AZMAT ALI is an experienced physicist and research fellow specializing in photovoltaics, advanced thin-film deposition, and material characterization techniques. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Physics from the University of Peshawar, Pakistan (2012–2017), where his research focused on BaTiO3 nanogenerators. From 2017 to 2019, he pursued a Master of Science in Physics at Dong-A University in Busan, South Korea, on a merit-based scholarship, graduating with a 4.12/5 GPA while investigating organic interfacial layers in perovskite solar cells. Concurrently, from 2017 to 2020, he worked as a Research Assistant at Dong-A University, handling cleanroom-based device fabrication and testing. In November 2020, he moved to France after securing a PhD fellowship funded by IMAT Paris. He completed his PhD in Physics and Chemistry of Materials from Sorbonne Université while working as a PhD Researcher at the Institut des NanoSciences de Paris (INSP) (2020–2023). His doctoral thesis explored the interplay and charge transfer dynamics at the interface of perovskite nanocrystals and 2D transition metal dichalcogenides. During his PhD tenure, he also supervised three undergraduate and master’s level research interns.
Currently, he works as a Postdoc Research Fellow at the Université de Sherbrooke in Canada, where he works on the electrochemical etching of Germanium wafer, epitaxial growth of Ge by RPCVD and microfabrication of III-V multijunction solar cells. Over his career, he has co-authored 8 research papers in Q1 journals (including high-impact venues like Nature (communication Engineering), Advanced Functional Materials and The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters) and holds 2 Korean Patents (KIPRIS). He has shared his research globally through oral presentations at major scientific gatherings, including the Materials Research Society (MRS) 2023 in California, PVSC 2023 Montreal, the SOLEIL Synchrotron User Meeting 2023 in Paris, and the Korean Physical Society (KPS) 2019 in South Korea. His core research expertise encompasses thin-film deposition scale-up (CVD, thermal evaporation, slot-die coating) and advanced spectroscopic and microscopic characterization techniques such as TEM, XPS, UPS, SEM, AFM, XRD and Ellipsometry.
