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Nick Owen 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. |
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Dr.-Ing. J.-W. Biermann 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. |
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Bruno Gn?rich Bruno Gn?rich 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. |
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Dr. Robert Steinberger-Wilckens 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 AG?F (Association of ecologically oriented research and engineering institutions) from 1997 to 2000 and head of the scientific board of the AG?F congresses in 1998 and 1999. Participation in the EU ?Building 2000? programme in 1987/1989. Project manager Fuel Cells at the Forschungszentrum J?lich 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. |
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S?ren Christian Tr?mper S?ren 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, S?ren 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. |
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Dr. Stathis Peteves 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. |
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Suzanne Shaw 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 |
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M. J-F Gruson 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. |
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Mrs A.Prieur 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. |
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Dr. J?r?me Perrin Dr. Perrin has a degree in engineering from the Ecole Polytechnique (Paris), and Doctor in Physics from the University of Paris VII. He started a research carrier as scientist of the French Scientific National Research Center (CNRS) from 1981 to 1996 where he was successively research associate, then permanent researcher and director of research. Since January 2001, he has been working for Air Liquide as R&D program manager for different domains related to Analysis, Gas & Surface Chemistry, and Hydrogen Energy. J?r?me Perrin is author and co-author of more than 75 articles in scientific international journals with referees, and more than 100 communications in conferences. He has chaired the group on Hydrogen Distribution and Storage in the Strategic Research Agenda steering panel of the European Technology Platform on Hydrogen and Fuel Cell. In France he chairs the committee of the ANR (Agence Nationale de la Recherche = national research agency) for the evaluation of hydrogen energy research and development projects. |
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Dr. Nicolas Lymberopoulos Dr. Lymberopoulos is a Mechanical Engineer, actively involved in the field of energy and the environment for more than 20 years. In his current position at CRES, he initiated and is responsible for the management of a section within CRES involved in R&TD related to the energetic use of hydrogen and in particular the integration of technologies for the production, storage and use of Hydrogen (including fuel cells) with Renewable Energy Technologies. He is the Secretary of the Greek Hydrogen Association and was the National Delegate of Greece in the Hydrogen Co-ordination Group of the IEA, OECD. He was a member of the SRA and is currently a member of the IP of the HFP. Lastly, he is involved in the Quality Assurance team of the IP, representing the project Roads2HyCOM. |
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Prof. Raimund Bleischwitz 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. |
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Harm Jeeninga Harm Jeeninga is the Core Group member responsible for liaison with the Coordination Action HyLights. |
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Agustin Escardino 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 Energ?a. 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). |
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Christian Klein Having joined DaimlerChrysler in 1999, today Christian Klein is responsible for the Fuel Cell fleet demonstration programs of DaimlerChrysler in Germany, Japan and Singapore. Before that Christian Klein held various research & development engineer positions in the fuel cell component development of DaimlerBenz-Ballard, where he designed methanol and natural gas reforming components as well as gas purification systems. Christian Klein, born in 1974, graduated from the University Of Applied Sciences Mannheim, Germany as a chemical engineer. |
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