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Peter Jolly
Country: Australia
Year Started Research: 1979
Title of Research: Optimization of Solar Drying Systems
University: University of West Indies (Trinidad),
University of Queensland
Still Active in Research: No

Peter Jolly completed his first degree in Mechanical Engineering at Melbourne University in 1975, doing his final
year thesis project, under the guidance of Professor Bill Charters, on the storage of hydrogen for motor vehicles.
After a brief career in the mining industry, he undertook his PhD studies at The University of The West Indies under
the guidance of Professor Satcunanathan, Trinidad campus in solar drying systems. Upon returning to in Australia
in 1982 he took up a position in The University of Queensland’s newly formed Solar Energy Research Centre,
continuing research into drying systems and other areas of solar thermal applications. These were seminal years,
being actively involved in ANSES, conducting many research projects and supervising post graduate students.
One paper investigated the Energy Return on Energy Invested (ERoEI) of both PV and Wind power generators.
This was one of the first papers in this area, and it clearly showed these renewables technologies had a favourable
ERoEI. In 1990 Peter went to Singapore, to take-up a position in commercial refrigeration and air conditioning.
One of key projects undertaken, was to lead a team of engineers to convert the company’s container refrigeration
fleet to operate with ozone friendly refrigerants. This project lead onto other opportunities in the commercial field,
becoming the R&D Manager for Carrier Refrigeration Systems in Singapore and then Chief Engineer for Data
Centre Air Conditions systems for Emerson in Shenzhen China. In 2008 Peter returned to Australia and worked
for a small mining company with interests in Nickel and Cobalt mining, key metals used in Lithium ion batteries
for the emerging electric vehicle industry. Peter is presently employed as an Industrial Fellow at The University of
Queensland, undertaking research in energy efficient greenhouses. Peter has published 25 refereed journal papers,
33 conferences papers and numerous commercial reports.

Lawrence L Kazmerski
Country: United States
Year Started Research: 1971
Title of Research: Thin Film PV-Copper Indium diselenids (CIS)
University: University of Maine
Still Active in Research: Yes

Lawrence L. Kazmerski is Emeritus Research-Staff Member of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden,
Colorado, having last served as Executive Director Science and Technology Partnerships at NREL 2009-2013. He
is currently Fellow at the University of Colorado Boulder, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute (RASEI).
Kazmerski’s 50-year professional career in solar energy includes serving as the founding Director of the National
Center for Photovoltaics (NCPV) for the period 1999-2008. He received his BSEE (1967), MSEE (1968) and
Ph.D. (1970) in electrical engineering, University of Notre Dame. He served as Postdoc with the Atomic-Energy-
Commission, Notre-Dame Radiation Research Laboratory (1971). He was on the electrical-engineering faculty at
the University of Maine before coming to the Solar Energy Research Institute (SERI-which became NREL, 1991) in
1977. His research at Maine included NSF/ERDA-funded work in thin-film photovoltaics and the report of the first
thin-film copper-indium-diselenide (CIS) solar cell. He was SERI’s/NREL’s first staff member in photovoltaics, hired
specifically to establish research in PV materials/device characterization; efforts he led for more than 20-years.
Kazmerski has >340 publications and >200 invited talks. He holds 4-patents for instrument development, resulting
in 4-R&D-100 Awards.He has been recognized with several international awards, including the World-PV Prize,
IEEE-William R. Cherry Award, AVS-Peter Mark Memorial Award, ASES-Charles Greeley Abbot Award, and ISES
Christopher A. Weeks Award. He received the ISES-Farrington Daniels Award (2019) for his contributions to
advancing solar-energy research. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, APS, AVS, and ASES. Kazmerski is Visiting-Professor
(Energy) at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais (Brasil) and the Gandhi Distinguished Visiting-
Professor of Electrical Engineering,Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay (IIT-B), working with their PV efforts.
Kazmerski is Distinguished Faculty of the Strömstad Akademi, Sweden. In 2017, Kazmerski was appointed as
Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Electron Devices Society (EDS). Kazmerski is a member of the U.S. National
Academy of Engineering. He was elected as foreign member of the Indian Academy of Engineering (2018).

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