Dr Zi Ouyang
Dr Zi Ouyang works in the outdoor photo-luminance (PL) research group, developing advanced daytime inspection methods and systems that combine innovative outdoor PL imaging techniques with conventional imaging techniques for a comprehensive quality assessment of solar farms.
He has close to 20 years of experiences on clean energy research and commercialisation, covering a wide range of projects from blue-sky sciences to high readiness-level technologies. His expertise covers high-efficiency and low-cost photovoltaic (PV) solar cells and modules, advanced characterisations, energy storage, PV applications on buildings and vehicles, end-of-life PV module recycling, etc. He is interested in novel and practical technologies that can make the world sustainable.
He received his BSc physic degree at Nanjing University in 2005 with a thesis project on photocatalytic hydrogen production. Then he obtained his PhD at University of New South Wales in 2011 with a topic on polycrystalline silicon thin-film solar cells. He worked in Swinburne University of Technology as a post-doctoral research fellow, applying advanced nanophotonic and nanoelectronic technologies to improve the performance of silicon wafer solar cells of Suntech Power. After that he came back to UNSW first as an ARENA research fellow on advanced surface passivation, then business development manager looking after UNSW's IP and commercialisation of energy related technologies, and then adjunct senior research fellow on PV module metallisation and recycling before his current position.
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