Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates
Mauro is member for UAE of the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) TC82 ("Solar energy systems"), where he previously represented also Singapore and Switzerland. He got his PhD in physics at the Imperial College London in 2011, with a thesis on the characterization of new generation photovoltaic (PV) devices (before: MSc in physics at the University of Milan in 2003; MEng in engineering at the University of Padua in 2006; postgraduate experiences at PwC and in the industry). In 2016 he got a Bachelor in philosophy at the University of Pavia with a thesis on historical and epistemological considerations about the New SI Units. In 2007 he started working at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission on new generation PV devices. From 2010 to 2016 he was researcher at SUPSI. Since 2008 he has been member of the Material Research Society and since 2012 of the British Society for the Philosophy of Science. Since 2017 he is referee for Euramet, the European Agency of Metrological Institutes, for Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe. From 2017 to 2023 he was Director of the PV Module Cluster at SERIS, a research institute of the National University of Singapore (NUS). There, he was also laboratory manager of SERIS' ISO 17025 accredited laboratory for module testing, and co-convenor of the local IEC TC82 mirror committee. At NUS, he gave also lectures on basic theory of PV modules. From 2017 to 2026 has been Senior Director of Solar Energy Systems at Technology Innovation Institute (TII), a research institute of the Advanced Technology Research Council (ATRC), Government of Abu Dhabi, UAE. He is member of the Scientific Committee of SNEC, the world's largest PV exhibition held every year in Shanghai, of BiFiPV, an international workshop on bifacial solar panels, and of EU PVSEC, the largest conference in Europe on solar energy. His recent research topics include the reliability for newly integrated PV modules (floating, vehicles, agrivoltaics). In 2008 he contributed to the development of the world record efficiency luminescent solar concentrator (LSC). In 2012 he was nominated for the ENI Award in "Non-conventional Renewable Energy". In 2025, he won the prestigious IEC 1906 Award in recognition of his standardization activity. Since 2006 he is author for Sironi, an italian editor, for which he routinely collaborates editing manuals of physics. He is reviewer of Nature, Springer, Wiley and Elsevier, among others. He wrote 60+ peer-reviewed papers and books, plus a number of conference papers.
Very interesting and instructive experience as temporary teacher of Maths and Physics, while relocating from Italy to Singapore. Kept the role until the final year exam of the 1998 cohort.
Characterization of novel photovoltaic devices; training courses; project management; metrology.
Characterization of novel photovoltaic devices at the European Solar Test Installation laboratory (Ispra, VA, Italy) I contributed to the development of the first high intensity solar simulator in Ispra and to the development of an experimental setup for the spectral response measurements of large area multi-junction thin-film modules In cooperation with the ECN (The Netherlands), Fraunhofer IAP and the Imperial College London, I contributed to the development and characterization of a 7.1% efficient luminescent solar concentrator, at time of writing the highest reported efficiency for this kind of devices