Daniel Lincot

Daniel Lincot is an ESPCI engineer. He began his research into photovoltaics in 1978 and joined the CNRS in 1980 at Chimie Paristech-PSL, devoting his PhD in science to the photoelectrochemistry of semiconductors before turning his attention to the study of electrochemical processes for the development of thin films and interfaces for photovoltaics. In 2002, he founded IRDEP in Chatou with EDF, the CNRS, and ChimieParistech, with the aim of developing CIGS solar cells prepared by electrolysis for industrial use. This led to the creation of NEXCIS by EDF in 2009. Daniel Lincot went on to create IPVF, where he served as scientific director from its creation in 2013 until 2019. In 2021, he co-founded the startup SOYPV, which aims to manufacture thin-film tandem cells in France using electrochemistry. He was a visiting professor at the Collège de France in 2021-2022 on the Liliane Bettencourt Chair of Industrial Innovation. He joined the Académie des Technologies in 2023. In 2024, he received the Electrochemical Society's Vittorio de Nora Grand Prize and the European Edmond Becquerel Prize for photovoltaics. He is Director of Research Emeritus at the CNRS within UMR 9006 at the IPVF.