Sascha Feldmann wins 2025 Young Innovator Award
Sascha Feldmann. Credit: EPFL
EPFL’s Sascha Feldmann has been named a 2025 Young Innovator by Wiley’s Advanced Science, recognizing his contributions to next-generation energy materials and ultrafast spectroscopy.
The Wiley Advanced Science Young Innovator Award “recognizes outstanding, interdisciplinary scientific work in the fundamental understanding and applied development of materials science and chemistry, physics and engineering, life and health sciences, earth and environmental sciences, as well as social sciences and humanities.”
Among the awardees is EPFL’s Sascha Feldmann, who directs the Laboratory for Energy Materials (LEM) at the School of Basic Sciences.
Feldmann’s research uses light-matter interactions to understand and engineer the next generation of soft semiconductors. Their goal is to maximize energy efficiency for a sustainable future, unlocking applications from flexible, lightweight solar cells and ultra-efficient displays to quantum information processing.
At LEM, the group dives into the fundamentals of light, charge, and symmetry, working to boost solar photovoltaics, create smarter electronics, and pioneer quantum information technologies. For instance, Feldmann’s team is developing LED materials that emit circularly polarized light, a twist that could dramatically enhance the efficiency of modern screens and enable advanced holographic displays.
They are also exploring how to measure and control electron spins as qubits in printable semiconductors, which could lead to new, energy-saving ways to process data using spintronics and quantum IT.
“I am thrilled to receive this award which is, above all, a recognition of the fantastic work of my team,” says Feldmann. “Without them, none of these achievements would have been possible and I am grateful every day to be able to explore new ways of controlling charge, spin and light in these fascinating materials with them.”