EDUCATION

1982 - 1984 M.S., in Electrical Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, Korea
1978 - 1982 B.S., in Electrical Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, Korea

Professional Career

2021 - Present, chairman, Korea Photovoltaic Industry Association(“KOPIA”), Seoul, Korea
2014 - Present, Founded and present CEO, S-Fuelcell Co., Ltd, Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-do, Korea
2014 - Present, Founded and present CEO, S-Power Co., Ltd, Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do, Korea
2001 - Present, Founded and present CEO, S-Energy Co., Ltd, Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do, Korea
1983 - 2001, Team leader, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd,, Seoul, Korea

EDUCATION

2003 - 2008, Ph.D., Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
1999 - 2001, M.S., Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul, Korea
1993 - 1999, B.S., Chemistry, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea

Professional Career

2011 - Present, Senior Researcher, Korea Institute of Energy Research, Daejeon, Korea
2021 - Present, Professor, University of Science and Technology (UST)
2020 - Present, Adjunct Professor, Ulsan University, Ulsan, Korea
2017 - Present, Adjunct Professor, Ulsan Institute of Science and Technology, Ulsan, Korea

Research Interest

Perovskite Solar Cells
- Fabrication of High Performance Perovskite Solar cells
- Large module of Perovskite Solar cells

Synthesis of Nanomaterials and Application
- Mesoporous Type Metal Oxide
- Nano Energy Materials

EDUCATION

1974 - 1977, D.E., Department of Electronic Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan
1972 - 1974, M.E., Department of Electronic Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan
1968 - 1972, B.E., Department of Electronic Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan

Professional Career

2020 - Present, Special Professor, Advanced Research Lab., Tokyo City University, Tokyo, Japan
2015 - 2020, Specially Appointed Professor, Advanced Research Lab., Tokyo City University,Tokyo,Japan
1991 - 2015, Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan
1981 - 1991, Associate Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan
1977 - 1981, Research Associate, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan

2012 - 2014, President, Japan Society of Applied Physics, Japan
2004 - 2020, Chairperson, JSPS 175th Committee, Japan

Research Interest

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells
Amorphous Si and Bulk Si Solar Cells
Cu(InGa)Se2 Thin-Film Solar Cells
GaAs Thin-Film Solar Cells
Spectrum Splitting Solar Cells
Solar Cells as an Energy Harvesting Technology
ZEB Application of Solar Cells

EDUCATION

1998 - EPFL(Switzerland). Dr. es sciences grade obtained for the thesis: "Optical and electrical properties of MoS2 and WS2 thin films for photovoltaic applications" (Prof. F. Lévy, supervisor).
1989 - 1994 EPFL. Master thesis in theoretical Physics. "Adiabatic theorem in quantum mechanics" (Prof. Ch.E. Pfister supervisor). (Grade 10/10).

Professional Career

2004 - EPFL (Chair at University of Neuchâtel until 1.1.2009). Full professor, Director of the PV-Lab (funded by A. Shah 1984), setting-up a unique platform for heterojunction and advanced crystalline Si cells, coating processes and module technologies. Main research activities in photovoltaics, optics, plasma processes, detectors, electronic thin films and large area electronics. Supported creation of various companies active in PV.
2013 - CSEM, Neuchâtel, Switzerland. Vice-president, initiation, building-up and direction of the CSEM PV-center, dedicated to industrial research and technology transfer in photovoltaics cells dand modules, coatings and energy management. The center also covers activities such as storage, integration of distributed sources with the grid, and energy informatics.
2003 - 2004 EMPA, Thun, Switzerland. Head of the « nanofactory lab ». Activities in mechanics and fracture mechanisms of semiconductors including for laser bars and for wafer sawing processes. Commercialisation of a system for the characterisation of solar cells.
2000 – 2003 Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE) Germany. In Gelsenkirchen labor-und service center, responsible for the characterisation of semiconductor materials and solar cells. Coordination of the start of a pilot line for crystalline silicon solar cells.
2001 - 2018 Weizmann Institute (Israel). Invited scientist (2001, 1 month), UC Berkeley (2017, 3 months) visiting professor, Australian National University (Canberra, Australia, 2018)
1999 – 2000 National Renewable Energy laboratory (NREL), Golden, USA. Postdoctoral research, SNF fellowship: "Local probe investigation of thin film solar cells".
1994 - 1998 EPFL, Lausanne. Research assistant, thin film physics laboratory.

Research Interest

High efficiency photovoltaics, Silicon solar cells, Perovskite solar cells, Module design, reliability, Building integrated photovoltaics, Electrochemical storage, Energy systems.

EDUCATION

1987 - 1990, Ph.D., Chemistry, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul, Korea
1986 - 1987, M.S course., Chemistry, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul, Korea
1982 - 1986, B.S., Chemistry Education, Pusan National University, Pusan, Korea

Professional Career

2016 - present, Director of BK21 Graduate School of Chemistry, Gyeongsnag National University, Jinju-Si, Korea
2012 - present, Director of Samsung-Gyeongsang National University Display Center, Jinju-Si, Korea
2006 - present, Assistant, Associate, and Full Professor, Gyeongsnag National University, Jinju-Si, Korea
1995 - 1996, Post-Doc Associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA

Research Interest

Development of Organic Semiconductors for Various Organic electronics such as OLED, OTFT, Organic Solar Cell

EDUCATION

1998 - 2003 Ph.D. Materials Science & Engineering, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
1994 - 1998 Sc.B. Materials Science & Engineering, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA

Professional Career

2016 - Present, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2013 - 2016, Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering, Yale University, USA
2008 - 2012, Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering, Yale University, USA
2006 - 2007, Research Engineering, RTI International, USA

Research Interest

* III-V multi-junction solar cells
* III-V/Si tandem solar cells
* Metamorphic solar cells
* Effects of dislocations and radiation damage on solar cells
* Solar water splitting and other solar fuels

EDUCATION

1996 - 1997 Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Department of Material Science and Engineering, Cornell University, USA
1989 - 1995 Ph.D. Inorganic Materials Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
1978 - 1982 B.S. Chemistry, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea

Professional Career

2018 - present, Director of creative initiative program in National Research Foundation of Korea NRF (리더연구사업), Korea
2015 - present, Distinguished Professor, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Korea
2016 - 2018, Adjunction professor, Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology (KRICT), Korea
2013 - 2015, Research Fellow, Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology (KRICT), Korea
2013 - 2015, Full Professor, Department of Energy Science, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Korea
2007 - 2016, Director of KRICT-EPFL Global Research Laboratory (GRL),Korea

Research Interest

Solar Energy Conversion, Nanostructured Inorganic/Organic Hybrid solar cells, Functional Inorganic-Organic Hybrid Materials, Sol-Gel Process of Inorganic Materials etc.

Biography

Masafumi Yamaguchi has received his ph.D. degree from Hokkaido Univeristy, Japan (1978).
He is now Professor Emeritus and Visiting Research Fellow at the Toyota Technological Institute, Japan, Visiting Professor, Kyushu University, Chairman of the PV-Powered Vehicle Strategy Committee under the NEDO, former Project Leader of the PV R&D Project under the NEDO, former Research Supervisor of the Creative Clean Energy Generation using Solar Energy under the JST.
He has received numerous awards such as the Becquerel Prize from the European Commission in 2004, the William Cherry Award from the IEEE in 2008, the PVSEC Award in 2011, the WCPEC Award in 2014 for his outstanding contribution to the development of science and technology of photovoltaic solar energy, and to the International collaboration and cooperation.

EDUCATION

1993 - 1996, Ph.D., Physics, Sogang University, Seoul, Korea
1986 - 1988, M.S., Physics, Sogang University, Seoul, Korea
1982 - 1986, B.S., Physics, Sogang University, Seoul, Korea

Professional Career

1990 - Present, Principal Research Scientist, Center for OptoElectronic Materials and Devices, Korea Institute of Science & Technology, Seoul, Korea

Research Interest

III-V multi-junction thin film Solar Cells
TE+PV Hybrid Solar Cells
Infrared Photo-Detectors such as QDIP, QWIP, InAsSb PD
High Temperature Unooled Micro-bolometer for LWIR and THz Radiation
Solar Absorber based Water Purification and Desalination

EDUCATION

1986 - 1990, Ph.D., Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
1980 - 1982, M.S., Chemistry, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology(KAIST), Daejeon, Korea
1876 - 1980, B.S., Applied Chemistry, University of Ulsan, Ulsan, Korea

Professional Career

2007 - Present, Professor, Advanced Materials Chemistry, Korea University, Sejong, Korea
2018 - present, Director, Center for Next Generation Solar Cells & Convergence Technology Development, Sejong, Korea
2008 - 2011, Director, Center for Advanced Photovoltaic Materials (IT Research Center), Sejong, Korea
2016 - 2017, Visiting Professor, Materials Science & Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
2017 - 2017, Visiting Professor, Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
2007 - 2007, Invited Professor, Chemistry, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne (EPFL), Lauzan, Switzerland
1994 - 2007, Professor, Polymer Science and Engineering, Hannam University, Daejeon, Korea
1993 - 1994, Senior Researcher, Photonic Switching Section, ETRI, Daejeon, Korea
1991 - 1993, Postdoctoral Associate, Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
1982 - 1986, Researcher, Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology (KRICT), Daejeon, Korea

Research Interest

*New Molecular Design & Synthesis of Organic and Polymeric Semiconductor Materials for Highly Efficient Dye-sensitized Solar Cells
*New Molecular Design & Synthesis of Organic Hole Transporting Materials
for Highly Efficient Solid-state Dye-sensitized Solar Cells and Perovskite Solar Cells
*New Molecular Design & Synthesis of D-pi-A Copolymers for Highly Efficient Perovskite Solar Cells and Organic Solar Cells
*Block Copolymers via Controlled Living Polymerization for Quasi-Solid-state Dye-sensitized Solar Cells
*Copolymer-templated Carbon Nanomaterials for Next Generation Solar Energy Conversion and Storage Devices including “Solar Battery”

EDUCATION

1990 - 1995, Ph.D. in Physics, University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB), USA
1983 - 1985, M.Sc. in Physics, KAIST, Seoul, Korea
1979 - 1983, B.S. in Nuclear Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

Professional Career

2020 - present, Director of Energy Valley Institute of Technology (EVIT), GIST, Korea
2019 - Present, Director of Research Institute for Solar and Sustainable Energies (RISE), GIST, Korea
2015 - Present, Director of The GIST-ICL International Collaboration R&D Center, GIST, Korea
2015 - present, Distinguished Professor, GIST, Korea
2012 - 2015, Director of Research Institute for Solar and Sustainable Energies (RISE), GIST, Korea
2007 - Present, Director of the Heeger Center for Advanced Materials (HCAM), GIST, Korea
2007 - Present, Full Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, GIST, Korea
1997 - 2006, Professor of Physics, Pusan National University, Pusan, Korea
1995 - 1997, Post-Doctoral Researcher, UC Santa Barbara, USA

Research Interest

* Optical properties of metallic and semiconducting polymers
* Development of polymer electronic devices: polymer LEDs, solar cells, and FETs
* Development of flexible displays using metallic and semiconducting polymers
* Physical properties and device applications of organic/inorganic hybrid composites
* Development of printing electronics using metallic and semiconducting polymers

EDUCATION

1993 - 1997, Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea
1991 - 1993, M.S., Chemical Engineering, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea
1987 - 1991, B.S., Chemical Technology, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

Professional Career

2021 - Present, Underwood Distinguished Professor, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea
2012 - 2021, Professor, Energy and Chemical Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Ulsan, Korea
2008 - 2012, Professor, Chemical Engineering, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon, Korea
2001 - 2002, Post Doc. Max-Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany
1997 - 2008, Principal Research Scientist, Batteries R&D, LG Chem., Daejeon, Korea

Research Interest

Soft energy storage systems and nanomaterials
- Systems:
Energy harvester-storage hybrid systems
Printable/flexible/cellulose power sources
- Materials
Separator membranes and ion exchange membranes
Organic solid electrolytes

EDUCATION

2003 - 2008, Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Chungbuk National University, Chungbuk, Korea
1997 - 1999, M.S., Electrical Engineering, Chungbuk National University, Chungbuk, Korea
1990 - 1994, B.S., Electrical Engineering, Chungbuk National University, Chungbuk, Korea

Professional Career

1996 - Present, K-water, Daejeon, Korea

Research Interest

Floating Photovoltaic Power Plant Built & Operation
Environmental Impacts monitoring for Floating Photovoltaic Power Plant

EDUCATION

2015 - GMP Harvard Business School, Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA
2001 - Ph.D. Materials Science, Arizona State University, Arizona, USA
1998 - Master Materials Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
1996 - B.Sc. Materials Physics, Computer Science, Central South University, Hunan, China

Professional Career

Dr. Zhang has extensive executive experience in running US and international companies. Over the past 20 years, he has held a wide variety of engineering and executive positions in the semiconductor and renewable energy industries.
Dr. Zhang is currently servicing as the CEO of MiaSolé Hi-Tech Corp. in Santa Clara, California, USA. Prior to MiaSolé, Dr. Zhang was the CEO of Hareon International, managing over 25 international subsidiaries and joint venture companies throughout North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. He spent eight years running corporate strategy, S&M, M&A, R&D, OEM, solar power plant development, financing, EPC, O&M, asset management and divestment. Before Hareon, he served as technology director at Cypress Semiconductor, leading international teams to develop, license and transfer 130nm and 65nm Mixed-Signal System-on-Chip semiconductor technology platforms. He also worked two years in NVIDIA’s foundry management team and four years in Cypress Semiconductor’s R&D team focused on semiconductor research and technology integration. Dr. Zhang received his B.Sc from Central South University, M.Eng. from Tsinghua University in China, PhD from Arizona State University in Materials Science, and graduated GMP from Harvard Business School as HBS alumni.