Olga Malinkiewicz
Olga Malinkiewicz | |
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File:OlgaMalinkiewicz1.jpg Malinkiewicz in 2020 | |
Born | 26 November 1982 |
Nationality | Polish |
Alma mater | University of Warsaw |
Occupation | Physicist, entrepreneur |
Known for | co-founder of Saule Technologies |
Olga Malinkiewicz (Polish pronunciation: [ˈɔlɡa malinˈkjɛvit͡ʂ]; born 26 November 1982) is a Polish physicist, inventor of a method of producing solar cells based on perovskites using inkjet printing. She is a co-founder and the Chief Technology Officer at Saule Technologies.[1]
Biography
She started her studies at the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw, where she obtained a Bachelor in 2005. She graduated from the Barcelona University of Technology in Barcelona in 2010. While still a student, in 2009 she started working at the ICFO Institute. In 2017, she obtained her PhD from ICMol – Institute for Molecular Science of the University of Valencia at the group of Dr. Henk Bolink, with a thesis on low cost, efficient hybrid solar cells.[2] In 2014 she founded Saule Technologies, with private backing and turned down an offer of €1 million (US$1.3 million) for 10% of the start-up.[3] The name of the company derives from Saulė, the goddess of the Sun in Baltic mythology.
Awards
During her studies, Olga developed a novel perovskite solar cell architecture allowing the fabrication of such devices at low temperatures for the first time, while retaining high efficiency. She has been granted with the Photonics21 Student Innovation award in a competition organised by the European Commission in 2014 for this achievement.[4][5][6] She published an article on the subject in Nature Scientific Reports.[7] In 2015 Olga was honored with an award in the Innovators Under 35 ranking, organized by MIT Technology Review for "developing a new technology that could spark a “social revolution” in renewable energies".[8] In 2016, she was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta by the President of Poland Andrzej Duda for her "outstanding contributions to the development of Polish science".[9][10] For her future science and business activities, she was distinguished by the American Chemical Society as one of the top women entrepreneurs in new technologies.[11]
Professional life
In 2015, she co-founded Saule Technologies (named after the Baltic sun goddess), along with two Polish businessmen.[12] A partnership was signed in January 2018 with the Swedish construction company Skanska. The company is also looking for partnership with other companies operating in the Middle East.[13] It is also working with Egis Group, a rigid plastics film producer, on the encapsulation of the cells.[14] In 2021, the company became the world’s first to begin industrial production of solar panels based on next generation perovskite technology [15] and unveiled the first building in the world using this pioneering photovoltaic installation.[16]
See also
References
- ^ "Meet Olga Malinkiewicz who's printing wafer-thin solar cells made with perovskite". @scctw. Retrieved 18 September 2018.
- ^ "OLGA MALINKIEWICZ | University of Valencia, Valencia | UV | Instituto de Ciencia Molecular (ICMol)". Retrieved 10 March 2020.
- ^ Van Noorden, Richard (24 September 2014). "Cheap solar cells tempt businesses". Nature. 513 (7519): 470. doi:10.1038/513470a. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 25254454.
- ^ "Photonics21 Innovation Award - News - ICFO". Icfo.eu. 1 April 2014. Retrieved 10 March 2020.
- ^ "Partnerships key to photonics innovation, EC VP tells Photonics21". Spie.org. Retrieved 10 March 2020.
- ^ "A low-cost thin-film photovoltaic device with high energy efficiency". Spie.org. 20 March 2014. Retrieved 10 March 2020.
- ^ Tvingstedt, Kristofer; Malinkiewicz, Olga; Baumann, Andreas; Deibel, Carsten; Snaith, Henry J.; Dyakonov, Vladimir; Bolink, Henk J. (14 August 2014). "Radiative efficiency of lead iodide based perovskite solar cells - Scientific Reports". Scientific Reports. 4 (1): 6071. doi:10.1038/srep06071. PMC 5377528. PMID 25317958.
- ^ "Olga Malinkiewicz | Innovators Under 35". www.innovatorsunder35.com. Retrieved 14 October 2020.
- ^ "M.P. 2016 poz. 1225" (in Polish). Retrieved 12 September 2021.
- ^ "Prezydent odznaczył zasłużonych w służbie państwu i społeczeństwu" (in Polish). 11 November 2016. Retrieved 12 September 2021.
- ^ "C&EN's 2020 Trailblazers: Celebrating badass women entrepreneurs in chemistry". Chemical & Engineering News. Retrieved 14 October 2020.
- ^ ""Inkjet"solar panels set to reshape green energy". The Hindu Newspaper.
- ^ [/article/104078/Saule_opens_up_licence_for_perovskite_solar_windows "Saule opens up licence for perovskite solar windows"]. Compound Semiconductor. 24 April 2018. Retrieved 10 March 2020.
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value (help) - ^ "Making it real: Commercial field test of breakthrough Perovskite solar panel begins". Red, Green, and Blue. 9 January 2019. Retrieved 10 March 2020.
- ^ "Warsaw solar panel firm becomes world's first to begin production of revolutionary perovskite technology". Retrieved 31 August 2021.
- ^ "Ta-da! Lublin building becomes world's first to be clad in perovskite 'sun-breaker' panels". Retrieved 31 August 2021.
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