Mikael Maritz

Mikael Maritz is from South Africa but completed his bachelor’s degree in physics from Saint Olaf College in the USA. During his summers he interned for the battery group at Consulting Engineers Group, an electrical engineering company in Minnesota. He developed a battery degradation tool to forecast the capacity fade of Li-ion batteries operating on the ERCOT and CAISO wholesale energy markets. 

Now, Mikael is reading for a DPhil in Materials generously supported by a Clarendon Fund Scholarship. His research will focus on simulating the energy yield of perovskite-silicon tandem solar cells, with a particular focus on incorporating a degradation and instabilities in the models. His model is intended to provide terawatt-scale energy forecasts to inform industry and policy decisions for future energy markets. 

Outside of academics, Mikael enjoys cooking, watching rugby, and staying active. He plans on trying rowing and field hockey at Oxford.