Paul has significant involvement in working with Boards of Directors in the UK, France, Germany, USA and Japan. He was until 2001 a Director of 3i plc leading an investment team with a substantial portfolio of technology assets. He has also led 3i’s activities in Japan as Senior Managing Director.
Paul has comprehensive experience in all aspects of private company funding; providing capital to start ups, MBOs, LBOs and rescues. As an …
Kevin has 23 years of international sales, marketing and operational experience in a variety of leading semiconductor manufacturing companies. Between 1995 and 2002, Kevin was VP of European Sales for Mitel Semiconductor. While serving on the executive team of that company, Kevin carried out a lead role in the acquisition and integration of GEC Plessey Semiconductors in 1998. Kevin’s final role in Mitel was as VP of Global sales. Prior to Mitel Semiconductor, Kevin was …
Keith Barnham is Emeritus Professor of Physics and Senior Research Investigator in the Physics Department at Imperial. He leads the Quantum Photovoltaics Group which for 15 years has pioneered the application of quantum wells and quantum dots to photovoltaics publishing over 100 papers in this area and holding a number of patents. The group was shortlisted for the prestige international award the “Eni Italgas Prize for Energy and Environment” in 2006. They presented 4 oral …
John is Senior Research Scientist at The University of Sheffield, with responsibility for the growth of arsenic and phosphorus based materials. He has been active in the field of MOVPE growth for III-V material since 1981, and has contributed to the development of the technology from a small scale research activity into an important commercial route for solid-state devices. During this period he has been responsible for several important features of the modern MOVPE process, …
In 2002, David completed his PhD at Imperial College London working in the research group that invented and developed the SB-QWSC. His research interests have included strain-balancing, DBRs and light trapping as applied to the QWSC and he has co-authored 25 technical and conference papers on the subject.
David joined QuantaSol in March 2008 after four years working in R&D for semiconductor manufacturer International Rectifier.
Virginie has been working in the III-V semiconductor industry for 10 years, at Agilent and Bookham in the UK, on GaAs and InP based quantum well lasers for optical telecommunications. She started on the epitaxy and then moved on to chip reliability. Before that, she was working in research laboratories in France (Lyon), Canada (McMaster University) and the UK(University of Cambridge), on the epitaxy of GaInAs(P) strained quantum wells and quantum dots for high electron …
In 2008 Victoria completed her PhD at the University of Nottingham, working on the Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) growth of III-V semiconductor materials. This included the growth and characterisation of dilute magnetic materials for spintronic applications and dilute nitride quantum well structures.
Victoria joined QuantaSol in October 2008 after spending 4 months working as a Research Associate at the University of Nottingham, continuing work on dilute magnetic quantum dot structures.
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Dr Massimo Mazzer is a Senior Researcher (“Primo Ricercatore”) of the National Research Council and Visiting Scientist at Imperial College London. He is an internationally recognised expert in photovoltaics and is co-author of more than 105 scientific publications and four patent applications.
Massimo got his “Laurea in Physics” in 1985 (110/110 cum laude) at the University of Padua with a thesis on “Superconducting Quantum Interference Devices”. After a four year research period …
Susan has over 10 years senior administrative and project management experience gained in a variety of industries, most recently hospitality and tourism. She has worked at senior administrative level at a number of major corporate companies including American Airlines, British Mediterranean Airways and Thistle Hotels.
Susan graduated in 2006 with a BA (Hons) in International Studies from the Open University, focusing on sustainable development and global trade issues. She is currently studying …
In 2006, Tom completed a PhD at Imperial College in London working in the research group that invented and developed the SB-QWSC. His research interest has been the design and optimisation of manufacturing processes for III-V solar cells, and during his scientific career has co-authored 12 papers in the field. Prior to that he has worked on III-V cells at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems in Freiburg and briefly at UK solar PV …