On 1^st of June 2021 Prof. Elizabeth von Hauff from Canada (PPRE 2000-01) became New Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Organic Electronics, Electron Beam and Plasma Technology FEP in Dresden, Germany and at the same time was appointed to the Technische Universität Dresden (TUD), Chair of…

Gourab Banerjee from India (EUREC 2013-14), who works at the Fraunhofer IEE, describes his experience at PESS 2021 where he served as a review chair.

Jonas Stührenberg, Germany (PPRE 2012-14), who presently has research position at DLR-VE, Oldenburg, wrote about the development of OLEGENO within the last 10 years.

Dr. Butchaiah Gadde (India, PPRE 01-02), Mahfuzur Rahman (Bangladesh, PPRE 13-15) and Heang Bora (Cambodia, PPRE 01-02) recently met in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Fatuma Ali, Stakeholder Lead for Energy Communities at Grid Singularity GmbH, attended the Enlit Europe 2021 conference (formerly European Utility Week) in Milan last November. Fatuma is originally from Kenya and is a 2016/2018 graduate of the PPRE programme.

EUREC alumnus, Rishabh Ghotge, recently set up a start-up, Heliostrome, to develop software for the better design of solar irrigation systems. Currently doing a PhD at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, Ghotge aims to quicken the energy transition by shifting from diesel to solar…