Peter Bobbert

Peter Bobbert is Full Professor in the group Molecular Materials and Nanosystems in the Department of Applied Physics at Eindhoven University of Technology. He is a theoretical physicist and computational scientist active in the areas of organic and perovskite photovoltaics, nanowire thermoelectrics, and organic electronics. He focuses on theory and simulation of charge transport and spin dynamics, with applications in organic-light emitting diodes (OLEDs), organic field-effect transistors (OFETs) and organic spintronics. He previously worked on Green-function techniques for the calculation of electronic excitations in semiconductors, on the theory of quantum phase transitions, and on the optical properties of rough surfaces.

Together with Philips Research, he developed organic device modelling software that is now being commercialized by the company Simbeyond, of which he is co-founder. In 2017, he took up the position of Associate Scientific Director of the Center for Computational Energy Research (CCER), which he helped establishing. He has the ambition to make the CCER a worldwide hub for computational energy research, developing and applying computational methods leading to solutions that will make the energy transition possible.  

It is the doubt, the time and the tranquility needed for reflection and leaving the beaten path - in other words, the second thought - that leads to scientific breakthroughs.”