José Jurado

Postdoctoral Fellows

Postdoctoral Fellow

Current

Location:

3204-WS06

Social Profile:

Contact Information:

Jose.jurado@kaust.edu.sa

Biography

José Jurado is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow, formerly as a part of the Ultrafast Dynamics (UFD) group and now as part of the KAUST Photovoltaic (KPV) Lab. He received his Ph.D. in Materials Science from the Autonomous University of Barcelona at the Materials Science Institute of Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC) under the supervision of Dr. Mariano Campoy-Quiles, where he was awarded the “la Caixa” INPhINIT fellowship. During his doctoral studies, his work primarily focused on integrating organic thermoelectric and organic solar cells into hybrid devices. Since joining KAUST in August 2022, His research focuses on applying ultrafast and vibrational spectroscopies to characterize materials properties in organic and perovskite solar cells. Additionally, he has developed several electro-optical techniques to probe recombination dynamics and voltage losses in these devices.

Research Interests

Terahertz spectroscopy, raman spectroscopy, emerging semiconductors, emerging photovoltaics, electro-optical characterization, device scale up

Selected Publications

  1. et al. Solar Harvesting: a Unique Opportunity for Organic Thermoelectrics? Adv. Energy Mater. 9, 1902385 (2019).
  2. et al. Controlling the Thermoelectric Properties of Organometallic Coordination Polymers via Ligand Design. Adv. Funct. Mater. 30, 2003106 (2020).
  3. J. Mater. Chem. C 9, 2123–2132 (2021).
  4. et al. Heteroleptic Ruthenium(II) Complexes with 2,2′-Bipyridines Having Carbonitriles as Anchoring Groups for ZnO Surfaces: Syntheses, Physicochemical Properties, and Applications in Organic Solar Cells. Inorg. Chem. 60, 5660–5672 (2021).
  5. et al. o-Carborane-based fluorophores as efficient luminescent systems both as solids and as water-dispersible nanoparticles. Chem. Commun. 58, (2022).
  6. et al. On the Use of Reflection Polarized Optical Microscopy for Rapid Comparison of Crystallinity and Phase Segregation of P3HT:PCBM Thin Films. Macromol. Rapid Commun. 45, 2400577 (2024).
  7. ACS Appl. Energy Mater. 7, 7055–7063 (2024).
  8. et al. Insights Into Preaggregation Control of Y-Series Nonfullerene Acceptors in Liquid State for Highly Efficient Binary Organic Solar Cells. Adv. Mater. 36, 2402833 (2024).
  9. et al. Influence of thermal annealing on microstructure, energetic landscape and device performance of P3HT:PCBM-based organic solar cells. J. Phys. Energy 6, 025013 (2024).
  10. et al. 20.5 % efficient ternary organic photovoltaics using an asymmetric small-molecular acceptor to manipulate intermolecular packing and reduce energy losses. Mater. Sci. Eng. R Reports 163, 100922 (2025).

Education

  • Ph.D. in Materials Science from Autonomous University of Barcelona
  • Master of Computer and Information Technology from University of Pennsylvania
  • M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from Drexel University
  • B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from Drexel University

 

Awards

Recipient of la Caixa INPhINIT doctoral fellowship

KAUST Affiliations

KAUST Solar Platform 

Research Interests Keywords

Scalable photovoltaics Solar Cell Characterization Optoelectronics Optical spectroscopy