In 2003, she became a permanent research fellow at French National Centre for Scientific Research at the École Polytechnique. From 2004 to 2005 she was visiting scientist at California Institute of Technology. During this time she co-founded the startup company Aonex Technologies specialized in layer in the production of multi-junction solar cells.[6] Sponsored by a Marie Curie Excellence Grant she became team leader at the Walter Schottky Institute at the Technical University of Munich in 2005, where she also habilitated in physics in 2009.[7][8] There, she started her independent research activities on arsenic-based nanowires.
In 2008, she joined the Institute of Materials Science & Engineering at the School of Engineering of EPFL as an assistant professor. In 2014 and 2019, she was successively promoted to associate and full professor.[9][3] She is the founder and head of the Laboratory of Semiconductor Materials.[2][10] Since January 2021, she is the associate vice-president for Centers and Platforms at EPFL.[11] She also served as the president of the EPFL WISH foundation between 2018 and 2020, a foundation whose goal is to support female students on campus to excel in their careers.[12]
Starting January 1, 2025, the Swiss Federal Council appointed her as the sixth President of EPFL for a 4-year term, succeeding Martin Vetterli. She is the first woman to hold the position.[3]
In 2012, she received EPFL's Rodolphe and Renée Haenny Fondation Prize.[20] In 2015, she was awarded the European Physical Society's Emmy Noether Distinction for "noteworthy women physicists".[6]
Spirkoska, D.; Arbiol, J.; Gustafsson, A.; Conesa-Boj, S.; Glas, F.; Zardo, I.; Heigoldt, M.; Gass, M. H.; Bleloch, A. L.; Estrade, S.; Kaniber, M.; Rossler, J.; Peiro, F.; Morante, J. R.; Abstreiter, G.; Samuelson, L.; Fontcuberta i Morral, A. (2009). "Structural and optical properties of high quality zinc-blende/Wurtzite Ga As nanowire heterostructures". Physical Review B. 80 (24): 245325. arXiv:0907.1444. Bibcode:2009PhRvB..80x5325S. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.80.245325. S2CID 2683.
Colombo, C.; Spirkoska, D.; Frimmer, M.; Abstreiter, G.; Fontcuberta i Morral, A. (2008). "Ga-assisted catalyst-free growth mechanism of Ga As nanowires by molecular beam epitaxy". Physical Review B. 77 (15): 155326. Bibcode:2008PhRvB..77o5326C. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.77.155326.
Heiss, M.; Fontana, Y.; Gustafsson, A.; Wüst, G.; Magen, C.; o'Regan, D. D.; Luo, J. W.; Ketterer, B.; Conesa-Boj, S.; Kuhlmann, A. V.; Houel, J.; Russo-Averchi, E.; Morante, J. R.; Cantoni, M.; Marzari, N.; Arbiol, J.; Zunger, A.; Warburton, R. J.; Fontcuberta i Morral, A. (2013). "Self-assembled quantum dots in a nanowire system for quantum photonics" (PDF). Nature Materials. 12 (5): 439–444. Bibcode:2013NatMa..12..439H. doi:10.1038/nmat3557. PMID 23377293.
Escobar Steinvall, Simon; Stutz, Elias Z.; Paul, Rajrupa; Zamani, Mahdi; Dzade, Nelson Y.; Piazza, Valerio; Friedl, Martin; De Mestral, Virginie; Leran, Jean-Baptiste; Zamani, Reza R.; Fontcuberta i Morral, Anna (2021). "Towards defect-free thin films of the earth-abundant absorber zinc phosphide by nanopatterning". Nanoscale Advances. 3 (2): 326–332. Bibcode:2021NanoA...3..326E. doi:10.1039/D0NA00841A. PMC9418067. PMID 36131749.
Güniat, Lucas; Caroff, Philippe; Fontcuberta i Morral, Anna (2019). "Vapor Phase Growth of Semiconductor Nanowires: Key Developments and Open Questions". Chemical Reviews. 119 (15): 8958–8971. doi:10.1021/acs.chemrev.8b00649. PMID 30998006.
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^ abc"Anna Fontcuberta i Morral named as new EPFL president" (Press release). Bern, Switzerland. Federal Council. 2024-03-27. Retrieved 2024-03-27.
^Fontcuberta i Morral, A; Roca i Cabarrocas, P (2001-02-20). "Shedding light on the growth of amorphous, polymorphous, protocrystalline and microcrystalline silicon thin films". Thin Solid Films. 383 (1–2): 161–164. Bibcode:2001TSF...383..161F. doi:10.1016/s0040-6090(00)01596-0. ISSN 0040-6090.
^Zahler, J.M.; Fontcuberta i Morral, A.; Chang-Geun Ahn; Atwater, H.A.; Wanlass, M.W.; Chu, C.; Iles, P.A. (2002). "Wafer bonding and layer transfer processes for 4-junction high efficiency solar cells". Conference Record of the Twenty-Ninth IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, 2002. New Orleans, LA, USA: IEEE. pp. 1039–1042. doi:10.1109/PVSC.2002.1190783. ISBN 978-0-7803-7471-3. OSTI 15006757. S2CID 18500749.
^ ab"EPS Emmy Noether Distinction Spring 2015 for Women in Physics | e-EPS". www.epsnews.eu. Retrieved 2020-09-28.
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^Hetzl, Martin; Kraut, Max; Winnerl, Julia; Francaviglia, Luca; Döblinger, Markus; Matich, Sonja; Fontcuberta i Morral, Anna; Stutzmann, Martin (2016-11-09). "Strain-Induced Band Gap Engineering in Selectively Grown GaN–(Al,Ga)N Core–Shell Nanowire Heterostructures". Nano Letters. 16 (11): 7098–7106. Bibcode:2016NanoL..16.7098H. doi:10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b03354. ISSN 1530-6984. PMID 27766884.
^"25 new professors appointed at the two Federal Institutes of Technology" (Press release). ETH Board. 2019-09-26. Retrieved 2024-03-27.
^Krogstrup, Peter; Jørgensen, Henrik Ingerslev; Heiss, Martin; Demichel, Olivier; Holm, Jeppe V.; Aagesen, Martin; Nygard, Jesper; Fontcuberta i Morral, Anna (2013-04-01). "Single-nanowire solar cells beyond the Shockley–Queisser limit". Nature Photonics. 7 (4): 306–310. arXiv:1301.1068. Bibcode:2013NaPho...7..306K. doi:10.1038/nphoton.2013.32. ISSN 1749-4885. S2CID 6096888.
^McIntyre, P.C.; Fontcuberta i Morral, A. (2019-10-16). "Semiconductor nanowires: to grow or not to grow?". Materials Today Nano. 9: 100058. doi:10.1016/j.mtnano.2019.100058. S2CID 209372728.
^Fontcuberta i Morral, Anna (2020-04-08). "Nanostructured alloys light the way to silicon-based photonics". Nature. 580 (7802): 188–189. Bibcode:2020Natur.580..188F. doi:10.1038/d41586-020-00976-8. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 32269348.
^Colombo, C.; Spirkoska, D.; Frimmer, M.; Abstreiter, G.; Fontcuberta i Morral, A. (2008-04-28). "Ga-assisted catalyst-free growth mechanism of GaAs nanowires by molecular beam epitaxy". Physical Review B. 77 (15): 155326. Bibcode:2008PhRvB..77o5326C. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.77.155326. ISSN 1098-0121.
^Spirkoska, D.; Arbiol, J.; Gustafsson, A.; Conesa-Boj, S.; Glas, F.; Zardo, I.; Heigoldt, M.; Gass, M. H.; Bleloch, A. L.; Estrade, S.; Kaniber, M. (2009-12-31). "Structural and optical properties of high quality zinc-blende/wurtzite GaAs nanowire heterostructures". Physical Review B. 80 (24): 245325. arXiv:0907.1444. Bibcode:2009PhRvB..80x5325S. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.80.245325. hdl:2445/32932. ISSN 1098-0121. S2CID 2683.
^Vandevyver, Caroline (2012-10-10). "Rodolphe and Renée Haenny Prize 2012 - A. i Morral and H. Frauenrath". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
^"ERC FUNDED PROJECTS". ERC: European Research Council. Archived from the original on 2021-01-13. Retrieved 2021-03-05.
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