Dr Kittessa Roro
Roro’s research interests are photovoltaic technologies across the entire value chain, solar resource assessment and forecasting, integration of solar technologies to the grid, and renewable energy.
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Roro undertakes photovoltaic technology research and is instrumental in growing the CSIR’s photovoltaic technology domain experience and knowledge. He holds a PhD in physics from the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, obtained in 2008. He joined the CSIR in 2015 and was appointed as a senior researcher focusing on energy. Roro led the development of the Solar Energy Technology Research, Development and Innovation Roadmap for South Africa, a study commissioned by the Department of Science and Technology.
Expertise: Photovoltaic technologies
- BSc (Physics and Mathematics), Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia,1999
- BSc (Honours) (Physics), University of Johannesburg, 2002
- MSc (Physics), University of Johannesburg, 2004
- PhD (Physics), Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2008
