The Condensed Matter Physics Division-GEFES belonging to the Royal Spanish Society of Physics, has awarded the prize for the best experimental doctoral thesis in 2018 to Miguel Anaya from the Institute of Materials Science of Seville (ICMS) attached to cicCartuja.

Miguel’s doctoral thesis is entitled “Optical Design of Perovskite Materials and Solar Cells” and was defended in May 2018 at our center, obtaining the highest unanimous rating. Prof. Hernán Míguez and Dr. Mauricio Calvo from the Multifunctional Optical Materials Group of the Institute of Materials Science of Seville (CSIC-US) were his thesis directors.

Miguel’s work focused on the study of the optical properties of these materials with the aim of giving them new qualities and designing solar cells with improved performance.

Miguel Anaya has won the seventh edition of the “cicCartuja – Ebro Foods” Award in 2017 thanks to his proposal for solar devices based on ABX3 perovskites. These works are part of his doctoral thesis.

Miguel is currently doing a postdoctoral stay associated with the Cavendish Laboratory of the University of Cambridge and Darwin College as a Junior Research Fellow.