Stefan Krauter
Stefan Krauter (born 1963 in Göppingen, Germany) is a German engineer working in renewable energy. He specializes in photovoltaics, the direct conversion of sunlight into electricity. He is a professor at the University of Paderborn. Education. From 1982 until 1988 Krauter studied Electrical Engineering at the University of Technology Munich (TUM). During 1989 until 1994 he served as scientific assistant at University of Technology Berlin (TUB) at the Institute for Electrical Engineering. In 1993 he completed his Ph.D. thesis about the optical, thermal and electrical operation model for photovoltaic modules at TUB undr Rolf Hanitsch. In the beginning  of 1994 he was a postdoc with Martin Green at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia. In 1996 he co-found Solon AG, the first cooperation for solar technology in Germany that went public (in 1997). In 1998 he achieved habilitation from University of Technology Berlin with a thesis about the "energy and CO balance of photovoltaic power stations". Career. From 1998 until 2005 he held the position of a visiting professor for Alternative Energies at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ-COPPE-EE) and at the State University of Ceará (UECE) in Brazil. In 1999  he found in Rio de Janeiro "Riosolar Ltd", a company for planning, installation and operation of photovoltaic energy supply systems. In 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2012 and 2015 he chaired and organized "RIO - World Climate & Energy Events" (climate protection via sustainable energies) and the "Latin America Renewable Energy Fair" (LAREF). Since 2005 he is associate professor for Photovoltaic Energy Systems at Technischen Universität Berlin. In 2006 he founded together with Paul Grunow, Sven Lehmann, and Jürgen Arp the Photovoltaic Institute Berlin AG ("PI-Berlin AG"). From 2008 until 2010 he has been full professor for Photovoltaic Energy Systems at  the University of Applied Sciences Biberach. Since 2010 he is a full professor and co-director of the Institute for Sustainable Energy Concepts at the University of Paderborn.