Ludmila Cojocaru, received her PhD from Bordeaux University (France) in physical chemistry of condensed materials and their application in liquid-state dye-sensitized solar cells. Subsequently, she was awarded by the Japan Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS) as a post-doc fellow in the framework of the Japanese-French Associate Laboratory for Next Generation Photovoltaic Cells (LIA Next-PV) (LiaNextPV) at the University of Tokyo, and, then, continued working in a national (NEDO) Japanese project at the same University. Her work in Japan was focused on the solidification of liquid-state dye-sensitized solar cells then moved to the perovskite solar cells. Working in the field of perovskite solar cells since the earlier stage of their discovery, she concentrated her work on the fabrication of high-performance devices focusing on the interface engineering of perovskite and providing a possible reason for the origin of IV hysteresis. Later, she moved to the University of Freiburg (Germany), focusing on the evaporation of perovskite for tandem solar cells application, working in collaboration with the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy (Germany). She also worked as a Junior Researcher at Bordeaux University (France) in an Initiative of Excellence “Make Our Planet Great Again”, where she was engaged in a project focused on the fabrication of sustainable energy conversion-storage devices by combining perovskite solar cells and supercapacitors, devices connected through a common electrode based on carbon extracted from biomass. Her current research focuses on fabricating sustainable perovskite solar cells and developing lead-free absorbers, work started at Toin University of Yokohama and she currently, continues this work at the University of Tokyo.
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