​Alexis Vossier

I joined the BIDR as a postdoctoral fellow in 2009, for a two-year period until 2011. After a brief period of adaptation (I was used to remote environments, such as mountains, but not to deserts!), I rapidly began to enjoy the place, the friendly atmosphere, and my scientific activities together with Prof. Jeffrey Gordon and Prof. Eugene Katz. I spent a wonderful period in Sde Boker, and would never have imagined that it would be so difficult to leave this special place after two years there. I was hired as a researcher at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) in 2013. Today, my research work mainly focuses on three topics: 1) how to better convert solar radiation into electricity; 2) how to use the sun as a way to run clean processes to synthesize high-value nanomaterials; and 3) how to better use solar energy to decarbonize industry and transportation. Happily, I still work in close collaboration with my former supervisors, who are now close colleagues. I maintain a very special relation with the BIDR, and still manage to go back to Sde Boker once in a while!