UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The Penn State Alliance for Education, Science, Engineering and Design with Africa (AESEDA), will host a Black History Month seminar with Joseph J. Berry, distinguished alumnus in physics, at 1 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 24, via Zoom.
Berry received his doctorate from the Department of Physics at Penn State in 2001. He is a senior research fellow at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) working on halide perovskite solar cells. His efforts at NREL emphasize relating basic interfacial properties to relevant device level behaviors in traditional and novel semiconductor heterostructures including oxides, organics and most recently hybrid semiconductors.
Berry's seminar is titled "Advances in PV Toward More Efficient, Just and Sustainable Energy Technologies." Register for the seminar at this link.
He is also a principal investigator on the NREL lead Department of Energy, Solar Energy Technology Offices “Advanced Perovskite Cells and Modules” program as well as being the director of the US-Manufacturing of Advanced Perovskites Consortium; a Fellow at RASEI, a joint energy institute between the University Colorado Boulder and NREL; and an associate professor of physics at the University of Colorado Boulder. He also was a visiting professor of materials science and engineering at the African University of Science and Technology in Abuja, Nigeria.