Giles Eperon

When Giles is not in the lab working on his passion for solar power and a sustainable future, he can normally be found climbing a rock, mountain or sheet of ice. Giles received an MSc in Physics from the University of Bristol, and subsequently joined Sharp Laboratories of Europe as a graduate researcher. During two years at Sharp, Giles worked on a variety of electronic and optoelectronic device research, finding his passion for solar power along the way there. He thus took the controversial step of going back to grad school and pursued a PhD at the University of Oxford. There, he worked on perovskite solar cells since their inception in 2012 and developed new materials and device architectures. He joined the University of Washington in 2016, gaining a joint Marie Curie fellowship with the University of Cambridge, where he continued his work on all-perovskite tandems in collaboration with colleagues at Stanford and Oxford. Prior to Swift, he was most recently a staff scientist at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in CO. Giles’ work has been published over 70 times, garnering over 19,000 citations. Giles was named a 2016 Forbes ’30 under 30’ fellow in Energy and one of Clarivate’s 2017 Highly Cited Researchers.