• Skip to content
  • Skip to primary global navigation
  • Skip to secondary global navigation
  • Skip to site navigation
Loughborough University
Choose a location to search
  • Students
  • Staff
  • Alumni
  • Jobs
  • Study
  • Research and Innovation
  • Sport
  • News and events
  • About
Media Centre
  • Press releases
  • Experts
  1. University home
  2. Media Centre
  3. Experts
  4. Walls, Michael
  • Press releases
  • Experts
  • Videos
  • Podcasts
  • Facts and figures
  • Media downloads
  • Filming on campus
  • Globelynx
  • Contact PR team
  • Media training resources for Loughborough University staff

Professor Michael Walls

Professor of Photovoltaics for Power Systems

Areas of expertise

Solar energy, photovoltaics device research, thin film photovoltaics

Profile

Michael Walls is Professor of Photovoltaics for Power Systems in the Centre for Renewable Energy Systems Technology (CREST). He is responsible for photovoltaics device research within CREST and his research focus is in thin film photovoltaics.

He is a member of the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) UK PV Strategy Group and Co-Chair of its Innovation Task Force.  He is a member of several Solar Energy Industry bodies including SEII and SESSIG.  He is a member of the International Advisory Board of the IEEE Photovoltaics Specialist Conference (PVSC). He is an active member of the Ion and Plasma Surface Interactions (IPSI) Group of the Institute of Physics and is organizer of the “Advances in Photovoltaics” meeting held annually in London.

He has been responsible for more than 100 publications including 3 books and 15 patents. He is currently Chairman of Applied Thermal Control Ltd which he co-founded in 1995. He is a non-executive Director of Power Vision Ltd, which he co-founded in 2009.  In 2014, he became a member of the Advisory Board for The Solar Cloth Company Ltd.

Interview booking

Please call the press office on +44 (0)1509 223491 to arrange an interview with Professor Michael Walls. Bookings can also be made online at Globelynx.

All experts

Study

  • Undergraduate study
  • Postgraduate study
  • Research degrees
  • London campus
  • Order prospectus
  • Open days
  • How to apply
  • Admission policies and procedures

Using our site / legal

  • Accessibility
  • Privacy and cookies
  • Legal information
  • Ethical principles
  • Modern slavery statement
  • Freedom of information

Explore

  • Our Strategy
  • Working for us
  • International
  • Schools and departments
  • Professional services
  • Library
  • University Governance
  • Giving to Loughborough
  • Media Centre

Students and staff

  • Current students and staff
  • LEARN
  • Fees, Funding and Money
  • Pay your fees

Locations

Loughborough University
  • Find us
  • Campus map
  • Contact us
Loughborough University London
  • Find us
  • Contact us
Facebook Twitter Instagram TikTok YouTube LinkedIn
Back to top
Copyright © 2023 Loughborough University. All rights reserved.