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Catherine Aitchison

Assistant Professor

Principal Investigator, Functional Pi Materials Group, Laboratory of Organic Electronics

Presentation

Assistant Professor Catherine Aitchison is the Functional Pi Materials group leader at the Laboratory of Organic Electronics.

Cath received her bachelor’s and MSci degree in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge. Her master’s research was in supramolecular chemistry, working on self-assembled metal-organic capsules with Prof. Jonathan Nitschke.

In 2016 she moved to Liverpool to start her chemistry PhD with Professor Andy Cooper. In the Cooper group she switched her focus to organic semiconductors for solar fuels applications. Her work centered around developing structure-activity relationships and using these to balance the different material properties that aid in function.
After finishing her PhD, Cath joined the University of Oxford as a postdoc with Professor Iain McCulloch. She worked on advancing research in photocatalysis and organic photovoltaics (OPV) through the design, synthesis and testing of donor-acceptor polymers.

In autumn 2024 Cath joined LiU as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry and WISE fellow in the Laboratory of Organic Electronics, Her group - Functional Pi Materials - develop conjugated organic molecules and polymers. Their focus is synthesising and studying materials with self-assembled structures that aid in function. They make and test materials for various solar fuels, photovoltaic and membrane applications and aim to use the flexibility of organic chemistry to tune material properties.

CV

Education

2020 - PhD in Chemistry, University of Liverpool
2016 - Masters in Natural Sciences, University of Cambridge
2015 - Bachelors in Natural Sciences, University of Cambridge

Positions

2024 - Present - Assistant Professor and group leader, LOE, LiU
2020 - 2024 - Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Oxford

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Publications

2025

Wanpeng Lu, Claudia E. Tait, Gokay Avci, Xiane Li, Agamemnon E. Crumpton, Paul Shao, Catherine M. Aitchison, Fabien Ceugniet, Yuyun Yao, Mark D. Frogley, Donato Decarolis, Nan Yao, Kim E. Jelfs, Iain Mcculloch (2025) Journal of the American Chemical Society (Article in journal)

2024

Catherine M. Aitchison, Iain McCulloch (2024) Chemistry of Materials, Vol. 36, p. 1781-1792 (Article in journal)
Benjamin J. Willner, Catherine M. Aitchison, Filip Podjaski, Wanpeng Lu, Junfu Tian, James R. Durrant, Iain McCulloch (2024) Journal of the American Chemical Society (Article in journal)

2023

Catherine M. Aitchison, Soranyel Gonzalez‐Carrero, Shilin Yao, Max Benkert, Zhiyuan Ding, Neil P. Young, Benjamin Willner, Floriana Moruzzi, Yuanbao Lin, Junfu Tian, Peter D. Nellist, James R. Durrant, Iain McCulloch (2023) Advanced Materials, Vol. 36, Article 2300037 (Article in journal)
Floriana Moruzzi, Weimin Zhang, Balaji Purushothaman, Soranyel Gonzalez-Carrero, Catherine M. Aitchison, Benjamin Willner, Fabien Ceugniet, Yuanbao Lin, Jan Kosco, Hu Chen, Junfu Tian, Maryam Alsufyani, Joshua S. Gibson, Ed Rattner, Yasmine Baghdadi, Salvador Eslava, Marios Neophytou, James R. Durrant, Ludmilla Steier, Iain McCulloch (2023) Nature Communications, Vol. 14, Article 3443 (Article in journal)

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