Dr. Alex Mellor

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Dr. Alex Mellor is Director of Engineering at Naked Energy. He started out in solar R&D, before joining Naked Energy in 2018, where his role spans product development, customer engagement and project delivery. Following a lifelong passion for solar, he has become fascinated by how we use heat across society, and how innovative technology can be brought to bear on its decarbonisation. Prior to joining Naked Energy, Alex was a Marie-Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow at Imperial College, and a visiting researcher at Fraunhofer-Institut, Germany; he holds a PhD in Solar Energy Technology from the Institute of Solar Energy in Madrid, Spain. Alex has authored 2 patents and 21 published papers on PV-T technology, high-efficiency PV, off-grid systems for rural areas and PV for space power, as well as a book on quantum solar cells. His passion for outreach saw him perform spectroscopy on the 16th century armour of Lord Buckhursts for the Wallace Collection, as well as deliver a series of solar-energy workshops at local schools, which he is now re-purposing for his 4-year-old son.