Dr. Gudrun Kocher-Oberlehner

I was born in Austria and studied Technical Physics at the Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Austria. I did my Ph.D. in optoelectronics on Erbium doped Silicon LEDs. After PostDoc positions at the Tyndall National Institute in Cork, Ireland, where I worked on photonic chrystals, I came to the UK and worked on 3rd generation solar cells (Heriot-Watt university) and Nano-structures for biomedical applications (Glasgow University). I became Assistant Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Heriot-Watt University (Edinburgh, Scotland) in 2012, before moving to UCR’s new engineering team in 2019. My main interests is in Energy in all its forms, but specifically in the form of solar cells, Renewable Electricity Generation, Energy Systems, Demand Management and Energy Storage. Besides my main reserch interest, I am also fascinated by the concept of circular economy, which is an essential part of sustainability imho and in all possible uses for mycellium.