Prof. Tom Savenije

Tom Savenije is associate professor at Delft University of Technology. His major interest focuses on the relationship between composition and structure of photoactive materials including conjugated polymers and perovskites and their physical properties. These materials have possible application in e.g. photovoltaic devices. Over the last decade he gave numerous presentations at international conferences including MRS, ICSM, HOPV.

Academic background

Tom Savenije did his PhD under supervision of Prof. T.J. Schaafsma at the section Molecular Physics of Wageningen Agricultural University, Wageningen, The Netherlands, working on Artificial Photosynthesis. After his defense in January 1997 he took up a post-doc position at the Inorganic Chemistry Department, University of Technology Delft with Prof Dr. J. Schoonman. The research focused on solid state hybrid solar cells using conjugated polymers as dyes in combination with wide band gap semiconductors. Afterwards, he joined the group of Dr J.M. Warman at the Radiation Chemistry Department, IRI, University of Technology Delft. There he developed a unique facility to measure the time-resolved photo-induced microwave conductance (TRMC) in thin organic or hybrid films. Numerous groups all around the world now have copied this set-up.  In 2009/2010 he spent half year in the group of prof Dr. V. Dyakonov in Wurzburg, Germany as a visiting professor.