Roland Winston

Title:

Distinguished Professor/Director, UC Solar

Email:

Phone:

(209) 228-4346

Office:

Castle Bldg. 1200, RM 96

Location:

Castle Bldg. 1200, RM 26A

Education:

Courses:

Fall semesters: Special Topics in Physics (Fall 2016: Gauge Invariance)

Spring semesters: Modeling and Design of Nonimaging Optics for Solar Energy Systems

Awards:

1987 — Charles Greeley Abbott Award of the American Solar Energy Society
1996 — The Franklin Institute C. Raymond Kraus Gold Medal
1999 — ICICI (India) International Solar Energy Personality of the Year 1999
2001 — Farrington Daniels Award of the International Solar Energy Society
2004 — Building Green award top 10 solar collector (Winston series CPC made in Chicago by Solargenix)
2006 — UC Merced First Chancellor’s Award including the Professor Roland Winston Endowed Scholarship
2006 — ASME First Frank Kreith Energy Award
2008 — Alumni Award for Professional Achievement, University of Chicago
2008 — Present, 2,000,000 Gift, California Community Foundation, Southern California. This unrestricted gift has supported research at UC Merced in solar energy and non-imaging optics. It has supported the cooling 25kw cooling demonstration.
2009 — Optical Society of America, OSA. Joseph Fraunhofer Award/Robert M. Burley Prize for Non-imaging Optics
2009 — SPIE/International Society for Optics and Photonics, SPIE, San Diego. A.E. Conrady Award for Nonimaging Optics and Solar Energy

Current Research Projects:

2014-2017 — Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy: Full Spectrum Optimized Conversion and Utilization of Sunlight (FOCUS) Collaborators: UC Berkeley, Gas Technology Institute, Chicago, Il., and Microlink, Effingham, Il.
2014-2016 — U.S. Dept. of Agriculture: Development of a Solar Thermal Drum Dryer for Specialty Crop Purees and Pomaces
2016-2017 — CA Dept. of Water Resources: An Efficient Solar Thermal – Powered Evaporation System for Salt Harvesting

Research Interests: