Ben Figgis is a Research Program Manager at the Qatar Environment & Energy Research Institute, part of Hamad bin Khalifa University in Qatar. He manages the Outdoor Test Facility, a 35,000 m2 test site for PV and solar thermal technologies, and his research focus is on PV soiling. Ben helped establish and operate the OTF from 2009 to 2014 with Chevron Qatar, and for the preceding five years was involved in setting up the Qatar Science & Technology Park. He has B.Eng and B.Sc degrees from the University of Western Australian, M.Eng from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, and a PhD in mechanical engineering from the University of Strasbourg.
Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute
November 2014 - presentChevron Qatar
2009 – July 2014Qatar Science & Technology Park, Doha
January 2004 – April 2009FreeMarkets (now Ariba), Melbourne.
2000 – 2004Automotive Resources Asia, Bangkok
1998 – 2000Holden (General Motors), Melbourne.
1996 – 1998University of Western Australia
1994University of Western Australia
1994Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
1997Outdoor soiling microscope for measuring particle deposition and resuspension. Solar Energy 137 (2016) 158–164
2016Review of PV soiling particle mechanics in desert environments. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 76 (2017) 872–881
2017Review of PV Soiling Measurement Methods. International Renewable and Sustainable Energy Conference
2016DEWA PV Soiling Workshop. Dubai, UAE, April 2016
2016PV Quality Assurance Task Force, webinar, August 2016
2016Halle, Germany, September 2016
2016Ben Figgis. DEWA Anti-Soiling Workshop, April 2016, Dubai, UAE
2016Benjamin Figgis. PV Quality Assurance Task Force, webinar, March 2017
2017Abdelhakim Hassabou, Benjamin Figgis. GCC Solar PV Testing Centres Network meeting. Dubai, UAE, May 2017 (in preparation)
2017Benjamin Figgis. 2016. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.21049.77925
2016Figgis, Ben; Martinez Plaza, Diego; Mirza, Talha. NREL PV Reliability Workshop, 2015
2015Benjamin Figgis, Ahmed Ennaoui. QF ARC’16, Doha, Qatar
2016Ben Figgis, Ahmed Ennaoui, Bing Guo, Wasim Javed. 2017
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