Dr. Puvaneswaran Chelvanathan is a Senior Lecturer at the Solar Energy Research Institute (SERI), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM). He obtained B.Eng. (Microelectronics) (2009), M.Sc. (Electrical, Electronic and Systems Engineering) (2012) and Ph.D. (Renewable Energy) (2016) from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM). Prior to joining as a research fellow, he served as a post-doctoral research fellow in SERI for almost 3 years. He has been working on thin film solar cell science and technology since 2008. His primary research focus is on developing earth-abundant, low-cost, high-scalable thin film solar photovoltaic technology for terawatt deployment.