Olga Malinkiewicz

Dr. Olga Malinkiewicz (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]

Olga Malinkiewicz
Malinkiewicz in 2020
Born (1982-11-26) 26 November 1982
Alma materUniversity of Warsaw
OccupationPhysicist

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]

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] 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.[9]

Professional life

In 2015, she co-founded Saule Technologies (named after the Baltic sun goddess), along with two Polish businessmen.[10] A partnership is 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.[11] It is also working with Egis Group, a rigid plastics film producer, on the encapsulation of the cells.[12]

See also

References
  1. "Meet Olga Malinkiewicz who's printing wafer-thin solar cells made with perovskite". @scctw. Retrieved 18 September 2018.
  2. "OLGA MALINKIEWICZ | University of Valencia, Valencia | UV | Instituto de Ciencia Molecular (ICMol)". Retrieved 10 March 2020.
  3. Van Noorden, Richard (24 September 2014). "Cheap solar cells tempt businesses". Nature. 513 (7519): 470. doi:10.1038/513470a. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 25254454.
  4. "Photonics21 Innovation Award - News - ICFO". Icfo.eu. 1 April 2014. Retrieved 10 March 2020.
  5. "Partnerships key to photonics innovation, EC VP tells Photonics21". Spie.org. Retrieved 10 March 2020.
  6. "A low-cost thin-film photovoltaic device with high energy efficiency". Spie.org. 20 March 2014. Retrieved 10 March 2020.
  7. "Radiative efficiency of lead iodide based perovskite solar cells - Scientific Reports". Nature. Retrieved 10 March 2020.
  8. "Olga Malinkiewicz | Innovators Under 35". www.innovatorsunder35.com. Retrieved 14 October 2020.
  9. "C&EN's 2020 Trailblazers: Celebrating badass women entrepreneurs in chemistry". Chemical & Engineering News. Retrieved 14 October 2020.
  10. ""Inkjet"solar panels set to reshape green energy". The Hindu Newspaper.
  11. [/article/104078/Saule_opens_up_licence_for_perovskite_solar_windows "Saule opens up licence for perovskite solar windows"] Check |url= value (help). Compound Semiconductor. 24 April 2018. Retrieved 10 March 2020.
  12. "Making it real: Commercial field test of breakthrough Perovskite solar panel begins". Red, Green, and Blue. 9 January 2019. Retrieved 10 March 2020.
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