Teresa Barnes is a Principal Scientist, the Director of the National Center for Photovoltaics and DuraMAT Consortium for module materials research, and a Distinguished Member of the Research Staff at NREL. DuraMAT focuses on PV module and system reliability, including accelerated test development, materials and interface modeling, reliability forecasting, sustainability, and field performance.
Teresa has worked in PV at NREL for 20 years on thin-film PV, flexible devices, reliability and sustainability. She is recently completed a detail to the Loan Programs Office of DOE as a technical advisor on clean energy manufacturing and deployment. She is a Chemical Engineer with a PhD from the Colorado School of Mines and a BS from the University of Maryland.