Thomas Weber studied environmental engineering at the University of Applied Science Berlin and completed his diploma with a topic on post annealing treatments of silicon thin-film solar cells at the Helmholtz-Center Berlin. Since June 2008 he has been working as a project manager at PI Berlin, specializing in TF PID and Electroluminescence. Since May 2014 he has been head of service unit module technology, R&D. Meanwhile he works as an expert and technical advisor for module degradation topics in general.