Researcher

Professor Ziv Hameiri

Keywords

photovoltaics

crystalline silicon solar cells

Fields of Research (FoR)

Photovoltaic power systems

SEO tags

Solar-Photovoltaic Energy

Biography

Ziv Hameiri received his Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, in 2005 (Graduated Summa Cum Laude). He was awarded his PhD by the University of New South Wales (School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering) in March 2011.

He was a Research Fellow at the Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore between 2011 and 2014, where his research focused on...view more

Ziv Hameiri received his Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, in 2005 (Graduated Summa Cum Laude). He was awarded his PhD by the University of New South Wales (School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering) in March 2011.

He was a Research Fellow at the Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore between 2011 and 2014, where his research focused on characterisation of silicon wafers and solar cells using photoluminescence and on the development of high-efficiency industrial solar cells. In 2014 he was awarded the UNSW Vice-Chancellor’s Research Fellowship and in 2015 he received the Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA).

Currently, he is a Professor, leading a research group, the ACDC Research Group, that tries to save the world.

Education:
2005 – 2010	Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
2000 – 2004	Bachelor of Science (BSc) Electrical and Computer Engineering Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
Employment:
2023 –	Professor University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
2020 – 2022	Associate Professor University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
2017 – 2019	Senior Research Fellow University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
2015 – 2018	ARC DECRA Fellow University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
2014 – 2015	Vice-Chancellor’s Research Fellow University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
2011 – 2014	Research Fellow Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore National University of Singapore

My Awards

2023	Excellence Award in Industry Engagement and Research Translation Faculty of Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
2022	Staff Excellence Award for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Faculty of Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
2021	Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Higher Degree Research Supervision University of New South Wales, Australia
2020	HDR (Higher Degree Research) Supervision Award Faculty of Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
2019	Staff Excellence Award in Research Excellence (second year in a row) Faculty of Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
2018	Staff Excellence Award in Research Excellence Faculty of Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
2018	Scientist Medal International Association of Advanced Materials
2013	Vice-Chancellor’s Research Fellowship University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
2013	Best Poster Award Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (Tampa, Florida, USA)
2010	Suntech Research Excellence Award Suntech Power Holding Co., LTD

My Research Activities

Development of new characterisation methods for photovoltaic devices (cells, modules, and systems; silicon, non-silicon, and tandem)
Development of machine learning algorithms for photovoltaic applications
Investigation of defects in silicon and non-silicon devices
Development of novel passivation techniques for surfaces and contacts
Development of novel agriPV (the combination of agriculture and photovoltaic) modules
Development of novel beta-voltaics devices

My Research Supervision

Supervision keywords

photovoltaics

photovoltaic systems

photovoltaic array

grid-connected photovoltaic

crystalline silicon solar cells

tandem solar cells

characterisation

photoluminescence

photoluminescence characterisation

photoluminescence imaging

photoluminescence spectroscopy

time resolved photoluminescence

electroluminescence

machine learning

supervised machine learning

recycling

AgriPV

Betavoltaic

Areas of supervision

2023 Simon Zhang - Photovoltaics in the Real World – Investigation of the Electrical and Optical Temperature-Dependent Characteristics of Various Photovoltaic Technologies
2023 Zhenyu Sun - Low-temperature Passivating Carrier Selective Contacts for Single-junction Silicon Solar Cells and Silicon-based Tandem Solar Cell
2023 Aref Samadi - Hydrogenation of Cast-Mono Silicon Solar Cells
2023 Anh Le - Solar Cells with Passivating Contacts − Investigation of Their Temperature- and Illumination-dependent Performance and Surface Passivation
2023 Yoann Buratti - Machine Learning for Advanced Characterisation of Silicon Solar Cells - Dean’s Award for Outstanding PhD Theses
2022 Saman Jafari - Investigation of Bulk Defects in p-type Silicon Wafers and Solar Cells
2022 Shuai Nie - Advanced Characterisation of Silicon Wafers and Solar Cells under Different Operating Conditions
2021 Raghavi Bhoopathy - Advanced Characterization of Photovoltaic Modules using Photoluminescence
2020 Robert Lee Chin - Applications of Photoluminescence Microscopy for Probing Bulk Defects in Silicon
2019 Yan Zhu - Advanced Characterization of Defects in Silicon Wafers and Solar Cells - Dean’s Award for Outstanding PhD Theses
2019 Kyung Kim - Industrial PECVD AlOx Films with Very Low Surface Recombination for Silicon Solar Cells
2019 Robert Dumbrell - Applications of Dynamic Photoluminescence Measurements to Metallised Silicon Solar Cells
2018 Jack Colwell - Copper and Silicon - Implications for the Long-term Stability of Plated Contacts for Silicon Solar Cells