Join the Nature Conference on Advancing Perovskite-Based Photovoltaics, where leading scientists, engineers, and industry researchers converge to explore the latest advancements and pressing challenges in perovskite-based solar cells. This event aims to drive innovation and accelerate the path from fundamental research to industrial development and real-world deployment of the technology.
The conference will feature in-depth discussions on key topics, including:
- Materials and device fundamentals: Uncovering the science behind high-efficiency and operationally stable perovskite solar cells.
- Device design, benchmarking standards, and manufacturing: Monitoring performance and setting the scene for commercial manufacturing.
- Applications and deployment: Exploring integration into real-world settings considering sustainability.
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Speakers

Hairen Tan
Professor
Nanjing University

Yi Hou
Presidential Young Professor
National University of Singapore

Stefan Glunz
Professor
Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE)
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.

Fengqi You
Professor
Cornell University

Yana Vaynzof
Chair for Emerging Electronic Technologies
Technical University of Dresden

Francesca Brunetti
Professor
University of Rome Tor Vergata

Marc Köntges
Group Leader
Institute for Solar Energy Research (ISFH)

Hongxia Wang
Deputy Director Zero Emission Power Generation for Carbon Neutrality
Queensland University of Technology
Hongxia 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 University

Lyndsey McMillon-Brown
Research Engineer
NASA Glenn Research Center

Nitin P. Padture
University Professor
Brown University
Nitin 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 Twente

Aldo Di Carlo
Director of Institute for Structure of Matter
National Research Council, Rome

Jinsong Huang
Professor, Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering
University of North Carolina

Yue Hu
Professor
University of Edinburgh

Tsutomu Miyasaka
Professor
Toin University of Yokohama

Jangwon Seo
Associate Professor
Kaist

Jingjing Xue
Professor
Zhejiang University

Joseph J Berry
Professor
NREL

Mahshid Ahmadi
Assistant Professor
The University of Tennessee
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 California
Nam-Gyu Park
Professor
School of Chemical Engineering at Sungkyunkwan University
Nam-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.

Annamaria Petrozza
Senior Researcher
Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia

Shuxia Tao
Associate Professor
Eindhoven University of Technology
Shuxia 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 Kong
Aleksandra 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 University

Qing Zhao
Professor
School of Physics, Peking University

Angèle Reinders
Professor of Design of Sustainable Energy Systems
Eindhoven University of Technology

Michael Grätzel
Professor
EPFL
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 batteries

Maria Antonietta Loi
Chair Professor of Photophysics and OptoElectronics
University of Groningen
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