The US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) recently named leaders in the renewable energy field as center directors.The appointments are as follows: 

Paul Basore, director of NREL’s Materials Applications and Performance Center
Basore has contributed to the establishment of photovoltaic research development facilities on three continents, including work at Sandia National Laboratories on multicrystalline silicon; a pilot line for Pacific Solar in Sydney, Australia; the CSG Solar factory in Germany; a photovoltaic solar laboratory for the Renewable Energy Corporation of Norway and a PV research and development lab in Silicon Valley for Hanwha.Basore earned his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has contributed to world-record solar cell efficiencies and is the developer of widely used software tools for solar cell simulation and solar cost estimations.

Haegel previously served as director of the Center for Materials Science at the Navy Postgraduate School, where she also was distinguished professor of physics. She earned her Ph.D. in materials science and engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. Haegel said NREL’s Materials Science Center has an outstanding, nationally recognized staff working to advance materials science discovery and problem-solving for current and next-generation photovoltaics and other renewable and energy-efficient technologies.

Jao van de Lagemaat, director of Chemistry and Nanoscience