Society 137 (39): 12713–12718. doi:10.1021/jacs.5b07956. ISSN 0002-7863. PMID 26378660.
17. ↑ Hoffmann, Markus; Kärnbratt, Joakim; Chang, Ming-Hua; Herz, Laura M.; Albinsson, Bo; Anderson, Harry L. (2008-06-23). "Enhanced π Conjugation around a Porphyrin[6] Nanoring" (in en). Angewandte Chemie International Edition 47 (27): 4993–4996. doi:10.1002/anie.200801188. ISSN 1433-7851. PMID 18506860.
18. ↑ "Michael Faraday, In Our Time - BBC Radio 4" (in en-GB). https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06s9rz9.
19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 Bayreuth, Universität. "Leading researcher from Oxford comes to the University of Bayreuth". https://www.physik.uni-bayreuth.de/en/news/2018/20180703-Bessel-Research-Award/index.html.
20. ↑ Physics, Institute of. "2018 Nevill Mott Medal and Prize" (in en-GB). http://www.iop.org/about/awards/subject/condensed-matter-and-nanoscale/mott-medallists/page_71722.html.
21. ↑ "Success for MPLS staff in Oxford University Student Union teaching awards — Mathematical Physical and Life Sciences Division" (in en). https://www.mpls.ox.ac.uk/news/success-for-mpls-staff-in-oxford-university-student-union-teaching-awards.

## External links

* Laura Herz publications indexed by Google Scholar

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