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Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Michael Graetzel directs the laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces. He pioneered research on nano-materials and their energy related applications. He discovered a new type of solar cell based on dye sensitized nanocrystalline oxide particles. Author of over 500 publications, two books and over 40 patents he was an invited professor at the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Tokyo, the Ecole National Supérieur de Paris and the Delft University of Technology. He has received numerous awards including the Millenium 2000 European innovation price, the 2001 Faraday Medal of the British Royal Society, the 2001 Dutch Havinga Award, the 2002 IBC award in Supramolecular Science and Technology, the 2003 Italgas Prize and McKinsey Venture awards in 1998 and 2002. He is holding a doctors degree from the TU Berlin and honorary doctors degrees from the Universities of Uppsala and Turin. | 