RODRÍGUEZ María Jesús
Head of Unit
Photovoltaic Solar Energy Department
Short Bio
National of Spain, she holds a Ph.D in Chemistry. More than twenty five years of experience working in Industry and R&D environments in the Microelectronics, Electronics and PV technology fields. She held responsibilities of Engineering and R&D activities as Technical Manager at AT&T Microelectronics, Lucent Technologies-Bell Labs Innovations (Madrid, Spain); Centro Nacional de Microelectrónica at CSIC (Barcelona, Spain), Piher-NACESA, (Navarra, Spain) and CENER (Navarra, Spain).
During her professional carrier, Dr. Rodríguez applied her strong knowledge in Materials Science and leadership skills for processes and technology development, process and technology transfer into production, project management, as well as quality and process control procedures development and deployment in the microelectronic and photovoltaic fields. Direct responsible for expenses (up to 3.2 M€/yr) and capital investment (up to 10M$), quality assurance, safety, productivity, yield and cost reduction activities on her areas of responsibility. Along her professional carrier, Dr. Rodríguez has been involved as process and technology expert in R&D projects, consultancy services and development of customized projects worldwide.