AFRICAPVSEC - Key Persons
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- Member of the Scientific Committee
Abasifreke Ebong received a Ph.D in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of New South Wales, Australia in 1995. His Ph.D dissertation dealt with low-cost and double-sided buried contact silicon solar cells. Having worked in close collaboration with several companies including; equipment, front silver screen-printed pastes, dielectric and silicon wafers to develop belt machine for contact co-firing, inline diffusion, and high quality front silver pastes, Dr Ebong brings more than 22 years' experience to his current position. He has published over 100 papers in the field of Photovoltaics. His current research interest include: high throughput, low-cost and high efficiency silicon solar cells based on comprehension of screen-printed contacts formation to homogeneous emitters with high sheet resistances; Development of low-cost manufacturable high efficiency solar cells with alternative to screen-printed contacts; Electrochemistry and Device Physics. He is also interested in solid state lighting "sunlight to light", an area where solar cell and LED can be merged.
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- Member of the Scientific Committee
- Director, Photovoltaic Solar Energy Department, CENER
Working experience in materials basic research, microelectronics industry manufacturing and since 2002 full dedication to photovoltaic technology development and testing.
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- Member of the Executive Committee
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- Member of the Executive Committee
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- Member of the Scientific Committee
- Technical Director, ETA - Florence Renewable Energies, Italy
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- European Commission, DG JRC, Institute for Energy and Transport
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- CTO, GCL - Poly Energy Holdings, PR China
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Counsellor
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- Member of the Scientific Committee
- Materials Scientist
Dirk Knoesen is a materials scientist/physicist with interests in thin films, nanoscience, PV devices and products,published 69 papers, supervised 35 M&D theses, is retired Emeritus Professor at UWC, at present the Director of Nanoscience Platform.
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- Member of the Scientific Committee
- Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, United States of America
Abasifreke Ebong received a Ph.D in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of New South Wales, Australia in 1995. His Ph.D dissertation dealt with low-cost and double-sided buried contact silicon solar cells. Having worked in close collaboration with several companies including; equipment, front silver screen-printed pastes, dielectric and silicon wafers to develop belt machine for contact co-firing, inline diffusion, and high quality front silver pastes, Dr Ebong brings more than 22 years' experience to his current position. He has published over 100 papers in the field of Photovoltaics. His current research interest include: high throughput, low-cost and high efficiency silicon solar cells based on comprehension of screen-printed contacts formation to homogeneous emitters with high sheet resistances; Development of low-cost manufacturable high efficiency solar cells with alternative to screen-printed contacts; Electrochemistry and Device Physics. He is also interested in solid state lighting "sunlight to light", an area where solar cell and LED can be merged.
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- IRENA - International Renewable Energy Agency, Deputy Director General
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- Member of the Executive Committee
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- President
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- Member of the Scientific Committee
- Member of Renewable Consulting Group
Hailing Li, a member of renewable consulting group in Institute of Electrical Engineering, Chinese Academy of Science, with abundant experiences on policy, economic and environment analysis of PV.
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- Member of the Scientific Committee
- Head of Unit Policies
Ingrid Weiss is Head of Unit Policies and Stratiegies at WIP and has been working in the field of Renewable Energies since 1989. She has been specialized in the field smart grid solutions in the building sector and also in the grid network field. She is coordinating the PV Parity project and was one of the initiator of this idea. Ingrid Weiss graduated in Applied Physics (Dipl. Ing.) at the Applied University for Engineering in Munich and is working as scientific engineer since 1993. She has worked as project manager and as such co-ordinator of several refereed international projects, many of them co-funded by the European Commission. Main sector of activity is photovoltaics and integrating other renewables into the building and the grid network. She is also topic organizer of the EU PV SEC since more than ten years.
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- Member of the Executive Committee
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- Member of the Scientific Committee
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- Member of the Executive Committee
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- Member of the Scientific Committee
- Vice - President and Chief Scientist at Trina Solar
Pierre Verlinden is Vice-President and Chief Scientist at Trina Solar. He has been working in the field of PV for 35 years. Before joining Trina, Dr. Verlinden was Director of R&D at SunPower, Principal Scientist at Solar Systems and CTO of Amrock.
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- Head
- Member of the Scientific Committee
Sicheng Wang was graduated from Xiamen University in 1981 and received his Master Degree of science. He has been working in PV field for more than 32 years since 1982; As chief director, hundrads of PV products and systems have been developed. Wang Sicheng has sponsored development of 5 National GB standards. He has attended preparation of National Golden-Sun Demo project and PV FIT. As chief director, worked on several international cooperation projects, like: GEF/World Bank REDP projects, UNDP wind-PV hybrid village power projects, REEEP project for rural electrification, ADB PV Demo Project in Nepal, World Bank Beijing Solar School project, etc.. Wang Sicheng is experienced in both grid-connected and off-grid PV technologies.
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- Member of the Scientific Committee
Stanley van den Heever has a B Eng (Electronic), MSc Eng and PhD.
His research focus was on semiconducting ZnO nanowires and the utilisation of the materials unique properties to generate electricity.
In 2013 Van den Heever started working at PTIP as a Project Engineer.
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- Member of the Executive Committee
- Member of the Scientific Committee
Vivian Alberts obtained a B.Sc Honnors (Cum Laude) in 1986, M.Sc (CumLaude)I in 1986 and a Ph.D degree in Physics in 1993 from the NelsonMandela Metropolitan University (NMMU), formerly known as the University ofPort Elizabeth.He was appointed as a lecturer in the Department of Physics at the Universityof Johannesburg (formerly known as the Rand Afrikaans University) in 1993 and was promoted to associated professor in 1998 and to full professor in2000.
During his academic career, he authored and co-authorized more than100 international technical papers and acted as promoter for 20 MSc and PhDstudies.He has been actively involved in the research and development of thin filmphotovoltaic materials and devices for the past 20 years.