Dr. Veronica Bermudez Benito

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    1996 …2025

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    As the Senior Research Director of the Energy Center at Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute (QEERI), I lead a team of experts in developing and adapting technologies that address Qatar's energy security and transition challenges, while advancing sustainable solutions for a net-zero carbon emissions scenario. With over 20 years of experience in global research, development, and innovation (R&D&I), I joined QEERI in 2018 with a strong background in industrial and applied research, technology transfer, and manufacturing, in the solar photovoltaic field. Prior to joining QEERI, between others, I acted as General Manager at Solar Frontier in Japan, Expert and Principal Scientist EDF in France, and Senior Scientist NEXCIS, a start-up I co-founded. I am an associate editor of the Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy, and the European Journal of Photovoltaics, as well as a member of several  International Scientific Advisory Board of a number of private companies and research institutes and provides consultancy and high level strategic technology commercialization advice to global companies and small companies alike. I serve in the permanent Executive Committee of the EU Photovoltaic Conference. 

    With more than 120 scientific papers and a number of international awards as the Research & Development Leader of the Year, Women in New Energy Leadership Awards (WiNE), Solar Quarter. 2022, the Schieber Prize for under 40 from  International Organization  of  Crystal  Growth  (IOCG) in 2007 and the Spanish National  Prize  for Young Scientist for research in Materials for Energy, Private Foundation Complutense de Madrid, Spain. 2004 between others,  I am an internationally recognized expert in clean and sustainable energy, and in photovoltaic materials and technologies in the whole value chain.  My work combines fundamental and applied research to sustainable processes and materials for solar photovoltaic, grid integration, hybrid power systems and power plant operations best practices, reliability, degradation to reduce electricity production costs through yield increase.

    I am passionate about realizing the potential of renewable energy and empowering the next generation of researchers and innovators contributing to a sustainable energy transitions from a technology point of view.

    Education/Academic qualification

    Physics, PhD, Obtention and Characterization of Periodic Structures in LiNbO3 single crystals doped with Er e Yb, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

    Award Date: 27 Nov 1998

    External positions

    Scientific Advisory Board, Energy for Climate Institute (E4C)

    2023 → …

    Associate Editor, EPJ Photovoltaics

    2022 → …

    Executive Committee, European Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

    2021 → …

    Scientific Advisory Board, Catalonian Institute for Energy Research (IREC)

    2020 → …

    Experts Committee Members, Connaissance d'energie

    2010 → …

    Associate Editor, Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy

    2009 → …

    Expert- reviewer, European Commission

    2008 → …

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