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Mónica Morales Masis
Mónica Morales Masis (born 1982) is a Costa Rican physicist and materials scientist who works in The Netherlands as a professor at the University of Twente. Her research focuses on optoelectronics, transparent electronics, and solar cells.[1][2][3] Education and careerMorales is originally from Cartago, Costa Rica,[4] where she was born in 1982.[5] A childhood idol was Costa Rican astronaut Franklin Chang-Díaz.[4] After a 2004 bachelor's degree in physics from the University of Costa Rica, she traveled to the US for a master's degree at Wright State University, in 2007, and then to The Netherlands for a doctorate at Leiden University,[4] focusing on condensed-matter physics.[5][6] Her 2012 doctoral thesis concerned the memristive properties of silver sulfide,[7][5] and was promoted by Jan van Ruitenbeek; it also included work done at the National Institute for Materials Science in Japan with Tsuyoshi Hasegawa.[5] Next, she went to Switzerland for postdoctoral research at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). Her interest in photovoltaics developed at that time, and she continued at EPFL as a research group leader in the subject. She took a tenure-track faculty position at the University of Twente in 2018, and became a full professor there.[6] At Twente, she is affiliated with the faculty of science and technology, in the inorganic materials science group,[7] and with the MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology.[8] RecognitionMorales joined the Young Academy of Europe in 2022.[8] References
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