About the M2D research group

Welcome to the Materials to Optoelectronic Devices (M2D) research group. The M2D group is an interdepartmental research group at the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), active in the Departments of Applied Physics and Chemical Engineering and Chemistry. M2D is the successor of the Molecular Materials and Nanosystems (M2N) group. The new name was chosen to better reflect our future research profile and ambitions. M2D brings together researchers from different backgrounds and aims at establishing a coherent research and educational program on the physics and chemistry of functional materials and optoelectronic devices.

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Upcoming events

21 April 2026 at 13.30 h Lana Kessels will defend her PhD Thesis entitled "Lead-Tin Perovskites for Narrow Bandgap Photovoltaics"

News

  • 18 December 2025 Congratulations to Bryan Chömpff who successfully defended his MSc thesis entitled: "The optical gap in quinoline dyes: Effects of protonation and solvation"
  • 1 December  2025 A warm welcome to Monica Morales Masis, groupleader APSE, Paul Llontop Lopez-Davalos, Postdoc, Joel Arriaga Davila, PhD Daan Holleman, PhD and Diego Jiménez Martínez, PhD who started  today in our group.
  • 20 November  2025 Today we had a joint meeting to welcome the M3 group of Monica Morales-Masis of the University of Twente. Monica and her group will join TU/e from December 1 onwards. We are looking forward to an energetic and fruitful collaboration!
  • 20 November 2025 Congratulations to Pugazharasu Anancia Devaneyan who won the poster prize at the Dutch Computational Science Day (DUCOMS) in Utrecht (The Netherlands) today.
  • 21 October  2025 Congratulations to Nicolas Daub who won The Best Paper Award 2025 of the TU/e Postdoc Association for communicating his publication on flow batteries to a broad audience.
  • 1 October  2025 A warm welcome to Ralph van den Heuvel who started his PhD today.
  • 14 July 2025  Congratulations to Jay van den Wijngaard who successfully defended his MSc thesis entitled:  "Synthesis and Electrochemical Characterization of Bipolar Redox-Active Molecules for Nonaqueous Redox Flow Batteries"
  • 7 July 2025 Congratulations to Patrick Diederen who successfully defended MSc thesis entitled:"Cutting through the OLED jungle: determining LUMO energies using simulation-assisted field-induced dissociation"
  • 27 June 2025 We had a nice outing with the M2N group paintball shooting with a very nice BBQ afterwards. Thank you Simon and Roozbeh for the good organization
  • 23 June 2025 Congratulations to Lucas Norg who received his MSc diploma Applied Physics today.
  • 17 June 2025 Congratulations to Lars van Erp who received his MSc diploma Chemical Engineering & Chemistry today.
  • 26 May  2025 Congratulations to Ralph van den Heuvel who successfully defended MSc thesis entitled "Ions on the Move: Measuring Mobile Ions in Metal-Halide Perovskite Solar Cells"
  • 26 May  2025 Congratulations to Lois Fernández Míguez who successfully defended his PhD thesis entitled "Molecular-Scale Model of Pattern Formation in EUV-Lithography Photoresists: Towards Ultimate Resolution Limits (MM2ULTIM)".
  • 26 May  2025 Congratulations to Daan Beerkens who successfully defended his MSc thesis "Interface Engineering with Hole-Selective Self-Assembled Monolayers for High-Performance Perovskite Solar Cells" today.
  • 2 March 2025 A warm welcome to Pugs Anancia Devaneyan who started his PhD today.
  • 26 February 2025 Today the paper of Kunal Datta and Simone van Laar has been published in Nature Communications. It reveals the origin and consequence of surface wrinkling in wide-bandgap perivskites. The work is the resukt of a collaboration with many colleagues in the US. You are invited to read the story behind the paper: Ups and Downs: How Perovskite Films Wrinkle.
  • 17 February 2025 Today Kunal Datta joined our group as a postdoc. We welcome him back to our laboratories after he spent two years in Georgia Tech.
  • 24 January 2025 Congratulations to Nanno de Rooij  who successfully defended his MSc thesis“Describing Exciplexes as a Photophysically Active Species".
  • 2 January 2025 The joint first author paper of Junke Wang and Bruno Branco Performance and stability analysis of all-perovskite tandem photovoltaics in light-driven electrochemical water splitting has been published in Nature Communications today.
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