Invited Speakers

Biodiversity risks and opportunities from ground-mounted solar farms
Alona Armstrong, Lancaster University

Photovoltaics for emerging satellite applications
Anish Chaluvadi, University of Cambridge

Challenges and progress in measurements and characterisation of emerging PV technologies and their applications
George Koutsourakis, NPL

Principles and applications of high resolution cathodoluminescence for solar cells
Stuart Robertson, Loughborough University

Engineering perovskite modules for local manufacturing at scale
Trystan Watson, Swansea University

Anish Chaluvadi is a final year PhD candidate in Materials Science at the University of Cambridge, as part of the Space Photovoltaics Group led by Prof. Louise Hirst. His research focuses on lightweight, radiation-tolerant architectures and process routes compatible with scalable manufacturing, particularly for InP-based photovoltaics. Anish is a Gates-Cambridge Scholar, with previous industrial experience at 3M and GE Vernova and holding a BSc in Materials Science and Engineering from Clemson University.

Dr Stuart Robertson holds an MEng and PhD in materials from Loughborough University. His doctoral work concerned the development of focused ion beam prepared micro bend test techniques in ceramics. He subsequently managed the pFIB at Loughborough University, where he addressed challenges, such as limiting ion- induced phase changes in austenitic stainless steels, curtailing artifacts from ion milling, and conducting various MEMS hots stage and serial sectioning experiments. Following recent funding and a new cathodoluminescence detector, his focus has shifted to characterising photovoltaic and semiconductor materials, including CdTe and SiC.