Materials Avançats per a l'Energia

Investigador

Dr. Edgardo Saucedo
c/ Josep Pla 2, B2, planta baixa
Barcelona 08019
+34 933 562 615
+34 933 563 802

easaucedo@irec.cat


Biography

Edgardo Saucedo studied Chemical Engineering at the University of the Republic, Montevideo, Uruguay, and received his PhD in Materials Physic at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain in 2007. His thesis work was focused on the electrical and optical properties of II-VI semiconductors with technological interest and was carried out partially at the Universita degli Studi de Parma (Parma, Italy), the Institute for Material Research of the Freiburg University (Freiburg, Germany) and the Charles University (Prague, Czech Republic). In 2007, he joined the Institut de Recherche et Développement sur l’Énergie Photovoltaïque IRDEP (Paris, France), with a CNRS associated Researcher fellowship, working in the development and optoelectronic characterization of CIGS low cost based solar cells. In 2009, he joined NEXCIS, a spin-off created from IRDEP and EDF to further pursue their training in photovoltaic technology. Currently, he is Senior Researcher at the Solar Energy Materials and Systems group at the Catalonia Institute for Energy Research (IREC), with the aim to develop new low cost materials and processes for high efficiency thin film photovoltaic devices. He holds three patents and has authored or co-authored more than 50 papers