Stuart Wenham is the current director of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Advanced Silicon Photovoltaics and Photonics and Director of Academic Studies of the School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering

School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering

The School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering is one of ten schools of engineering at the University of New South Wales.It was officially recognised as a school on January 1, 2006, after having previously been known as the Centre for Photovoltaic Engineering.As of 2003, the school...

 at the University of New South Wales

University of New South Wales

The University of New South Wales , is a research-focused university based in Kensington, a suburb in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia...

. Dr. Wenham is also the Chief Technology Officer of Suntech, the world's largest producer of solar panels.

Wenham's pioneering work with Professor Martin Green on solar cell

Solar cell

A solar cell is a solid state electrical device that converts the energy of light directly into electricity by the photovoltaic effect....

 technology won them the 1999 Australia Prize

Australia Prize

The Australia Prize was Australia's pre-eminent prize for scientific research from 1990 until 2000, when it was replaced by the Prime Minister's Prizes for Science. The award was international, 10 of the 28 recipients were not Australians.-Recipients:...

. In 2008, Wenham was awarded the Clunies Ross Award

Ian Clunies Ross

Sir Ian Clunies Ross, CMG is described as the 'architect' of Australia's scientific boom, for his stewardship of Australia's scientific organisation the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation - CSIRO.-Family:...

for "contributions to solar cell development and commercialisation". In 2009 Wenham received the Cherry Award at the 34th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference in Philadelphia.

External links

• Stuart Wenham at UNSW School of Photovoltaics