Professor Sandrine Huetz
Partner Lead: Imperial College London
Sandrine is a Professor in Functional Molecular Materials. She joined the Department of Materials at Imperial College London as a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellow on 1st January 2007. She obtained her first degree in Chemistry from the University of Liege, Belgium (1998) and her PhD from Imperial College (2002). Her thesis was entitled “Structural, spectroscopic and morphological properties of molecular thin film heterostructures”, with specific emphasis on phthalocyanine and perylene materials.
During the course of her PhD, Sandrine was awarded a Marie Curie training site fellowship which allowed her to work at TU-Chemnitz, Germany, working in the group of Professor Zahn. She subsequently spent two years as a post-doctoral research fellow working on molecular photovoltaic cells at Imperial College. She then moved to the Department of Physics and London Centre for Nanotechnology at University College London in 2004 to start her Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship, entitled “Molecular Magnetic Biosensors”. In 2008 Sandrine was awarded the IOM3 Silver Medal. Sandrine has represented the UK in the Materials Science and Engineering Expert Committee (MatSEEC) of the European Science Foundation, and is currently the Chair of the Physical Science Strategic Advisory group at EPSRC. She is the Academic Champion for SPIN-Lab, a cross-institution facility to study spin-based phenomena and their interaction with light. Since April 2020 she is the Imperial co-Director of the London Centre for Nanotechnology. She is also the co-Director of the CNRS – Imperial IRC for Transformational Science and Technology. Since October 2022, she is the Head of the Department of Materials.
Current research directions are focused on optoelectronic, magnetic and quantum properties of molecular thin films, spintronic applications, novel fabrication methods for oxides, detailed structural characterisation of films and interfaces, and nanowire devices.
