Professor Sarah Kurtz, former senior research fellow at the National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) and now a...

Dr. Parikhit Sinha from First Solar—the only solar manufacturer to bring thin-film solar panels to the gigawatt scale (so far...looking...

Lisa Fischer of E3G—Third Generation Environmentalism—joins STEMoirs. We  look back at the influences that brought her to work on climate economics and polic...

Professor Anna Fontcuberta i Morral from the Laboratory of Semiconductor Materials at EPFL in Switzerland joins STEMoirs. We hear about her journey from growing up in the outskirts of...

Dr. Camilla Jensen joins STEMoirs. She is the founder of InterPlay, LLC where she uses her background in industrial design engineering, Lean Startup methods, and expertise in LEGO® Serious Play® facilitation to enable organizations to secure gr...

Dr. Albert Polman, professor of photonic materials for photovoltaics at the University of Amsterdam, joins STEMoirs. We hear about his scientific journey, the thoughtful questions he asked him...

Eva Pettinato, a guidance, navigation, and controls aerospace engineer, joins STEMoirs. She tells us about her path becoming a rocket scientist and engineer—which started with her belief that engineers only drive trains, but led to her double c...

On this episode of STEMoirs, Dr. Amanda Youssef talks about her journey from Lebanon to MIT, the cultural differences of working in Germany and France (hint: may involve sunbathing after work and hiking on weekends), and now living on the west ...

We're back! For now. Here's a quick update about what's been happening over this past year for me, the host, Sebastian Husein. New episodes coming out soon :)Music credits:RetroFuture Clean and Furious Freak by Kevin MacLeod...

Back in August of 2020, Professor Giulia Tagliabue sat down with Sebastian to discuss her life as a scientist, including her time at Caltech, her work in photocatalysis, her thoughts on diversity, and her love of rock climbing. Professo...

Sebastian sits down with Rebecca Saive, assistant professor at the University of Twente and Co-founder and CTO of Effectively Transparent Contacts (ETC) Solar. We hear how her first interactions with kitchen experiments and solar cells as a chi...

Sebastian is joined by the notorious M.I.B. - Mariana I. Bertoni, a professor at Arizona State University in the School of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering. We hear why she owns a brewery in Minnesota, the influences that guided her...

Professor Zak Holman from Arizona State University joins Sebastian to talk about his cats, his research in photovoltaic devices and solar energy, and his time as a post-doc in Switzerland. With special guest appearance from "El Chapo". ...

A "quick" update about the future of the podcast and what we hope to accomplish. Moving forward, the podcast will mainly be hosted by Sebastian Husein. Guests on the show will still be mostly from the solar energy research community for now, bu...

Sebastian Husein and Joe Karas talk to Professor Alex Freundlich from the University of Houston about solar cells made from moon dust, cutting frozen chickens with sunlight, and why flies in your vacuum deposition chambers can make your results...

This is an archived episode of STEMoirs, previously called PodQESST. Sebastian Husein speaks with Abhishek Iyer, Ph.D. candidate from the University of Delaware and co-founder of solar energy startup SHIO, winner of the 2018 LaunchR clean t...

Sebastian Husein talks to David Needell at the California Institute of Technology about tiny, luminscent balls for solar cells, the 2018 World Conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion held in Hawaii, and how David might be inadvertently cau...

This is an archived episode of STEMoirs, previously called PodQESST. Joe and Sebastian interview Simone Bernardini, Ph.D. in Materials Science at Arizona State University. They discuss electron lifetimes in silicon for solar cell applic...

This is an archived episode of STEMoirs, previously called PodQESST.Joe and Sebastian chat with April Jeffries, a Ph.D. in Materials Science at Arizona State University, and Chief Technical Officer and co-founder of start-up company Reactiv...

This is an archived episode of STEMoirs, previously called PodQESST. Sebastian and Joe meet with Pablo Guimera Coll from the Canary Islands in Spain, winner of the 2015 National Science Foundation "Perfect Pitch" competition, co-founder of ...

This is an archived episode of STEMoirs, previously called PodQESST.Sebastian and Joe are joined by Tara Nietzold, who discusses her work as a Ph.D. student using synchrotron x-rays on CIGS solar cells, what it's like working at a national ...

This is an archived episode of STEMoirs, previously called PodQESST. Sebastian and Joe meet with Rebecca Glaudell, Ph.D. candidate at the California Institute of Technology. She discusses how she got started in graduate school, her work...

This is an archived episode of STEMoirs, previously called PodQESST. Meet the podcast hosts! Sebastian Husein and Joe Karas, Ph.D. candidates at Arizona State University, sit down to chat about how they got into graduate school and their re...