Natalie Banerji leads the FemtoMat Group at the University of Fribourg since September 2014. She is a tenured Associate Professor since September 2015, and previously obtained a Stipend Professorship Grant (1.6 mio CHF) by the Swiss National Science Foundation. Previously, she was an Ambizione Fellow at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL, 2011-2014). She has obtained her Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry in 2009 from the University of Geneva (with Prof. Eric Vauthey) and has spent two years as a Post-Doctoral Researcher at UC Santa Barbara with Prof. Alan Heeger. She recently received the Grammaticakis-Neumann Prize, which is awarded to a promising young scientist for outstanding independent research in photochemistry, photophysics or molecular photobiology.

Her role in NCCR MUST will be to extend the scope of investigated systems to complex solid-state materials with highly interesting optoelectronic behaviour. We do so by developing tailored ultrafast techniques used on full electronic devices, which combine optical, terahertz as well as electrical measurements