Tonio Buonassisi
SMA Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and ManufacturingRoom 35-213
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge MA 02139-4307
Phone: 617-324-5130
Email: buonassisi@mit.edu
Web: http://pv.mit.edu
Administrative Contact:
Richard Brickman
Room 35-211
Phone: 617-324-4336
Email: rwbrick@mit.edu
Tonio Buonassisi, assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, heads an interdisciplinary laboratory focused on photovoltaics (solar energy conversion into electricity). Prof. Buonassisi completed his Ph.D. research at UC Berkeley, with emphasis on understanding and controlling metal- related defects in multicrystalline silicon solar cell materials. Subsequently, he became a crystal growth scientist at the ribbon- silicon-producing Evergreen Solar, Inc. (Marlborough, Massachusetts), where he aided the development of the next generation crystal growth furnace and spearheaded cross-team efforts to improve solar cell efficiency and mechanical yield in crystal growth and cell fabrication. Prof. Buonassisi was also a visiting scientist at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (Freiburg, Germany), and at the Max-Planck-Institute for Microstructure Physics (Halle, Germany). Aside from teaching classes focusing on photovoltaic technologies, Prof. Buonassisi is author or co-author on 58 journal, conference, and workshop articles focused on PV, and has delivered over 33 invited talks and plenary/oral presentations on his work in the United States, Europe, and Asia. His work has been honored with numerous awards, including European Materials Research Society Young Scientist Presentation Award, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Graduate Research Fellowship, and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory Graduate Student Award.
