Achilleas Savva, Ph.D.

Alumni and Former Staff

Research Scientist in Heeney Group

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Bldg 5, 3287 – WS04

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Biography

Achilleas Savva is a Research Scientist in the KAUST Solar Center in the group of Professor Martin Heeney. He received his BA/MSc in Chemical Engineering at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, and his PhD in Materials Science and Engineering at Cyprus University of Technology. He carried out two postdoc positions at KAUST, and at the University of Cambridge, followed by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Cambridge. He is currently developing multifunctional and multidimensional bioelectronic systems for regenerative medicine. 

Selected Publications

  • A. Savva et al., Balancing Ionic and Electronic Conduction for High-Performance Organic Electrochemical Transistors, Advanced Functional Materials (2020)
  • A. Savva et al., Influence of Water on the Performance of Organic Electrochemical Transistors, Chemistry of Materials (2019)
  • A. Savva et al., Ionic-to-electronic coupling efficiency in PEDOT: PSS films operated in aqueous electrolytes, J Mat Chem C, (2018)
  • A. Savva et al., Improved Performance and Reliability of p‐i‐n Perovskite Solar Cells via Doped Metal Oxides, Advanced Energy Materials, (2016)

Education

  • Apr. 2011 – Dec. 2014, PhD in Materials Science and Engineering, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus.“Understanding the Interfaces of Solution Processed Inverted Organic Photovoltaics”. Supervision by Prof. Stelios A. Choulis
  • Oct. 2009 – Oct. 2010, Master in Chemical Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. “Super-hydrophobic Polymer/Particle Composite Films Produced Using Various Particle Sizes”. Supervision by Prof. Costas Panayiotou
  • Oct. 2005 – Oct. 2010, BSc in Chemical Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece


 

 

Awards

  • Feb. 2020 Marie Curie Individual Fellowship Award, University of Cambridge, UK.  
  • Oct. 2015 Best presentation award, Micro&Nano 2015, Athens, Greece. 
  • Sep. 2014 Best presentation award, E-MRS Fall 2014, Warsaw, Poland. 
  • Oct. 2010 Best undergraduate thesis award, Department of Chemical Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

KAUST Affiliations

KAUST Solar Center, Physical Sciences and Engineering Division (PSE), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia

Non-KAUST Affiliations

Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge, CB3 0AS Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Research Interests Keywords

Organic electronics Optoelectronic devices bioelectronics