Award Winner 2026: Sascha Feldmann
Sascha Feldmann
Image Credit: Jos Schmid
He is honored for his groundbreaking contributions in the field of chiral light-matter interactions, which have enabled outstanding advances in the field of chirality and in novel energy materials.
Sascha Feldmann has been a tenure-track assistant professor of physical chemistry and director of the Laboratory for Energy Materials at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland since 2024, where his team conducts research on sustainable energy materials of the future. He studies light-matter interactions to enable energy-efficient soft semiconductors for solar cells, displays, and quantum information technologies. Before his appointment at EPFL, he was a research group leader and Rowland Fellow at the Rowland Institute at Harvard University (US). He studied chemistry at Heidelberg University and earned his PhD in physics from the University of Cambridge (UK) under the supervision of Sir Richard Friend (2020).
Professor Feldmann has received numerous awards, including the EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellowship, a spot on Forbes’ “30 Under 30” list (2023) and C&EN’s “Talented 12” list (2025), as well as the Wiley Advanced Science Young Innovator Award (2025) and an ERC Starting Grant (2025).