Principal Investigator
World Leading Researcher
The principal investigators are the cornerstone of our scientific innovation and research across Solar TAP.
They drive the pioneering research that underpins Solar TAP’s advancements and collaborate closely with both the steering committee and the management team to set the scientific agenda and ensure research excellence.
In addition to their leadership role in research, Principal Investigators also play a key role in collaborating with industry and implementing and executing technology transfer projects. This ensures that our innovations not only advance scientific understanding, but also have a direct impact on industrial applications and market solutions.
Prof. Dr.
Christiane Becker
Head of Department
Optics for Solar Energy
Prof. Dr. Alexander Colsmann
Head of Organic Photovoltaics Group at KIT
Dr. Faßl
Group Leader of the group “Thermal Evaporation Processes for Perovskite Semiconductors”
T.T. Prof. Dr. Pascal Friedrich
Head of the AI for Material Science lab at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Prof. Dr. Jens Harting
Head of the Department Dynamics of Complex Fluids and Interfaces and Professor at FAU
Dr. Jens Hauch
Head of Reserach Unit “High Throughput Methods in Photovoltaics” & Solar TAP Manager
Prof. Dr. Thomas Kirchartz
Head of organic
and hybrid solar cells
Prof. Dr. Emil List-Kratochvil
Full Professor for Hybrid Devices and group Leader of the Group “Generative Production Process for Hybrid Components”
Dr. Matthias Meier-Grüll
Lead Agri-PV
Professor Dr. Ulrich W. Paetzold
Professor for Next Generation Photovoltaics at KIT
Dr. Ian Marius Peters
Group Leader of the Group “High Throuhput Characterization and Modelling for PV
Prof. Dr. Uwe Rau
Director of the Institute of Energy Materials and Devices, Full Professor at RWTH Aachen, Debuty Director of JARA Energy Scientific,
Director of HITEC
Dr. Björn Rau
Deputy director / Manager technology of Competence center Photovoltaics Berlin at HZB
Prof. Dr. Bryce Richards
W3 Professor of Nanophotonics for Energy
Prof. Dr. Carsten Rockstuhl
Head of the Research Unit Theoretical Nanooptics
Dr. Holger Röhm
Group Leader Perovskite Photovoltaics and Automated Materials Discovery
Prof. Schlatmann
Director of the HZB-Institute PVcomB and Full Professor at HTW Berlin
Prof. Dr. Ulrich Schurr
Director Institute for Plant Sciences at Institute for Bio- cand Geosciences
Dr. Christian Sprau
Group Leader Semitransparent
Organic Photovoltaics
Dipl. Ing. Michael Wagner
Group Leader of the Group
“High Throughput Processing”