Prof Armin ABERLE is a Cluster Director and Principal Investigator (PI) at the Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore (SERIS) at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He is also a tenured full professor in the university’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He holds BSc/MSc, PhD and Dr habil degrees in physics from German universities (Freiburg, Hannover). His research focus is on photovoltaic (PV) materials, devices and modules. His R&D work covers the full spectrum from fundamental materials research to the industrial evaluation of advanced or novel PV technologies at the pilot line level and their transfer to industry. In his 39-year career in the PV sector he has (co)authored more than 600 scientific-technical papers (which have received more than 21,000 citations, h-index 70) and has been supervising more than 60 PhD students. He is an Editorial Board member of Progress in Photovoltaics and other scientific journals. From 1994 to 1998 he was the Scientific Director of the Silicon PV Department at the Institute for Solar Energy Research (ISFH) in Hamelin, Germany. He then worked for 10 years in Sydney, Australia as a solar energy professor at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) and a member of the UNSW team that developed and taught the world’s first Bachelor of Engineering degree programme for Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering. In 2008 he joined NUS to establish SERIS, as the Deputy CEO and Director of the Silicon PV Cluster. From 2012 to 2026 he served as SERIS CEO. He is also the Director of the institute’s Next-Generation Industrial Solar Cells & Modules Cluster and the Acting Director of the Novel PV Concepts Cluster.
