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Professor Jenny Nelson is a Royal Society Research Professor of Physics in the Department of Physics at Imperial College London, where she has conducted research since 1989. She completed degrees in physics at the Universities of Cambridge and Bristol before joining Imperial. As Head of the Experimental Solid State Physics group, she leads efforts to characterize materials and physics underlying photovoltaic solar cells through physical models, simulations, and experiments. Her research specializations include molecular electronic materials, organic photovoltaic devices, semiconducting polymers, photocatalysis with organic semiconductors, and computational modeling of optoelectronic properties. Professor Nelson also heads the Mitigation Program of the Grantham Institute – Climate Change and the Environment, developing energy systems models to assess low-carbon energy technologies, industrial emissions policies, and the contributions of photovoltaic advances to reducing electricity generation's carbon footprint and enabling electrification in developing societies. She explores parallels between energy conversion in artificial photovoltaic systems and natural photosynthesis.