Nicola Gasparini is an Associate Professor in Electronic Materials and the Director of the Master of Research in Nanomaterials in the Chemistry Department of Imperial College London. His research focuses on the development of high-performance thin-film optoelectronic devices—specifically organic and perovskite-based photovoltaics and photodetectors—tailored for energy, biomedical and health monitoring applications. These soft, solution-processable semiconductors offer unique advantages, such as mechanical flexibility, low-temperature fabrication, and spectral tunability, enabling their integration into buildings, greenhouses, wearable devices, as well as implantable and portable diagnostics. His contributions to these fields are evident through a large number of scientific publications, which have gained quick citations and had considerable influence and impact on these technologies (140 papers with over 14,000 citations and an h-index 57). The importance of his contributions has been recognised through several awards, including the prestigious 2025 President’s Award for Excellence in Research (Imperial), 2024 RSC Materials Chemistry Early Career Prize and the PRISM 2023 – Young Researcher Award in Materials Science.
Prior to joining Imperial College with an Imperial College Research Fellowship in late 2019, Nicola received his BSc and MSc in Chemistry and Organic Chemistry, and Photochemistry and Molecular Materials from the University of Bologna, Italy, respectively. In 2014 he joined the group of Prof. Christoph J. Brabec in the Institute of Materials for Electronics and Energy Technology (i-MEET) at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) as Marie-Curie Fellow and received his Ph.D in 2017. For two years (09/2017-09/2019), he was a postdoctoral fellow at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), working on organic semiconductors with particular interests in charge transport and recombination processes in organic solar cells.