Prof Armin ABERLE serves as CEO of the Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore (SERIS) at the National University of Singapore (NUS). His research focus is on photovoltaic materials, devices and modules. He has (co)authored more than 450 papers and has been supervising more than 70 PhD students. He is an Editorial Board member of several scientific journals. In the 1990s he established and led the Silicon Photovoltaics Department at the Institute for Solar Energy Research (ISFH) in Hamelin, Germany. He then worked for 10 years in Sydney, Australia as a solar energy professor at the University of New South Wales (UNSW). In 2008 he joined NUS to establish SERIS, as the Deputy CEO and Director of the Silicon PV Department. Since 2012 he serves as SERIS CEO. He is presently Director of the institute’s Silicon Materials & Cells Cluster and Acting Director of the Novel PV Concepts Cluster.

Topic：Progress with crystalline silicon solar cells at SERIS