CV-Resume of Klaus Petritsch, PhD
E-mail: Klaus@SolarPassion.com
Date of birth: 2.2.1969
Address : Erskineville, Sydney, Australia
KEY PERSONAL SKILLS
- Innovation: Put into realisation many new ideas such as
the use of liquid crystals and a method to manufacture efficient low cost
solar cells using a simple lamination process and much more.
- Problem-solving: Research into multidisciplinary scientific/patent
literature to identify and solve key-problems, design of experiments, optimisation
of processing and evaluation procedures.
- Teamwork: Has supervised and taught Ph.D. students; collaborated
and published with scientists/technicians who often were experts in other
fields and based in different working groups, companies and countries; hosted
a monthly meeting of the solar energy-group (about 15 scientists) at the Cavendish
Laboratory, Cambridge UK.
- IT/Internet: Design and promotion of two web sites comprising
over 70 pages one of which is used commercially with great success. Experience
with (hand) coding in HTML, DHTML, Javascript, Pascal, Assembler and Visual
Basic as well as webdesign tools like Dreamweaver Ultradev covering ASP, Jscript,
VBscript, SQL, Database (MS-Access) driven web sites, Fireworks, Flash, Paintshop
Pro, Photoshop etc.
- Presentation: Many oral presentations in front of a large
international audiences/conferences in various European countries.
- Languages: German (mother tongue), English (fluent), Spanish
(basic knowledge).
ACHIEVEMENTS
- Early involvement in the rapid development of the solar cell company, Nanosolar
Inc., which may revolutionise the solar cell industry in the near future.
- Over 20 refereed publications on organic solar cells in leading scientific
journals including Nature, Advanced Materials, Phys. Review. B and Solar Energy
Materials & Solar Cells.
- Pioneered a technique for the fabrication of high efficiency solar cells
made of novel electronic components resulting in the filing of a world patent
(patent with Cambridge Display Technology, CDT). Several (pending) patents
with Nanosolar Inc.
- Set up and manage a small teaching business.
EDUCATION & WORK HISTORY
| 2004-now: |
Freelancing as teacher and solar energy consultant |
| 2002-2004: |
Lead Product Engineer with Nanosolar
Inc. (Palo Alto/USA) |
| 2002: |
Consultant (Organic Solar Cells) & Freelance (technical/IT/scientific)
translations (English/German) |
| 1996-2001: |
Ph.D. (with honours) in Applied Physics - UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ (Austria)
and the UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE (UK) |
| 1996-1999: |
Research assistant at the UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE (opto-electronics group)
and collaboration with CDT Ltd. (UK) |
| 1996: |
Graduation (with honours) at the TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY GRAZ (Austria) in
Applied Physics; two months research project at the MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE
of Solid State Research in Stuttgart, Germany |
| 1988: |
A levels at the Technical Grammar School to receive a degree in Electronics
and Telecommunications, BULME-GRAZ (Austria) |
FURTHER INFORMATION
I believe in the enormous time and money saving power of mid and long term
optimization. I am very creative in finding solutions, like lateral thinking
and have a variety of non-related skills from former hobbies from martial arts,
chess to astro and wildlife photography. Since I do things very passionately
people around me tend to feel motivated and positive.
The process of learning something new excites me and I have a strong passion
for teaching. Teaching, I believe, is the highest form of learning. I would
love to be involved in teaching/learning projects at schools, universities or
companies, and to combine my interests and backgrounds in science and IT. Examples
are creating, optimizing or testing learning software or related products like
educational games or simulators.
I have lived and worked on three different continents and travelled in over
30 countries.
Please have a look at my homepage and do not hesitate contacting me
should you have a project/job in mind that might fit my skills: www.SolarPassion.com