Prof Juan Bisquert
Universitat Jaume I, Spain
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 Diau
National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

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 Anders Hagfeldt
Uppsala University, Sweden
anders.hagfeldt@fki.uu.se
http://www.fki.uu.se/Personal/hagfeldt-anders/index.shtm

Anders Hagfeldt is professor in Physical Chemistry and the Dean of Chemistry at Uppsala University. His research focuses on the field of mesoporous dye-sensitized solar cells, specifically physical chemical characterization of mesoporous electrodes for different types of opto-electronic devices. He has 175 scientific publications and 8 patent applications. He is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA), Stockholm, and a visiting professor at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, at Dalian University of Technology, China, and the Institute for Materials Research and Engineering in Singapore.

Dr Hernan Miguez
Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Sevilla (CSIC), Spain

MÍGUEZ, Hernán (born May 1971 in Buenos Aires, Argentina). Doctor in physics by the Autonomous University of Madrid (2000). From 2000 to 2002 worked as a post-doctoral fellow in the Chemistry Department of the University of Toronto, Canada, where he was appointed a honorary professorship position. Since 2004 he is a member of the permanent research staff of the Materials Science Institute of Seville (ICMS) (joint centre of the Spanish Research Council and the University of Seville). He leads a research line in Optical Nanomaterials. His research activities have been mainly focused on the design, preparation, characterization and modelling of optical nanomaterials for applications in photovoltaics, sensing and radiation protection. He is author or more than 80 papers in International Journals (Hirsch index 32), 12 internationalized patents, and numerous scientific presentations including about 20 invited lectures in International symposia and in Industry or University centres. His patents leaded to the founding of two technology based companies, the Canadian Opalux, devoted to the development of tuneable photonic displays, and the Swedish NLAB Solar, focused on the integration of photonic crystals in solar cells to achieve boost the light harvesting efficiency.