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Session 1: Fundamentals of Materials and Devices
In this session, we will delve into the essential aspects of materials and devices that form the backbone of current research and development in the field. Participants will have the opportunity to explore a range of key topics that highlight critical advancements and challenges in materials science.
Keynote 1 Tom Miyasaka Keynote 2 Maria Antonietta Loi Templating the growth of perovskite films for high performance photovoltaics Michael Grätzel Talk 2 Qing Zhao Talk 3 Jun Hong Noh Stability implications of photo/electrochemical redox reactions in halide perovskites Aleksandra Djurisic Materials theory of halide perovskite Shuxia Tao Upscaling perovskite silicon tandem photovoltaic technology – Lessons learned from silicon photovoltaics Stefan Glunz Talk 7 Annamaria Petrozza Perovskite Microstructural Disorder ZHOU Yuanyuan
Tsutomu Miyasaka Professor Toin University of YokohamaStefan Glunz Professor Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE)Stefan W. Glunz received his Ph.D. from the University of Freiburg, Germany, in 1995. He is a full professor of Photovoltaic Energy Conversion at Albert-Ludwigs-University in Freiburg and the director of the Photovoltaics division at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems, ISE. His research focuses on the development and characterization of high-efficiency crystalline silicon, III-V, organic, and perovskite solar cells.
Prof. Dr. Glunz has authored or co-authored over 200 journal articles and 300 conference papers. He serves on the scientific committees of various photovoltaics conferences and workshops, initiated the SiliconPV conference, and organized the tandemPV workshop in 2022. He was awarded the Eni Award in 2008 for his contributions to renewable energy science and technology and the Becquerel Award in 2014 for Outstanding Merits in Photovoltaics.Yuanyuan Zhou Associate Professor The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST).Yuanyuan (Alvin) Zhou is a university-endorsed Star Faculty and tenured Associate Professor at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). He is the Associate Director of the HKUST Energy Institute. He obtained his B.S. in materials science and engineering from Xi’an Jiaotong University and Ph.D. in engineering at Brown University (2012-2016).
He has co-authored over 140 journal publications with 14,000 Google citations and 60 H-index. He has received numerous prestigious honors and awards, including the China's National Science Foundation Excellent Young Scientist. He is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Energy Chemistry (Elsevier) and an Advisory Board Member for Device (Cell Press). Prof. Zhou’s group research innovates semiconductors and devices, as well as the way to study them. Their flagship contributions to elevating the understanding of the perovskite microstructure have been published in prestigious academic journals, including Science, Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Energy, and Nature Synthesis.Annamaria Petrozza Senior Researcher Istituto Italiano di TecnologiaShuxia Tao Associate Professor Eindhoven University of TechnologyShuxia Tao is Associate Professor of Computational Materials Physics at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), The Netherlands. Her research explores the fundamental interactions between electrons, spins, and ions in emerging semiconductors and functional nanomaterials, with a focus on defect physics, light–matter interaction, and degradation mechanisms. She develops multiscale modeling frameworks that combine density functional theory (DFT), molecular dynamics, and machine learning.
Shuxia earned her MSc in Physical Chemistry from Nankai University and her PhD from TU/e in 2011, where she focused on computational materials design for energy devices. After a short family leave, she worked at NIKHEF (Amsterdam) from 2013 to 2016 on computational photodetector design. She joined TU/e's Department of Applied Physics in 2016, was appointed Assistant Professor in 2018, and promoted to Associate Professor in 2023.
Her work is supported by multiple prestigious national and EU grants, including NWO VIDI, and the ERC Consolidator Grant. She serves as Associate Editor for AI for Science (IOP Publishing) and Editorial Board Member of Applied Physics Letters. Nationally, she contributes to Dutch research policy via the NWO Round Table Physics and as vice-chair of the Nano, Quantum, and Materials Physics community.
Aleksandra Djurišić Professor The University of Hong KongAleksandra B. Djurišić obtained Ph. D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the School of Electrical Engineering, the University of Belgrade in 1997. After finishing her PhD studies, she worked as a postdoctoral fellow at University of Hong Kong and as an Alexander von Humboldt postdoctoral fellow at TU Dresden. She joined the Dept. of Physics at the University of Hong Kong in 2003 as assistant professor, where she has worked as a professor 2013. Her research interests include halide perovskite materials, nanomaterials, wide-bandgap semiconductors, and organic materials, and their applications in areas related to energy and environment, such as photocatalysis, antimicrobial materials, solar cells, and LEDs. She has published 420 research articles listed in WoS, and her work has been cited over 27100 times. Her h-index is 71.
Jun Hong Noh Associate Professor Korea UniversityQing Zhao Professor School of Physics, Peking UniversityMichael Grätzel Professor EPFLProf. Michael Graetzel studied chemistry at the Free University of Berlin and performed his doctoral thesis work in at the Technical University Berlin. followed by postdoctoral stay at University of Notre Dame, Indiana (USA). After a brief return to Berlin, during which Michael obtained his Habilitation in Physical Chemistry at the Free University under the guidance of Professor Heinz Gerischer, he moved to Lausanne Switzerland, in 1977 where he joined the EPFL faculty first as a professor. It was at EPFL that Michael started his pioneering research on colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals and there use for solar energy conversion and storage which lead to several ground breaking discoveries. These generated new research fronts worldwide in the domain of photovoltaics, electrochemistry and photo-electrochemistry, addressing the urgent need to develop low-cost and efficient systems for the conversion of sunlight to electricity and chemical fuels. His publications have received over 500'000 citations (H-index = 312) showing the large scientific impact of his work.
Michael is particularly well known for his discovery of mesoscopic dye-sensitized solar cells (named after him “Graetzel cells”), which in turn engendered the advent of perovskite photovoltaics, constituting the most exciting breakthrough in the recent history of photovoltaics. He used his revolutionary concept of three-dimensional junctions of nanocrystals also to realize photo-electrochemical devices for the solar generation of hydrogen and reduction of carbon dioxide as well as for the storage of electricity in lithium-ion insertion batteriesMaria Antonietta Loi Chair Professor of Photophysics and OptoElectronics University of Groningen -
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Session 2: Device Designs, Manufacturing, and Applications
In this session, we will explore the innovative designs, manufacturing techniques, and diverse applications of advanced devices. Attendees will have the opportunity to engage with a variety of key topics that showcase the latest developments and practical considerations in device technology.
Keynote 3 - Discovery and Progress of Perovskite Solar Cells Nam Gyu Park Keynote 4 Marina Leite Advancing Design and Discovery of Halide Perovskites via Autonomous High Throughput Synthesis and Characterization Mahshid Ahmadi Talk 10 Joseph Berry Talk 11 Jingjing Xue Talk 12 Jangwon Seo Talk 13 Hairen Tan Talk 14 Yi Hou Talk 15 Yue Hu Talk 16 Jinsong Huang Talk 17 Aldo Di Carlo Talk 18 Monica Morales-Masis Connecting Mechanical Properties, Durability, and Reliability of High-Performance Perovskite Solar Photovoltaics Nitin Padture Talk 20 Lyndsey McMillon-Brown
Jangwon Seo Associate Professor KaistYi Hou Presidential Young Professor National University of SingaporeLyndsey McMillon-Brown Research Engineer NASA Glenn Research CenterNitin P. Padture University Professor Brown UniversityNitin P. Padture is the Otis E. Randall University Professor in the School of Engineering, and founding Director of the Initiative for Sustainable Energy, at Brown University (USA). He received B.Tech. in Metallurgical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay (1985), M.S. in Ceramic Engineering from Alfred University (1987), and Ph.D. in Materials Science & Engineering from Lehigh University (1991). Padture was a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institute of Standards and Technology for 3 years, before joining the University of Connecticut (UConn) faculty in January 1995 as Assistant Professor. He became Associate Professor in 1998 and Professor in 2003. Padture served as Interim Department Head at UConn for one year before moving to The Ohio State University (OSU) in January 2005. At OSU he was College of Engineering Distinguished Professor, and also founding Director of the National Science Foundation funded Materials Research Science and Engineering Center. Padture moved to Brown University in January 2012, and most recently he served as Director of Brown's Institute for Molecular and Nanoscale Innovation for about eight years.
Padture’s research interests are in advanced composite, coating, and thin-film materials, for applications ranging from jet engines to emerging solar photovoltaics, impacting the transportation and energy sectors of the economy. Padture has authored or co-authored about 300 publications, including 9 awarded patents, which have been widely cited. He has delivered about 300 invited/ keynote/ plenary talks and seminars in the US and abroad. A Fellow of the American Ceramic Society, Padture has received that society's Roland B. Snow, Robert L. Coble, and Richard M. Fulrath awards. He is also a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Materials Research Society. Padture has receive several awards, including the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, the IIT-Bombay Distinguished Alumnus Award, and the Brown University Presidential Faculty Award. Padture is editor of two prestigious journals in the field of materials science & engineering: Acta Materialia and Scripta Materialia.
Monica Morales-Masis Professor University of TwenteAldo Di Carlo Director of Institute for Structure of Matter National Research Council, RomeJinsong Huang Professor, Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering University of North CarolinaYue Hu Professor University of EdinburghHairen Tan Professor Nanjing UniversityJingjing Xue Professor Zhejiang UniversityJoseph J Berry Professor NRELMahshid Ahmadi Assistant Professor The University of TennesseeMahshid Ahmadi is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK) USA, and will be promoted to Associate Professor in August 2025. She earned her Ph.D. in 2013 from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She leads a pioneering program that combines autonomous high-throughput experimentation, hypothesis-driven synthesis, and interpretable machine learning to accelerate halide perovskites discovery and extract fundamental insights from complex datasets. Her work sits at the forefront of AI-driven materials science and aims to establish a predictive understanding of structure–property relationships in halide perovskites. She is the recipient of several prestigious honors, including the 2021 NSF CAREER Award, 2022 Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship in Chemistry, and 2025 Scialog Fellowship in Automated Chemical Laboratories from the Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA).
She was named a 2024 Early Career Rising Star in Materials Science by ACS Materials Au, received the 2024 UTK Tickle College of Engineering Professional Promise in Research Award, and the 2022 UTK MSE Faculty Award for Excellence in Research. Dr. Ahmadi has contributed to national conversations on the future of automation and AI in science, serving as an invited panelist for the NSF–Carnegie Mellon National Network of Cloud and Self-Driving Labs (2023), and has been featured twice by MRS Women in Science (2022 & 2023) on International Women’s Day. She serves as an Associate Editor for APL Machine Learning and has authored or co-authored approximately 100 peer-reviewed publications and delivered over 40 invited talks at leading national and international conferences.Marina S. Leite Professor University of CaliforniaNam-Gyu Park Professor School of Chemical Engineering at Sungkyunkwan UniversityNam-Gyu Park is a Lifetime Distinguished Professor at the School of Chemical Engineering and Director of the SKKU Institute of Energy Science and Technology (SIEST) at Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU). He earned his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Seoul National University. After postdoctoral appointments at ICMCB-CNRS in France and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in the USA, he held key research roles at ETRI and KIST before joining SKKU in 2009. Prof. Park is a fellow of the Korean Academy of Science and Technology (KAST), and a world-renowned expert in photovoltaics, particularly known for pioneering the field of perovskite solar cells with his landmark 2012 report on long-term stable devices.
Recognized for his scientific leadership, Prof. Park was named a Citation Laureate in 2017 and has been included in the Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers list from 2017 to 2024. His numerous honors include the Samsung Ho-Am Prize (2018), the Rank Prize (UK, 2022), the Eni Award (Italy, 2024), and Korea’s Top Scientist and Technologist Award (2024). In addition to his research, Prof. Park plays a vital editorial role in the scientific community as Senior Editor of ACS Energy Letters and a board member for Chemical Reviews, ChemSusChem, and Solar RRL.
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Session 3: Deployment, Policy and Sustainability
In this session, we will examine the critical aspects of deploying advanced technologies within the framework of policy and sustainability. Participants will engage in discussions on the multifaceted challenges and opportunities that arise in ensuring effective integration and responsible practices in the industry.
Keynote 5 Angèle Reinders Keynote 6 Anders Hagfeldt Sustainable Fabrication Protocol of Metal Halide Perovskite Solar Cells Hongxia Wang Talk 22 Marc Köntges Talk 23 Francesca Brunetti Talk 24 Yana Vaynzof Sustainable Pathways for Perovskite Photovoltaics: Life Cycle Assessment, Recycling Strategies, and Environmental Impacts Fengqi You
Fengqi You Professor Cornell UniversityFengqi You is the Roxanne E. and Michael J. Zak Professor in Energy Systems Engineering at Cornell University. At Cornell, he serves as Co-Director of both the AI for Science Institute (CUAISci) and the Cornell Institute for Digital Agriculture (CIDA). He also leads the Cornell AI for Sustainability Initiative (CAISI). You's research integrates systems analytics, artificial intelligence, and sustainability science, with applications spanning energy systems, smart manufacturing, digital agriculture, and materials informatics. His pioneering work on the life cycle assessment and recycling of perovskite solar cells has been featured in leading journals such as Nature, Nature Sustainability, Science Advances, and Energy & Environmental Science. Recognized with over 25 major research, he is a Fellow of the AAAS, AIChE and RSC.Yana Vaynzof Chair for Emerging Electronic Technologies Technical University of DresdenFrancesca Brunetti Professor University of Rome Tor VergataMarc Köntges Group Leader Institute for Solar Energy Research (ISFH)Hongxia Wang Deputy Director Zero Emission Power Generation for Carbon Neutrality Queensland University of TechnologyHongxia Wang is a Professor and Australian Research Council (ARC) Georgina Sweet Laureate Fellow at Queensland University of Technology (QUT). Her research focuses on developing sustainable approaches for fabricating cost-effective solar cells and energy storage devices with enhanced performance and longevity. She has conducted extensive research on sensitized solar cells, perovskite solar cells, CZTS-based thin-film solar cells, supercapacitors, and batteries. She is an elected Fellow of the Queensland Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), and the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (FRACI). Additionally, she serves as a member of the Australian Research Council (ARC) College of Experts (2020–2025).
Her achievements have been recognized with multiple awards, including the ‘Solar Energy Journal Best Paper Award for 2016 in Photovoltaics’ (International Solar Energy Society) and ‘the Best Research Paper Award in Manufacturing and Material Science’ (China Association for Science and Technology, 2023). She was a recipient of several prestigious fellowships, such as the ARC Laureate Fellowship (2024), ARC Future Fellowship (2012), ARC Postdoctoral Fellowship (Industry, APDI, 2007), and QUT Vice-Chancellor’s Research Fellowship (2010). She was awarded QUT’s ‘Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Excellence’ in 2024 and ‘Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Best Research with Real-World Impact’ in both 2015 and 2017.
Anders Hagfeldt Vice-Chancellor Uppsala UniversityAngèle Reinders Professor of Design of Sustainable Energy Systems Eindhoven University of Technology