prof.dr. Bruno Ehrler
CV / Biography
Bruno Ehrler has been leading the Hybrid Solar Cells group at AMOLF in Amsterdam since 2014 and has been an honorary professor at the University of Groningen since 2020. Since 2024, he has been head of the LMPV-Sustainable Energy Materials Department at AMOLF. His group focuses on perovskite materials science, both on the fundamental level and for device applications.
Ehrler has received many awards and prizes, including an ERC Starting Grant, the WIN Rising Star award, and the ACS Energy Lectureship award. He is member of the Young Academy of Europe, Vice-chair of the Netherlands Energy Research Alliance, and program director of SolarLab, a large national research program on solar energy.
Before moving to Amsterdam, he was a research fellow in the Optoelectronics Group at Cambridge University following post-doctoral work with Professor Sir Richard Friend. During this period, he worked on quantum dots, doped metal oxides and singlet fission photovoltaics. He obtained his PhD from the University of Cambridge under the supervision of Professor Neil Greenham, studying hybrid solar cells from organic semiconductors and inorganic quantum dots. He received his MSci from the University of London (Queen Mary), studying micro-mechanics in the group of Professor David Dunstan.
CV Prof. Bruno Ehrler
- 2025 ACS Energy Letureship Award
- 2024 Head of Department, LMPV-Sustainable Energy Materials, AMOLF
- 2024: Editorial Advisory Board member of ACS Energy Letters
- 2023 Program Director of SolarLab
- 2023 Member of the Young Academy of Europe
- 2022 Science Board member Netherlands Energy Research Alliance (NERA), vice-chair since 2024
- 2021 Member steering committee National Growth fund application Duurzame MaterialenNL
- 2021 Member advisory board Dutch Chemistry Council
- 2020 Honorary professor Universty of Groningen for new hybrid material systems for solar-cell applications
- 2020 ERC starting Grant for work on aritifical synapses from halide perovskites
- 2019 Senior conference editor nanoGe
- 2018 WIN Rising Star award
- 2017 NWO Vidi Grant for work on metal halide perovskites
- since 2014 Group Leader, Hybrid Solar Cell Group, Institute AMOLF, Amsterdam
- 2013 – 2014 Trevelyan Research Fellow, Selwyn College, University of Cambridge
- 2012-2013 Postdoctoral Work, University of Cambridge, Professor Sir Richard Friend
- 2009-2012 PhD in Physics, University of Cambridge, Professor Neil Greenham
- 2005 – 2009 Study of physics at RWTH Aachen and University of London, Queen Mary College, MSci University of London
