Daphné Lubert-Perquel joined the Chemistry and Nanoscience Center at NREL in July 2022 as a Director’s Fellow with Justin Johnson. Her research focuses on the photophysical mechanisms of molecular systems for quantum-sensing applications. She uses a combination of optical and magnetic resonance spectroscopy techniques to study the light-matter interactions at the interface of 2D materials and molecular films. Her aim is to investigate the possibility of a digital state readout of the stored quantum information. 

Daphné completed a doctorate at Imperial College London under the supervision of Sandrine Heutz and Chris Kay. During her doctoral work, she first used the combination of optical and magnetic resonance spectroscopy to investigate the effect of molecular geometry on the photoexcited triplet states of molecular thin films. Her postdoctoral research at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, University of Florida, then focused on using high-field electron spin resonance spectroscopy to study molecular nanomagnets for quantum gate applications.

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Research Interests

Optoelectronics

Spintronics

Nanomaterials

Molecular Magnets 

Education

Ph.D., Materials Science, Imperial College London 

MPhys, Physics, University of Exeter 

Professional Experience

Director’s Postdoctoral Fellow, NREL (2022–present) 

Postdoctoral Associate, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, University of Florida (2019–2022) 

Featured Work

Comprehensive Studies of Magnetic Transitions and Spin–Phonon Couplings in the Tetrahedral Cobalt Complex Co(AsPh₃)₂I₂, Inorganic Chemistry (2022)

A Response Surface Model to Predict and Experimentally Tune the Chemical, Magnetic and Optoelectronic Properties of Oxygen-Doped Boron Nitride, ChemPhysChem (2022)

Structure-Dependence of Kinetic and Thermodynamic Parameters in Singlet Fission Processes, Journal Physical Chemistry Letters (2020)

Comparison of Organic and Inorganic Layers for Structural Templating of Pentacene Thin Films, Materials Horizons (2020)  

Porous Boron Nitride for Combined CO₂ Capture and Photoreduction, Journal Materials Chemistry A (2019)  

Growth, Morphology and Structure of Mixed Pentacene Films, Journal Materials Chemistry C (2019)  

Identifying Triplet Pathways in Dilute Pentacene Films, Nature Communications (2018) 

Awards and Honors

Bruker Thesis Prize, International EPR Society (2021)

John Kilner Prize for Energy Materials, Imperial College London (2020)

Best Paper Award, International EPR Society (2019)

Student Award for Outstanding Achievement, Imperial College London (2017)