Arturo Morales-Acevedo
Dr. Arturo Morales-Acevedo is currently a full professor of the Electrical Engineering Department at Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional (CINVESTAV del IPN) in Mexico city, México. Following his graduate studies at Purdue University (USA), Université Pierre et Marie Curie (France) and CINVESTAV (México), he has worked in the physics and technology of solar cells for more than 30 years, becoming a leading scientist on solar photovoltaic energy research in the Latin-American region. He has collaborated with different universities such as Havana University in Cuba and the National University of Colombia. His work has been exposed in numerous scientific articles in specialized journals and international conferences around the world with about 600 citations to his work. Dr. Morales-Acevedo has been Photovoltaic Systems Associate Editor of the Solar Energy Journal for more than 10 years. He is also a Senior Member of the Institute of the Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), where he was a Distinguished Lecturer of the Electron Devices Society (EDS-IEEE). Dr. Morales-Acevedo continues his research actively, both in the theoretical and the experimental development of thin film solar cells and photovoltaic systems, with the help of several PhD students and the support of different scientific agencies.