Dr. Ing. Tatjana Čukić

The nominee for the dissertation prize Adlershof 2008 works as a process and development engineer at Global Solar Energy

Tatjana Čukić, born 1978 in Novi Sad (Serbia), studied Chemical Engineering at the Faculty of Technology at the University of Novi Sad. In 2007 she finished her PhD studies at the Leibniz Institute for Catalysis (branch Berlin) investigating fundamental parameters that control the defined synthesis for a special class of noble metal catalysts. She received her Ph.D. degree with summa cum laude from the Faculty for Informatics and Electrotechnics at the University of Rostock. Tatjana Čukić was nominated for the dissertation prize Adlershof 2008.

Research

Catalysis and photovoltaic are key technologies of a modern society, and both are familiar to Tatjana Čukić. During her Ph.D. studies she used state-of-the-art high-throughput experimentation methods to investigate a multitude of influencing synthesis variables on the performance of catalysts in combination with data mining, statistical analysis tools and artificial-neural-network modeling to aid a reproducible catalyst synthesis.

In her new job she benefits from experience that she gained during her Ph.D. studies and a short post-doc period. Tatjana Čukić works as a process and development engineer at Global Solar Energy Deutschland GmbH in Berlin-Adlershof. Her new company produces flexible thin-film solar cells based on the CIGS technology. She is responsible for "Chemical Spray Deposition", which produces buffer layers via wet-chemical methods. In addition to process operation, she continuously optimises and improves equipment and process parameters, studies that are carried out in collaboration with research centres such as the Helmholtz Centre Berlin for Materials and Energy.

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