Abdessamad EL KANOUNY, Ph.D. student, born in November 1995, holds a B.Sc. diploma in Materials and Renewable Energy from the Polydisciplinary Faculty of Safi (FPS), Cadi Ayyad University, Morocco, and a M.Sc. diploma in Advanced Materials from the Faculty of Sciences and Technologies (FSTG), Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakech. Currently he is pursuing a PhD in Materials Science at the Faculty of Sciences and Technologies, Mohammedia (FSTM), Hassan II University, Morocco. Work Experience: National Institute of Materials Physics (NIMP), Romania - Junior Researcher (since November 2024), team member of Empower and LightCell projects, member of CA21148 - Research and International Networking on Emerging Inorganic Chalcogenides for Photovoltaics (RENEW-PV), Main areas of interest and expertise: chalcogenide-based solar cell fabrication, synthesis of semiconducting thin films for photovoltaic (PV) applications using electrodeposition, pulsed electrodeposition, spin coating, magnetron sputtering, and chemical bath deposition (CBD). Characterization techniques: Raman spectroscopy, photovoltaic measurements, electrochemical measurements, and UV–Vis optical transmission measurements. Awards: Best Poster Award at the ROCAM Conference 2024, Bucharest. Professional profile web-links: Brainmap: https://www.brainmap.ro/abdessamad-el-kanouny, ORCID ID: 0009-0005-0276-1561 ; WoS ResearcherID: KZN-7767-2024.