Bram Hoex | Deputy Head of School (Research)
School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering, UNSW

Bram Hoex is a Professor at UNSW Sydney and Deputy Head at UNSW’s School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering. His research focuses on developing and applying nanoscale thin films in a wide range of renewable energy devices to improve their performance or long-term stability as well as financial and performance modelling of gigascale solar farms. He published over 250 scientific papers to date and is best known for his groundbreaking work on aluminium oxide for crystalline silicon surface passivation, which is now the de facto standard for industrial PERC and TOPCon solar cells. His work has received various international recognitions, including the 2008 SolarWorld Junior Einstein and 2016 IEEE PVSC Young Professional awards. Renewable Energy World listed him in the “Solar 40 under 40 list” globally in 2018.