Ryne P. Raffaelle

Dr. Ryne P.
Raffaelle is the Vice President for Research and Associate Provost at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT).
He is the former Director of the National Center for Photovoltaics at the National Renewable Energy Lab of the U.S.
Department of Energy.
Prior to serving at NREL, he was the Academic Director for the Golisano Institute for Sustainability and Director of the NanoPower Research Laboratory at RIT.
He has worked as a visiting scientist at the NASA-Glenn Research Center, NASA Kennedy Research Center, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
He is the author of over 200 refereed publications and is the Managing Editor of Progress in Photovoltaics, published by Wiley Interscience.
He has a Ph.D.
in Physics from University of Missouri-Rolla, and B.S and M.S.
in Physics from Southern Illinois University.