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Biswajit Ghosh
Country: India
Year Started Research: 1978
Title of Research: CdTe Thin film Solar Cells
University: Jadavpur University, India
Still Active in Research: Yes

Prof Biswajit Ghosh started his research career as PhD Student in the field of CdTe Thin film solar cells at Jadavpur
University, India in the year 1978. He has more than 42 years of experience in Teaching and Research in the field
of Solar Photovoltaic. He was Professor and Director at School of Energy Studies, Jadavpur University, Visiting
Professor at Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, Adjunct Professor, Manipal University and Leverhulme
Visiting Professor at Newcastle University, UK. Presently he is serving as Vice-Chancellor of The Neotia University,
Kolkata, India. He has worked as Visiting Research Scientist at University of Stuttgart, Germany; as Fellow,
European Commission at Northumbria University, UK; as Academic Visitor at Imperial College, London; as Royal
Society Overseas Scientist at University of Surrey, UK and as Visiting Professor at Newcastle University, UK. He has
received D. Sc. (Engg.) from Jadavpur University in 2008 and D.Sc. (Honoris Causa) for outstanding contribution
in Science, Engineering and Education by the National Institute of Technology, Agartala, in the year 2017. He was
nominated for prestigious European award by World Renewable Energy Council for ‘Edmond Becquerel Prize’ and
received Best Scientific Poster Award by the EU at 24th EU PVSEC, at Hamburg, Germany. Prof Biswajit Ghosh has
10 Indian Patent related to material coating and has supervised 35 PhD Thesis and published more than hundred
research papers in International Journals & Conference Proceedings. He was advisor to the United Nation Industrial
Organization (UNIDO) for Energy & Climate Change in general and Clean & Safe Energy Technology in particular.
He has worked in countries of West Africa and Central Asia in implementing ‘Clean & Safe Energy. He has designed,
developed and implemented MWP Grid Integrated PV Plant at Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka & Uttarakhand
States of India.

Adolf Goetzberger ISES President 1991-1993
Country: Germany
Year Started Research: ca. 1970
Title of Research: Improving c-Si Solar cells and developing Solar
Systems
University: Fraunhofer ISE and University of Freiburg
Still Active in Research: No

Prof Goetzberger received his Dr. rer. nat. degree in Physics from the University of Munich in 1955. He spent
10 years in the USA – five years with the Shockley Transistor Laboratory, Palo Alto, CA. and five years with Bell
Telephone Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, where he published fundamental work about the Si-SiO2- interface.
In 1968, he returned to Germany to accept the position as Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied
Solid State Physics. He modernized and greatly expanded this institute. In 1981, he founded the Fraunhofer
Institute for Solar Energy Systems in Freiburg which grew into one of the major solar energy laboratories in
Europe. The institute is engaged in a broad spectrum of work in most aspects of solar energy conversion. Solar
cell technology, solar materials research, thermal conversion, systems engineering, and energy storage are the
main activities. In 1993, he retired as a director of the institute, but he carries on many publishing and advisory
activities in the field of solar energy. He was President of the International Solar Energy Society from 1991-
1993. He served on the Board of this society from 1987 to 1999. From 1993 to 1997 he was President of the
German Solar Energy Society DGS. He has received many awards all in 1997 including The Daniel Farrington
Award of the International Solar Energy Society; the Karl W. Boer Solar Energy Medal of Merit Award; The
Alexandre Edmond Becquerel Prize of the European Commission and the William R. Cherry Award of the IEEE.

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