Rate My Professor Monica Morales-Masis

Monica Morales-Masis is a Full Professor in the Department of Applied Physics and Science Education at Eindhoven University of Technology, appointed as of December 1, 2025. She chairs the Materials to Optoelectronic Devices (M2D) group and holds affiliations with EIRES Research and as an ICMS Core member. Born and raised in Costa Rica, she completed her MSc in the United States before pursuing her PhD at Leiden University in the Netherlands. Following her doctorate, she held postdoctoral and team leader positions at EPFL in Switzerland. Morales-Masis launched her independent academic career in 2018 as an Assistant Professor at the University of Twente, rapidly advancing to Full Professor there in 2025 prior to her move to TU/e. Her work is driven by the pursuit of unconventional semiconductor materials, shaping thin films into pathways for energy and optoelectronics, with the ambition to turn fundamental understanding of materials growth into sustainable energy technologies.

Morales-Masis specializes in emerging semiconductor materials for solar cells and optoelectronic devices, developing synthesis strategies—such as pulsed laser deposition—for precise control over composition and microstructure. She establishes synthesis–structure–functionality relationships to design novel optoelectronic properties in metal halide perovskites, transparent conductive semiconductors, inorganic, organic, and hybrid compounds. Her research demonstrates the performance of these materials in efficient solar cell devices and fosters interdisciplinary collaborations across AI/ML-assisted discovery, plasma physics, advanced characterization, and device integration. Key publications include 'Transparent Electrodes for Efficient Optoelectronics' (Advanced Electronic Materials, 2017), 'Sputtered transparent electrodes for optoelectronic devices' (Matter, 2021), 'Low Damage Scalable Pulsed Laser Deposition of SnO2 for p–i–n Perovskite Solar Cells' (Solar RRL, 2023), 'The role of sulfur in sulfur-doped copper(I) iodide p-type transparent conductors' (Matter, 2023), and 'Scalable Pulsed Laser Deposition of Transparent Rear Electrode for Perovskite Solar Cells' (Advanced Materials Technologies, 2021). She manages the project 'Sputtering of PEROvskite halide materials for hybrid tandem on textured silicon bottom cells' (2025–2030) and teaches the 'Solar cells' course.