dr. Andrea Baldi

Associate Professor, Faculty of Science, Photo Conversion Materials

Associate Professor, LaserLaB, LaserLaB - Energy

Research

Dr. Andrea Baldi studies light-matter interaction in nanomaterials for light-energy conversion and optical sensing

Education

B.Sc. & M.Sc.: Chemistry, Università di Roma La Sapienza, 2005.
Ph.D.: Physics, VU University Amsterdam, 2010.

Teaching

Baldi is involved in teaching in several bachelor and master courses in Physics and in Science and Business Innovation. In particular, he teaches in the courses "Sustainable Energy: Biomass and Biofuels", "Current Sustainable Energy Technologies", "Innovation Project Energy", "Emergent Energy Materials", and "Materials for Light-Energy Conversion". He also regularly supervises bachelor and master research projects.

Grants

2018: DIFFER strategic funds for intergroup collaboration for the proposal entitled “Cavity enhanced nanochemistry”, shared with prof. Jaime Gómez Rivas at TU/e (200 k€).

2018: NWO funds for DIFFER-AMOLF collaboration for the proposal entitled “Direct versus indirect mechanism of plasmon-driven catalysis”, shared with prof. Erik Garnett at AMOLF (250 k€).

2017: VIDI grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) for the project "Hot! Hot! Hot! Fundamentals of Plasmon Catalysis" (800 k€).

2014: FOM Program for the proposal entitled ”Photosynthesis of nano- materials: developing nanostructured photocatalysts for solar fuel generation using light”, shared with prof. Erik Garnett at AMOLF (1.44 M€).

2011: Fellowship for Young Energy Scientists (YES!) from the Dutch Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter (FOM) (483 k€).

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