Oana Jurchescu is a Romanian physicist who is the Baker Family Physics Professor at Wake Forest University.
[1] She moved to the University of Groningen in the Netherlands for her doctoral research, where she studied organic semiconductors for optoelectronic devices.
[2][3] Jurchescu worked with physicians to realize organic field-effect transistor- based radiation detectors for patients undergoing cancer treatment.
These devices, based on 2,8-difluoro-5,11-bis(triethylsilylethynyl)anthradithiophene (diF-TES ADT), acted as in vivo dosimeters to monitor radiation levels on a patient's skin in real time.
[4] As well as pursuing high charge carrier mobilities, Jurchescu is interested in the degradation pathways that can impede the performance and lifetime of organic electronic devices.