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**Fionnuala Grifoni** obtained her M.Sc. degree in Industrial Chemistry in 2019 from the University of Turin, Department of Chemistry, under the supervision of Dr. Barbero and in cooperation with Dr. Sauvage. Currently, she is a doctoral student at the Laboratoire de Réactivité et Chimie Solide (LRCS), in the University of Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens, in Dr. Sauvage's group, exploring colorless and transparent near infrared dye sensitized solar cells.

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**Matteo Bonomo** got his master degree (2015) and Ph.D. (2018) at La Sapienza, University of Rome under the supervision of Prof. D. Dini. Then, he joined the University of Turin as post-Doc researcher where he is currently working as an assistant professor. His work is mainly related to the synthesis and characterization of innovative materials for emerging photovoltaics. More recently, he has been involved in the investigation of structural and electronic properties of ionic liquids and deep eutectic solvents for energy-related application. He is (co)author of 52 publications (h-index 15, >600 citations) in international peer-reviewed journals.

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**Waad Naim** is a Ph.D. student with the supervision of Dr. Frédéric Sauvage at the Laboratoire de Réactivité et Chimie des Solides (LRCS), Université Picardie, in Amiens, France. She received her bachelor's degree in physical chemistry in 2016 from Lebanese University. Then she received her M.S. in Advanced Spectroscopy in Chemistry in 2018 from Université de Lille. Her current research focuses on transparent photovoltaic based on NIR-DSSC technology.

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**Nadia Barbero** is an assistant professor in Organic Chemistry at the University of Turin and her research interests are focused on the design and synthesis of new organic and hybrid materials for nonconventional and technological applications (nanotechnology, biotechnology and dye-sensitized solar cells). She has a long experience in NIR-DSSC and is currently involved in IMPRESSIVE EU project for the development of transparent solar cells. She is (co)author of 72 publications (h-index 24, >1300 citations.
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**Thomas Alnasser** got his M.Sc. degree in Chemistry in 2009 at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie, Biologie et Physique in Bordeaux (ENSCBP). Then he defended his Ph.D. thesis in Chemistry of nanomaterials in 2013 at Institut de Chimie de la Matière Condensée de Bordeaux (ICMCB). After two consecutive post-doctoral fellowships (LPCNO, Toulouse and LRCS, Amiens), he specialized in the synthesis, organization and characterization of various colloidal nanoparticles, covering a wide field of applications such as sensors, hard disk drive, light emitting devices and photovoltaics.

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**Iva Dzeba** received her Ph.D. in Natural Sciences in the field of Chemistry from the University of Zagreb in 2015. After that she was working for 3 years as a postdoc in the field of photochemistry at Division of Materials Chemistry at Ruder Boskovic Institute. In 2019, she joined the Laboratory of Reactivity and Chemistry of Solids at the University of Picardie Jules Verne where she worked on photophysical characterization of DSSC. She is currently working as a researcher at Ruder Boskovic Institute. Her research interest includes photophysics and photochemistry of different systems.

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**Marco Giordano** received his master's degree in Industrial Chemistry in 2018 at the University of Torino with a thesis on copper complexes for redox mediators in DSCs. In 2019 he joined European project IMPRESSIVE as junior researcher. Since the same year, he is a Ph.D. student in Chemical and Material Sciences at the University of Torino under the supervision of Prof. G. Viscardi. His research is focused on the synthesis of NIR sensitizers and redox couples for application in dye-sensitized solar cells.

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**Arshak Tsaturyan** received his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry in 2014 at Southern Federal University (Russia), under the supervision of Prof. V. A. Kogan. He is senior researcher at the Institute of Physical and Organic Chemistry at Southern Federal University. He had a fellowship at the University of Turin with prof. C. Barolo. His research interests are focused on the theoretical study of the electronic structure and photophysical properties of coordination compounds. He is (co)author of 40 publications in international peer-reviewed journals.
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**Maxence Urbani** is a research staff in organic synthesis at IMDEA-Nanociencia (Madrid, Spain) in the Prof. Tomas Torres's group. His current research interests include the preparation and study of porphyrinoid molecules for their application in molecular photovoltaics, supramolecular chemistry and on-surface synthesis. His work results in more than 35 peer-reviewed article and more than 1300 citations.

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**Tomás Torres** is the head of the Institute for Advanced Research in Chemical Sciences (IAdChem) and full professor of Organic Chemistry at the Autonoma University of Madrid and associated senior scientist at the IMDEA Nanoscience Institute. In addition to various fields of synthetic and supramolecular chemistry, his current research interests include the preparation and study of organic functional materials. His group, consists of 25 researchers, is currently exploring several areas of basic research and applications of phthalocyanines, porphyrins, and carbon nanostructures (e.g., fullerenes, carbon nanotubes, graphene), including organic and hybrid solar cells, and photodynamic therapy, with a focus on nanotechnology.

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**Claudia Barolo** is a full professor of Industrial Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry of the University of Torino. Her research interest is focused mostly on the synthesis and characterization of organic and hybrid functional materials (from molecules to polymers) able to interact with light and their possible application in energy related fields (optoelectronics, lighting, and solar cells). She is also vice-coordinator of the PhD programme in Innovation for the Circular Economy at the University of Turin. Her work resulted in more than 125 publications (h-index 35, >4000 citations).

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**Frédéric Sauvage** is currently research director at CNRS and group leader at the LCRS. He obtained his Ph.D. in 2006 under the supervision of Prof. Tarascon, post-doctoral fellow at Northwestern University (Prof. Poeppelmeir) and joined the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology within the group of Prof. Gräetzel. His research interest is on stability of dye-sensitized solar cells and perovskite solar cells, developed the concept of the transparent and colorless dye-sensitized solar cells based on wavelength selective NIR sensitization. He has published >90 peer-review articles, inventor of 8 patents and coordinator of the Impressive project funded by the EC.