Dr Pierre J. Verlinden is Managing Director of AMROCK, a PV technology consulting company, Adjunct Professor at the School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering at the University of New South Wales, Australia, as well as Adjunct Professor at Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China, and non-executive director of OxfordPV and BTimaging. Dr Verlinden has been working in the field of photovoltaics for more than 40 years and has published over 200 technical papers and contributed to a number of books.