Esther Alarcón Lladó (b. 1982) is a scientific group leader at the NWO-Institute AMOLF and Professor by special appointment at the Van’ Hoff Institute of Molecular Sciences (HIMS) at the University of Amsterdam.

After her cum laude PhD in Barcelona (7^th July 2009), Esther held post-doc positions at A-STAR (Singapore), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories (CA, USA), and EPFL (Lausanne). All of these are renowned laboratories and her projects at these institutions provided Esther with research expertise in a very broad range of research fields. She specialized herself in photo-electrochemistry, photovoltaics, nanofabrication and nanophotonics, and in this way trained herself to become a truly multidisciplinary scientist that integrates chemistry, physics, materials science and engineering. In her post-doc time Esther was awarded four prestigious grants that financed her research (Fulbright Scholarship, Beatriu de Pinos Generalitat Scholarship, EU Marie-Curie Fellowship, Ambizione Energy Grant). In 2016 Esther founded the “3D Photovoltaics group”at AMOLF.