Dr Hans Desilvestro
Dyesol, Italy
http://www.dyesol.com/

Dr Hans Desilvestro gained his PhD from the Swiss Institute of Technology based on his work on photoelectrochemistry and dye sensitisation under the direction of Prof. Michael Grätzel. After many years of R&D and technical management within the battery technology industry, he returned to the world of dye solar cells in 2005 as Dyesol’s Chief Scientist.

Prof. Dr Aldo Di Carlo
CHOSE - University of Rome , Italy
http://www.chose.it

Aldo Di Carlo is associate professor of optoelectronics and leader of the Nano&Optoelectronic research group (http://www.optolab.uniroma.it) of the University of Rome “Tor Vergata” (Italy). Since 2006 he is co-director of the Centre for Hybrid and Organic Solar Energy (CHOSE) of the Lazio Region- Italy. CHOSE involves more that 30 researchers for the development and industrialization of the DSC technology. He is president of the Technical Board of the Dyepower consortium. Di Carlo is author/coauthor of more than 200 scientific publications on international journals, 6 patents, several book chapters, co-author of two books of optoelectronics and geneanal and/or local coordinator of several European Projects on optelectronics.

Prof. Giuseppe Gigli
NNL-Lecce, Italy
giuseppe.gigli@unisalento.it

Giuseppe Gigli was born in Rome, the 4th of November, 1970. He took the Degree in Physics cum laude at the University of Rome (IT) “La Sapienza” in 1996 and the PhD in Physics in 1999 at the University of Lecce (IT). In 1999 he joined the group of Prof.Richard Friend in the Cavendish Laboratory of the University of Cambridge (UK), working on Polymer based Optoelectronic Devices. In 2000 he joined the group of Prof.Olle Inganäs at the University of Linköping (Sweden), working on Nanotechnology processes of molecular materials. Since 2001 he is Lecturer in Physics in the Engineering Faculty of the University of Lecce, where he is Associate Professor since 2005. Giuseppe Gigli is the Coordinator of the Organics Division in the National Nanotechnology Laboratory (NNL) of CNR-INFM and national coordinator of the CNR research line “Nanotechnology for molecular materials”. His main research activities involve: Study of Structural and Optical properties of Molecular Materials, plastic optoelectronic Devices such as OLEDs, Solar Cells and lasers, Soft lithography and Nanotechnology of Molecular Materials, Cell factory GG is author of more than 160 publications on International Journals with more than 2000 citations (h-index=25), several chapters in scientific books, 15 International and Italian patents and more than 50 Invited talks in International Conferences. GG is and has been coordinators of several research projects funded by Italian Ministry of University and Research, Unit coordinator of European project FP6 IP OLLA, and responsible of several industrial project with italian and international companies. Giuseppe Gigli is co-founder and president of a research Spin-off, Mediteknology s.r.l., aiming at the developing of new diagnostic tools for Medicine.

Dr Jens Andreas Hauch
Konarka Technologies GmbH, Germany
http://www.konarka.com

Dr. Jens A. Hauch is the Director of R&D Operations and the general manager of the German R&D site of Konarka Technologies. He is responsible for the development of innovative processes and materials to improve the performance of Konarka’s innovative Power Plastic®, a new type of solar module based on semiconducting organic polymers. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1993, where he was a member of the Center for Complex Systems Research. In 1998 he received his PhD degree in Physics from the Center for Nonlinear Dynamics at the University of Texas at Austin. Before joining Konarka in 2004, he was active in the development of thin-film magnetic sensors, electrochromic displays, and organic photodetectors at Siemens Corporate Technology from 1999-2004. He is author and co-author of numerous patents, patent applications and scientific papers in organic photovoltaics, thin film magnetics and dynamic fracture.

Prof. Dr Olle Inganäs
Center of Organic Electronics, Linköping University, Sweden
https://cms.ifm.liu.se/applphys/biorgel/

Olle Ingan€as is professor of biomolecular and organic electronics, IFM, Link€opings Universitet, Sweden. He has a MSc in engineering physics from Chalmers University of Technology (1977), a BSc in philosophy and economics from G€oteborg University (1978), and a PhD in applied physics at Link€oping University (1984). He was appointed professor in 1999, and is presently director of a Center of Organic Electronics in Sweden. He has focused on studies of the class of conjugated polymers throughout areas of polymer physics, electrochemistry, electronics and optics. The use of electronic polymers as interfaces to biological systems and polymer photovoltaic systems are present topics of research.

Prof. Jaejung Ko
Korea University, Korea
jko@korea.ac.kr

Jaejung Ko is Professor at the Department of Advanced Materials Chemistry of Korea University at Jochiwon, Chungnam 339-700, KOREA. He has a B.S. and M.S. from Seoul National University (1975 – 1979) and a PhD from Brown University (1983). From 1983 to 1988 he was Postdoctoral Fellow, at Indiana and Houston University. From 2007 he is Member of Korea Science and Technology. From 2003 to 2004 he has been Vice President for the Korean Chemical Society and from 2001 to 2003 Associate-editor for Organometallics. He was the 2008 Hyundai-Kia Chair and the 2007recepient of the Outstanding Research Award in The Korean Chemical Society. His main research interests are in Dye-sensitized Solar Cells and Organic electronics materials.

Prof Shogo Mori
Shinshu University, Japan
seimitsu.shinshu-u.ac.jp/MaterChemEng/English/index_e.html

Shogo Mori is an associate professor of Faculty of Textile Science and Technology at Shinshu University in Japan, where he has been since 2005. His former family name is Nakade. He received a B.S. and a M.S. in Physics from University of Toledo, U.S.A., in 1996 and 1998, respectively. He received the Ph.D. degree in Engineering Science from Osaka University, Japan, in 2004. From 1999 to 2005, he was a research engineer at Nokia Research Center at Tokyo in Japan, working for various materials and energy sources. His current research interests are interactions between photon and materials, and charge transport and transfer, especially at semiconductor/dye/electrolyte interface in dye-sensitized solar cells. He is the author of 40 papers and proceedings that have received over 1000 citations. He has two patents and seven patent pendings, and is co-author of a chapter of book.

Dr Kion Norrman
Risø National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy , Denmark

Dr. Kion Norrman received his Bachelors degree, Masters degree, and his Ph.D. degree in chemistry from University of Copenhagen (Denmark). He spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow at University of Waterloo (Canada), and one year as an analytical chemist at the Danish Technological Institute (Denmark). He is currently a senior scientist at Risø National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy, Technical University of Denmark. He is assigned to the Solar Energy Programme led by Professor Frederik C. Krebs. Dr. Norrman is responsible for the research area dealing with degradation and stability of polymer solar cells. He is developing and optimizing methodologies in an attempt to unravel the complex array of degradation mechanisms that take place during operation of organic solar cells. The aim is to improve the technology through detailed knowledge of how the devices degrade. In collaboration with Professor Krebs he pioneered the use of time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry in conjunction with isotopically label atmospheres that led to important discoveries regarding oxygen and water induced degradation of polymer solar cells.

Dr Brian O'Regan
Imperial College London, United Kingdom

Brian O'Regan has been involved in renewable energy science since 1976 when he constructed and monitored a residential solar water heater. He began his studies on photoelectrochemistry of TiO2 in 1987 at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, under Prof. Marc Anderson, receiving a M.S. degree in 1990. After a year in the laboratory of Prof. M. Grätzel at EPFL, he attended the University of Washington, Seattle, working with Profs. Martin Goutermann and Dan Schwartz, receiving a Ph.D. degree in 1999. He has subsequently worked at the Energy Research Centre Netherlands and is presently a research lecturer at the Imperial College, London. His research interests include all aspects of dye-sensitized solar cells, including photophysics, heterogeneous electron transfer, and material science, polymer photovoltaics, and tools for surface characterization of nanostructured interfaces.

Dr Dana C. Olson
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), United States
dana.olson@nrel.gov

Dr. Dana C. Olson received his Bachelors degree in chemistry from Carleton College (Northfield, Minnesota, USA), his Masters degree in materials science from The Pennsylvania State University (State College, Pennsylvania), and his Ph.D. in materials science from the Colorado School of Mines (Golden, Colorado). He spent two years as an intelligence community (IC) postdoctoral fellow at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, NM. He is a senior scientist at NREL and oversees much of the organic photovoltaic research in the national center for photovoltaics (NCPV). He has over ten years of experience in organic electronics and eight years with organic and hybrid photovoltaics. During his graduate research at NREL, he focused on hybrid organic/inorganic photovoltaics. He successfully demonstrated the first hybrid photovoltaic devices based on polymer/ZnO nanorod composites as well as demonstrating inverted polymer:fulerene bulk heterojunction devices based on ZnO hole blocking layers. During his time at Sandia National Laboratories, he focused his research on enhancing the interfacial interactions between the polymer and the metal oxide in order to enhance polymer infiltration, charge separation, and device performance. He developed inorganic metal oxide interfacial layers as well and organic self assembled monolayers between the polymer and ZnO that enhance the photovoltage, enhance the crystallinity of the polymer at the interface, and decrease carrier recombination. Since returning to NREL, his focus has returned to interfacial modification and the development of electron and hole blocking layers for use in polymer:fullerene bulk heterojunction photovoltaic devices. He has published more than 25 scientific papers and given numerous invited presentations at international conferences on organic photovoltaics.

Prof Emilio Palomares
ICIQ, Spain
http://www.iciq.es/portal/investigacion/322/grupos_de_investigacion.aspx

Emilio Palomares (Born 1974. M. Sc. Biology. Esp. Biochemistry 1997, Ph. D. Chemistry, 2001). ICREA Senior Researcher and ERC fellow at Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), where he leads since April 2006 the Group of Optoelectronic Materials and Molecular Devices. Prof. Palomares has published over 85 papers (H factor 30) in major peer-review journals as, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Advanced Materials, Angewandte Chemie Int. Ed. and Chemistry-A Eur. J., and coordinates several national and European projects on molecular photovoltaic devices. His recent research activity is focused on light driven devices for production and storage of clean energies, in particular molecular photovoltaic devices based on nanostructured metal oxides and organic conductors. Prof. Palomares specialist in photophysical characterization of molecular materials and molecular devices. Emilio has built up a strong international reputation on the application of materials synthesis, photophysical characterization and device manufacturing. Particularly, the use development of the distance-dependence theory and the Kinetic redundancy concept in molecular photovoltaics has been widely used to understand fundamental charge recombination phenomena in molecular photovoltaic devices, such as dye sensitised solar cells. His developed methodology to achieve high device efficiencies (Al2O3 coatings etc…) is currently being applied to dye-sensitized solar cells and solid-state photovoltaic devices. Prof. Palomares is the co-inventor of 4 international patents and the responsible for development of a new colorimetric chemosensor for mercury detection in the ppb range. His results have been highlighted in several international journals such as Science, Nature Materials etc…The major topics of my current activity is the research on the development of new concepts for light induced molecular devices for fuel and electricity production .

Dr. Henry Snaith
University of Oxford, United Kingdom
h.snaith1@physics.ox.ac.uk

Henry Snaith undertook his PhD at the University of Cambridge, working on polymer blend photovolatics, and spent two years at the EPFL, in Switzerland, as a post doc working on dye-sensitized solar cells. He returned to the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge to take up a Junior Research Fellowship for Clare College in 2006 and moved to Oxford Physics in October 2007, where he now leads a group researching in optoelectronic devices, specifically organic and hybrid solar cells. His current research is heavily focussed on developing new material structures for dye-sensitized and hybrid solar cells and understanding and controlling the physical processes occurring at interfaces.

Dr Ching Ting
Industrial Technology Research Institute, Taiwan
cting@itri.org.tw

Dr. Ching Ting got her Ph.D. Degree in Chemistry from The University of Iowa at 1989. After being post-doctoral fellow and visiting assistant professor in The University of Iowa, she joined Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) at 1994. She is currently the deputy director of Organic Opto-Electronic Materials and Applications Division in ITRI and is in charge of Polymer Photovoltaic Program. Dr. Ting’s research interests include nano-structured polymers, O-I hybrid materials, and material design and synthesis for optoelectronic applications.

Prof Arie Zaban
Bar-Ilan University, Israel
zabana@mail.biu.ac.il
http://nano.biu.ac.il/index.aspx?id=3400&itemID=2264

Arie Zaban was born in Israel in 1961. He earned a B.Sc. in Chemistry (summa cum laude) and a Ph.D. in Electrochemistry (with highest distinction) at Bar-Ilan University (1987-1995). After a 2 year postdoctoral stint at the US National Renewable Energy Laboratory (Denver, CO), he was appointed to the senior faculty at Bar-Ilan, where he is currently a Full Professor of Chemistry and Director of the Bar Ilan Institute for Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials. Prof. Zaban has published over 100 papers in refereed journals and has 8 patents. He has been awarded several prizes and fellowships such as the Israel Chemical Society Prize for Outstanding Young Scientist, a Rothschild Fellowship, a Levi Eshkol Scholarship and the Michael Landau Research Prize in Renewable Energy. His research interests are in the fields of photo-electrochemistry and materials science, with a focus on renewable energy resources. Current activities in the Zaban lab include: (i) development of dye sensitized solar cells, plastic solar cells and photocatalytic purification systems, (ii) new approaches to light harvesting and utilization in photovoltaic systems mainly aimed at efficient utilization of the solar spectrum, (iii) basic understanding of the photophysical processes involved in photo-electrochemical systems.