Director of the Fraunhofer ISE

Biography

Prof. Dr. Weber has an international reputation as a materials scientist and one of the world's leading researchers in the field of renewable energy and energy efficiency. In 2006, he became director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE in Freiburg. Prior to joining Fraunhofer ISE, Prof. Weber spent 23 years at the University of California at Berkeley during which time he served as a professor of materials science and, most recently, chair of the Nanoscale Science and Engineering Graduate Group.

He and his research group have published over 580 papers and he is co-editor of the Academic Press book series "Semiconductors and Semimetals." In 1997, Weber was a founding member of the "Silicon Wafer Engineering and Defect Science" consortium. Prof. Weber received his B.S. in 1970, his M.S. in 1973 and his Ph.D. in 1976 at the University of Cologne in West-Germany.