Bruno Ehrler

Bruno Ehrler has lead the Hybrid Solar Cells group at AMOLF in Amsterdam since 2014 and has been an honorary professor at the University of Groningen since 2020. He served as Head of AMOLF’s LMPV–Sustainable Energy Materials Department from 2024 to 2025, and has been Director of AMOLF since 2026.

His group investigates metal-halide perovskites, combining fundamental materials science with device applications. Their work aims to understand dynamic processes in these materials—particularly the migration of mobile ions—to improve the stability of perovskite solar cells and enable new technologies, including neuromorphic devices.

Ehrler has received several awards and distinctions, including an ERC Starting Grant, the WIN Rising Star Award, the ACS Energy Lectureship Award, and the KNCV Gold Medal. He is a member of the Young Academy of Europe and Chair of the Netherlands Energy Research Alliance, which brings together around 5,000 energy researchers nationwide.

Before joining AMOLF, Ehrler was a research fellow in the Optoelectronics Group at the University of Cambridge, following postdoctoral research with Professor Sir Richard Friend. He obtained his PhD at the University of Cambridge under the supervision of Professor Neil Greenham, and his MSci from Queen Mary University of London.

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CV Prof. Bruno Ehrler

• 2026 Director of AMOLF
• 2025 Gold Medal of the Dutch Royal Society of Chemistry (KNCV)
• 2025 ACS Energy Letureship Award
• 2024 - 2025 Head of Department, LMPV-Sustainable Energy Materials, AMOLF
• 2024 Editorial Advisory Board member of ACS Energy Letters
• 2023 - 2025 Program Director of SolarLab
• 2023 Member of the Young Academy of Europe
• 2023 - 2025 Program director of SolarLab
• 2022 Science Board member Netherlands Energy Research Alliance (NERA), chair since 2026
• 2021 Member steering committee National Growth fund application Duurzame MaterialenNL
• 2021 - 2025 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