Prof Juan Bisquert
Universitat Jaume I, ES
bisquert@fca.uji.es
http://www.elp.uji.es/jb.htm

Juan Bisquert is professor of Applied Physics at Universitat Jaume I de Castelló, where he leads the Group of Photovoltaic and Optoelectronic Devices. Recent research activity was focused on nanoscale device for production and storage of clean energies, in particular dye-sensitized solar cells and other photovoltaic devices and organic LEDs. He is specialist in the application of measurement techniques and physical modeling that relate the device operation with the elementary steps that take place at the nanoscale dimension: charge transfer, carrier transport, chemical reaction, etc. Especially the use of techniques of impedance spectroscopy has shown to be very useful to understand fundamental electronic phenomena in complex situations, such as in porous nanoscaled morphology. These methods are currently being applied to dye-sensitized solar cells, aligned ZnO nanowires structures, efficient charge injection and transport in organic LEDs, and solid-state photovoltaic devices.

Prof Andrés Cantarero
University of Valencia, Spain
Andres.Cantarero@uv.es

Andrés Cantarero (B.S. 1979, Ph.D. Physics 1986) is Full Professor in Condensed Matter Physics at the University of Valencia and at present Director of the Materials Science Institute. His research topics are the physical properties of semiconductor nanostructures, more recently semiconductor nanowires. He has more than 170 publications in the WOS and around 1800 citations.

Prof. Dr Eric Wei-Guang Wei-Guang Diau
Department of Applied Chemistry, TW
http://diau08.ac.nctu.edu.tw/

Eric Diau received his Ph.D. in Chemistry in 1991 from National Tsing Hua University (NTHU). After military service, he went to Emory University, University of Queensland, and California Institute of Technology (caltech) for his postdoctoral research. In August 2001, he joined National Chiao Tung University (NCTU) as a faculty member and has become a full professor since 2006. Eric Diau’s current research interests include femtochemistry, electron transfer and energy transfer dynamics in condensed matters, fabrication and characterization of nano-materials, and the development of new materials and novel technologies for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells (DSSC).

Dr Arthur Frank
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, United States

Arthur J. Frank is a Principal Scientist in the Chemical & Materials Science Center at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). He received his PhD from the University of Florida in 1975. Before joining NREL in 1978, he worked at the Hahn-Meitner Institute in Berlin and at the University of California, Berkeley as a postdoctoral scientist. His interest covers basic and applied research on the direct conversion of solar photons to fuels and electricity. His research is aimed at understanding the physical and chemical factors that govern the energetics and dynamics of interfacial charge transfer and carrier transport in sensitized nanoporous solar cells and the limitations that these processes impose on cell performance. These studies are usually based on a combination of theory, computer simulations, and time- and frequency-resolved techniques. He is also working on advanced nanostructured electrodes for ultrahigh efficiency solar hydrogen production from water splitting.

Prof Craig A. Grimes
The Pennsylvania State University, United States
cgrimes@engr.psu.edu

Craig A. Grimes is currently a Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University, University Park. He received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 1990. His research interests include the reduction of CO2 to hydrocarbon fuels, solid-state dye sensitized solar cells, propagation and control of electromagnetic energy, and remote query environmental sensors. He is founder or co-founder of four different companies. Dr. Grimes is co-author of The Electromagnetic Origin of Quantum Theory and Light; Light, Water, Hydrogen: The Solar Generation of Hydrogen by Water Photoelectrolysis; TiO2 Nanotube Arrays: Synthesis, Properties and Applications; and Editor of The Encyclopedia of Sensors.

Prof. Dr Satoshi Uchida
RCAST, The University of Tokyo, JP
uchida@rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp
http://kuroppe.tagen.tohoku.ac.jp/~uchida/profile-e.html

Satoshi Uchida is associate professor in Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST), The University of Tokyo. He received his PhD from Tohoku University in 1995 and moved to current status in 2006. His research focuses on the field of dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs), specifically cell assembling technique such as full-plastic, light-weight, film type DSSC as a ubiquitous power source. He has also activity of material engineering for high performance organic sensitizer, 1D nanostructured titanium oxide and clay electrolyte etc.

Prof Alison B Walker
University of Bath, United Kingdom
http://people.bath.ac.uk/pysabw/

Alison Walker was born in Sarawak, Malaysia. She took her undergraduate and postgraduate degrees at the University of Oxford then was a postdoc at Michigan State University, US and Daresbury Laboratory, UK. She held a tenured post at the University of East Anglia then moved to the University of Bath in 1998. Her area of research is condensed matter theory, where her focus is on excitonic solar cells, including dye-sensitized cells, and multiscale modelling of conjugated polymers. She held a Royal Society Industry Fellowship with Cambridge Display Technology 2003-6, is coordinator of the EU project Modecom and is a member of the UK funded Supergen Excitonic solar cell consortium.

Prof Peidong Yang
University of California, Berkeley, USA

Peidong Yang received a B.S. in chemistry from University of Science and Technology of China in 1993 and a Ph.D. in chemistry from Harvard University in 1997. He did postdoctoral research at University of California, Santa Barbara before joining the faculty in the department of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley in 1999. He is currently Miller professor in the Department of Chemistry, Materials Science and Engineering; and a senior faculty scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He is the deputy director for the Center of Integrated Nanomechanical Systems. He is an associate editor for Journal of the American Chemical Society and also serves on editorial advisory board for number of journals including Acct. Chem. Res. and Nano. Lett. He was the first chairperson for the Nanoscience subdivision within American Chemical Society. He is the recipient of Alfred P. Sloan research fellowship, the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Young Investigator Award, National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award, MRS Young Investigator Award, Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics, ACS Pure Chemistry Award, and Alan T. Waterman Award. His main research interest is in the area of one dimensional semiconductor nanostructures and their applications in nanophotonics, energy conversion and living cell interface.