Mathieu Bellanger

Before co-founding Lightricity, Mathieu Bellanger has been a Senior Researcher/Project Lead at SHARP Laboratories of Europe. He holds a physics and engineering degree from the French "Grande école" Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA) of Toulouse together with a master's degree in Nanophysics from the University of Paul Sabatier (Toulouse). With over 9 years of experience at SHARP, he has worked on various R&D projects covering a wide range of photovoltaic device technologies, for flat plate, CPV, space, and IoT applications. As one main inventor of the PV energy harvester, he has led the development and prototyping of this EH technology, and successfully transferred it to mass manufacturing facilities. He has also secured a high level of funding and led several UK and European collaborative projects within SHARP and Lightricity.