Impression of the day
Energizing encounters
‘Two years after EIRES came into being, we are very glad to finally be able to organize a live event where our entire community can meet.’ With these words, EIRES’ managing director Mark Boneschanscher welcomed some 175 participants to the first EIRES Energizing Day on Friday 01 July 2022.
Impression of the day | read about the day, (re)watch presentations & photo-gallery
Program
Chair of the Day
Mark Boneschanscher - Managing director | TU/e - EIRES
Welcome & Introductions
Marking our second birthday, we briefly looked back on what was achieved so far. But mainly we looked ahead: placing our local efforts on the energy transition into a global context.
- Robert-Jan Smits - President of the Executive Board | TU/e
- Richard van de Sanden - Scientific director | TU/e - EIRES
Update EIRES focus areas by principal scientists
We listened to principal scientists of the four EIRES focus areas.
- John van der Schaaf - Engineering for Sustainable Energy Systems
- Henk Huinink - Systems for Sustainable Heat
- Lisanne Havinga - System Integration
- Marta Costa Figueiredo - Chemistry for Sustainable Energy Systems
Evolution and growth | What happened within the four focus areas over the institute’s first years, and what are they going to work on next?
Read the interview with Adriana Creatore, Silvia Gaastra-Nedea, Guus Pemen and John van der Schaaf.
Keynote speakers
We got energized by our four keynote speakers. They provided an overview of exciting developments in energy research, ranging from sustainable chemistry and the technology of hydrogen production to heat storage and energy systems modeling.
- Kerstin Eckert | Helmholtz Center Dresden-Rossendorf & TU Dresden
- Andreas Hauer | Bavarian Center for Applied Energy Research, ZAE Bayern
- André P.C. Faaij | TNO & Utrecht University & University of Groningen
- Beatriz Roldán Cuenya | Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Berlin
Roundtable
All participants joined a discussion with our panel members from politics, industry, startups and academia on how we can speed up the energy transition.
Barry W. Fitzgerald | Roundtable host, TU/e
Panel:
- Olaf Adan - Chief Scientific Officer | Cellcius
- Marius Ponten - Director of Special Projects | VDL Groep
- Andrea Ramirez Ramirez - Professor of Low Carbon Systems and Technologies | TU Delft
- Coen de Graaf - Advisor Interregional innovation cooperation | The Province of Noord-Brabant
Exhibition floor
We all got enthused by the work and ambitions of EIRES partners, student teams, PhD students and postdocs during the poster presentations and demonstrations held at the exhibition floor.
- Partners - Metalot | RIFT | NEON | Cellcius | Carbyon | Dens | HERATEC | DYSECO
- Student teams - Team SOLID | Team POLAR | SimEnergy | Team Energy | Go Green Office
- PhD students & Postdocs
- Department of Mechanical Engineering
Jesse Hameete | Max Beving | Mengting Jiang - Department of Applied Physics
Renée van Limpt | SIna Haghverdi Khamene | Natalia Mazur - Department of Electrical Engineering
Trung Tran - Department of Built Environment
Farzaneh Mousavi Motlagh - Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry
Yvette van Beek | Rodrigo Lira Garcia Barros
Drinks & networking
After having spent too long a time alone behind our individual laptops, videoconferencing all day long, we finally could meet the EIRES community in person and exchange ideas, insights and the so missed social talk over drinks.
Questions ?
Contact us: eires@ tue.nl