Rate My Professor Almantas Pivrikas

Dr. Almantas Pivrikas is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Mathematics, Statistics, Chemistry and Physics at Murdoch University. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Physics from Vilnius University, Lithuania, awarded in 2000, and a Master’s degree in Solid State Electronics and Condensed Matter Physics from the same institution in 2002, both under the supervision of Prof. Gytis Juska. Pivrikas completed his PhD in Physics at Abo Akademi University, Finland, in 2006, supervised by Prof. Ronald Osterbacka, where his research centered on charge transport in organic materials, revealing phenomena of reduced photocarrier recombination in disordered organics. His postdoctoral work from 2007 to 2010 was conducted at the Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria, within the Linz Institute of Organic Solar Cells under Prof. Niyazi Serdar Sariciftci, where he advanced transient measurement techniques for studying charge transport in optoelectronic devices including organic field-effect transistors and light-emitting diodes. From 2011 to 2014, he was a DECRA fellowship recipient at the University of Queensland, Australia, collaborating with Profs. Paul Burn and Paul Meredith. Since 2015, he has served as Senior Lecturer at Murdoch University.

Pivrikas’s research focuses on charge carrier transport, mobility, and recombination in organic and inorganic semiconductors for next-generation optoelectronic devices such as photovoltaic solar cells, photodetectors, transistors, light-emitting diodes, sensors, batteries, and bio-systems. He has contributed to the development and application of techniques like Charge Extraction by Linearly Increasing Voltage (CELIV) and Metal-Insulator-Semiconductor CELIV for material and device characterization, spanning spectroscopy, photophysics, numeric modeling, and simulations. Notable publications include “A review of charge transport and recombination in polymer/fullerene organic solar cells” (2007), “Bimolecular Recombination Coefficient as a Sensitive Testing Parameter for Low-Mobility Solar-Cell Materials” (2005), “Charge carrier mobility in regioregular poly(3-hexylthiophene) probed by transient conductivity techniques: A comparative study” (2005), and recent papers such as “Unequilibrated Charge Carrier Mobility in Organic Semiconductors” (2024) and “Charge Transport Characteristics in Doped Organic Semiconductors Using Hall Effect” (2024). His contributions have garnered over 2,000 citations, influencing charge dynamics understanding in organic photovoltaics. Awards include the Australian Research Council DECRA fellowship and a 2017 scientific award from the Lithuanian Ministry of Science and Education.