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NGSE 11 coming soon

Next Generation Solar Energy (NGSE) is an international conference series organized by the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) and the Helmholtz Institute Erlangen-Nürnberg for Renewable Energies (HI ERN) in December.

This year’s edition (NGSE 11) will be held from 8th – 9th of December 2026 in Nuremberg, at the EnCN building in Fürtherstraße 250. The conference will include a workshop about the Emerging PV initiative and a poster session. The conference fee will be 100€. This year, the conference will be combined with a workshop by our sponsor, Sciprios.

Invited Speakers:

Derya Baran, KAUST

Donal Bradley, University of Oxford

Stelios Choulis, Cyprus University of Technology

Vincent M. LeCorre, South Denmark University of Technology

Iain Mc Culloch, University of Oxford

Xiaoyan Du, Shandong University

Matthias Fahland, Fraunhofer FEP

Nicola Gasparini, Imperial College

Andreas Gerber, Forschungszentrum Jülich

Fei Guo, Jinan University

Martin Heeney, KAUST

Yi Hou, National University of Singapore

René Janssen, University of Eindhoven

Simon Kahmann, University of Chemnitz

Thomas Kirchartz, Forschungszentrum Jülich

Uli Lemmer, KIT

Ning Li, Soutch China Unversity of Technology

Maria Antonietta Loi, University of Groningen

Gašper Matič, University of Ljubljana

Jie Min, University of Wuhan

Jarla Thiesbrummel, University of Potsdam

Carolin Ulbrich, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin

Registration:

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