I am currently director of the IMOMEC department at imec/Energyville and vice-director of IMO at Hasselt University. Furthermore, I am full professor at Delft University of Technology in the Photovoltaic Materials and Devices group within the faculty Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Sciences (EEMCS) .Since January 2016, I am acting as the coordinator of the Joint Program on Photovoltaics within the European Energy Research Alliance (EERA) and as a Steering Committee Member of the European Technology and Innovation Platform for Photovoltaics. From September 2008 till December 2017, I acted as editor for the international scientific journal Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells. Since 2018, I am editor-in-chief of the Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells journal.I received my Master Degree in Physics in 1997 from the University of Leuven (KUL), Belgium. I then did a PhD research in the field of novel magnetic materials for sensor applications and obtained my PhD Degree from the University of Leuven in February 2002. I started to work at imec in June 2003 in the photovoltaics department. I have authored and co-authored more than 240 journal and conference papers since 1997.Specialties: Photovoltaics, material research, people management, project management, strategy definition, synthetic fuels, batteries.