Samrana Kazim

Dr. Samrana Kazim is an Ikerbasque fellow and Group leader at Basque Centre for Materials, Applications, and Nanostructures (UPV). Before this, she worked as a tenured senior scientist, at Abengoa Research, a corporate research center of a multinational energy company in Spain. She obtained her doctoral degree (Ph.D.) in Materials chemistry. After finishing her Ph.D., she briefly worked as a post-doc at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT Kanpur) and then moved to the Institute of...See more

Dr. Samrana Kazim is an Ikerbasque fellow and Group leader at Basque Centre for Materials, Applications, and Nanostructures (UPV). Before this, she worked as a tenured senior scientist, at Abengoa Research, a corporate research center of a multinational energy company in Spain. She obtained her doctoral degree (Ph.D.) in Materials chemistry. After finishing her Ph.D., she briefly worked as a post-doc at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT Kanpur) and then moved to the Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry (IMC), Prague on an IUPAC/UNESCO fellowship and then later was a staff scientist there. She has authored over 80 research articles in reputed journals in the fields of material science, nanotechnology, and energy; also authored and edited book chapters and inventor of numerous patents in energy conversion and storage. Her research interests include synthesis and electro-optical characterization of organic semiconductors, hybrid nanostructured materials for optoelectronics applications, and perovskite solar cells. See less