dr. Sam Gielen

Sam Gielen received his Bachelor in Chemistry in 2014 from Hasselt University. After finishing his Bachelor's, he obtained a Master's degree in Chemical Engineering from the Eindhoven University of Technology. In his Bachelor thesis, he studied the flow synthesis of block copolymers initiated by UV light in the group of Prof. T. Junkers. His Master thesis was performed in the Supramolecular Polymers group of Prof. R.P. Sijbesma, working on ferroelectric materials based on hydrogen-bonded discotic columnar liquid crystals. In October 2016, he joined the DSOS group as a Ph.D. student, performing research on small molecule and polymer semiconductors for near-infrared photodetectors applications. In 2021, he successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation entitled ‘Near-infrared organic photodetectors: from molecules to imagers'. Currently, he is working as a postdoc in the DSOS group, investigating the chemical origin of intrinsic performance limits in organic electronics.

ORCID: 0000-0002-9941-1453

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Ph.D. thesis