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Ms Jessica Alves

Ms Jessica Alves

Postdoctoral Fellow
Science
School of Chemistry

Jessica Alves began her undergraduate degree at Universidade Federal do ABC (UFABC, São Paulo, Brazil) in 2012, where she received a research scholarship funded by the university and by the São Paulo Research Foundation, FAPESP (2012-2015). Later in 2017, she obtained a first-class Honours degree at Monash University where she focused on first-principles calculations of topological insulators. Alves completed her PhD at Queensland University of Technology in 2021 where she investigated molecular photoswitches for laser lithography. She took up a postdoctoral fellowship in the ARC Centre of Excellence in Exciton Science at UNSW from 2021-2023 in Prof. Timothy Schmidt’s group.

Dr. Alves has a strong background in the photochemistry of organic molecules, mainly focused in photoswitches. Her current interests lie within implementing photon upconversion to increase the efficiency of solar cells.
  • Book Chapters | 2022
    2022, '1.24 - Downconversion', in Comprehensive Renewable Energy, Second Edition: Volume 1-9, Elsevier, pp. 518 - 533,
  • Journal articles | 2023
    De Clercq DM; Yang J; Hanif M; Alves J; Feng J; Nielsen MP; Kalantar-Zadeh K; Schmidt TW, 2023, 'Exciton Dissociation, Charge Transfer, and Exciton Trapping at the MoS2/Organic Semiconductor Interface', Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 127, pp. 11260 - 11267,
    Journal articles | 2023
    Feng J; Alves J; De Clercq DM; Schmidt TW, 2023, 'Photochemical Upconversion', Annual Review of Physical Chemistry, 74, pp. 145 - 168,
    Journal articles | 2022
    Alves J; Feng J; Nienhaus L; Schmidt TW, 2022, 'Challenges, progress and prospects in solid state triplet fusion upconversion', Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 10, pp. 7783 - 7798,
    Journal articles | 2022
    Walden SL; Rodrigues LL; Alves J; Blinco JP; Truong VX; Barner-Kowollik C, 2022, 'Two-colour light activated covalent bond formation', Nature Communications, 13,
    Journal articles | 2021
    Alves J; Wiedbrauk S; Barner-Kowollik C; Blinco JP, 2021, 'The Missing Piece: Concentration Dependence of Donor-Acceptor Stenhouse Adduct (DASA) Reactivity', ChemPhotoChem, 5, pp. 711 - 715,
    Journal articles | 2021
    Feist F; Walden SL; Alves J; Kunz SV; Micallef AS; Brock AJ; McMurtrie JC; Weil T; Blinco JP; Barner-Kowollik C, 2021, 'Wavelength-Gated Photochemical Synthesis of Phenalene Diimides', Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, 60, pp. 10402 - 10408,
    Journal articles | 2021
    2021, 'Wellenlängengesteuerte photochemische Synthese von Phenalendiimiden', Angewandte Chemie, 133, pp. 10491 - 10498,
    Journal articles | 2020
    Alves J; Wiedbrauk S; Gräfe D; Walden SL; Blinco JP; Barner-Kowollik C, 2020, 'It's a Trap: Thiol-Michael Chemistry on a DASA Photoswitch', Chemistry - A European Journal, 26, pp. 809 - 813,
    Journal articles | 2020
    2020, 'Combining Photodeprotection and Ligation into a Dual-Color Gated Reaction System', Chemistry - A European Journal, 26, pp. 16985 - 16989,
    Journal articles | 2020
    2020, 'Cover Feature: Combining Photodeprotection and Ligation into a Dual‐Color Gated Reaction System (Chem. Eur. J. 71/2020)', Chemistry – A European Journal, 26, pp. 16949 - 16949,
    Journal articles | 2016
    2016, 'Spectroscopic Studies on the Interaction of Metallic Ions with an Imidazolyl-Phenolic System', Journal of Fluorescence, 26, pp. 1373 - 1380,
    Journal articles | 2015
    Alves J; Boaro A; Da Silva JS; Ferreira TL; Keslarek VB; Cabral CA; Orfão RB; Ciscato LFML; Bartoloni FH, 2015, 'Lophine derivatives as activators in peroxyoxalate chemiluminescence', Photochemical and Photobiological Sciences, 14, pp. 320 - 328,