Dr Shubham Duttagupta, SERIS

Dr Shubham Duttagupta is the Head of the Monocrystalinne Silicon Wafer Solar Cell group at SERIS – Singapore’s national laboratory for applied solar energy research. Dr Duttagupta’s PhD research focused on the development of advanced multifunctional materials required for high-efficiency silicon wafer solar cells. He is managing a large R&D group focused on the development, technology transfer and commercialization of high-efficiency processes and >25% silicon wafer solar cells for large-scale manufacturing. In the last 10 years of his career in photovoltaics, Dr Duttagupta has achieved several awards, notably the ‘Institute of Microelectronics Prize’ by the National University of Singapore (NUS), runner-up for the prestigious ‘SolarWorld Junior Einstein Award’ and most recently the ‘Young Scientist Award’ at the PVSEC 2016.