Annikki Santala

Annikki joined Swift with a background in organic electronics. She received her BSc degree in chemistry from UMass, Amherst where she discovered her passion for working in the field of solar cell technology during a 1 year research project in the PS&E department, developing novel organic materials for OPV applications. She continued her research in the field by receiving an MSc degree from UCL with a focus on organic electronic applications. Before joining Swift, Annikki was working as an engineer at a startup in Santa Barbara called NEXT Energy Technologies Inc. and later as a scientist for Idemitsu OLED Materials Europe AG working in the OLED industry. In her free time she mostly enjoys reading, hiking, road biking, running, yoga, and traveling.