Current Members
Renita D'Souza
Ph.D. Student
2020 - present
Renita joined the Kelly Research Group in January 2020 after receiving her M.Sc. from Vellore Institute of Technology in India. Her project is focused on the stability of perovskite solar cells and photodetectors.
Anne Esther Targino-Bonatto
Ph.D. Student
2021 - present
Anne joined the Kelly Research Group in September 2021 after completing her B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering at Federal University of Campina Grande (Brazil, 2017) and her M.Sc. in Engineering (Materials Science & Technology) at Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil, 2019). Her project involves in the slot-die coating of perovskite solar cells.
Marco Antônio Justino
Ph.D. Student
2022 - present
Marco completed his B.Sc. in Industrial Chemistry and M.Sc. in Materials Science at the University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) in Brazil. Prior to joining the Kelly Group, he worked as research assistant for Ford Motors Company developing and improving automobile parts. His thesis work is on controlling the film morphology of bulk heterojunction organic solar cells.
J. David Quezada Borja
Ph.D. Student
2022 - present
David completed his B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering at the Autonomous University of Chihuahua (Mexico). Prior to joining the Kelly Group he worked as a Process Engineer at Reckitt’s Mead Johnson. His project involves operando GIWAXS measurements on perovskite and organic solar cells.
Gopal Singh
Ph.D. Student
2023 - present
Gopal completed his B.Sc. in chemistry and biology at Chaudhary Charan Singh University in Meerut, India, in 2020, and his M.Sc. in chemistry at the Indian Institute of Technology, Indore in 2022. He joined the Kelly Research Group as a Ph.D. student in September 2023. He is studying how the side-chains on electron donors and acceptors influence bulk heterojunction morphology.