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GSAS Energy Series Funded by NSF |
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June 2007
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Based on the success of its first Session, GSAS has been awarded seed funding from the US National Science Foundation (NSF) to continue its Solar Cell Research series. The next Session will be held in Sydney Australia in July 2008. Plans are also underway to organize Sessions in Brazil and China.
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The School was officially launched in Taiwan in September 2006, with major funding from the National Science Council of Taiwan (NSC) on the topic of Advanced Solar Cells. Twenty students and nine senior experts took part in the first Session and a collaborative research project is was hosted for implementtion by the Industrial Technology Research Institute in Taiwan.
This funding from the US government, together with complementary funding from international foundations, industrial partners, and government agencies in Asia, Europe, and Africa will enable GSAS to train global leaders and launch new collaborative research projects in the critical field of Solar energy development.
GSAS Director, RPH Chang, is encouraged by the grant and hopes that other international agencies will join the NSF and the NSC in funding the GSAS global initiative. "We can all benefit by training our young people to work together", he said. "And together we can perform research to solve the world's most difficult problems."
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GSAS Director Visits ITRI Solar Cell Team |
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September 2007
GSAS Director, R.P.H. Chang visited the ITRI Nanotechnology Research Center where a project on dye-sensitized solar cells is being carried out by a team of GSAS Scholars.
The international team already includes three GSAS Scholars who attended the Session on Advanced Solar Cell Research in Taiwan - Krystoff Skupien, a graduate student from the University of Krakow in Poland and the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Research in Germany, Jing-shun Huang, a graduate student at the National Taiwan University, and Chang-Chung Yang, a postdoc at ITRI (Industrial Technology Research Institute) in Taiwan. |
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October 2006
Nine solar cell experts and twenty young researchers from four continents met in Taiwan last month for the first Session of the Global School for Advanced Studies. In keeping with GSAS mission of addressing Global Challenges, the theme of the first Session was Advanced Solar Cell Research, a fields that demonstrates unique potential as an affordable source of clean renewable energy.
The Session was hosted by the National Tsing Hua University with major funding from the National Science Council of Taiwan. |
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Team Project Selected for Implementation |
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At the first GSAS Session in Taiwan, three teams of young researchers from Africa, Asia, Europe, and the US were challenged to develop innovative collaborative projects in Advanced Solar Cell Research. The teams received project mentoring from some of the world top experts in the field, with excellent results. The winning project focused on improving the efficiency of dye-sensitized solar cells. Team Two consisted of members from Japan, Philippines, South Africa, Taiwan, and US.
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Second Solar Cell Session in Sydney, Australia |
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International partners agree that Advanced Solar Cell research and development offers viable, afffordable solutions to the the pressing global challenge of clean renewable energy production. GSAS held its second Session on this timely theme in Sydney, Australia in the summer of 2008. |
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