Nick Owen
Co-ordinator
Ricardo UK

Nick Owen is responsible for RTD planning and Technology Roadmaps at Ricardo. He is an author of the UK "Carbon to Hydrogen" roadmap, has been a WP leader of the FP5 FURORE roadmap project for road transport, and a contributor to the UK “Foresight Vehicle” roadmaps.

Dr.-Ing. J.-W. Biermann
WP1 Leader
Institut für Kraftfahrwesen der RWTH Aachen

Dr.-Ing. Biermann is head of both Drivetrain and Acoustics departments; 25 years' experience in Drivetrain Research & Technology including Hybrid and Fuel Cell drives; participation in the EC-funded projects INMOVE, ELMAS and SUVA (Hybrid Drive) and FUERO, FUEVA and HYTRAN (Fuel Cell Drive). Within FUERO-Cluster he organised and led several workshops with 50 different European partners.

Bruno Gnörich
WP1 Leader
Institut für Kraftfahrwesen der RWTH Aachen

Bruno Gnörich is an automobile engineer, belonging to the institute's drivetrain department. His working portfolio cover hybrid/FC vehicles and drivetrain components. Furthermore, he is supporting noise and vibration projects with his expertise in vehicle acoustics.

He also takes part in RWTH Aachen University's international academic cooperations with Thailand and China. In recent years, his focus extended to energy and traffic studies, including market analyses for future vehicle propulsion systems. He is WP1 leader within Roads2HyCom.

Dr. Robert Steinberger-Wilckens
WP2 Leader
PLANET

Born 1957; Physics degree in 1986, Ph.D. degree in 1993 from University of Oldenburg, Germany. Founding member of PLANET and full time member since 1993. Has performed a variety of projects in energy efficient building technology, water saving, solar and wind energy, biomass, and hydrogen (mobile and stationary applications).

Member of the board of the AGÖF (Association of ecologically oriented research and engineering institutions) from 1997 to 2000 and head of the scientific board of the AGÖF congresses in 1998 and 1999. Participation in the EU ‘Building 2000’ programme in 1987/1989. Project manager Fuel Cells at the Forschungszentrum Jülich since February 2002 and responsible for the Solid Oxide Fuel Cell development at the research centre.

Co-ordinator of the Integrated Project “Real-SOFC” under the 6th Framework Programme.

Sören Christian Trümper
WP2 Leader
PLANET

Sören trained as an Environmental Scientist at the University of Oldenburg, Germany, and at the University of Wales, UK, where he specialised in the marine environment. At PLANET he works in the project management of hydrogen and fuel cell projects, covering the day-to-day business of Roads2HyCOM and other ongoing projects (e.g. HyFLEET:CUTE).

Before joining PLANET in 2005, Sören worked for the Royal Geographical Society, London, in the co-ordination of overseas research activities, and for a UK-based business consultancy in training government agencies in overseas operations.

Dr. Stathis Peteves
WP3 Leader
Institute for Energy

Dr. Peteves holds engineering degrees from the National Technical University of Athens, George Washington University (MSc.) and University of Florida (PhD). He is principal scientific officer at the European Commission since 1987.

Over the years he has led several inter-institutional programmes, contractual studies and Community-funded projects. He leads the JRC integrated scientific area on Sustainable Energy Technologies Reference and Information System (SETRIS). He represents the Commission in the Executive Committee of the IEA-Hydrogen Implementation Agreement and in the committee for Aviation Environmental Protection of ICAO.

Currently, he contributes in the secretariat of the Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technology Platform, supporting the work of the Deployment Strategy Panel, the Initiative Group on Regulations Codes and Standards of the Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technology Platform, and as lead editor of its strategic documents and as a member of the EC Inter-service Hydrogen and Fuel Cell project team.

Suzanne Shaw
WP3 Leader
Institute for Energy

Suzanne Shaw has a BSc in Chemical and Process Engineering and a MSc in Environmental Sustainability. She is scientific officer at the European Commission, Joint Research Centre, since 2004.

Her duties include techno-economic assessments of clean energy technologies and modelling of energy systems and pathways. She has previous experience in the field of policy analysis and market studies for renewable energy, green electricity and climate change, namely in the development of business strategies for
market players in the energy sector, as well as for advising public
administrations on energy-environment issues.

M. J-F Gruson
WP4 Leader
Institut Français du Pétrole

M. Gruson is Deputy Director, Economics Division, Chemical Engineer with over 25 years experience including Energy Industry, International Energy Agency, Auto-Oil II & EUCAR/CONCAWE /JRC Well-to-Wheels studies, embracing technical and economic issues.

Mrs A.Prieur
WP4 Leader
Institut Français du Pétrole

Mrs Prieur, Economics Division, is Energy system engineer and PhD, specialist of environmental evaluation of alternative technology and energy working on many projects from French National Research Agency.

Aude Cuni
WP4 Leader
Air Liquide

Graduated from the Ecole Normale Supérieure (Paris) in Chemistry, Aude Cuni holds a Ph.D. in Biophysics and a MBA from the Collège des Ingénieurs. She joined the Air Liquide R&D in 2005 where she has been working on various topics in the framework of Hydrogen Energy. In addition to her work on Roads2HyCom, she is leader of the WP "Chemical Hydrides" in the FP6 NESSHy project, and manager of a French Ethanol Steam Reforming project.

Dr. Elli Varkaraki
WP6 Leader
Centre for Renewable Energy Sources

Dr. Varkaraki obtained her Chemical Engineering degree and her Ph.D. degree (1995) in the field of electrochemistry and catalysis, at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. From 1996 to 1997, she worked on waste gas treatment with hydrogen peroxide and ozone, and the development of transparent photovoltaic cells based on dye-sensitized titania. From 1997 to 2000, she worked as a process engineer at Casale Group, Lugano, Switzerland on revamping and energy efficiency enhancement projects for ammonia and urea plants. She also organised the new hydrogen laboratory in Casale, and worked on the development of industrial electrodes for alkaline electrolysers, powered by wind electricity.

She joined the RES & Hydrogen Technologies section of CRES, Greece, in 2001, where she has managed several R&D and demonstration projects related to the integration of renewable energy sources with hydrogen production, storage and use technologies. Since 2007, she contributes as an expert to the work of International Energy Agency /HIA tasks 18 (Evaluation of Integrated Systems) and 24 (Wind energy & Hydrogen integration).

Prof. Raimund Bleischwitz
WP7 Leader
College d’Europe

Prof. Bleischwitz is an Economist (PhD, Habilitation), Policy Advisor, Research Manager, and, since November 2003 'Toyota Chair for Industry and Sustainability' at the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium, as well as Co-Director of the Research Group 'Material Flows and Resource

Management' at the Wuppertal Institute in Germany. Conference chair "Hydrogen in Europe - Towards a consistent Policy Framework for Sustainable Energy and Mobility" at CoE on June 23-24, 2004; special issue of the journal "Energy Policy" 7/06. Previous positions have been held at the Max Planck Project Group on the Law of Common Goods in Bonn, at the Wuppertal Institute, at the Institute for European Environmental Policy and in the German Bundestag. Coordination of a governance study on behalf of the Japanese Government since 2000.

Fellowships in Japan, Seoul/Korea, USA, and London/UK. Main fields of expertise: governance of eco-efficiency (Factor 4), institutional analysis.

Harm Jeeninga
Other Project People
ECN

Harm Jeeninga is the Core Group member responsible for liaison with the Coordination Action HyLights.

Agustin Escardino
Other Project People
NTDA

Agustin Escardino is the Core Group member responsible for liaison with the Hydrogen and Fuel Cell technology platform. He is the President & CEO of NTDA Energía. He is member of the Executive Group of The European Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technology Platform (HFPEurope), Member of the Advisory Council of HFPEurope, and Co-Chairman of the Financing and Business Development Group of HFPEurope.

Chairman of the Board of TCSA Group, a group of companies specializing in the areas of applied hydrogen/fuel cell and renewable energy technologies. He spent 9 years in government and diplomatic relations in the European Commission (EU official), of which 5 years at the EU Headquarters in Brussels (negotiating trade and investment agreements), and 4 years at the EU Embassy in China as commercial counsellor and Head of the Economic & Commercial Section (in charge of economic and commercial relations including the negotiation on China’s accession to WTO; main responsibilities by sector: telecommunications and financial services). 2 years as Attorney specializing in government relations and European Community law in the US law firm Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld International in Brussels. 3 Master Degrees: MALD Fletcher School (Harvard University-Tufts University, USA), College of Europe (Bruges, Belgium), and Institute of European Studies (ULB, Brussels, Belgium); Law Degree (Valencia, Spain).

Dr. Jörg Wind
Other Project People
Daimler

Dr. Jörg Wind has studied physics at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). After doing his Ph.D. in the field of semiconductor physics and sensor technology at the TUM in 1992, he started working in the field of fuel cells and hydrogen.

As a project manager, he was responsible for material development for high temperature fuel cells and exhaust aftertreatment at DASA and DaimlerChrysler from 1992 until 1998. From 1998 until 2002, he was responsible for PEM stack development at DaimlerChrysler.

Since 2002, he is responsible for strategic energy projects at Daimler, comprising hydrogen related projects (including energy systems analyses and WTW-analyses) and European projects in the field of hydrogen and fuel cells.