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Dr. Celline Awino Omondi

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Dr.Celline Awino Omondi
Department of Physics
School of SONAS
P.O. Box 190-50100
Kakamega, KENYA
Office no. SPD Block B Room 314
Kakamega-Webuye Road
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ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8708-8919
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Dr. Celline Awino Omondi

Dr.Celline Awino Omondi is a Lecturer, holding a doctorate degree in Natural Science specializing in Renewable energy (Solar energy) from the Technical University of Berlin, Germany. She teaches courses on Renewable energy, solar photovoltaics, wind energy, Hydro energy systems, biomass energy and geothermal energy which are the sustainable energy sources. In addition, she also teaches courses on modern Physics, Atomic and Nuclear physics, ceramics, polymers, statistical physics and material science.


Her research interest is on photovoltaics (solar energy) with special focus on perovskite solar cells, nanomaterials, extremely thin materials, materials for water purifications, solar energy materials and Mentorship program for girls in STEM subjects. She is also in collaboration with Women Supporting Women (WS2) in the Sciences, Northwestern University, Materials Science & Engineering, which is a mentorship program for girls in secondary schools taking STEM subjects. In her career,Celline has received several awards, grants and scholarships including Helmholtz associations of German researchers, commonwealth scholarships under Indian council for cultural relations and Catholic academic exchange service (KAAD) scholarships for PhD study in Germany.She won a research grant in 2020 from World Academy of Sciences worth USD 28800 which led to the setting up a strong research group on solar energy materials.


In 2019, she together with Dr. Manyali (lead researcher),Dr. Victor Odari and Dr. Felix Saouma won a Computational modelling Kenet mini grant of USD 15000.In 2022, the team also won URF research grant (MMU-URF-2022-1-027 worth Ksh 450,000.  Similarly in 2020, she together with Dr. Victor Odari and collaborators from University of Oxford won a Foundry for Research into Emerging Photovoltaic Materials, International Global Challenge Research Fund (GCRF) 2020, University of Oxford, GBP 39,112.32.The research topic was on optimization of perovskite absorber materials for solar cells. Moreover, Dr.Celline is a registered professional physicist and a registered member of Organization for Women in Science for Developing(OWSD) world.

Her major scholarly contribution was her role in the Investigation of hybrid organic-inorganic lead halide perovskites by modulated surface photovoltage spectroscopy. She currently serves as the Senate representative for School of Natural Science (SONAS) in MMUST.

Some of her major Publications:

  1. Robert Nyakundi Nyagisera, Dismas Wamalwa , Bernard Rapando , Celline Awino and Maxwell Mageto. A Critical Examination of the Standard Cosmological Model:Toward a Modified Framework for Explaining Cosmic Structure Formation and Evolution.Published on 12th March 2024 i Astronomy. DOI:https://doi.org/10.3390/astronomy3010005
  2. Barasa, Godfrey Okumu, Celline Awino, Canglong Li, John Onyango Agumba, Kevin Otieno Okoth, and Denis Magero. "Indium decorated nanoporous Ag as an efficient catalyst for enhanced CO2 electroreduction." Solid State Sciences (2022): 106916. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solidstatesciences.2022.106916.
  3. Nalianya, Milimo Amos, Celline Awino, Henry Barasa, Victor Odari, Francis Gaitho, Benard Omogo, and Maxwell Mageto. "Numerical study of lead free CsSn0. 5Ge0. 5I3 perovskite solar cell by SCAPS-1D." Optik 248 (2021): 168060. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijleo.2021.168060.
  4. Isoe, Wycliffe, Maxwell Mageto, Christopher Maghanga, Maurice Mwamburi, Victor Odari, and Celline Awino. "Thickness dependence of window layer on CH3NH3PbI3-XClX Perovskite solar cell." International Journal of Photoenergy 2020 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1155/2020/8877744.
  5. Awino, Celline, Godfrey Barasa, and Victor Odari. "Light induced degradation of the transport length of CH3NH3PbI3 studied by modulated surface photovoltage spectroscopy after Goodman." Organic Electronics 77 (2020): 105503. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orgel.2019.105503.
  6. Awino, Celline, Victor Odari, Thomas Dittrich, Prajongtat Pongthep, Sakwa Thomas, and Rech Bernd. "Investigation of structural and electronic properties of CH3NH3PbI3 stabilized by varying concentrations of poly (Methyl Methacrylate)(PMMA)." Coatings 7, no. 8 (2017): 115. https://doi.org/10.3390/coatings7080115.
  7. Kegelmann, Lukas, Christian M. Wolff, Celline Awino, Felix Lang, Eva L. Unger, Lars Korte, Thomas Dittrich, Dieter Neher, Bernd Rech, and Steve Albrecht. "It Takes Two to Tango Double-Layer Selective Contacts in Perovskite Solar Cells for Improved Device Performance and Reduced Hysteresis." ACS applied materials & interfaces 9, no. 20 (2017): 17245-17255. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.7b00900
  8. Dittrich, Thomas, Celline Awino, Pongthep Prajongtat, Bernd Rech, and Martha Ch Lux-Steiner. "Temperature dependence of the band gap of CH3NH3PbI3 stabilized with PMMA: a modulated surface photovoltage study." The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 119, no. 42 (2015): 23968-23972. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.5b07132.
  9. Celline Awino et.al. (2022). International team develops physics lab kits for girls across Africa DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.6.4.20220427a

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