Sustainable Solar Electricity

Professor Antonio Urbina is working at the Institute for Advanced Materials and Mathematics (INAMAT2) and the Department of Sciences (Public University of Navarra, UPNA, Spain). He has been working on the development of solar photovoltaic systems for more than 20 years, many of them at Technical University of Cartagena (UPCT, Spain). Starting from his Ph.D. studies on electronic transport in III-V semiconductor devices, he has worked on the physics of solar cells for several photovoltaic technologies, running from commercial Silicon to GaAs to emerging organic and hybrid photovoltaic technologies in collaboration with international research centres such as Imperial College London, Technical University of Denmark and several Spanish universities and research centres. He has also worked on the deployment and evaluation of photovoltaic systems both in large grid-connected plants and in small stand-alone systems for rural electrification in developing countries such as México, Guatemala and Cuba (for which he received the Prize of the National Academy of Sciences in Cuba in 2018 in collaboration with Universidad Central "Marta Abreu" de Las Villas, Santa Clara, Cuba). For several years, he has focused on the development of life cycle assessment methodologies to be applied to commercial and emerging photovoltaic technologies in order to evaluate the environmental impacts and possible bottlenecks to its massive deployment. He has published more than 60 scientific articles in international journals, has participated in several conferences and is a member of international scientific advisory committees at large research facilities such as Institute Laue Langevin (ILL, France) or ISIS neutron spallation source at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (UK).

安東尼奧·烏爾比納教授現任西班牙納瓦拉公共大學（UPNA）的高級材料和數學研究所（INAMAT2）和科學系。他在太陽能光伏系統的開發上已經有超過20年的經驗，其中大部分時間在卡塔赫納理工大學（UPCT）工作。從他在III-V半導體器件的電子傳輸方面的博士研究開始，他一直致力於太陽能電池的物理研究，涉及多種光伏技術，從商業矽到GaAs，以及與國際研究中心（如倫敦帝國學院、丹麥技術大學和多所西班牙大學和研究中心）合作的新興有機和混合光伏技術。他還在墨西哥、危地馬拉和古巴等發展中國家部署和評估光伏系統，包括大型電網連接電廠和小型獨立系統，用於農村電氣化（他與古巴拉斯維拉斯中央大學合作，於2018年獲得古巴國家科學院獎）。多年來，他專注於開發生命周期評估方法，以評估商業和新興光伏技術的環境影響和可能的瓶頸，以促進其大規模部署。他在國際期刊上發表了60多篇科學文章，參加了多個會議，並擔任國際科學諮詢委員會成員，包括法國拉韋朗琴研究所（ILL）和英國拉瑟福阿普爾頓實驗室的ISIS中子散射源。