Se realizará los días 23, 24, 27 y 28 de enero de 2014 en el Salón de los Presidentes del Edificio del Congreso Nacional en Santiago (Morandé 441).

El primer Taller de Estrategias de Investigación en Energía Solar y Ciencias Básicas es un evento internacional organizado por SERC Chile, donde se discutirá el futuro de las ciencias básicas relacionadas a la energía solar y sus estrategias de investigación.

En el encuentro, diferentes expositores nacionales e internacionales analizarán los fundamentos de la física en relación con la energía solar, como también las oportunidades principales que existen para el futuro desarrollo tecnológico y los avances en el área de ciencias básicas.

Este taller estimulará la discusión entre los diferentes tomadores de decisión acerca de estrategias nacionales para investigación en energía solar. Está dirigido a

  • Académicos e investigadores relacionados con física y energía solar.
  • Desarrolladores tecnológicos interesados en aplicaciones de energía solar.
  • Ingenieros relacionados con el sector de energía solar.
  • Estudiantes de postgrado interesados en la investigación de energía solar.

Además de esto, el día 27 de enero, en el marco del mismo evento se realizará el Mini Simposio: Integración de energía solar y manejo estratégico de energía en sistemas de transporte urbano; donde se discutirá y analizará el área de investigación relacionada con aplicaciones de energía solar en sistemas de transporte urbano, así como también medidas de eficiencia que permitan reducir el consumo en el sector de transporte. Este encuentro se enfocará en una discusión abierta para explorar futuras alternativas de cooperación entre planificación urbana, transporte y energía solar.

Expositores Primer Taller de Estrategias de Investigación en Energía Solar y Ciencias Básicas:

Dr. Enrique Cabrera, ISC Konstanz: Dr. Enrique Cabrera received his Dipl.-Ing. degree (honors) in electrical engineering and electrical power systems from the Universidad de Santiago de Chile (USACH) in 2008. As a part of his studies, he spent two semesters at the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule (RWTH) Aachen in Germany as a DAAD scholarship holder. During this time, he attended numerous lectures, seminars and field trips dealing with renewable energy. In 2013, he received his PhD degree in physics in the field of metallisation of silicon solar cells at the International Solar Energy Research Center (ISC) Konstanz in cooperation with the University of Konstanz. He is currently working on the EU Project Hercules and supporting research and development cooperation projects in Chile and South America.

Dr. Radovan Kopecek, ISC Konstanz: Dr. Radovan Kopecek, born in Brno (former Czechoslovakia), obtained his Diploma in Physics at the University of Stuttgart in 1998, researching superconductive fullerides. In addition, he studied at Portland State University (Oregon, USA) for one year, where he obtained a Master of Science in 1995. Towards the end of his studies in Stuttgart, he worked at the Max-Planck-Institut (MPI) and afterwards at the Institute of Physical Electronics (IPE) as a research assistant in the field of crystalline Si for PV applications. He joined Professor Ernst Bucher’s Konstanz-based group in 1998 in order to write his PhD dissertation on the topic of thin film silicon solar cells, which he completed in November 2002. Until the end of 2006, he headed several national and international projects at the University of Konstanz as a group leader. These projects focused on silicon feedstock and the development of crystalline Si thin film n-type solar cells. One of the founders of ISC Konstanz, Dr. Kopecek has been working at the institute as a full time manager and researcher since January 2007, and is currently the leader of the Advanced Solar Cells department. He is responsible for several European and national research projects that revolve around silicon feedstock and around the development of solar cells, with a focus on n-type devices. Further, Dr. Kopecek has been teaching the basics and applications of PV at the DHBW in Friedrichshafen since 2012.

Dr. Stephan Koch, Marburg University: Stephan W. Koch has been a professor of Physics at Philipps-University Marburg (Germany), and an adjunct professor at the College of Optical Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson/USA, since 1993. He spent eight years, first as associate professor, then as professor of Physics and Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona. He was a Heisenberg Fellow at the University Frankfurt/Germany in 1985, and a visiting scientist at IBM Reserach in 1981 and 1983. Prof. Dr. Koch received his MS and PhD in Physics from the Goethe-University Frankfurt (Germany) in 1977 and 1979, respectively. His fields of major current interests include condensed matter theory, light-matter interaction effects in atoms and condensed matter systems, optical and electronic properties of semiconductors, many-body interactions, coherent and ultrafast phenomena, semiconductor laser theory, and microcavity effects. He received the 1999 Max-Planck Research Prize, the 1997 Leibniz Prize of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, the 2008 «Outstanding Referee» lifetime award of the American Physical Society, and the 2006 Prize for the Advancement of Women in Science (Frauenfoerderpreis) of the Philipps-University Marburg. Prof. Koch was a DivisionalAssociate Editor of «Physical Review Letters» 1997 – 2000, and a Topical Editor of the «European Physics Journal» 1998 – 2005, is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America, and a member of the German Physical Society (DPG). He is the author or co-author of 7 books, editor of 1 book, and author or co-author of more than 550 publications in refereed scientific journals with more than 15,000 citations leading to an h-index of 65.

Francisco Mardones, Nimbic Chile:Francisco Mardones is General Manager of Nimbic Chile, an R&D center of Nimbic Inc in Santiago de Chile. Nimbic is based in Mountain View, California and develops state-of-the-art software for Electronic Design Automation, specifically in electromagnetic simulation both on premises and in the cloud. Francisco has a professional degree in Electronics Engineering and has established and managed R&D facilities in Chile for US-based companies, developing links with local Universities and Government agencies to promote the development of high technology in Chile.

Expositores Simposio: Integración de energía solar y manejo estratégico de energía en sistemas de transporte urbano

  • Paula Uribe, Centro de Modelamiento Matermático.
  • Pablo Orellana, Centro de Modelamiento Matermático.
  • Marcelo Matus, Solar Energy Research Center.
  • Raphael Hofstädter, Technische Universität Wien.