Biography
Heping Shen is a Senior Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer at the Research School of Engineering, Australian National University (ANU). She received her PhD in Materials Science and Engineering at Tsinghua University in 2014. She leads a diverse and dynamic team of over 20 researchers dedicated to perovskite and tandem solar cell research.
She has been recognized with the ANU Future Schemes award in 2023. Her work on solar fuel was selected as one of the top 10 innovations by the Innovation for Cool Earth Forum (ICEF), hosted by the government of Japan in 2020.
Her research has yielded significant advances in the field of solar energy, resulting in 1 book chapter, 2 patents and >90 published articles in top-tier journals, including Nature, Science, Nature Review Materials, Energy Environmental Science, Advanced Energy Materials, and has received significant attention from the international research community with >6500 citations.
Heping’s google scholar page: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=noe_21IAAAAJ&hl=en
Activities & Awards
She has taken lead to secure externally competitively funding of over $16 million (cash). She collaborates extensively with industry and universities both nationally and internationally.
- 2023: Lead CI, “Fundamentals of perovskite”, ANU Future Schemes, $500k.
- 2022: Co-lead CI, “Cost-effective Si/perovskite tandem modules on passivating contact Si cells”, ARENA, $5.2 million (including substantial industry investment from Jinko Solar).
- 2021: CI, “UHV Kelvin Probe with Ambient-Pressure Photoemission Spectroscopy”, ACAP, $423k.
- 2020: Co-lead CI, “Monolithic Si/perovskite tandem solar cell: advanced designs towards high efficiency at low-cost.” ARENA, $1.13 million.
- 2020: CI, “Development of all thin-film PERovskite on CIS TANDem photovoltaics”, European Commission, $8.0 million.
- 2019: CI, “In situ fabrication of polymer/perovskite composite materials by photopolymerization”, Global Research Partnership Scheme, $40k.
- 2019: Lead CI, “Development of upscaling technology for monolithic Si/perovskite tandem photovoltaics”, ACAP collaboration grant, AUD: 60k.
Future Students:
I am actively looking for PhD, Masters and Honours students to work on various projects: device fabrication, characterisation and modelling.
If you are interested on any of my research interests, please contact me directly at heping.shen@anu.edu.au.