Tutorial Program

Tutorial Program

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  • Prof. Stefaan De Wolf
  • King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia
  • Principles and applications of Si photovoltaics
  • Stefaan De Wolf received his PhD degree in 2005 from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium, during which time he was also affiliated with IMEC in Belgium. From 2005 to 2008, he was with the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Japan. In 2008, he joined the Photovoltaics and Thin-Film Electronics Laboratory, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Neuchatel, Switzerland, as a team leader for its activities on high-efficiency solar cells. Since September 2016 he is an associate professor at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia, focusing on high-efficiency silicon and perovskite solar cells, their combinations in perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells, as well as photovoltaics for sunny and hot climates.
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  • Dr. Thomas Unold
  • Seoul National University, Republic of Korea
  • Principles and applications of thin film photovoltaics
  • Thomas Unold holds a Ph.D. in experimental physics and currently heads the Combinatorial Energy Materials Research group at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin. Dr. Unold spent two years as a postdoc at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in USA, working on amorphous silicon solar cells, before joining the Dept. Physics at the University of Oldenburg, Germany, investigating different photovoltaic materials, including chalcopyrite solar cells and amorphous/crystalline silicon heterojunction solar cells. In 2003, Dr. Unold joined the Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin for research and development of chalcopyrite-type solar cells. Since 2015 he has been co-coordinating the HZB-University Potsdam “hyPerCells” graduate school on hybrid perovskite solar cells. Dr. Unold’s expertise includes the development of growth processes for new compound semiconductor materials, and the development and application of advanced optical and electrical characterization techniques for photovoltaic materials. Recently, the research focus of Dr. Unold has shifted toward developing high-throughput synthesis as well as high-throughput characterization and data analysis methods, to enable the accelerated discovery of new functional materials. He has been author/coauthor of more than 200 publications in peer-reviewed journals.
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  • Prof. Jin Young Kim
  • Halide Perovskites for Photovoltaic Applications
  • Halide Perovskites for Photovoltaic Applications
  • Jin Young Kim is an Associate Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Seoul National University (SNU), Korea. He received his B.S. (2000), M.S. (2002), and Ph.D. (2006) in Materials Science at Seoul National University. Before joining SNU, he worked at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), USA (2007−2011) and Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), Korea (2011−2015) on next generation thin film solar cells. His current research interests include the fabrication of nanostructured electrodes via various approaches including electrochemical approaches and their applications in solar energy utilization including thin-film solar cells (e.g., CIGS, CZTS, perovskite, and tandem solar cells) and PV-driven electrocatalysts (e.g., HER, OER, CER, and CO2 reduction).

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