Dr Alan Bowman
Dr Alan Bowman
Research Fellow | Postdoctoral Researcher
About
My research focuses on developing the next generation of materials and devices for a sustainable future, including solar cells and photocatalytic systems. I have a PhD from the University of Cambridge that focused on the characterisation of semiconductors for solar energy applications. My work won the Institute of Physics' Woodruff Thesis Prize and helped enable cheap, high efficiency solar cells. I recently finished a Swiss National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellowship at EPFL, where I developed methods to probe plasmonic catalysis - a process that could hugely reduce emissions in chemical industries. Since joining Oxford I have focused on emerging semiconductors and methods to understand the fundamental stability of materials for solar energy applications.
My publications include revealing that halide perovskite tandem solar cells are signficiantly easier to fabricate than previously understood (via a process called luminescence coupling, ACS Energy Letters 2021), resolving a 50-year old paradox why gold emits light when illuminated (Light: Science & Applications 2024), and demonstrating one of the first passivation approaches for low-bandgap halide perovskite solar cells (ACS Energy Letters 2019). I recently joined St Cross College as a Research Fellow.
