Plenary & Keynote Speakers
Plenary Speakers
* Last name alphabetical order
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Dr. Timothy J. Anderson
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
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- Dr. Timothy J. Anderson
- University of Massachusetts at Amherst
- (Title: To be announced.)
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Biography
EDUCATION: Chemical Engineering
Ph.D. 1980 University of California Berkeley, CA
M.S. 1975 University of California Berkeley, CA
B.S. 1973 Iowa State University Ames, IA
POSITION HELD:
2019-Present Distinguished Professor, Chem. Eng. Dept., University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
2013-2019 Dean, College of Engineering and Distinguished Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
2013-Present Emeritus Distinguished Professor, Chem. Eng. Dept., Univ. Florida, Gainesville, FL
2008-2013 Distinguished Professor, Chemical Eng. Dept., Univ. Florida, Gainesville, FL
2008-2013 Director of the Florida Energy Systems Consortium (Statewide).
2003-2008 Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Programs, College of Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
AWARDS (External):
2018 Anson Marston Medal (Iowa State University)
2016 Cahn Prize Finalist (with C.P. Muzzillo and C.E. Campbell)
2013 Chester F. Carlson Award (ASEE)
2011 Neva Gibbons Lectureship (4th), University of South Carolina
2011 Technology Innovator Recipient (UF)
2007 Warren K. Lewis Award for Chemical Engineering Education (AIChE)
2007 Professional Achievement Citation in Engineering (PACE) Award, Iowa State University
2006 Elected Fellow of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)
2005 Elected Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE)
2005 ConocoPhillips Lectureship (39th): Oklahoma State University
2004 Benjamin J. Dasher Award FIE Conf. (with M. Ohland, G. Zhang and B. Thorndyke) (IEEE)
2003 Tis Lihiri Lectureship: Vanderbilt University
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Dr. Jian Ding
Hanergy Thin Film Power Group
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- Plenary Speaker
- Dr. Jian Ding
- Hanergy Thin Film Power Group
- (Title: To be announced.)
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Biography
Jian has thirty years of experience in the fields of semiconductor manufacturing equipment, process technology, and advanced solar technologies.
He is a senior Vice President of Hanergy Thin Film Power Group, his responsibilities include the head of Hanergy PV technical committee, and CEO of ALTA High-tech Equipment Business Group.
Prior to joining Hanergy, he was the Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Astronergy, a solar manufacturing company, as well as the general manager of thin-film business unit.
Before that, Jian was the Vice President of Global Technology and Applications for MKS Instruments. MKS is a global provider of instruments, subsystems and process control solutions that measure, control, power, monitor, and analyze critical parameters of advanced manufacturing processes to improve process performance and productivity.
Jian also served as the Vice President for three years at NMC in Beijing, China, as well as a total of fifteen years at Applied Materials in a variety of technical and business management roles culminating as a general manager with P&L responsibility.
Jian Ding received a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology, China, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley.
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Dr. Michael Graetzel
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
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- Dr. Michael Graetzel
- École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
- (Title: To be announced.)
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Biography
(TBA)
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Dr. Yongfang Li
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
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- Dr. Yongfang Li
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
- (Title: To be announced.)
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Biography
Education:
Master Degree was obtained in 1982 in Chemistry Department, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China. Physical Chemistry Specialty
Ph.D. degree was obtained in 1986 in Chemistry Department,Fudan University. Shanghai 200433, China. Physical Chemistry Specialty (Electrochemistry).
Research career:
2013.11. elected as a member of Chinese Academy of Sciences.
2012.12.- present, Professor of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China.
1997.6. – 1998.6., Visiting Scientist, Institute for Polymers and Organic Solids, UCSB, USA.
1988.10.-1991.4., Visiting scholar, Institute for Molecular Science (IMS), Okazaki, Japan.
1988.9. – present, staff of ICCAS, Beijing 100190, China. 1993.- present, Professor.
1986.8. – 1988.8., Postdoctoral fellow in Institute of Chemistry, CAS (ICCAS), Beijing 100190, China.
Recent Awards:
2018, the Second-Grade National Award of China on Natural Sciences, for the contribution in “Photovoltaic materials of the conjugated polymer donors with conjugated side chains and indene-fullerene bisadduct acceptors”
2012, “Macro2012 Lecture Award” by PMSE of ACS (American Chemical Society).
2005, the First-Grade Award of Beijing City on Science and Technology, for the contribution in “The studies on the electrochemistry of conducting polymers and polymer light-emitting electrochemical cells”
Present research interests:
Polymer solar cells and related photovoltaic materials.
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Dr. Stefan Nowak
NET Nowak Energy & Technology Ltd.
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- Dr. Stefan Nowak
- NET Nowak Energy & Technology Ltd.
- (Title: To be announced.)
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Biography
(Title: To be announced.)
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Dr. Ralf B. Wehrspohn
Fraunhofer
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- Dr. Ralf B. Wehrspohn
- Fraunhofer
- (Title: To be announced.)
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Biography
ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL CAREER
Since 10/2019 Executive Vice President of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft e.V., Technology Marketing and Business Models
2018–2019 Head of Fraunhofer Group for Materials and Components – MATERIALS
Since 2006 W3 professor for experimental physics at the Martin-Luther-University of Halle-Wittenberg, chair of Microstructure-based Materials Design
2006–2019 Institute director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Microstructure of Materials and Systems, Halle
2003–2006 C4 professor for experimental physics at the University of Paderborn, chair of Nanophotonic Materials
1999–2003 Leader of a junior research group at the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics in Halle in the field of the application of porous materials
1998–1999 Research assistant at the Philips Research Laboratories, Redhill, England. Research in the field of thin film technologies, i.a. flat panel displays
1995–1997 Doctoral candidate at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg and at the École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France
1990–1995 Studies of physics at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg and the École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France
AWARDS/HONORS
2004 One of the 101 most important minds in Germany awarded by Financial Times Deutschland
2003 TR100 young innovators award of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2003 Heinz Maier Leibnitz Prize of the German Science Foundation (DFG)
2002 Innovations award of Dow Chemical Deutschland
Keynote Speakers
* Last name alphabetical order
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Dr. Ralph Gottschalg
Faunhofer CSP Lab
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- Dr. Ralph Gottschalg
- Faunhofer CSP Lab
- Title: Quality assurance in PV? Why do failures in the field happen and how could they be avoided?
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Biography
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Dr. Sarah Kurtz
University of California Merced
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- Dr. Sarah Kurtz
- University of California Merced
- (Title: To be announced.)
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Biography
PRESENT POSITION
Nov. 2017 – current, Professor, University of California Merced
PREVIOUS RESPONSIBILITIES at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
2015 – 2017, PV Program Manager
2015 – 2017, NCPV Co-Director
2014 – current, Research Fellow
2007 – 2017, Group Manager of the Reliability and Test Evaluation Group,
1999 – 2007, Group Manager of III-V Group
1986 – 1999, Staff, Senior, and Career Scientist (III-V research)
1985 – 1986, Post-doc (amorphous silicon research)
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Chemical Physics, 1985, Harvard University
B.A. Chemistry and Physics, 1979, Manchester College
SELECTED RECOGNITIONS AND AWARDS
C3E Lifetime Achievement Award, 2016. Annual national award recognizes a lifetime of work in solar energy. Other recipients include Mildred Dresselhaus (2012) and Mary Nichols (2015).
Hubbard Award (NREL), 2014. NREL’s highest technical award.
Cherry Award, 2012. Annual international award recognizes outstanding contributions to photovoltaic research.
Dan David Prize (shared with Jerry Olson and James Hanson), Future category “Energy,” 2007. Recognized development of GaInP solar cell – an unusual case of a technology developed at a single lab becoming the industry standard. Other recipients include Gordon Moore (2010) and Paul Alivasatos (2016).
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
S. Kurtz, I. Repins, W. Metzger, P. Verlinden, S. Huang, S. Bowden, I. Tappan, K. Emery, L. Kazmerski, and D. Levi, “Historical Analysis of Champion Photovoltaic Module Efficiencies” IEEE Journal of PV, 8, February 2018.
M. A. Steiner, J. F. Geisz, I. Garcia, D. J. Friedman, A. Duda, and S. R. Kurtz, "Optical enhancement of Voc in high quality GaAs solar cells," J. Appl. Phys., vol. 113, pp. 123109-1 - 123109-11, 2013.
Miller, Owen D., Eli Yablonovitch, and Sarah R. Kurtz. "Strong internal and external luminescence as solar cells approach the Shockley–Queisser limit." IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics 2.3 (2012): 303-311.
More than 100 peer-reviewed publications
More than 200 conference presentations
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Dr. Jang Won Seo
Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology (KRICT)
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- Keynote Speaker
- Dr. Jang Won Seo
- Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology (KRICT)
- (Title: To be announced.)
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Biography
(TBA)
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Dr. Noritaka Usami
Nagoya University
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- Keynote Speaker
- Dr. Noritaka Usami
- Nagoya University
- (Title: To be announced.)
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Biography
(TBA)
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Dr. He Yan
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
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- Keynote Speaker
- Dr. He Yan
- The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- (Title: To be announced.)
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Biography
Academic Qualifications:
1996-2000 B. S., Peking University, P. R. China
2000-2004 Ph. D., Northwestern University, USA.
2004-2005 Post–doctoral Fellow, Northwestern University, USA
2012-2016 Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
2016-Present Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Working Experience:
2009-2012 Vice President of Product Development, Polyera Corporation, USA
2006-2009 Product Development Manager, Polyera Corporation, USA
2005-2006 Senior research scientist, Air Products and Chemicals, USA
Honors and highlights:
2019 Web of Science “Highly Cited Researcher”
2018 Web of Science “Highly Cited Researcher”
2016 HKUST School of Science Teaching Award
2015 HKUST School of Science Research Award
2014 Achieved multiple cases of record-breaking polymer solar cells
2011 Flextech Flexi Award for R&D team award
2010 IDTechEx Printed Electronics “Best Organic Materials” Award
2009 Work highlighted on the cover page of “Nature” as the “new transistor age”
Biography
Dr. He Yan (Henry) obtained his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Northwestern University. After that, Dr. Yan spent most of his research career at Polyera Corporation, a leading company in the Organic Electronics industry. In 2009, Dr. Yan and his team published the first high-mobility n-type semiconducting polymer in Nature and the work was referred to as the "new transistor age" on the cover page of Nature. With the achievement, Dr. Yan was invited to receive the IdTechEx Printed Electronics "Best Organic Material" award in Dresden, Germany in 2010.
After returning to HKUST, Dr. Yan’s group achieved world record efficiency organic solar cells multiple times. The latest certified 11.5% single-junction OSC was noted in the renowned “Best Research-Cell Efficiency” chart by NREL, which the first time a Chinese institution appeared on the chart in the last 40 years. Dr. Yan’s group has published several important papers on fullerene and non-fullerene OSCs including two papers on Nature Energy and two papers on Nature Comm. in the past two years. The paper Nature Comm, 2014, 5, 5293 has been cited over 2300 times in about 4 years.
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