Greatcell Solar Team
Professor Dr Andreas Luzzi
Prof Luzzi has worked as an industrial engineer and applied research scientist in Europe, the USA and Australia. He is currently the director of the Swiss Institute for Solar Thermal Technologies, full professor at the University of Applied Sciences in Rapperswil, an Operating Agent of the IEA-Hydrogen Implementing Agreement (HIA), and a Board member of Greatcell and one other renewable energy technology development company.
Andreas has extensive knowledge and first-hand experience in developing, designing, commissioning and analysing renewable and conventional energy systems, including hydrogen production and storage systems. He is well known and connected with local and overseas industries, multi-nationals and research institutes and has the privilege of being fluent in four languages. Prof Luzzi has degrees in mechanical and process engineering from the ETH in Zürich, a PhD from the ANU and an MBT from the UNSW. Andreas is a skilled business negotiator, project manager and convenor of large consortia.
 Dr Gavin Tulloch
Since completion of his PhD in semiconducting oxides at UNSW, Gavin has been acknowledged as both an expert in international commercialisation of advanced technology, and a leading technical expert in advanced materials for capacitors and batteries, sonar devices, marine systems, nanotechnology and next generation solar technology.
At Plessey Australia, he founded and led a profitable technology business with up to 200 staff. Gavin has founded several companies, and taken two, Silicon Technologies Australia and Dyesol, to IPO’s. He has wide business experience, especially in Europe, North America and South East Asia, and is often an invited speaker at international conferences.
Gavin is recognised as the father of Dye Solar Cell (DSC) industrial development.
 Dr Keith Brooks
Managing Director
Dr Brooks earned a B.S. degree (1987) in ceramic engineering and a PhD(1990) in Ceramic Science at the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University. Keith spent several years working in the field of thin films for MEMS, first at the Materials Research Laboratory at Penn State University and subsequently at the Ceramics Laboratory of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne.
Since 1996, Keith has been working in the field of photovoltaics. From 1996 to 2000, Keith managed a research group on Dye Solar Cells and mesoporous semiconductors in the Laboratory of Prof Michael Grätzel at EPFL. Keith has authored or co-authored 90 scientific articles that have been cited over 1000 times. From 2000 to present, he has worked in three different start-up PV companies as an R&D Manager/Director. Dr Brooks has extensive experience in thin film PV technologies, and holds 3 patents in the field of Dye Solar Cells. Languages: English and French.
 Professor Dr Michael Grätzel
Chairman, Technology Advisory Board
World-renowned scientist and scholar, Dr Grätzel currently teaches at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland where he directs the Institute of Photonics and Interfaces. Dr. Grätzel has received numerous awards and honorary lectureships for his work, including the Millennium 2000 European prize of innovation, the 2001 Faraday medal of the British Royal Society, and the Dutch Havinga award. In the early 90’s, his research led him to the discovery of a new type of solar cell based on dye sensitized nano-structured ceramic layers. Dr. Grätzel has co-authored over 500 publications, two books and more than 20 patents. He ranks amongst the top 100 most highly cited scientists in the world.
Dr Pierre Infelta
Scientific Consultant
His research areas include photochemistry, micro-heterogeneous media, chemical kinetics, electron transfer, and the conversion of solar energy with emphasis on the modelisation of unusual chemical systems. He has been collaborating with professor M. Grätzel for the past thirty years. He received his bachelor degree at the Sorbonne in
Paris, and a Chemical Engineering degree at the Ecole Superieure de Physique et Chimie Industrielles de Paris. After one year of research work in
France in photochemistry (flash photolysis), he went to the Mellon Institute of Research in
Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania as a Research Associate for 2 years and subsequently received his PhD in the area of physical chemistry (radiation chemistry). He has worked Postdoc at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana and worked as a research scientist at the Interuniversitair Reactor Institute in
Delft, The Netherlands. He is also the author of several respected articles and books promoting chemical education in both English and French.
 Augustin ("Gus") McEvoy D.Phil., M.S., B.Sc., MInstP.Consultant - Materials and Patents
In addition to a research career investigating electrochemical materials for energy applications, including over 20 years with the group of Prof M. Grätzel at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Gus was also responsible within that group for industrial liaison including technology evaluation and intellectual property protection, particularly for dye-sensitised photovoltaics. With his interest in solid state and surface physics, including photonics and charge transfer processes, he has worked on battery redox polymers, photovoltaic and photoelectrochemical materials, and electroceramics for fuel cell applications. In that context he was the launching Operating Agent for the International Energy Agency action on solid oxide fuel cells on a mandate from the Swiss Federal Office of Energy. He is consulting for Dyesol in the areas of materials science and intellectual property.
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