Jens A. Hauch received the B.A. degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA, in 1992, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA, in 1998, both in physics. Since 2002, he has been active in the development of PV technologies in various positions at Siemens AG, Konarka Technologies, Energie Campus Nuremberg and ZAE Bayern. Currently he is the Head of the Research Unit “High Throughput Methods in Photovoltaics” at the Helmholtz Institute Erlangen-Nürnberg for Renewable Energies.