University of Pennsylvania
Farzaneh Jahanbakhshi is a postdoctoral researcher in the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania working with Prof. Andrew Rappe where she studies electronic and optoelectronic materials focusing on hybrid perovskites, with the overarching goal of advancing the development of efficient, stable, and scalable photovoltaic and optoelectronic devices.
She has authored or co-authored 15 peer-reviewed publications and has given several invited and contributed talks at international conferences and has received multiple prestigious fellowships. Drawing from her multi-disciplinary background, the central theme of her research is developing and applying theoretical and computational models at multiple scales to address the underlying physics and intricate chemical phenomena and establish quantum-informed transferrable design rules that can guide experiments and enhance material and device performances across applications.