People

Principal Investigator

Eric Tervo

Position title: Assistant Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Mechanical Engineering

Eric Tervo is a professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering and of Mechanical Engineering at UW-Madison. He also has a joint appointment with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Prior to joining UW-Madison, he was the Nozik Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, where he designed, fabricated, and characterized thermal energy conversion devices including thermophotovoltaic cells and thermoradiative cells. He completed his Ph.D. at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he developed theoretical and computational methods to study thermal radiation in nanoscale materials. He also worked as an engineer at Southwest Research Institute, where he conducted fluid dynamics research for oil and gas industry applications.

Senior Personnel

Jeremy Kirch

Position title: Research Scientist

Email: jdkirch@wisc.edu

Research Interests: Metalorganic chemical vapor deposition, semiconductor device design, material and device characterization

Yeonghoon Jin

Position title: Research Scientist

Email: jin269@wisc.edu

Research Interests: Active photonic devices, tunable optical materials, thermal emission

Graduate Students

Titilope Dada

Position title: Graduate Research Assistant

Email: tmdada@wisc.edu

Ph.D. Candidate in Electrical Engineering.

Research Interests: Solar cells, sustainable energy, thermophotovoltaics

Yuting Li

Position title: Graduate Research Assistant

Email: yli2423@wisc.edu

Ph.D. Candidate in Electrical Engineering.

Research Interests: III-V semiconductors, microfabrication, thermophotovoltaics

Debarati Sen

Position title: Graduate Research Assistant

Email: debarati.sen@wisc.edu

Ph.D. Candidate in Electrical Engineering

Research Interests: Solid-state electronics, optics and photonics, energy devices