David Ginger

{{short description|American physical chemist}}

{{Infobox scientist

| name = David Ginger

| workplaces = University of Washington

Northwestern University

| alma_mater = Indiana University Bloomington {{small |B.S. (1997) }}

University of Cambridge {{small |Ph.D. (2001)}}

| thesis_title = Optoelectronic properties of CdSe nanocrystals

| thesis_url = https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/894596697

| thesis_year = 2001

| doctoral_advisor = Neil Greenham

| academic_advisors = Victor E. Viola, Chad Mirkin

| website = {{url | https://depts.washington.edu/gingerlb/}}

}}

David S. Ginger is an American physical chemist. He is the B. Seymour Rabinovitch Endowed Professor of Chemistry at the University of Washington.{{Cite web|title=David S. Ginger {{!}} Department of Chemistry {{!}} University of Washington|url=https://chem.washington.edu/people/david-s-ginger|access-date=2021-06-05|website=chem.washington.edu}} He is also a Washington Research Foundation distinguished scholar, and chief scientist of the University of Washington Clean Energy Institute. In 2018, he was elected to the Washington State Academy of Sciences for his work on the microscopic investigation of materials for thin-film semiconductors.{{Cite web|url=http://depts.washington.edu/chemwp/chemwpblog/?p=1954|title=David Ginger, Sotiris Xantheas elected to the Washington State Academy of Sciences {{!}} Department of Chemistry News|access-date=2019-05-27}} He was elected a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2012,{{Cite web|title=AAAS Members Elected as Fellows {{!}} American Association for the Advancement of Science|url=https://www.aaas.org/news/aaas-members-elected-fellows-1|access-date=2021-06-05|website=www.aaas.org|language=en}} and was a 2016 National Finalist of the Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists.{{Cite web|title=National Finalists {{!}} Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists|url=http://blavatnikawards.org/honorees/national-finalists/|access-date=2021-06-05|website=blavatnikawards.org}}

Education

Ginger attended Indiana University Bloomington, earning B.S. degrees in chemistry and physics in 1997. During his undergraduate degree, he performed research with Prof. Victor E. Viola. Ginger pursued graduate school as a British Marshall Scholar and an NSF Graduate Fellow in Physics at the University of Cambridge, where his Ph.D. thesis advisor was Prof. Neil Greenham. Ginger earned his Ph.D. in 2001 with a thesis entitled Optoelectronic properties of CdSe nanocrystals. After a joint NIH and DuPont Postdoctoral Fellowship at Northwestern University with Prof. Chad Mirkin, he joined the faculty of the University of Washington.{{cite web |title=David S. Ginger |url=https://depts.washington.edu/gingerlb/the-ginger-lab-group-members/david-s-ginger/ |website=The Ginger Lab - University of Washington, Seattle – David S. Ginger |date=July 27, 2016}}

Research

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Ginger specializes in the physical chemistry of materials with applications in energy, electronics, and sensing. His team has used combinations of optical and scanning probe microscopy to examine the properties of nanomaterials, particularly thin film semiconductors. The lab has studied mixed ionic/electronic transport materials such as those used in bioelectronics{{Cite journal|last1=Giridharagopal|first1=R.|last2=Flagg|first2=L. Q.|last3=Harrison|first3=J. S.|last4=Ziffer|first4=M. E.|last5=Onorato|first5=J.|last6=Luscombe|first6=C. K.|last7=Ginger|first7=D. S.|date=July 2017|title=Electrochemical strain microscopy probes morphology-induced variations in ion uptake and performance in organic electrochemical transistors|url=https://www.nature.com/articles/nmat4918|journal=Nature Materials|language=en|volume=16|issue=7|pages=737–742|doi=10.1038/nmat4918|pmid=28628123|bibcode=2017NatMa..16..737G |issn=1476-4660|url-access=subscription}} batteries, and most notably in photovoltaic materials such as halide perovskites{{Cite journal|last1=de Quilettes|first1=D. W.|last2=Vorpahl|first2=S. M.|last3=Stranks|first3=S. D.|last4=Nagaoka|first4=H.|last5=Eperon|first5=G. E.|last6=Ziffer|first6=M. E.|last7=Snaith|first7=H. J.|last8=Ginger|first8=D. S.|date=2015-05-08|title=Impact of microstructure on local carrier lifetime in perovskite solar cells|journal=Science|language=en|volume=348|issue=6235|pages=683–686|doi=10.1126/science.aaa5333|pmid=25931446|bibcode=2015Sci...348..683D |issn=0036-8075|doi-access=free}}{{Cite journal|last1=deQuilettes|first1=Dane W.|last2=Frohna|first2=Kyle|last3=Emin|first3=David|last4=Kirchartz|first4=Thomas|last5=Bulovic|first5=Vladimir|last6=Ginger|first6=David S.|last7=Stranks|first7=Samuel D.|date=2019-10-23|title=Charge-Carrier Recombination in Halide Perovskites|url=https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemrev.9b00169|journal=Chemical Reviews|volume=119|issue=20|pages=11007–11019|doi=10.1021/acs.chemrev.9b00169|pmid=31496228|s2cid=201982762 |issn=0009-2665}} and organic photovoltaics.{{Cite journal|last1=Pingree|first1=Liam S. C.|last2=Reid|first2=Obadiah G.|last3=Ginger|first3=David S.|date=2009|title=Electrical Scanning Probe Microscopy on Active Organic Electronic Devices|journal=Advanced Materials|volume=21|issue=1|pages=19–28|doi=10.1002/adma.200801466|bibcode=2009AdM....21...19P |s2cid=138146880 |issn=1521-4095}}

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