Monica Morales-Masis is Associate Professor at the University of Twente, The Netherlands which she joined in 2018. From 2013 to 2018 she was team leader of the transparent conductive oxide (TCO) group at the Photovoltaics and Thin-Film Electronics Laboratory (PVLab) of the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. She obtained her Ph.D. in Physics from Leiden University in 2012. Currently, her group focuses on the development and understanding of novel thin film materials with functional optical and electrical properties for optoelectronic devices, including solar cells. Her current research program is financed by the NWO StartUp grant, SOLAR ERA NET program and the European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant.