Yanek Hebting

Biography

Yanek joined Dyesol as a Research Scientist in 2006. After having successfully scaled up to multi-kilogram level the production of panchromatic Ruthenium complexes, fulfilling Dyesol’s largest ever order of Ruthenium Dye for the Welsh based DSC manufacturer G24i, he was promoted to Project Leader in the Materials Group.  Presently, he is Head of Production and is leading Dyesol’s chemical materials commercial production. He is simultaneously driving Dyesol’s efforts to scale up and expand the chemical manufacturing capabilities of novel 3rd generation PV materials by developing and applying cost effective optimised synthesis procedures.He holds a Masters Honours in Organic and Supramolecular Chemistry and a PhD in Organic Chemistry from the Université Louis Pasteur in Strasbourg, France. He conducted his post-doctoral work at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was a Research Fellow funded by the American Chemical Society (ACS PRF recipient 2004). In 2005, he recipient of the MIT-France Seed Fund and in 2006, he received the Best Paper of the Year Award for his PhD work from the Geochemical Society.

Research Interest

Organic and Supramolecular Chemistry,Geochemical Society, chemical manufacturing, 3rd generation PV materials.