Fitxa persona

Hendrik (Henk) Bolink is full professor at the Inorganic Chemistry Department and group leader at the Instituto de Ciencia Molecular of the Universidad de Valencia. He obtained his PhD in Materials Science at the University of Groningen in 1997. After that he worked at DSM as a materials scientist and project manager in the central research and new business development department, respectively. In 2001 he joined Philips, to lead the materials development activity of Philips´s PolyLED project.

He has worked on organic semiconductor opto-electronic devices since 1993. From 2013 he started working on perovskite based LEDs and solar cells. Focusing mainly on dry processing routes, such as thermal sublimation to prepare the perovskite semiconductor films and subsequent devices. He directed 29 PhD thesis and has been PI of ca. 20 industry funded research projects and of 19 European funded projects. In 2019 he received an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council.