Andrew Blakers
Prof Andrew Blakers
Centre for Sustainable Energy Systems, Australian National University
Professor Andrew Blakers is the Foundation Director of the Centre for Sustainable Energy Systems at the Australian National University. He was a Humboldt Fellow and has held Australian Research Council QEII and Senior Research Fellowships. He was appointed to the academic staff of the University in 1991 and reached the rank of Professor in 1999. The Centre for Sustainable Energy Systems is a group of 70 staff & research students working on basic and applied solar photovoltaic and thermal energy conversion (http://sun.anu.edu.au).
He is a Fellow of the Academy of Technological Sciences & Engineering, the Institute of Energy and the Institute of Physics, and is a life member of the International Solar Energy Society and the Australian Conservation Foundation. He has published approximately 200 papers and patents. His research interests are in the areas of photovoltaic and solar energy systems; particularly advanced silicon solar cell technology; solar concentrator solar cells, components and systems; and sustainable energy policy. He fabricated record efficiency 18%, 19%, 20% and 22% silicon solar cells, and invented the PERC and Sliver solar cell structures.
He is a member of several research panels including for the Australian Renewable Energy Agency, the Energy Innovation Research Programme of Singapore and the International Advisory Panel of the Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore.
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