Advisory Committee

Dr. Louise C. Hirst, University of Cambridge

Dr. Hirst is a University Lecturer jointly in the Department of Physics and the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy at the University of Cambridge. Her research focuses on the development of advanced, high efficiency III-V photovoltaics with a particularly interest in space power systems. This is includes the development and characterization of novel III-V alloys and quantum well systems, the design and fabrication of alternative device geometries with integrated nanophotonic structures, as well as the development hot-carrier solar cell concepts for high solar energy conversion efficiency in a relatively simple, thermodynamically elegant system.

Dr. Hirst obtained her PhD from Imperial College London in 2012, and was then awarded a National Academy of Sciences Research Associateship held at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory in Washington DC, where she subsequently became a U. S. federal government staff scientist and Karles Distinguished Scholar Fellow. Dr. Hirst moved to the University of Cambridge in 2018.