Terry Blaskovits

Terry Blaskovits is an Assistant Professor at the University of Alberta. Previously, he was a postdoctoral fellow (2023–2025) in the Organic Electronics group at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (MPI-P), led by Dr. Denis Andrienko. His research focuses on data-driven design of materials for organic electronics, employing machine learning, computational techniques, and experimental synthesis to advance photovoltaic and light-emitting technologies.

Educations: PhD (2023) in Computational Chemistry from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL/ETH Lausanne), MSc (2018) and BSc (2016) in Chemistry from Université Laval (Québec, Canada). He completed a Harvard University fellowship (2016–2017) in Prof. Alán Aspuru-Guzik’s group, studying computational chemistry.

Research interests include optimizing organic solar cell performance, charge transfer dynamics, and material discovery via AI-driven approaches. His work bridges polymer synthesis, theoretical modeling, and device engineering.

Key publication (2025): Analyzed loss mechanisms in narrow-bandgap organic solar cells, revealing geminate charge recombination as a critical bottleneck. The study combined experimental (photoluminescence, transient absorption) and computational methods to propose pathways for efficiency improvements.

• Awards: Schmeelk Canada Fellow, Inaugural Schulich Leader Scholar, NSERC Foreign Study Fellowship.
• Teaching & Outreach: Taught music and science in rural India (Gandhi Ashram School). Also taught at Université de Strasbourg and MPI-P.
• Labs/Groups: Current affiliation at University of Alberta; previously part of MPI-P’s Organic Electronics group and Harvard’s computational chemistry team.