PVSAT-13

Prof Christophe Ballif is the Director of the PV laboratory at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and Director of PV Development at Centre Suisse d' Electronique et de Microtechnique (CSEM) in Neuchâtel. Christophe won the Becqurel Prize in 2016 for scientific, technical or managerial accomplishments in the development of solar energy

Dr Karsten Walzer is Senior Research Scientist and Project Manager at Heliatek GmbH, a company that is commercialising the roll-to-roll production of solar cells based on organic oligomers. Karsten will talk on the success and challenges of OPV technology scale-up from the lab to industrial production.

Dr Jeff Kettle based at the School of Electronic Engineering at the University of Bangor. His research interests cover semiconductor device fabrication, characterisation and modelling. Jeff will give the host lecture and present aspects of PV research at University of Bangor.

Prof Hongwei Han is based at Huazhong University of Science & Technology and Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, China. In 2015 his group fabricated 7m2 fully printable mesoscopic perovskite solar module. He will present the key-note lecture at the Sêr Solar workshop on Printed Photovoltaics.

Dr Marco Raugei is Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mathematical Sciences at Oxford Brookes University and currently visiting scientist at the Centre of Life Cycle Analysis at Columbia University (USA). Marco will present his work on the Energy Return on Investment Analysis (EROI) for PV Systems.

Dr Ian Forbes is Reader in Photovoltaic in the Department of Physics and Electrical Engineering Research at Northumbria University. Ian will present the latest developments, performance and prospects for the CZTS family of solar cells.

Prof Paul Meredith is Senior Research Fellow in the School of Mathematics and Physics and director of the Centre for Organic Photonics and Electronics at The University of Queensland. He is a member of The Queensland Governments Climate Change Council and co-founder of Xerocoat Pty Ltd. Paul will present a key-note lecture at the Sêr Solar workshop on Printed Photovoltaics.