Chris Kerestes helps the Advanced Space Power Group identify the next generation of power generation and power storage for the Space Vehicles Directorate of the Air Force Research Laboratory. His B.S. degree in Physics with honors comes from Dickinson College where he researched high resonance frequency electronics. A Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Delaware was earned after conducting research on implementing silicon solar cells in a Very High Efficiency Solar Cell sub-module. After graduate school an Intelligence Community Post Doctoral Fellowship allowed Chris to get into space photovoltaics with the NanoPower Research Laboratory at Rochester Institute of Technology. Experience and collaborative work conducted under the Fellowship at RIT lead Chris to Emcore which is now SolAero Technologies. Work at SolAero focused on developing next generation solar cells, which included epitaxial growth, semiconductor processing, electrical & optical characterization, semiconductor & optical device modeling, and integration of new technologies that are now today's state of the art technology powering spacecraft. Current research interest lie in the field of power generation and power storage for space applications