Piotr de Silva

Piotr de Silva is a Professor at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), affiliated with the Department of Energy Conversion and Storage. His research focuses on advanced materials for sustainable energy technologies, particularly through computational modeling and theoretical chemistry approaches.

Research Interests:

• Delayed fluorescence and triplet harvesting
• Density functional theory (DFT) methods
• Organic solar cells and photocatalysis
• Electronic-structural property correlations
• Energy materials stability

Recent Article Trends show expertise in:

• Heptazine-based materials
• Organic flow battery electrolytes
• Anti-Hund molecules
• Persistent luminescence mechanisms
• Energy conversion materials

Supervision: Currently supervising four PhD students across projects including Electron transfer kinetics in organic flow batteries, Stability of flow battery electrolytes, Anti-Hund molecules, and DFT methods for energy materials.