Dr. Veronica Bermudez Benito is Senior Research Director at the Energy Center at the Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute (QEERI) where she leads the efforts in research, technology development, and innovation for the Energy Transition department. Dr. Benito has a PhD in Physics from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain, and holds a number of international awards for her research activity. She is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy and acts as an independent expert for a number of international funding agencies such as the European Commission and European National funding bodies.
She is also the author or co-author of more than 120 scientific papers in renowned journals, including Nature, Nature Energy and Science. She has delivered a large number of invited and keynote talks at several international conferences and has a relevant patent portfolio. She has extensive experience in laboratory to industry research and technology transfer in the field of sustainable energy, in almost the whole value chain, from materials development to grid integration for generation, storage, and energy management solutions.
She is also an IEEE Senior Fellow and is actively engaged in promoting science among the youth, with a focus on STEM for women.
Energy Center Director ,QEERI (Qatar Energy and Environmental Research Institute) ,Qatar Foundation, Doha, Qatar
2018 - PresentTechnology Division ,Atsugi Research Center ,Solar Frontier KK, Atsugi-shi, Japan.
2016 - 2018“Materials and technologies for industrial PV and storage” ,EDF R&D Chatou, France.
2014 - 2016Start-up (founding team), NEXCIS Photovoltaic Innovation, Rousset, France.
2009 - 2014Institute for the Research and Development of Photovoltaic Energy (IRDEP) ,EDF R&D, CNRS, ENSCP mix Institute, Chatou, France.
2005 - 2009Materials Physics Department, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain.
2001 - 2006Start-up ,TechnoCrys. Technology for Crystal Growth, Madrid
2002 - 2005Materials Physics Department, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain.
2000 - 2001Marie Curie Program in the 5th EU Program ,Laboratory of Advanced Technologies (DEIN/SPE/GCO), CEA-LETI, Saclay, France.
1999 - 2000Universite Aix-Marseille, France
2011Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (UAM)
1998Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (UAM)
1996Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (UAM)
1996“Influencing intramolecular Motion with an Alternating Electric Field”, Nature, 406, 608-611
2000"Electrochemical Synthesis of CuIn(S,Se)2 alloys with graded composition for high efficiency solar cells" Applied Physics Letters 94 (6) 061915
2009“Solution processing route to high efficiency CuIn(S,Se)2 solar cells”. J. Nano Research 4 (2009)1105.
2009“All solution-processed inorganic solar cells – from single functional layers towards a 13.8%- efficient device” Advanced Materials 25 (1), 12-27
2015“Economical and operational issues for CIGS in the future PV panorama” Solar Energy 146, 85-93
2017“Electricity storage supporting PV competitiveness in a reliable and sustainable electric network” J. Renewable and Sustainable Energy, 9, 012301
2017“Understanding the cell-to-module efficiency gap in Cu(In,Ga)(S,Se)2 photovoltaics scale-up” Nature Energy, 3, 466-475
2018“High Performance Perovskite/Cu(In,Ga)Se2 Monolithic Tandem Solar Cells” Science 361, 904-908
2018“Record Efficiency for Thin-Film Polycrystalline Solar Cells Up to 22.9%” IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics, 9, 1, 325-330
2019