Alejandra Hermosilla Palacios joined NREL's Materials Science Center in June 2022 as a postdoctoral researcher in Jeff Blackburn's research group. A spectroscopist by training, her research focus is the dynamics that govern charge separation at the interface between single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) and several electron acceptors. Alejandra received her bachelor’s in chemistry from Universidad del Valle de Guatemala in 2015. She continued her research as a doctorate candidate at the University of Florida in Valeria Kleiman’s group. She received her doctoral degree for her work on two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy of ruthenium polpyridinic complexes in 2021. During this time, she also contributed to various other research topics including singlet fission and isomerization dynamics. In her current position, she has acquired new expertise on nuclear magnetic resonance techniques, transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs), chemical vapor deposition, and characterization. 

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Research Interests

Ultrafast spectroscopy

Charge transport

TMDCs

SWCNTs

Education

Ph.D., Physical Chemistry, University of Florida

B.S., Chemistry, Universidad del Valle de Guatemala

Associations and Memberships

Member, American Chemical Society

Member, Inter-American Photochemical Society

Featured Work

Diphenylisobenzofuran Bound to Nanocrystalline Metal Oxides: Excimer Formation, Singlet Fission, Electron Injection, and Low Energy Sensitization, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C (2018)

Awards and Honors

International Peace Scholar (2017–2018)

Townes R. Leigh Prize (2016)

Early Career Physical Chemistry Award (2016)

Graduate Student Scholarship (2015)

Summa cum laude (2015)