NREL's Kazmerski elected to National Academy of Engineering

Larry Kazmerski, director of the National Center for Photovoltaics at the US Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in the US state of Colorado, has been elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NEA). 

© photon-pictures.com Larry Kazmerski: Known in solar energy circles as »Kaz,«  the director of the NCPV has added membership in the NEA to his list of accomplishments.

Membership in the NEA is considered one of the highest honors accorded an engineer, bestowed on those in the profession who have made outstanding contributions to engineering research, practice, or education, and to the pioneers of new and developing fields of technology. In 1977, Kazmerski became the first staff member in photovoltaics at NREL's predecessor, the Solar Energy Research Institute (SERI). 

Kazmerski received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Notre Dame in 1970, and was on the faculty of the University of Maine. He has held adjunct professorships at the University of Colorado, Colorado School of Mines, and the University of Denver. Kazmerski has published more than 290 journal papers in the areas of solar cells, thin films, semiconductor materials and devices, surface and interface analysis, scanning probe microscopy, nanoscale technology, high-temperature superconductivity, and semiconductor defects. An author and editor of four books, Kazmerski is editor-in-chief of the Elsevier journal, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. He has three R&D 100 Awards. 

William P. Hirshman
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