Xabier Rodríguez Martínez

Xabier Rodríguez Martínez (Vigo, 1992) is a researcher in technologies for energy harvesting and decarbonization of the electricity supply, focusing on printed organic photovoltaics and thermoelectricity. He graduated in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology from the Autonomous University of Barcelona and earned his Ph.D. at the Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona in 2020, with extraordinary distinction, for the development of organic solar cells using combinatorial methods. During his Ph.D., he carried out research stays at Imperial College London (United Kingdom) and ETH Zurich (Switzerland). He has been a postdoctoral researcher at Linköping University (Sweden), where he continued his work on photovoltaics for indoor use and agrivoltaic applications; and at Heidelberg University with an Alexander von Humboldt postdoctoral fellowship, focusing on the study of mixtures of semiconducting carbon nanotubes with oriented conjugated polymers to develop new high-performance anisotropic thermoelectric materials.​

Currently, his research focuses on industrializing organic photovoltaic technology through roll-to-roll printing methods, promoting the use of sustainable solvents and low-cost synthetic materials to reduce the environmental impact of device manufacturing. His experimental design combines machine learning, statistical methods, and robotics to optimize photovoltaic performance within a parameter space constrained by the pursuit of maximum sustainability and recyclability.​