Michael Beswick Price
| Michael Beswick Price | |
|---|---|
| Born | Timaru, New Zealand |
| 🏳️ Citizenship | New Zealand |
| 🎓 Alma mater | University of Otago (BSc); University of California, Berkeley (exchange); University of Cambridge (PhD, 2015) |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| Known for | Ultrafast laser spectroscopy of perovskites and organic semiconductors |
| 🏅 Awards | Rutherford Discovery Fellowship (2021); Cambridge–Rutherford Memorial PhD Scholarship |
Michael Beswick Price is a New Zealand physical chemist whose research uses ultrafast laser spectroscopy to understand how advanced semiconductors convert light into electrical energy. He joined Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington in 2018 and was awarded a 2021 Rutherford Discovery Fellowship to study next-generation organic solar cells.[1][2] In 2023 he moved to the University of Bristol as a Royal Society University Research Fellow.[3]
Early life and education
Price grew up in Timaru. He completed a Bachelor of Science in physics at the University of Otago and spent a year on exchange at the University of California, Berkeley.[3] He then received a Cambridge–Rutherford Memorial Scholarship to undertake doctoral studies with Sir Richard Friend in the Optoelectronics Group at the University of Cambridge, graduating with a PhD in 2015 with a thesis on the optoelectronic properties of lead-halide perovskites.[1]
Career
After a short post-doctoral appointment at Cambridge, Price worked with the Smart Villages Initiative on rural energy access before returning to Aotearoa New Zealand in 2018 as a Rutherford Foundation Post-doctoral Fellow in the Ultrafast Laser Group at Victoria University of Wellington.[1] He became a lecturer in 2020 and developed an ultrafast spectroscopy programme that links fundamental photophysics to device performance in organic and perovskite photovoltaics.[2]
In November 2021 he was one of eleven researchers nationwide to receive a five-year Rutherford Discovery Fellowship for a project entitled “The physics of next-generation solar panels and light emitters for sustainability.”[4] Two years later he accepted a Royal Society University Research Fellowship and relocated to the School of Chemistry at the University of Bristol, where he leads the Price Lab for Functional Photonics.[3]
Research
Price combines femtosecond transient-absorption, terahertz and time-resolved photoluminescence techniques to reveal how excitons and charge carriers form, migrate and recombine in emerging semiconductor materials. His work on the non-fullerene acceptor molecule Y6 showed that efficient “single-component” organic solar cells are possible, overturning the long-held view that heterojunctions are essential for charge separation.[5][not in citation given]
Honours
- Rutherford Discovery Fellowship, Royal Society Te Apārangi (2021)[1]
- Cambridge–Rutherford Memorial PhD Scholarship (2011)[1]
Selected publications
- Price, M. B. et al. “Free charge photogeneration in a single-component high photovoltaic efficiency organic semiconductor.” Nature Communications 13, 2827 (2022). doi:10.1038/s41467-022-30127-8
- Price, M. B. et al. “Hot-carrier cooling and photo-induced refractive index changes in organic–inorganic lead-halide perovskites.” Nature Communications 6, 8420 (2015). doi:10.1038/ncomms9420
- Jin, X.-H.; Price, M. B. et al. “Long-range exciton transport in conjugated polymer nanofibers prepared by seeded growth.” Science 360, 897–900 (2018). doi:10.1126/science.aar8104
References
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- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Dr Michael B Price – Personal profile". University of Bristol. Retrieved 19 July 2025.
- ↑ "11 New Rutherford Discovery Fellowships Awarded". Scoop. 11 November 2021. Retrieved 19 July 2025.
- ↑ Price, M. B. (2022). "Free charge photogeneration in a single-component high photovoltaic-efficiency organic semiconductor". Nature Communications. 13 (1). Bibcode:2022NatCo..13.2827P. doi:10.1038/s41467-022-30127-8. PMC 9122989 Check
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