Visitors and On-site Affiliates
We engender CSIRO's collaborative spirit and enjoy hosting visitors, work-experience students, and affiliates.
Dr Hyungsu Jang
- Hyungsu Jang received his PhD degree in energy engineering from Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Korea. His dissertation topic was compositional modulation of lead-free tin-based perovskite solar cells. He was a postdoctoral researcher at UNIST working on fabrication of perovskite solar modules (~25 sq.cm) with high geometric fill factor using a laser micro-machining system. His research at CSIRO is focusing on the roll-to-roll processing of perovskite solar cells, especially two-dimensional perovskites and the sequential-step method of perovskite film deposition. Previously, Hyungsu visited CSIRO as an exchange master's and doctoral student in 2018-2019.
Yogesh
- Yogesh received an MSc from the Department of Physics at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT-Guwahati). His research focused on perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells. He is currently an IIT-Roorkee/CSIRO PhD exchange student under the supervision of Prof. Soumitra Satapathi (IITR) and Dr Dechan Angmo (CSIRO), working on developing printable inks for roll-to-roll fabrication of high-stability perovskite solar cells for indoor and outdoor applications.
Dr Ke Yang
- Ke Yang received his PhD from Chongqing University, supervised by Prof. Kuan Sun. His research focused on interfacial engineering of organic photovoltaics. Currently he is a research fellow of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is supported by the Chinese Scholarship Council as a visiting scholar to conduct research at CSIRO, working on roll-to-roll printed organic photovoltaics with Dr Doojin Vak and Dr Mei Gao.
Minwoo Lee
- Minwoo is a PhD student in Prof. Dong-Yu Kim’s laboratory in the School of Materials Science and Technology at Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), Korea. His research is focused on upscaling perovskite solar cells fabricated using various printing method, as well as green solvent engineering. Minwoo is visiting CSIRO as an exchange student where he is working on vacuum free roll-to-roll fabrication of perovskite solar cells.
Dr Na Gyeong An
- Na Gyeong An is a Korea Research Foundation (KRF) postdoctoral fellow and a visiting scientist at CSIRO and Monash University. In 2021, she received her PhD degree in energy engineering from Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Korea. Her research interests are organic optoelectronic materials and device manufacture engineering. She currently focuses on machine learning (ML)-assisted research to accelerate organic/inorganic photovoltaic material discovery with a high-throughput robot-based platform and roll-to-roll fabrication system. Na Gyeong was previously at CSIRO as a visiting master's and doctoral exchange student from UNIST in 2019-2020.
Luke Sutherland
- Luke is a PhD candidate affiliated with the Materials Science and Engineering Department at Monash University and CSIRO. He holds a bachelor's degree (Honours) in mechanical engineering from RMIT where he completed a comprehensive internship for Siemens in Mulheim, Germany. Luke's area of expertise centres around perovskite solar cells, with a particular focus on scaling-up their fabrication and encapsulation, as well as replacing the expensive gold electrode with carbon alternatives. In addition, he has served as the Engineering Graduate Research Representative for Monash University and is a recipient of multiple awards for presentations at conferences and other forums.
Dr Leonard Ng Wei Tat
- Dr Leonard Ng Wei Tat received his PhD from the University of Cambridge (2019), where he worked on 2D material inks for printed electronics. He is also a Royal Academy of Engineering Enterprise Fellow in the UK, where he was awarded a fellowship to support the commercialisation of an invention from his PhD. Leonard’s research interests include machine-learning facilitated printable electronics, nanomaterials, and roll-to-roll fabrication of photovoltaics. At CSIRO, he works on the application of Machine Learning towards the field of printable photovoltaics as well as the development of carbon-based electrodes. He will join Nanyang Technological University’s School of Materials Science and Engineering as an Assistant Professor in January 2023.
Dr Jueng-Eun Kim
- Jueng-Eun Kim received an MSc and PhD supervised by Prof. Dong-Yu Kim at School of Materials Science and Technology, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), Korea. Her research focused on organic-inorganic hybrid solar cells, device processing with slot-die coating and upscaling solar cell devices. Currently, she is a postdoctoral researcher at Monash University supervised by Prof. Jacek Jasieniak and co-working on the manufacturing of roll-to-roll printed perovskite solar cells with Dr Doojin Vak at CSIRO.
Dr Hongyan Huang
- Dr Huang received her PhD from Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications. She was a postdoctoral fellow in Nanjing Tech University from 2017 to 2019 and is currently a visitor at CSIRO. Her research interests are the active layer for organic solar cells and the organic hole transport materials for perovskite solar cells.
Hengyue Li
- Hengyue Li is studying at Central South University in China. Her research focuses on printed thin-film solar cells. Currently she is working on perovskite solar cells via slot-die coating with Dr Mei Gao.
Adrien Smith
- Adrien Smith is a first-year master's student from Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay, one of the most prestigious and selective grandes écoles, in France. During 4 months at CSIRO he worked with Dr Mei Gao on the fabrication of perovskite solar cells using slot-die roll-to-roll printing. He will continue his studies in the second year of Master (Molecular Chemistry and Interfaces) at ENS Paris-Saclay and Ecole Polytechnique.
Dr Tae Hyo
- Taehyo Kim received a PhD from UNIST in Korea. His PhD research was on metal nanowire electrode alignment with metal nanoparticle for organic solar cells and light-emitting diode. At CSIRO he is working on semi-transparent organic solar cell modules as a postdoctoral researcher.
Dr Chuantian (Tony) Zuo
- Dr Zuo received his BSc from Xinjiang University and a PhD from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. His PhD research focused on hole transport materials and preparation methods for perovskite solar cells, and he was a visiting student at CSIRO in 2017. He returned to CSIRO as a postdoctoral fellow supported by the Australian Centre of Advanced Photovoltaics (ACAP). His research at CSIRO is on semi-transparent perovskite solar cells for perovskite/Si tandem solar cells.
Caroline Romero Cortell
- Caroline is enrolled in a Master of Science in Engineering course at Centrale Marseille, a top French engineering school. She worked on the development of stable perovskite solar cells during 6 months at CSIRO with Dr Mei Gao. This internship was a compulsory part of her graduate studies. She was enrolled in a double degree with Sciences Po, an institute of political studies.
Alexandre Hervé
- Alexandre was studying general engineering at Centrale Marseille, a top French engineering school. As a postgraduate student, he worked on manufacturing printing techniques and characterisation of organic solar cells during 6 months at CSIRO with Dr Doojin Vak and Dr Hasitha Weerasinghe. He was enrolled in a Master Engineers for Smart Cities in partnership with IMREDD Nice (Mediterranean Institute for Risk, Environment and Sustainable Development).
Ryan Ellis
- Ryan Ellis received a bachelors of science degree in chemical engineering and chemistry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Ryan is currently a PhD candidate in Prof. Rakesh Agrawal's Solar Energy Research Group in the Davidson School of Chemical Engineering at Purdue University (USA). Ryan's research focuses on the solution processing of Cu(In,Ga)(S,Se)2 photovoltaics using colloidal nanocrystal inks, especially the synthesis and ligand chemistry of colloidal nanocrystals. At CSIRO, he is working on the optimization and characterisation of slot-die printed photovoltaic materials for fully solution-processed Cu(In,Ga)(S,Se)2 photovoltaic devices.
Xiaojin Peng
- Xiaojin Peng is a visiting PhD student at CSIRO, with a strong research interest in materials science. He is working on multiple applications of inkjet printing technology in functional materials fabrication, especially in electronics, solar cells, and glass/ceramic decorative materials. His bachelor's and master's studies were performed under the supervision of Professor Jinshu Cheng at Wuhan University of Technology from 2009, focusing on preparation and application of blue glass by inkjet printing. In this field, he has contributed to some publications. He is currently working with Dr Dechan Angmo on perovskite solar cells with inkjet printing to facilitate its potential industrial scale-up possibility.
Dr Yoon-Chae Nah
- Yoon-Chae Nah is a Visiting Scientist in the Flexible Electronic Laboratory at CSIRO where he is working on roll-to-roll fabrication of organic solar cells. He is also an Associate Professor at Korea University of Technology and Education. His research interests include advanced materials and devices for solar energy utilisation.
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