Dr. Nicolas Calvet is an assistant professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the Masdar Institute, Khalifa University in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE) since 2013.  He is the founder and chair of the Masdar Institute Solar Platform (MISP), the first facility in the UAE dedicated to concentrated solar power (CSP), thermal energy storage (TES), and atmospheric water generation (AWG) Research Development & Demonstration.  In parallel, he is the co-founder and CEO of Seramic Materials Limited, a UAE-based startup company, pioneer in recycled ceramics.  Finally, he is representing the UAE at the SolarPACES Executive Committee, a technology collaboration program from the International Energy Agency (IEA).

Dr. Calvet has a BS in Physics and an M.S. in Sciences & Technologies (Solar Energy) from the University of Perpignan Via Domitia (UPVD) in France.  Then he obtained his Ph.D. in Engineering Sciences (Energy and Environment) in 2010 at the PROMES CNRS Laboratory in France.  In 2011, he joined the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in the USA working as a postdoctoral researcher in the CSP group.  In 2012, he worked at the CIC Energigune Energy Cooperative Research Centre in Spain in the TES group before moving to Abu Dhabi.