Wim Sinke (prof. dr. W.C.)

Name:

Sinke, Wim C.

Date of birth:

21 November 1955

Place of birth:

Vlissingen, NL

Nationality:

Dutch

Address:

ENERGY RESEARCH CENTRE OF THE NETHERLANDS ECN
ECN Solar Energy
P.O. Box 1
1755 ZG PETTEN
The Netherlands
telephone +31-224-564058
telefax +31-224-568214
e-mail sinke@ecn.nl

Position:

Senior staff member Program and Strategy, ECN Solar Energy

Main responsibilities:

• Manager of the EU 6th Framework Program Integrated Project CrystalClear, Executive Committee member and chairman of the Working Group on Science, Technology & Applications of the EU PV Technology Platform, Chairman of the ECN Scientific Council, various studies in the field of solar energy program and strategy development, enhancing collaboration with universities and scientific output of the unit.
• University-level education on photovoltaic solar energy, semiconductor physics and science & application of renewables.

Educational and professional record

1974-1981

Study experimental physics, Utrecht University (graduated December 1981).

1981-1985

PhD-work performed at the FOM-Institute for Atomic & Molecular Physics, Amsterdam. PhD-thesis entitled: “New physical processes for silicon solar cells”. Promotor: prof.dr. F.W. Saris. (PhD obtained from Utrecht University in December 1985).

1986-1987

Post-doc position at Hitachi Central Research Laboratory, Tokyo, Japan. Research topic: structural properties of amorphous silicon.

1987-1990

Project leader at the FOM-Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics, Amsterdam. Direct responsibility for the work of 7 PhD-students and a number of master students. Research topics: processing, characterization and modeling of crystalline silicon solar cells, structural properties of amorphous silicon, laser-induced deposition of metals.

1990-1995

Section leader R&D Solar Energy at the Netherlands Energy Research Foundation ECN. Direct responsibility for the work of 20 people in the field of processing, characterization and modeling of crystalline silicon cells and of monitoring of grid-connected systems.

1996-1998

Group leader Solar Energy at the Netherlands Energy Research Foundation ECN. This Group consists of a Section Cells & Modules (35 people) and a Section PV System Technology (10 people). Responsibility for the R&D program and the strategy in the field of photovoltaics. Assistant to the unit manager in strategy development in the fields of solar and wind energy, and implementation of renewables in the built environment and developing countries.

1999-2002

Program unit manager Solar Energy at the Energy research Centre of the Netherlands ECN. Responsibility for program, strategy, and business development on photovoltaics science, technology, and applications (≈50 f.t.e.).

2003

Assistant director ECN. Shared responsibility for o.a. program, strategy, turn-over and profit of ECN and direct responsibility for ECN’s program units Wind Energy, Solar Energy, Biomass and Technological Services & Consultancy.

2004-present

Senior staff member Program and Strategy in the Program Unit Solar Energy at ECN. Scientific Director of the ADEM joint research program of ECN and the 3 Dutch universities of technology (Advanced Dutch Energy Materials innovation lab).

Special achievements and tasks (selection)

1992

Jacob Kistemaker Award of the Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter (FOM) for complete work on fundamental properties of crystalline and amorphous silicon and on multicrystalline silicon solar cells.

1998

NOZ-PV Award of the Netherlands Agency for Energy and the Environment (Novem) for important contributions to the creation and development of the Dutch PV research and implementation program and for education of two generations of PV experts.

1999

1999 Royal Dutch/Shell Prize for Sustainable Development and Energy 1999 for integral scientific and technological work on solar cells and for important contributions to the development and implementation of R&D and market introduction programs for photovoltaic solar energy.

various

Chairman of the 24th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition Program (Hamburg, DE, 2009), Area Chairman of the 5th World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion (Valencia, ES, 2010), Vice Chairman of the 3rd World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion (Osaka, Japan, 2003), chairman and member of the scientific committees of a number of international PV conferences.

1987 - 1997

Regular contributor to, and member of the editorial board of the Dutch magazine “Renewable Energy”.

1997 - 1999

Scientific coordinator of the EUREC Tutorials “PV in Buildings”.

1999

Chairman of the “European Creativity Workshops for PV Market Stimulation” (Altener Program).

2004

Guest editor Special Issue “PV in the Built Environment” of the Journal “Progress in Photovoltaics” (Vol 12, Nr 6, September 2004).

1987 - present

Speaker and invited speaker on a large number (>200) of conferences, workshops, seminars and tutorials, in the areas of solar cells, photovoltaics and renewables.

Reports & Publications

Author and co-author of over 250 papers in the field of solar cells, applications of photovoltaics, and semiconductor processing. Published in: Proceedings of EC, IEEE and Asia-Pacific PV Conferences, Journal of Applied Physics, Applied Physics Letters, Physical Review B, Physical Review Letters, Solar Cells and Solar Energy Materials, Progress in Photovoltaics, etc. (list available on request).

Some recent contributions to publications particularly relevant to the theme of “Energy transition”: