Mirjana Dimitrievska receives the 2021 Zonta Award
Dimitrievska with the members of the jury and the director of Zonta in Switzerland © Zonta 2021
Mirjana Dimitrievska, scientist at the Laboratory of Semiconductor Materials (LMSC) from School of Engineering, has received the prestigious Zonta award for her outstanding research on discovering and optimizing functional materials for solar cells and solid state battery applications.
Dr Dimitrievska joined professor Anna Fontcuberta I Morral’s laboratory in 2020 and she is currently leading the SMARTCELL project with the aim of developing sustainable and renewable materials for ultrathin, flexible, and transparent solar cells, which can be used for everything: from zero-energy buildings to smart sensors for the Internet-of-Things.
Zonta is an international association of professional women with the mission of advancing the status of women worldwide. Over the past 15 years, Zonta Switzerland & Lichtenstein have been awarding a highly endowed prize (30’000 CHF) every two years to talented and aspiring young women scientists working at the forefront of research at either at ETHZ or at EPFL.