Dr. C. Lídice Vaillant Roca leads the Photovoltaics Laboratory at the Institute of Materials Science andTechnology – Faculty of Physics, University of Havana. She received her PhD in 2008 from the Universityof Havana, in collaboration with the University of Parma, Italy. She has worked on advanced nanostructured materials to improve the performance of photovoltaic devices. Since 2017, she has been involved in quality infrastructure for photovoltaics and innovation management, as well as in the designof comprehensive photovoltaic solutions through the UH-Solar Solutions group. She has experience inphotovoltaic training. She is the University of Havana's representative in the National Group of Universities for FRE and EE (GNUFRE).