Emerging Quantum Dot Materials: Synthesis and Application

Osman M. Bakr is an Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at KAUST, Saudi Arabia. He holds a B.Sc. in Materials Science and Engineering from MIT (2003) as well as a M.S. and a Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Harvard (2009). The research group he founded at KAUST studies the design and self-assembly of hybrid organic-inorganic materials and nanomaterials for breakthrough applications optoelectronics. Bakr’s research group has published >120 articles in high impact scientific publications, including Science.

Bakr was selected as a Young Scientist by the World Economic Forum (2016) and as an Emerging Investigator by the Journal of Materials Chemistry A (2016). He was awarded the SABIC Endowed Presidential Career Development Chair (2013), the Zasshi-kai Lectureship Award by the University of Tokyo (2016), and the Innovator Under 35 Award in the Arab World by the MIT Technology Review- Arab Edition (2016). In 2018, he was ranked by the Times Higher Education among the top 10 university researchers world-wide in the area of “perovskite solar cells”. He currently serves on the editorial advisory boards of the American Chemical Society (ACS) journals Chemistry of Materials and ACS Energy Letters.