Biography
Dr Song obtained her PhD in 2015 under the Supervision of Professor Martin Green. She is now a Senior Lecturer/Senior Research Fellow with SPREE, where she specializes in the efficiency and power potential of silicon solar cells and modules. With over 14 years of experience working in solar with manufacturers, research institutions, and photovoltaic material suppliers, Ning brings terrific insight into all levels of the solar production chain....view more
Dr Song obtained her PhD in 2015 under the Supervision of Professor Martin Green. She is now a Senior Lecturer/Senior Research Fellow with SPREE, where she specializes in the efficiency and power potential of silicon solar cells and modules. With over 14 years of experience working in solar with manufacturers, research institutions, and photovoltaic material suppliers, Ning brings terrific insight into all levels of the solar production chain. She is highly motivated by the opportunity that renewable energy sources present to continually improve their environmental benefits and looks forward to collaborating on her projects.
My Grants
2026 –2030 Lead CI “AI Accelerated PV Material Discovery” ARENA $5,087,000
2026-2029 Lead CI “ Cost Reduction in High Efficiency Si Solar Cells” industry-funded research collaboration, $300,000
2023 – 2027 CI, stream lead, “Rear-Junction p-type PERC/TOPCon Hybrid Solar Cells” ARENA $3,740,000
2025 – 2026 CI, “ Closing the Gap in High-Efficiency Solar Cell Research in Australia, ARC LIEF, $1,315,125
2024 – 2028 Lead CI, “High-efficiency solar cell with poly-Si passivated contact”, industry-funded research collaboration, $80,000
2018 – 2022 Lead CI, “Silicon Solar Cells with Silicon Carbide Passivated Contacts”, ACAP $60,000
2017 – 2021 CI, stream lead and project manager, “Metallised Encapsulant for Silicon PV Modules: A Path to Reduced LCOE for PV, ARENA $1,600,000 and industrial cash $450,000
2015 – 2017 Lead and Sol CI, “Inkjet-enabled silicon solar cell fabrication – from lab to pilot production”, ARENA Postdoc Fellowship $396,843
My Awards
Excellent Teaching Team Award, UNSW, 2025
Best Paper Award, 21st China Photovoltaic Academic Conference (CPVC-21), 2025 (by primary-supervised PhD student)
Best Oral Presentation Award, 36th International Photovoltaic Science and Engineering Conference, 2025 (by primary-supervised PhD student)
Outstanding Poster Award, Australia, presented at Asia Pacific Solar Research Conference 2022,
My Research Supervision
Areas of supervision
Si Solar Cells, thin-film Solar cells, Tandem Solar cells, and Solar modules
AI-Accelerated PV Material Discovery
Thin-film deposition and characterization
Solar cell Metallization and cell to module interconnection
Solar module reliability and materials
My Engagement
Young Editor Board Member, eScience Energy, 2026-2028
Guest Editor, Energies, Special issue 2025
Elected Academic Staff Member on the Engineering faculty board (01/2019-06/2021).
Dean appointed Member of Engineering Academic Programs Committee (08/2023-06/2024).
My Teaching
Co-Course Convenor and Lecturer SOLA 3507 Solar Cells
Publications
ORCID as entered in ROS
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5644-8555