Professor Jenny Nelson FRS is Professor of Physics and Head of the Experimental Solid State Physics group at Imperial College London. She is best known for her use of physical models, simulations, and experiments to characterise the materials and physics of photovoltaic solar cells. She has also authored the foundational text, The Physics of Solar Cells (2003). Current research in her group includes modelling and studying organic photovolatic devices, semiconducting polymers, and photocatalysis using organic semiconductors.
Professor Nelson also leads the Mitigation Program of the Grantham Institute for Climate Change and the Environment, which develops energy systems models and studies policy encompassing low carbon energy technologies and industrial emissions. Her group currently studies the contributions of advances to photovoltaic technology towards reducing the carbon footprint of electricity generation and the electrification of developing societies.
Along with scientific recognitions such as being elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2014, she has also won teaching and supervision awards such as the 2017 Imperial College Union Student Academic Choice Award for Best Supervision.
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