Wim C. Sinke

Prof. dr. Wim Sinke is Program Development Manager in the Solar Energy unit of the Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN) and part-time professor at Utrecht University on “Science and Applications of Sustainable Energy Systems.” He is an active member of the European Photovoltaic Technology Platform; from 2005 to 2009 as leader of the Working Group on Science, Technology & Applications, and from 2009 on as general chairman. Wim Sinke has 30 years’ experience in photovoltaics. In 1999, he received the Royal Dutch/Shell Prize for Sustainability and Energy for his work in the field of photovoltaic solar energy. He has also authored and co-authored over 200 papers in the fields of solar cells, applications of photovoltaics, and semiconductor processing, published in: Proceedings of EC, IEEE and Asia-Pacific PV Conferences, Journal of Applied Physics, Applied Physics Letters, Physical Review B, Physical Review Letters, Solar Cells and Solar Energy Materials, Progress in Photovoltaics, etc.