About
Noak turns next-generation solar PV into industrial reality for a global terawatt-scale market. We deliver high performance, reliability and circularity across the full lifecycle, enabling greater competitiveness and stronger regional resilience and strategic autonomy.
Culture
Curious
We are driven by the itch to understand how things work — and
the suspicion that they could work differently. We explore beyond the boundaries
of our expertise, and welcome perspectives that unsettle our own.
Entrepreneurial
We value initiative over hierarchy, debate over comfortable
agreement, and progress over perfection. Entrepreneurship is about doing, not waiting for certainty.
No nonsense
We prefer substance over theatre, evidence over opinion, and straight talk over marketing narratives. We focus our energy on what actually moves the needle. Less noise, more signal.
Rooted in a wider energy ecosystem
Noak is a spin-off of imec and UHasselt. That foundation provides access to top-level R&D infrastructure, process technology and IP, as well as a global network of industrial partners.
Noak operates on the EnergyVille campus in Genk, within a wider R&D ecosystem working across solar, storage, future grids and energy systems.
Noak operates on the EnergyVille campus in Genk, within a wider R&D ecosystem working across solar, storage, future grids and energy systems.
Built on imec’s and UHasselt’s world-leading research
imec is recognised as a technology trailblazer, with deep expertise across semiconductors, materials science and advanced process technology. Noak builds directly on the world-leading PV research of IUMAT, a collaboration between imec and the Institute for Materials Research at UHasselt. This gives Noak access to advanced R&D infrastructure on the EnergyVille campus, IP, technology transfer expertise and joint development programmes.
That relationship creates a strong bridge between research and industry, helping new PV technologies move from laboratory development to validation, scale-up and commercial deployment.
That relationship creates a strong bridge between research and industry, helping new PV technologies move from laboratory development to validation, scale-up and commercial deployment.
Seed-Investors
Helios Foundation
Helios Foundation The Helios foundation invests and supports initiatives tackling two most critical challenges of Belgium and beyond: climate change and mental well-being of our workforce. The foundation supports innovative solutions to achieve carbon neutrality and addresses mental well-being challenges in the workplace.
Nuhma
Nuhma is a municipal investment holding, working to advance sustainability, energy and innovation through targeted investments. Its guiding principle is to create social value for the community at large, and for the province of Limburg in particular. Nuhma holds a portfolio of pioneering investments spanning offshore wind, digital transformation and bioenergy, contributing to the energy transition and sustainable innovation.
V2HFin
V2HFin is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Flemish Energy Holding (VEH). It acts as an investor to support the growth of Flemish start-ups and scale-ups, with the aim of accelerating the transformation of the energy sector and driving progress in sustainability and innovation. V2HFin strengthens to accelerate.
Team
Geert Palmers
Chief executive officer
Michele De Bastiani
Chief technology officer
Wouter Ooghe
Chief manufacturing officer
Stefaan Quinart
Chief financial officer
Bart Boesmans
Senior advisor business development
Amit Kumar Harit
Lead scientist perovskites
Hariharsudan Sivaramakrishnan Radhakrishnan
R&D manager Imec
Advisory Board
Filip Delalieux
Former Innovation Director at Umicore, with extensive international experience circularity and sustainable materials.
Bart Boesmans
Former CTO of ACWA Power, Deputy Managing Director, Global Renewables at ENGIE, and CEO of Laborelec.
Kevin Sara
Co-founder of clean tech asset manager Hazel Capital (acquired by Gresham House), and founder of solar developer Nur Energie.
Jef Poortmans
Imec fellow and leading PV expert; former Scientific Director of Photovoltaics at imec, with 30+ years of experience in advanced solar-cell technologies, including silicon, thin-film and tandem PV. Part-time professor at KU Leuven.
Stefaan De Wolf
Professor of Materials Science & Engineering at KAUST and Chair of the KAUST Solar Platform; leading expert in high-efficiency photovoltaics. Specialises in perovskite and perovskite–silicon tandem solar.
Partner to turn potential into industrial reality?
If you’re an investor or industrial partner interested in what next-generation solar could make possible, we’d like to hear from you.
