People

Principal Investigator
Tonio Buonassisi
Tonio Buonassisi received his bachelor’s degree from the University of [...]
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Research Scientists
Ian Marius Peters
Ian Marius Peters is a research scientist in the PV [...]
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Postdoctoral Researchers
Ashley Morishige
Ashley (CV) is a postdoctoral researcher in the PVLab. Her [...]
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Seong Sik Shin
Dr. Seong Sik Shin joined the group in July 2016. [...]
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Juan-Pablo Correa-Baena
Dr. Juan-Pablo Correa-Baena is a postdoctoral researcher in the group [...]
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Sarah Wieghold
Dr. Sarah Wieghold is a postdoctoral researcher and joined the [...]
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Graduate Student Researchers
Amanda Youssef
Amanda is a Ph.D. candidate in mechanical engineering. Her current [...]
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Alex Polizzotti
Alex Polizzotti graduated in 2011 from Pomona College, where he [...]
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Jeremy Poindexter
Jeremy is Ph.D. student in Materials Science and Engineering who [...]
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Mallory Jensen
Mallory Jensen is a graduate student in Mechanical Engineering. She [...]
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Sarah Sofia
Sarah Sofia is a graduate student in mechanical engineering who joined [...]
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Rachel Kurchin
Rachel is a Ph.D. student in Materials Science and Engineering [...]
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Sterling Watson
Sterling is a first year graduate student in Mechanical Engineering. [...]
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Erin Looney
Erin Looney is a graduate student in Mechanical Engineering who [...]
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Felipe Oviedo
Felipe (extended bio and CV) joined PV Lab as a [...]
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Luke Meyer
Luke Meyer graduated in 2016 from the University of Illinois [...]
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Titan Hartono
Titan is a graduate student in Mechanical Engineering who joined [...]
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Sai Nithin R. Kantareddy
Nithin is a PhD student in Mechanical Engineering who joined [...]
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Visiting Researchers
Staff
Mariela Lizet Castillo
Mariela is a Research Specialist/Lab Manager at the PVLab. Prior [...]
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Alumni & Former Visitors
Austin Akey
Dr. Austin Akey joined the PV Lab in January 2013 [...]
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Jasmin Hofstetter
Dr. Jasmin Hofstetter studied the kinetics of metallic impurities and [...]
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Rafael Jaramillo
Rafael Jaramillo is a physicist-by-training who feels an imperative to [...]
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Maulid M. Kivambe
Dr. Kivambe joined the PVLab in November 2012 and is [...]
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Yun Seog Lee
Yun Seog Lee is currently a postdoctoral researcher at IBM [...]
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Christie Simmons
Dr. Christie Simmons is now a senior staff research & [...]
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Vera Steinmann
Vera Steinmann is interested in earth-abundant materials (with a focus [...]
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Riley Brandt
Riley completed his Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering with the PVLab in 2016. [...]
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Sergio Castellanos
Sergio graduated with his Ph.D. in MIT Mechanical Engineering in [...]
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Rupak Chakraborty
Rupak (CV) completed his Ph.D. in the PVLab in 2016 [...]
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David Fenning
David (extended bio and cv) received his Ph.D. in Mechanical [...]
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Katy Hartman
Katy defended her Ph.D. thesis in Fall 2014, and stayed [...]
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Eric Johlin
Eric Johlin was a grad student in Mechanical Engineering, co-advised [...]
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Jonathan Mailoa
Jonathan P. Mailoa completed his Ph.D. with the PVLab in 2016, [...]
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David Berney Needleman
David (CV) is a Ph.D. candidate in mechanical engineering at [...]
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Doug Powell
Doug graduated with his Ph.D. in May 2014, and studied defects [...]
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Stephanie Scott
From 2012 to 2014, Stephanie was an SM student in Mechanical [...]
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Sin-Cheng Siah
Sin Cheng received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering at MIT [...]
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Joe Sullivan
Joseph Sullivan received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering with the PVLab [...]
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Jungwoo Lee
Jungwoo was the PVLab’s solar cell fabrication engineer from 2012 to [...]
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Michael Lloyd
From summer 2012 to summer 2014, Michael was a laboratory assistant [...]
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Hele Savin
Hele Savin, Assistant Professor of Micro- and Nanoelectronics at Aalto [...]
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Michail Albert Schwab
During his time in the PVLab (2013), Michail was a [...]
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Mary Breton
Mary is a second year undergraduate in the Materials Science [...]
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Jordan Burgess
Jordan is a third year Engineering undergraduate student from the [...]
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Hyunjoo Choi
Dr. Hyunjoo Choi (CV) joined the group at the beginning [...]
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Steve Hudelson
Steve earned his Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineer as a [...]
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Jeanette Lindroos
Jeanette Lindroos is a visiting graduate student from Aalto University in [...]
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Menghsuan Pan
Menghsuan Pan is a sophomore in Course 3. He is [...]
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Torunn Ervik
Torunn Ervik was a visiting graduate student from Norwegian University [...]
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Thomas Villalón
Thomas is a junior in Course 3 from San Antonio, [...]
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Michelle Vogl
Michelle Vogl joined PV Lab in the summer of 2009, [...]
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Mark T. Winkler
Dr. Mark Winkler investigates next-generation solar cell concepts, as well [...]
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Niall Mangan
Niall joined the lab in September 2013 until September 2015. [...]
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Hannes Wagner
Dr. Hannes Wagner (Publication List) joined the lab between April [...]
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Michael Ising
Michael Ising was a research intern during summer 2014. His work [...]
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Matthew Mahaffey
Matthew joined the lab in May 2014 as a Summer [...]
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Patricia Yen
Patricia Yen was a graduate student in Mechanical Engineering who [...]
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Carlos del Cañizo
Prof. Carlos del Cañizo is a full professor (profesor titular) [...]
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Robert Hoye
Dr. Robert Hoye joined the lab in March 2015. He [...]
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Hannu Laine
Hannu Laine completed his Master’s Degree at Aalto University, Finland in [...]
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Loïc Martinot
Loïc Martinot is an engineering student at École Polytechnique, France. [...]
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