A. Lenert

Dr. Lenert received his PhD from MIT in 2014 and was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Michigan prior to his appointment there. He is the recipient of several recognitions including the 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award and Forbes 30 under 30 in Science.

Air-bridge cells for record-high thermophotovoltaic conversion efficiency

W. Liu

Dr. Weishu Liu, Associate professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech). He got his PhD. Degree of Materials Science from University of Science and Technology Beijing at 2009. He was a post-doctoral researcher in University of Washington and Boston College, an Associate researcher II of University of Houston, a Principle Materials Scientist of Sheetak Inc. in 2009-2016. Dr Liu joined in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering of SUSTech in 2019. Dr. Liu’s research interesting is thermoelectric materials and devices. He have made distinguished academic contribution to the thermoelectric filed, including the innovation of new materials, key engineering challenges at devices, and industry implement. He has published over 90 papers with citations of 6000 and H-index of 38 in the journals, including Science, PNAS, Nature Energy, Energy Environ. Sci., AEM, AFM, Nano Energy, Acta Mater etc.. He also has applied 30 patents and 5 book chapters, and gave invited talks at the international conference including TMS, CICC, C-MRS, etc. He has been awarded the Tencent “XPLORER Prize”, and selected as the Board Member of the Thermoelectric Materials Branch of C-MRS and Shenzhen Mico-NanoTechnology Association, Advisory Panel Members of IoP Journal, Nanotechnology.

Defect engineering boosts the thermoelectric figure-of-merit of Mg2Sn

B. Lorenzi

Bruno Lorenzi received his PhD in Materials Science at University of Milano Bicocca with a thesis on the thermoelectric properties silicon. He was then a research associate at the same institution until September 2017 when he obtained a Marie Curie fellowship for a project focused on the thermoelectric hybridization of solar cells at the MIT. His principal interests are the combination of thermoelectric and photovoltaic effects for heat recovery applications.

Practical development of efficient thermoelectric – photovoltaic hybrid systems based on wide-gap solar cells

A. Martí

Antonio Martí graduated in Physics in 1987 and doctorate in 1992. He received one of the Awards of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) to the Best Doctoral Thesis and to the best researcher younger than 35 years. Since 2007 he is Chair Professor in the area of Electronic Technology at UPM. His scientific carrier has been devoted to research in photovoltaic solar energy and, more specifically to the study of its fundamentals as well as the experimental development of novel types of solar cells. In his works, together with his co-authors, he has researched topics such as the role of photon recycling in photovoltaic energy conversion process, the thermodynamic limits of these processes and has proposed new types of solar cells such as the intermediate band solar cell (IBSC, 1997) and the three-terminal heterojunction bipolar transistor solar cell (3T-HBTSC).

Thermophotovoltaic, thermionic and hot carrier solar converters: what do they have in common?

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S. Nakamae

A staff Physicist at SPEC, Dr. Nakamae received her PhD in Physics from Florida State University in 1999. She has worked in a wide spectrum of subjects in condensed matter physics; e.g., high-Tc superconductors, GMR (giant magneto-resistive materials), biomolecules, magnetic nanoparticles, etc. In recent years, her research has focused on the supermagnetism of interacting nanoparticles and the thermoelectric effects in liquid electrolytes. Currently, she is the acting scientific coordinator of H2020 FET-Proactive project MAGENTA (Grant n° No 731976, https://www.magenta-h2020.eu), and has recently been elected as the coordinator of the Joint Programme AMPEA (Advanced Materials and Processes for Energy Applications) within the framework of the European Energy Research Alliance (EERA, https://www.eera-set.eu/).

Recent advancements in liquid thermoelectric research

A. Nojeh

Alireza Nojeh received his PhD from Stanford University in 2006 and has been with the University of British Columbia since, where he is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Quantum Matter Institute. His research is on the interactions of electrons and photons with nanostructures, emission phenomena, vacuum nanoelectronics, and energy conversion. In 2016, he chaired the 29^th International Vacuum Nanoelectronics Conference.

Nanomaterials and thermionic devices for thermal and solar energy conversion

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G. Romano

Giuseppe Romano is a Research Scientist at MIT and Principal Investigator on a NASA-JPL project on the development of next-generation radioisotope thermoelectric generators. He is broadly interested in computing and simulations of materials for energy applications. Recently, he released the open-source package OpenBTE, a tool for simulating thermal transport across different length scales.

Multiscale heat transport from first-principles

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R. Vaillon

Rodolphe Vaillon (PhD in Mech. Eng.) is a CNRS Professor at the Institute of Electronics and Systems in France. His current main research interests are nanoscale thermal radiation, thermophotovoltaic energy conversion, and the thermal behaviour of solar cells. Recently, he has been the Principal Investigator of a project demonstrating efficient near-field thermophotovoltaic energy conversion.

Recent advances in near-field thermophotovoltaics

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A. Varlamov

Andrey Varlamov was born in 1954 in Kiev (Ukraine). Graduated (1977) from Landau Institute Chair of Moscow Physical-Technical Institute, Ph.D. in Condensed Matter Theory (1980). Principal Investigator of the CNR-SPIN (since November 1999 -current); Research Associate; Full Professor, Research Leader of the Laboratory of Superconductivity of the Moscow Technological University (1981 –1999); Fellow of ANL (USA) (Dec 1992 - Dec 1993). His research is mainly devoted to the theory of superconductivity, thermoelectric and thermomagnetic phenomena in condensed matter. Author of more than 200 scientific articles, of the monograph "Theory of fluctuations in superconductors" and other scientific and popular science publications.

Thermoelectricity: from the iron arc of the epoch of Alessandro Volta to ferrofluids today

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