Your Conference Programme is compiled by the photovoltaic professional world.
Following submission, your abstract will be reviewed by the international EU PVSEC Committee. This distinguished group is made up of more than 230 leading experts from institutional and industrial research organisations from around the world.
Status of 19.02.2020
EU PVSEC Technical Programme Chair
Robert Kenny
European Commission Joint Research Centre
Directorate for Energy, Transport and Climate
Ispra, Italy
Topic Organisers
1 New Materials and Concepts for Photovoltaic Devices
1.1 Fundamental Studies

Dr. Louise Hirst
University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

Prof. Dr. Bernd Rech
HZB, Germany
1.2 New Materials and Concepts for Cells and Modules

Prof. Antonio Martí Vega
UPM, Spain

Prof. Dr Jozef (Jef) Poortmans
imec, Belgium
2 Silicon Materials and Cells
2.1 Feedstock, Crystallisation, Wafering, Defect Engineering

Mr. Dennis Bredemeier
ISFH, Germany

Dr. Stephan Riepe
Fraunhofer ISE, Germany
2.2 High Temperature Route for Si Cells

Prof. Stefan W. Glunz
Fraunhofer ISE, Germany

Dr. Martin Hermle
Fraunhofer ISE, Germany

Prof. Dr. Giso Hahn
University of Konstanz, Germany
2.3 Low Temperature Route for Si Cells

Dr. Matthieu Despeisse
CSEM, Switzerland

Prof. Dr. Arthur W. Weeber
ECN part of TNO, Netherlands

Prof. Dr. Pere Roca i Cabarrocas
CNRS, France
2.4 Thin Film and Foil-Based Si Cells

Dr. Julio Cárabe
CIEMAT, Spain

Prof. Dr. Marko Topic
University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
2.5 Characterisation & Simulation of Si Cells

Dr. Francesca Ferrazza
eni spa, Italy

Dr. Karsten Bothe
ISFH, Germany
2.6 Manufacturing & Production of Si Cells

Dr. Stefan Peters
Hanwha Q CELLS, Germany

Dr. Peter Wohlfart
SINGULUS TECHNOLOGIES, Germany
3 Perovskites and Other Non-Silicon Materials, MJs and Tandems
3.1 Perovskites

Dr. Wolfgang Tress
Ludwig-Maximilians-Univeristät, Germany

Dr. Sjoerd Veenstra
ECN part of TNO, Netherlands
3.2 CI(G)S, CdTe and Related Thin Films

Prof. Dr. Alex Redinger
University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Prof. Dr. Ayodhya Nath Tiwari
EMPA, Switzerland

Dr. Wiltraud Wischmann
ZSW, Germany
3.3 Organic and Dye-Sensitised

Dr. Giorgio Bardizza
European Commission JRC, Italy

Dr. Riccardo Po
eni, Italy
3.4 III-V and Related Compound Semiconductors

Dr. Giovanni Flamand
imec, Belgium

Dr. Gerald Siefer
Fraunhofer ISE, Germany
3.5 Tandems

Dr. Jan Christoph Goldschmidt
Fraunhofer ISE, Germany

Dr. Sylvain Nicolay
CSEM, Switzerland
4 Photovoltaic Modules and BoS Components
4.1 PV Module Design, Manufacture, Performance and Reliability

Prof. Ralph Gottschalg
Fraunhofer CSP, Germany

Dr. Werner Herrmann
TÜV Rheinland Energy, Germany
4.2 Inverters and Balance of System Components

Dr. Claudia Buerhop-Lutz
HI ERN, Germany

Prof. Nicola Pearsall
Northumbria University, United Kingdom
4.3 Sustainability and Recycling

Dr. Karsten Wambach
Wambach-Consulting, Germany

Mr. Andreas Wade
First Solar, Germany
5 PV Systems and Storage – Modelling, Design, Operation and Performance
5.1 Solar Resource and Forecasting

Prof. Dr. Wilfried G.J.H.M. van Sark
Utrecht University, Netherlands

Ms. Ana Maria Gracia Amillo
European Commission JRC, Italy
5.2 Design and Installation of PV Systems

Mr. Franck Al-Shakarchi
CEATECH-INES, France

Dr. Heinz Ossenbrink
Band Gap, Germany
5.3 Operation, Performance and Maintenance of PV Systems

Mr. Peter Lechner
ZSW, Germany

Mr. Gerhard Mütter
Alteso, Austria

Prof. João M Almeida Serra
FCUL- University of Lisbon/IDL, Portugal
5.4 Storage

Dr. Francesco Dolci
European Commission JRC, The Netherlands

Dr. Florence Lambert
CEA LITEN, France
5.5 Concentrators and PV for Space Applications

Prof. Ignacio Antón Hernández
UPM, Spain

Dr. Stephen Taylor
European Space Agency, The Netherlands
6 PV Applications and Integration
6.1 PV on/in Buildings, Infrastructure, Landscape, Water and Nature

Dr. Francesco Frontini
SUPSI, Switzerland

Dr. Alessandra Scognamiglio
ENEA, Italy
6.2 Industrial Applications of PV

Dr. Hubert A. Aulich
SC Sustainable Concepts, Germany

Prof. Urs Muntwyler
BFH, Switzerland
6.3 PV Driven Energy Management and System Integration

Prof. Franz P. Baumgartner
ZHAW, Switzerland

Ms. Ingrid Weiss
WIP Renewable Energies, Germany
7 Finance, Markets and Policies
7.1 Costs, Economics, Finance and Markets

Prof. Dr. Christian Breyer
Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland

Mr. Gaetan Masson
Becquerel Institute, Belgium

Mr. Thomas Nordmann
TNC Consulting, Switzerland
7.2 Policies and Scenarios for Renewables, Societal and Global Challenges

Ms. Maria Getsiou
European Commission DG RTD, Belgium

Mr. Philippe Malbranche
CEA, France

Dr. Stefan Nowak
NET Nowak Energy & Technology, Switzerland
Paper Reviewer
Steve Albrecht, HZB, Berlin, Germany Pierre-Jean Alet, CSEM, Neuchâtel, Switzerland Pablo Alonso, WIP Renewable Energies, Munich, Germany Cristina Alonso-Tristán, UBU, Burgos, Spain Oliver Anspach, PV Crystalox Solar, Erfurt, Germany Sofía Arancón, WIP Renewable Energies, Munich, Germany Nekane Azkona, UPV/EHU, Bilbao, Spain Kris Baert, KU Leuven, Heverlee, Belgium Nicolas Barreau, University of Nantes, France Derk L. Bätzner, Meyer Burger Research, Hauterive, Switzerland Pieter Bauwens, Ghent University, Belgium Guy Beaucarne, Dow Silicones, Seneffe, Belgium Martin P. Bellmann, SINTEF, Trondheim, Norway Malek Benmansour, CEA, Le Bourget-du-Lac, France Veronica Bermudez Benito, QEERI, Doha, Qatar Philippe Blanc, MINES ParisTech, France Pierluigi Bonomo, SUPSI, Canobbio, Switzerland Rolf Brendel, ISFH, Emmerthal, Germany Maria João Brites, LNEG, Lisboa, Portugal Miguel Centeno Brito, University of Lisbon, Portugal Roland Bründlinger, AIT, Vienna, Austria Timothy Bruton, Progress in Photovoltaics, Woking, United Kingdom Roberta Campesato, CESI, Milan, Italy Christian Camus, LayTec, Berlin, Germany Silvia Caneva, WIP Renewable Energies, Munich, Germany Stefano Capaccioli, ETA - Florence Renewable Energies, Italy Fabian Carigiet, ZHAW, Winterthur, Switzerland Alison Ciesla, UNSW Australia, Sydney, Australia Gianluca Coletti, TNO, Petten, The Netherlands James Patrick Connolly, GeePs, Gif sur Yvette, France Stéphane Cros, CEA, Le Bourget-du-Lac, France Edwin Cunow, LSPV Consulting, Gröbenzell, Germany Thomas Dalibor, Avancis, Torgau, Germany Adrien Danel, CEA, Le Bourget-du-Lac, France William Dauksher, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA Paola Delli Veneri, ENEA, Portici, Italy Antoine Descoeudres, CSEM, Neuchâtel, Switzerland Aldo Di Carlo, University of Rome II, Italy Bernhard Dimmler, NICE Solar Energy, Schwäbisch Hall, Germany Doriana Dimova-Malinovska, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria Kaining Ding, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany Maarten Dörenkämper, TNO, Eindhoven, The Netherlands Sébastien Dubois, CEA, Le Bourget-du-Lac, France Thorsten Dullweber, ISFH, Emmerthal, Germany Ken Durose, Stephenson Institute for Renewable Energy, Liverpool, United Kingdom Gabriele C. Eder, OFI, Vienna, Austria Roland Einhaus, Apollon Solar, Saint Priest, France Nicholas Ekins-Daukes, UNSW Australia, Sydney, Australia Marco Ernst, ANU, Canberra, Australia Peter Fath, RCT-Solutions, Konstanz, Germany Wilfried Favre, CEA, Le Bourget-du-Lac, France Christopher Fell, CSIRO Energy Technology, Mayfield West, Australia Gabi Friesen, SUPSI, Canobbio, Switzerland Vasilis Fthenakis, Columbia University, New York, USA Bruno Gaiddon, HESPUL, Lyon, France Stefan Gall, HZB, Berlin, Germany William J. Gambogi, DuPont, Wilmington, USA Ivan Gordon, imec, Leuven, Belgium Jonathan Govaerts, imec, Genk, Belgium Giorgio Graditi, ENEA, Portici, Italy Matthias Grottke, Hammer Real, Munich, Germany Daniela Guida, ENEL Green Power, Roma, Italy Peter Hacke, NREL, Golden, USA Ingo Hagemann, Architekturbüro Hagemann, Aachen, Germany Christian Hagendorf, Fraunhofer CSP, Halle (Saale), Germany Claas Helmke, Clake Energy, Erfurt, Germany M. Angeles Hernandez-Fenollosa, UPV, Valencia, Spain Bert Herteleer, KU Leuven, Gent, Belgium Karl Hesse, Wacker Chemie, Burghausen, Germany Yoshihiro Hishikawa, AIST, Tsukuba, Japan Jörg Horzel, Fraunhofer ISE, Freiburg, Germany Shujuan Huang, UNSW Australia, Sydney, Australia Kees Hummelen, University of Groningen, The Netherlands Stuart J. C. Irvine, Swansea University, St. Asaph, United Kingdom Shogo Ishizuka, AIST, Tsukuba, Japan Ulrike Jahn, TÜV Rheinland Energy, Cologne, Germany Gaby J. M. Janssen, ECN part of TNO, Petten, The Netherlands Joachim John, imec, Leuven, Belgium Kai-Philipp Kairies, RWTH Aachen University, Germany Izumi Kaizuka, RTS Corporation, Chuo-ku, Japan Victor Khorenko, Azur Space, Heilbronn, Germany Klaus Kiefer, Fraunhofer ISE, Freiburg, Germany Richard King, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA Jean-Paul Kleider, CNRS/GeePs, Gif sur Yvette, France Jean-Marie Klein, CEA, Le Bourget-du-Lac, France Makoto Konagai, Tokyo City University, Setagaya-ku, Japan Dirk König, UNSW Australia, Sydney, Australia Igor Konovalov, University of Applied Sciences Jena, Germany Philipp Kratzert, Solibro, Bitterfeld-Wolfen OT Thalheim, Germany Ana Rosa Lagunas, CENER, Sarriguren-Navarra, Spain Pascal Lalanne, HydroClapeyron, Dinard, France Kari Lappalainen, Tampere University, Finland Claude Lévy-Clément, CNRS, Thiais, France Bianca Lim, ISFH, Emmerthal, Germany |
Ching-Fuh Lin, NTU, Taipei, Taiwan |
Awards Coordinators |
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Student Awards Coordinator Committee Members Dr. Heinz Ossenbrink Dr. Robert Kenny Prof. Nicola Pearsall |
Poster Awards Coordinator Committee Members Dr. Heinz Ossenbrink Dr. Robert Kenny Prof. Nicola Pearsall |