doctoral_advisor institutions birth_place nationality fields birth_date residence image article_title academic_advisors name alma_mater
yoshihiro hamakawa hiroaki okamoto university of toronto osaka university university of stuttgart arak , iran iranian , german electrical engineering electrophysics physics solid state electronics 3 may 1965 toronto , canada wahid.jpg wahid shams kolahi
 werner h. bloss wahid shams-kolahi stuttgart university -lrb- m. sc. , electrical engineering -rrb- osaka university university -lrb- ph.d. , electrical engineering -rrb- -lrb- undergraduate , electrical engineering -rrb- osaka
wahid shams kolahi

wahid shams-kolahi -lrb- persian : وحید شمس کلاهی -rrb- is a scientist and an electrical engineer who is known for his research in photovoltaic related technologies .
dr. shams-kolahi was born in arak , iran in 1965 .
he obtained his undergraduate degree in electrical engineering at university of stuttgart and joined the graduate school of electrical engineering/electrophysics , led by professor werner h. bloss .
he worked under professor bloss with the institute of physical electronics , ipe , and later joined the hamakawa lab of the graduate school of electrical engineering , faculty of engineering science , osaka university , japan , where he obtained his masters degree in 1994 and his ph.d. in 1997 .
while at hamakawa lab , wahid shams-kolahi conducted research on space made materials and their potential for applications such as the absorption layer of solar cells .
the team at hamakawa lab led by shams-kolahi was chosen by the spacelab mission endeavour project , a cooperation between nasa of the united states and the japanese nasda , to study the electrical and optical properties of siaste amorphous - or chalcogenide semiconductors fabricated under microgravity in space as part of endeavour mission sts-47 .
wahid has initiated and conducted research in solid state electronics and the manufacture of thin-film solar cells such as amorphous silicon , cigs and cdte .
