Dr. Veronika Kovacova has been working as a young researcher at the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology since March 2020. She received her PhD in Nanomaterials and Nanotechnologies from Grenoble Alpes University with research on correlations between crystallographic structure and piezoelectric properties in Pb(Zr,Ti)O3 thin films at CEA Grenoble in 2016. She also worked on ink-jet printing of Ba(Sr,Ti)O3 thin films. Afterwards, she joined Prof. Susan Trolier-McKinstry’s group at Penn State University (USA) as a postdoc researcher, where she was co-PI of one NSF project on the development of new materials for energy harvesting devices. Her current research activities deal with materials research, prototyping of electrocaloric cooling systems, pyroelectric energy harvesters, and piezoelectric energy harvesters. She is involved in several FNR projects. She is (co-)author of 14 (+4 submitted or in preparation) peer-reviewed papers. She (co-)supervised two Master's students and is currently co-supervising one PhD student. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9281-3732