Raluca Gearba

Ioana Raluca Gearba is a Goldhaber Fellow working in Electronic Nanomaterials group at the Center for Functional Nanomaterials. Raluca graduated in 2000 from University of Bucharest, Physics Faculty with the specialty in biophysics. She received two masters, one in Biophysics delivered by the same university and one in Sciences obtained at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Brussels, Belgium). In 2005 she obtained her PhD title in Materials Science from the same university. The research was devoted to the study of organic systems forming columnar phases ranging from small molecules to long polymer chains with focus on the influence of molecular architecture and specific interactions such as hydrogen bonding on the supramolecular organization in the mesophase, as well as on the role of columnar mesophase in the crystal growth in the bulk and at interfaces. In 2005 she moved to France as a postdoctoral research associate, position offered by the French National Foundation for Science (CNRS). The research was devoted to the study of the factors determining the self-assembly of small molecules in double helices and to the control of the homeotropic alignment of columnar mesophses on patterned surfaces in the view of their use in organic solar cells. She also received the prestigious Marie Curie fellowship.

At the CFN she will help initiate a program on solar cells based on semiconductive polymeric materials and small molecules.

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