Sandia Energy > Programs > Renewable Energy > Photovoltaic Solar Energy > Staff > Norman Jost Norman Jost Postdoctoral Researcher BiographyNorman Jost is a postdoctoral researcher in the Photovoltaics and Materials Technology program at Sandia National Laboratories. His research focuses on photovoltaic system modeling/failure detection and projects for the DuraMAT consortium predicting module performance loss. He contributes to open-source software projects and data-hubs.Dr. Jost completed his doctorate at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain, in the field of micro concentrator photovoltaics. Both his bachelor’s of engineering and master’s of science are in photovoltaic and semiconductor technology. His theses were in the field of photovoltaics for space.