Dr. Ian Marius Peters holds a Ph.D. in physics from the Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg, Germany. He has worked on PV research for more than 18 years and has published more than 250 papers in journals and on scientific conferences. His areas of expertise include fundamentals of photovoltaics, development of solar power systems, solar cell cost modelling and device modelling. He has worked as a researcher and project manager at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE) in Freiburg as a group leader in the Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore (SERIS), a research scientist and head of the systems on silicon team in the PV research laboratory at MIT, and its currently heading the group High Throughput Characterization and Modeling at the Helmholtz Institute Erlangen Nuremberg for Renewable Energy (HI-ERN). He has managed various publicly funded and industry funded research projects, many of which had international teams and has taught courses at NUS and MIT.