Seckin AKIN pursued his Ph.D. in the area of perovskite solar cells. He was a visiting researcher at Prof. Michael Grätzel’s laboratory at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. Throughout his research career, Prof. Akin has dedicated his efforts to exploring various innovative materials for harnessing light energy. He conducts many projects supported by national and international agencies on the optimization of different layers of PSCs, and additive/interface engineering. The originality of Prof. Akin’s work is truly outstanding as can be deduced from the number of awards, patents and more than 90 scientific papers published in high impact journals in the field of device physics and advanced materials including Joule, Energy & Environmental Science, Advanced Materials, Advanced Energy Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, Science Advances, Nano Energy, and so on. These papers lead to the h-index of 39, with more than 5000 citations in the past five years.