Eicke Richard Weber (born 28 October 1949 in

Münnerstadt Münnerstadt is a town in the district of Bad Kissingen in Bavaria, Germany. It has a population of around 7,600. Geography It borders on the towns of Burglauer, Bad Bocklet, Nüdlingen, Maßbach, Großbardorf, and Strahlungen. The municipal ter ...

) is a German

physicist A physicist is a scientist who specializes in the field of physics, which encompasses the interactions of matter and energy at all length and time scales in the physical universe. Physicists generally are interested in the root or ultimate caus ...

Life

Scientific activity

Weber grew up from 1955 in

Cologne Cologne ( ; german: Köln ; ksh, Kölle ) is the largest city of the German western States of Germany, state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and the List of cities in Germany by population, fourth-most populous city of Germany with 1.1 m ...

, where he also took his Abitur. He studied mathematics and physics at the

University of Cologne The University of Cologne (german: Universität zu Köln) is a university in Cologne, Germany. It was established in the year 1388 and is one of the most prestigious and research intensive universities in Germany. It was the sixth university to ...

from 1967. After graduating in 1972, he took on an assistant position at the

RWTH Aachen RWTH Aachen University (), also known as North Rhine-Westphalia Technical University of Aachen, Rhine-Westphalia Technical University of Aachen, Technical University of Aachen, University of Aachen, or ''Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hoch ...

and finished his

doctorate A doctorate (from Latin ''docere'', "to teach"), doctor's degree (from Latin ''doctor'', "teacher"), or doctoral degree is an academic degree awarded by universities and some other educational institutions, derived from the ancient formalism ''l ...

in physics in 1976 with the topic ''Point Defects in Deformed Silicon'' and received his

Ph.D. A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, Ph.D., or DPhil; Latin: or ') is the most common degree at the highest academic level awarded following a course of study. PhDs are awarded for programs across the whole breadth of academic fields. Because it is a ...

His

habilitation Habilitation is the highest university degree, or the procedure by which it is achieved, in many European countries. The candidate fulfills a university's set criteria of excellence in research, teaching and further education, usually including a ...

followed in 1983 with the topic ''Transition Metals in Silicon''. Weber joined the faculty of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering,

University of California The University of California (UC) is a public land-grant research university system in the U.S. state of California. The system is composed of the campuses at Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Merced, Riverside, San Diego, San Francisco, ...

, Berkeley, first as Assistant in 1983, than Associate and since 2001 as Full Professor, and stayed there for 23 years, until he accepted in 2006 a call from the

Fraunhofer society The Fraunhofer Society (german: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V., lit=Fraunhofer Society for the Advancement of Applied Research) is a German research organization with 76institutes spread throughout Germany ...

. He spent one research semester each as a

visiting professor In academia, a visiting scholar, visiting researcher, visiting fellow, visiting lecturer, or visiting professor is a scholar from an institution who visits a host university to teach, lecture, or perform research on a topic for which the visitor ...

at Tōhoku-Gakuin University in

Sendai is the capital Cities of Japan, city of Miyagi Prefecture, the largest city in the Tōhoku region. , the city had a population of 1,091,407 in 525,828 households, and is one of Japan's 20 Cities designated by government ordinance of Japan, desig ...

, and

Kyoto University , mottoeng = Freedom of academic culture , established = , type = National university, Public (National) , endowment = ¥ 316 billion (2.4 1000000000 (number), billion USD) , faculty = 3,480 (Teaching Staff) , administrative_staff ...

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

. In Berkeley, he served 2004–06 as founding Chair of the Interdisciplinary Nanoscale Science and Engineering Graduate Group. From July 2006 to December 2016, he was director of the

Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems The Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE (or Fraunhofer ISE) is an institute of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft. Located in Freiburg, Germany, The Institute performs applied scientific and engineering research and development for all a ...

(ISE) in

Freiburg Freiburg im Breisgau (; abbreviated as Freiburg i. Br. or Freiburg i. B.; Low Alemannic: ''Friburg im Brisgau''), commonly referred to as Freiburg, is an independent city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. With a population of about 230,000 (as o ...

, Germany. In addition to his position as Director of ISE, he held the Chair of Physics/Solar Energy at the

Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg The University of Freiburg (colloquially german: Uni Freiburg), officially the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg (german: Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg), is a public research university located in Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemb ...

. From 2012 to 2016, he served also as executive director of the Centre for Renewable Energies at the University of Freiburg. He then worked as the Director of the Berkeley Education Alliance for Research in

Singapore Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, borde ...

(BEARS) from January 2017 to May 2018. In 2002, Weber and colleagues founded the (GSO), of which he remains president today. In 2013, he and colleagues founded the German Energy Storage Association, until 2016 he was BVES President, since then Honorary President. In 2016, he was appointed to the Economic Senate of the German Association of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses (BVMW), since March 2020 he is heading the BVMW Commission for Energy and Sustainable Economy. In the course of his scientific work, he has authored or co-authored 618 papers.

Politics

In 2016, he ran unsuccessfully for the Free Democratic Party in the state elections in

Baden-Württemberg Baden-Württemberg (; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a German state () in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France. With more than 11.07 million inhabitants across a ...

in the electoral district Freiburg II. He is co-president of the European Solar Manufacturing Council (ESMC), an interest group of companies and research institutions for the production of photovoltaic systems in the

European Union The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe. The union has a total area of and an estimated total population of about 447million. The EU has often been des ...

. As such, he considers the complete supply of Germany by green electricity by 2030 to be plausible, provided that appropriate measures are taken.

Offices

* since 2003: President of the German Scholars Organization * 2004–2006: Chair of the Berkeley Nanoscale Science and Engineering Graduate Group * 2008–2014: Director of the

SEMI SEMI is an industry association comprising companies involved in the electronics design and manufacturing supply chain. They provide equipment, materials and services for the manufacture of semiconductors, photovoltaic panels, LED and flat panel ...

International Board of Directors * 2008–2012 Member of the

Meyer Burger Meyer Burger, headquartered in Thun, (Switzerland), is a globally active mechanical engineering company, which is primarily known for its production facilities in the photovoltaic industry. Meyer Burger develops and produces systems with which s ...

Board of Directors, from 2010 of the Technology Advisory Board * 2011–2013: Member of the Q-Cells Supervisory Board * 2013–2016: President of the German Energy Storage Association (BVES), since then Honorary President * 2015–2017: President, Association of European Renewable Energy Research Centers (EUREC) * since 2019: co-president of the European Solar Manufacturing Council (ESMC)

Awards

* 1994: Humboldt-Senior US Scientist Award * 2001: Fellow of the

American Physical Society The American Physical Society (APS) is a not-for-profit membership organization of professionals in physics and related disciplines, comprising nearly fifty divisions, sections, and other units. Its mission is the advancement and diffusion of k ...

* 2006:

Bundesverdienstkreuz The Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (german: Verdienstorden der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, or , BVO) is the only federal decoration of Germany. It is awarded for special achievements in political, economic, cultural, intellect ...

am Bande * 2009: Honorary member of the Joffe-Institute (PTI) of the

Russian Academy of Sciences The Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS; russian: Росси́йская акаде́мия нау́к (РАН) ''Rossíyskaya akadémiya naúk'') consists of the national academy of Russia; a network of scientific research institutes from across t ...

St. Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

, Russia * 2009: Electronics and Photonics Division Award of the

Electrochemical Society The Electrochemical Society is a learned society (professional association) based in the United States that supports scientific inquiry in the field of electrochemistry and solid-state science and related technology. The Society membership compris ...

(ECS),

San Francisco San Francisco (; Spanish language, Spanish for "Francis of Assisi, Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the List of Ca ...

* 2010: Member of the Deutsche Akademie der Technikwissenschaften (ACATECH) * 2013: ''Einstein Award'' of ''Solar World'' * 2014: ''Fraunhofer-Medaille'' * 2015: Walter-Scheel-Preis of the

Friedrich Naumann Foundation The Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom (german: Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung für die Freiheit) (''FNF''), is a German foundation for liberal politics, related to the Free Democratic Party. Established in 1958 by Theodor Heuss, the first pres ...

for Freedom * 2016: Rudolf-Jaeckel-Preis of the Deutsche Vakuumgesellschaft * 2018: Lifetime Achievement Award, International Solar Business Club SBCClean Tech Business Club

Publications (selection)

* (ed.) ''PV rollout. Boston, USA, February 10th/11th, 2011. European American Solar Deployment Conference.'' OTTI, Regensburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-941785-52-6. * ''Punktfehler in verformtem Silizium.'' Cologne, Univ., Diss., 1976.

Articles

* with S. Glunz, H. M. Henning, A. Palzer, R. Schindler: ''Low-cost Harvesting of Solar Energy. The Future of Global Photovoltaics'', in: G. Eisenstein, D. Bimberg (ed.): ''Green Photonics and Electronics'', Springer International, Heidelberg 2018, p. 215–262. * with N. M. Haegel, R. Margolis, T. Buonassisi, D. Feldman, A. Froitzheim, R. Garabedian, M. Green, S. Glunz, H. M. Henning, B. Holder, I. Kaizuka, B. Kroposki, K. Matsubara, S. Niki, K. Sakurai, R. A. Schindler, W. Tumas, G. Wilson, M. Woodhouse, S. Kurtz: ''Terawatt-scale Photovoltaics. Trajectories and Challenges'', in: ''

Science Science is a systematic endeavor that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe. Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earliest archeological evidence for ...

'' 356, 141 (2017). * with T. Buonassisi, A. A. Istratov, M. A. Marcus, B. Lai, Z. Cai, S. M. Heald: ''Engineering metal-impurity nanodefects for low-cost solar cells'', in: ''Nature Materials'' 4, 676 (2005). * ''Understanding Defects in Semiconductors as Key to Advancing Device Technology'', in: ''Physica'' B340-342, 1 (2003) (Plenary opening talk of ICDS-22). * with M. H. Huang, S. Mao, H. Feick, H. Yan, Y. Wu, H. Kind, R. Russo, P. D. Yang: ''Room-Temperature Ultraviolet Nanowire Nanolasers'', in: ''Science'' 292, 1897 (2001). * with M. H. Huang, Y. Wu, H. Feick, N. Tran, P. Yang: ''Catalytic Growth of Zinc Oxide Nanowires by Vapor Transport'', in: ''Adv. Mater.'' 13, 113 (2001). * with C. Flink, H. Feick, S. A. McHugo, W. Seifert, H. Hieslmair, T. Heiser, A. A. Istratov: ''Out-Diffusion and Precipitation of Copper in Silicon. An Electrostatic Model'', in: ''

Phys. Rev. Lett. ''Physical Review Letters'' (''PRL''), established in 1958, is a peer-reviewed, scientific journal that is published 52 times per year by the American Physical Society. As also confirmed by various measurement standards, which include the ''Jou ...

'' 85, 4900 (2000). * with A. A. Istratov, C. Flink, H. Hieslmair, T. Heiser: ''Intrinsic Diffusion Coefficient of Interstitial Copper in Silicon'', in: ''Phys. Rev. Lett.'' 81, 1243 (1998). * with J. F. Zheng, X. Liu, N. Newman, D. F. Ogletree, M. Salmeron: ''Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Studies of Si Donors in GaAs'', in: ''Phys. Rev. Lett.'' 72, 1490 (1994). * with D. Gilles, S. Hahn: ''Mechanism of Internal Gettering of Interstitial Impurities in Czochralski-Grown Silicon'', in: ''Phys. Rev. Lett.'' 64, 196 (1990). * with K. S. Jones, S. Prussin: ''A Systematic Analysis of Defects in Ion Implanted Silicon'', in: '' Appl. Phys. A'' 45, 1 (1988). * with W. E. Spicer, Z. Liliental-Weber, N. Newman, T. Kendelewicz, R. Cao, C. McCants, P. H. Mahowald, K. Miyano, I. Lindau: ''The Advanced Unified Defect Model for Schottky Barrier Formation'', in: ''J. Vac. Sci. Techn.'' B 6, 1245 (1988). * with K. Khachaturyan, P. Tejedor, A. M. Stacey, A. M. Portis: ''Microwave Observation of Magnetic Field Penetration of high-Tc Superconducting Oxides'', in: '' Phys. Rev. B'' 36, 8309 (1987). * ''Transition Metals in Silicon'', in: ''Appl. Phys.'' A 30, 1 (1983). * with H. Ennen, U. Kaufmann, J. Windscheif, J. Schneider, T. Wosinski: ''Identification of AsGa Antisites in Plastically Deformed GaAs'', in: ''J. Appl. Phys.'' 53, 6140 (1982).

References

External links

* * ''Paving The Way During The CleanTech Decade'', Interview, October 11, 2021
#Declaration2030: Paving The Way During The CleanTech Decade, Prof. Eicke R. Weber, CBC Chair of WCA
* ''Invitation to the 1st World CleanTech Week eConvention'', March 27, 2020
The 1st World CleanTech Week eConvention, Chairman Message by Prof. Eicke R. Weber
* ''Joint Declaration of the Global 100%RE Strategy Group'', February 2020
Joint Declaration of The Global 100% RE Strategy Group at CleanTech Business Club Thought Leaders
* ''Solar Disruption has just begun'', September 17, 2020
First World Solar Technology Summit
* ''The Global Energy Transformation – A Challenge for Science, Technology and Politics.'' Lecture in Berkeley: View from the Top, August 29, 2014
View from the Top: Eicke Weber, Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems
* ''The Future of Solar Energy, Eco13'', July 21, 2013
ECO13 Berlin: Prof. Eicke Weber, Fraunhofer ISE
{{DEFAULTSORT:Weber, Eicke 1949 births Academic staff of the University of Freiburg University of California, Berkeley staff German physicists 20th-century German physicists 21st-century German physicists Living people