Professor Alison Lennon

School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering

Faculty of Engineering,

UNSW Sydney,

Australia, 2052.

Prof. Lennon is an academic in the School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering at UNSW Sydney, Australia. She holds PhDs in Biophysical NMR (University of Sydney, 1995) and Photovoltaic Engineering (UNSW, 2010), was awarded a University Medal (University of Sydney, 1991), an Australian Postgraduate Fellowship (1995) and an ARC Future Fellowship (2017). She has published more than 130 scientific papers and is an inventor of 29 granted US patents.

Prior to her employment at UNSW in 2010, she was employed as a research scientist at Canon Information Systems Research Australia, where she was involved in a range of research ranging from device simulations, development of materials/technology for printing, imaging, display and medical applications. She currently conducts research into silicon solar cell metallisation and interconnection, optical modelling for photovoltaics and high-rate electrochemical storage materials.  She was an Area Chair at the IEEE Photovoltaics Specialist conference in 2018 and 2019, has presented at IEEE TALE conferences, contributes regularly to Women in Engineering events both at UNSW and through the IEEE NSW Education Chapter and is currently is Vice Chair of the IEEE NSW EDS Chapter.