Technical Committee
EUROGIA+ Technical Committee is composed of representatives of member companies and selected academics.
<p>Hubert Fabriol obtained a PhD in Applied Geophysics at University of Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, in 1977. He joined BRGM in 1983 as a research engineer at the Joint Institute of Geothermal Energy Research. From 2009 to 2011, he managed the Safety and Impacts of CO2 storage unit. Since 2011, he is heading the Storage and underground exploitation risks unit. His involvement in CO2 geological storage started in 1993 within the European project JOULE II. He is presently involved in the European Network of Excellence CO2GEONET Association, and the FP6 and 7 funded project CO2ReMoVe, ECCSEL and CO2CARE. He assessed the French Ministry of Environment for the London Convention and OSPAR discussions on CO2 sub-sea bed geological storage. He is presently member of the CSLF Risk Assessment Task Force and the IEA GHG monitoring network. His areas of interest in CO2 geological storage are monitoring, risk assessment and safety criteria.</p>
<p><strong>New Products Senior System Engineeer</strong></p>
<p><strong>GE O&G</strong></p>
<p>Oil & Energy industry</p>
<p>January 2009 Present(2 years 5 months)</p>
<p>- Responsible for technical coordination of Centrifugal Compressor R&D projects<br />- Responsible for Centrifugal Compressor product line Technology Strategy Planning (MGTP)<br />- External Funding for R&D<br />- Member of Eurogia+ Technical Committee</p>
<p>I am dealing with Renewable Energy Sources more than 27 years (mainly in research activities). The main subjects of my work are in the field of the solar installations, measurement of solar radiation and shallow geothermal systems. I was engaged in the mentioned fields as guest researcher in Siegen, Germany (1992-1993) and Valparaiso, Chile (2001-2003). A small research team is lead by me at the Technical University of Sofia, branch Plovdiv where I am an Associated Professor since 2000. The main goal of our team is to develop the shallow geothermal technology in Bulgaria (R & D of this system type). Since 2011 I am a member of the Bulgarian Geothermal Association.<br /> The speciality “Applied Green Energy” was created under my leadership at the Bulgarian European Polytechnical University of Pernik in 2011. This speciality (Bachelor degree) is the first one in Bulgaria, which deals with creation of engineers in Renewable Energy Sources.</p>
<p>Bart Boesmans holds a Master in electrotechnical and mechanical engineering and a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of Leuven, Belgium.<br /> <br /> After working with Tractebel Engineering on nuclear safety projects for the Doel and Tihange nuclear power plants, he joined the Business and Project Development department of Electrabel, where he was responsible for the development of on-shore and off-shore wind energy projects throughout Europe. <br /> <br /> Thereafter he has held different operational and functional management positions within Tractebel Engineering. He has been in charge of Tractebel Engineering's business activities in Renewable Energy, Power Plant Development, Energy & Environment, Risk Management & Safety, and Gas transport and LNG terminals. He has also been Director for Strategy and Key Accounts. <br /> <br /> He is currently General Manager at Laborelec, a technical competence and research center in energy processes and energy use, with 230 highly skilled experts and technicians performing innovative research work and providing operational assistance for power generation, transmission, distribution and energy end-use.<br /> <br /> Bart Boesmans has also been active in various international energy-related research and policy-making projects, in particular regarding sustainable electrical power generation.</p>
<p>Dr. Güngör received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, in 2001 and 2003, respectively. He received his Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the Broadband and Wireless Networking Laboratory, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA, in 2007 under the supervision of Prof. Ian F. Akyıldız. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Engineering, Bahcesehir University, Istanbul, Turkey.<br />Before joining to Bahcesehir University he was the project leader of smart-grid home and PHEV advanced connectivity project at the innovation center, Eaton Corporation, Wisconsin, USA.<br />His current research interests are in smart electric power grid applications, ZigBee, power line communications, plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, wireless ad hoc and sensor networks, cognitive radio networks, next-generation wireless networks, and IP networks.<br />Dr. Güngör has authored several papers in refereed journals and international conference proceedings, and has been serving as a reviewer and program committee member to numerous journals and conferences in these areas. He is also the recipient of the IEEE ISCN 2006 Best Paper Award, and the European Union FP7 Marie Curie IRG Award with the project entitled “Spectrum aware and reliable sensor networks for Europe’s future electric networks” in 2009.<br />He is also the principal investigator of “Smart-grid communications and potential applications” supported by Türk Telekom.</p>
<p>Duygu Oktem received her BS in Computer Engineering from Anadolu University, Eskisehir, Turkey in 2005. She started working for the Ministry of Public Works and Settlement as software engineer. Then she joined The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) and worked in the EU Framework Programmes National Coordination Office as the contact point of EUREKA ICT Clusters (CELTIC, ITEA2 and CATRENE). During her years in TUBITAK she represented Turkey in EUREKA ICT Clusters, evaluated EUREKA ICT Clusters projects, trained Turkish ICT firms about EUREKA and FP7 Programmes. She joined Turk Telekom Group in 2009 and is currently working as R&D Manager in the Turk Telekom Group R&D Directorate; responsible for EU joint research activities. She still studies M.S. degree on Information Systems in Middle East Technical University (METU) in Ankara.</p>
<p>Emmanuel De Jaeger (born in Namur, Belgium, 1962) is Scientific Director at Laborelec (GDF Suez - Research and Competence Centre in Electrical Power Technology) and member of the Management Committee.<br />He is guest professor at the School of Engineering of the University of Louvain (Ecole Polytechnique de Louvain, UCL), where he teaches Electric Power Systems.<br />His technical interests include energy systems in general, electric power systems, electrical machines and power electronics in particular.<br />He is active in several IEC standardization commissions, both at Belgian and international level.<br />He holds the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Louvain, Belgium, received in 1985 and 1991 respectively.</p>
<p>I have more than 28 years of experience in the wind energy sector, mainly focused in research activities. <br />In 1989 along with other aeronautical engineers created a company for the development of wind energy (GEDEON S. Coop.), that developed the first Spanish wind turbine connected to the grid (GDN-310).<br />In 1986 I was contracted for CIEMAT (the largest Spanish Public Research Agency for excellence in energy and environment) to create the Wind Energy Division inside the IER (Institute for Renewable Energies). I was the director of the Wind Energy Division of the IER-CIEMAT from 1985 until 1990.<br />I began in 1987 to participate in international organizations, being the first Spanish member of the "Large Scale WECS" implement agreement of the International Energy Agency. At the present time I’m the President of the European Academy of Wind Energy (EAWE) and the Operator Agent of the Task 11 “Base Technology Information Exchange” of the Wind implement agreement of the International Energy Agency (IEAWind R&D).<br />I have participated as professor in more than 70 courses in the wind energy sector.</p>
<p>Frédéric Dias is an applied mathematician with a PhD in Civil Engineering who has made numerous pioneering contributions during his career that have significantly advanced the field of fluid dynamics. He has been the leader of an innovative, world-class research group in fluid mechanics for the past 10 years and the quality and impact of his research is recognized worldwide. In 2010 he has received a large research award from SFI (Science Foundation Ireland) to build the first group in ocean wave energy at University College Dublin together with Aquamarine Power. In 2011 he was awarded a prestigious ERC Advanced Grant on the formation of extreme waves, together with Prof. John Dudley, a physicist who has made numerous pioneering contributions in nonlinear optical physics.</p>
<p>Funda Çetin studied chemical engineering at the University of Boğaziçi, Turkey and has a master degree on business administration. After working at an association linked with chemical sector, she joined Tüpraş( Turkish Petroleum Refineries Corporation) R&D department. She has several project experiences on EU framework programme, Business Support Program and Lifelong Learning Program. Main research interests are energy efficiency in refineries and alternative transportation fuels. She works in Tüpraş as R&D engineer and in charge of project& technology management.</p>
<p><strong>EDUCATION</strong>:<br />2000-2006<br />Industrial Engineering, Mechanics-Energetic specialty. Graduate in March 2006<br />at the Escola Tècnica Superior d'Enginyeria Industrial de Barcelona UPC.<br />Final Thesis in Sweden, Luleå Tekniska Universitet. (Flue Gas Condenser for<br />Biomass Boilers)<br />Spring 2006<br />Scholarship to develop a project in the Applied Physics department of the Luleå<br />University. (Absorb, Generator and Condenser for Biomass Boilers)</p>
<p><strong>PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:</strong><br />Since August 2009: Project Manager (Company: ABENCIS SEAPOWER)<br />Development of a prototype to extract energy from the sea waves. Analysis and<br />hydrodynamic studies. Search of suppliers for the design and prototype<br />construction, electronic control, data transmission, management of permissions<br />for the installation, etc.<br />Negotiations with suppliers of materials, installers and port authorities.<br />Requires large organization and effectiveness searching and choosing the most<br />appropriate solution for each problem.<br />September 2008 - July 2009: applications engineer. (Company: SANDVIK)<br />Application engineer for nibs and cases for wire drawing, and rings and<br />bushings for water pumps.<br />Link and coordinator between customer and company in a technical level. Also<br />management and pricing strategy.<br />My function was to understand the application of our different products; on the<br />one hand, to improve its application for the end-user; and on the other hand, to<br />optimize and facilitate the production process in-house.<br />It required a lot of communication with the different departments (quality,<br />production, etc.), company sales network, and also visits to customers.</p>
<p><strong>Present responsabilities</strong> :</p>
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<li>Director of research “Emerite”CNRS°°</li>
<li>Head of the Structural Biology and Microbiology Institute ( January 1, 1998-september 2007)</li>
<li>Head of Protein Engineering and Bio-energetic Laboratory (UPR9036 CNRS) ( January 1, 1994 – September 2007)</li>
<li>Vice-Presidente of the French Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Society. </li>
<li>Vice-Présidente of the Comité National de Biochimie Academie des Sciences</li>
<li>Vice-Présidentedu « Collectif Androméde-Conseil Régional Provence Alpes Côte d’Azur » </li>
<li>Member of the Directing Committee Energy Program of the CNRS</li>
<li>Member of the Scientific committee of the BRGM</li>
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<p><strong>Member of the CAPENERGIES cluster (administrative committee and strategic committee)</strong>.<br /><br /><strong>Principal achievements</strong> :</p>
<ul>
<li>Discovery of new metalloproteins and determination of their structure-function relationships.</li>
<li>Electron transfer mechanism.</li>
<li>Energy and metabolism of anaerobic bacteria.</li>
<li>Evolution of bacteria based on phylogenetic trees.</li>
<li>Biotechnological environmental industrial applications involving bacteria such as thiobacillus ferrooxidans (bioleaching) and sulfate reducing bacteria (bioremediation of heavy toxic metals).</li>
<li>Renewable Bioenergies</li>
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<p><strong>Publications : 220 in international refereed journals</strong></p>
<p>Monica Lupion is the International Affairs Director of CIUDEN (2008- ), a state-owned foundation currently operating a world-wide reference centre for Carbon Capture and Storage development and validation in NW Spain. She also holds a position as Associate Professor (2002- ) in the Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering at the University of Seville (Spain).<br />From 2000 onwards, she has been involved in R&D on technological issues related to coal combustion and gasification processes, hydrogen and fuel cell technologies, under contract for a number of European utilities and/or the European Commission. <br />Monica Lupion is member of various international organizations related to energy and climate change mitigation such as the Executive Committee of the International Energy Agency Greenhouse Gas Program –IEAGHG- (2008- ), the Technology Task Force and the Communication Group of the European Zero Emissions Platform (2009- ), the European Energy Research Alliance (2009- ), and the Steering Committee of the International Conference on Oxycombustion Technologies (2010- ) among others.<br />She is author of more than 20 papers and contributions to international conferences, and has participated as researcher in more than 15 national and international projects.</p>
<p>Born in 1954, Philippe Renard is a naval architect and MBA, a graduate from ENSTA and INSEAD. Having occupied the functions of offshore calculation engineer, ship newbuilding superintendent and ships-in-service superintendent, he joined Bureau Veritas in 1995. <br /><br />He has taken care since of marine software systems conception and development and cooperative research projects. He played a major role in the conception and development of all class surveys tools, daily used by surveyors and administrative staff. He then originated the European project CAS which defined the principles of a new generation of condition assessment systems based on 3D models. In order to manage the international exchange standard resulting from this project, he founded the OpenHCM consortium. He is still today much involved in software projects related to life cycle monitoring of sea-going objects.<br /><br />He is currently member of the Technical Committee of the Eureka cluster EUROGIA+ dealing with fossil and renewable energies.<br /><br /><br /><br /></p>
<p>Born in 1949, Pierre Besse is a civil engineer, a graduate of the Ecole Centrale Paris. His career began in 1974, when he joined the “Groupe Menard” as Geotechnical Engineer and Site Manager. He joined Bureau Veritas in 1976, in the construction business in the South of France. From 1983 to 1995, he occupied the functions of engineer in the Ocean Technology Department at Head Office, and became Deputy Manager , in charge of certification of offshore development projects, and of the technological development. From 1996 to 2001, he was Manager of the R&D Department of Bureau Veritas, and became in 2001 Research and Development Director and Head of the Research Department of the Marine Division. During this time, he has been member of the IACS and of the IMO/MSC working groups on Formal Safety Assessment (FSA). He has been member of the ISSC Technical Committee on “Design principle and criteria”.</p>
<p>From the early nineties, he has been member of the “Research & Development Strategic Planning Group” ( RDSPG) of the Maritime Industries Forum (MIF). He has also chaired the Support Group of the European Technology Platform WATERBORNE.<br />As vice-chairman, he is currently chairing the Technical Committee of the Eureka cluster EUROGIA+ dealing with fossil and renewable energies</p>
<p>Prof. Krzysztof Warmuzinski graduated from the Silesian University of Technology in 1970, specializing in chemical engineering. His principal research areas have included multicomponent diffusion, interfacial phenomena during gas-liquid mass transfer and, more recently, pressure swing adsorption, membrane separation and chemical reactor engineering. In 1982-1983 he spent a year as a research fellow at Birmingham University, UK, working on Marangoni convection accompanying the absorption of carbon dioxide. He also spent some time in the USA (SUNY at Buffalo and the University of Washington in Seattle), Spain (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) and Japan (Kyushu University and Waseda University).<br /><br />For almost two decades Prof. Warmuzinski has been active in a number of European and international initiatives aimed at curbing greenhouse gas emissions, including the IEA Greenhouse Gas R&D Programme and the European Technology Platform for Zero Emission Fossil Fuel Power Plants. He co-authored the IPCC Special Report on Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage, and is a European Commission evaluator, providing expertise in the assessment of the EU Framework Programme proposals.<br /><br />In 2003 he became director of the Institute of Chemical Engineering, Polish Academy of Sciences, and has since initiated several projects dealing with the mitigation of the environmental impact of energy production.</p>
<p>Fellow of the ENS in Fontenay aux Roses, Doctor of the University of Paris XI (Physics) <br /> 02-07 Vice-Chairman of the Scientific Council of the University of Perpignan,<br />Since January 2006 Vice-President of the competitiveness cluster DERBI (Renewable Energy Development for Building and Industry). <br />RESEARCH ACTIVITIES <br />Predictive modelling, control, optimization and supervision for complex processes. <br />Application domains of this work: <br />Renewable energy, Saving energy in buildings with renewable energy, Energy storage. ITC and energy savings <br />Used methods: Fuzzy logic, Neural networks, Series, Wavelets. <br />TEACHING ACTIVITIES <br />Automatic processes: modelling and control systems, estimates and Forecasts and detecting faults in industrial processes. <br />Director of the “master EAI” (Electronic, Automatic, Computer) <br /><br />Team ELIAUS, PROMES/CNRS laboratory, University of Perpignan <br /><br />The Eliaus team from the PROMES laboratory (CNRS) has 22 permanent staff and 15 doctoral or post-doctoral students. It includes a research line devoted to energy conservation and renewable energies in buildings, as well as to the production of electricity from renewable energy. The work of this research line falls within the Derbi Competitiveness Cluster developed by the University of Perpignan and the CNRS, with many university and industry partners involved in the “Development” of Renewable Energies for the Buildings Trade and Industry”. This research line includes, in particular, research into the predictive modeling of energy consumption based on meteorological forecasts. The second action of this research line is the short-term prediction of the regional electricity network consumption. With deregulation of the electricity systems, prediction of the electricity load for an hour, a day or a week is essential. We work also on the control of virtual power plants. The control of these power plants consists in the maximum use of electricity production from sources that do not generate greenhouse gases. The demands formulated by the networks will be assessed against the weather predictions and database of earlier consumption. Eliaus also works on the development of a tool to detect energy losses in an industrial building or a group of buildings, with the proposal of an active monitoring solution and the integration of renewable energy.</p>
<p>Prof. Velisa Vesovic is a Professor of Transport Phenomena at Imperial College London. He is a graduate of Imperial College where he obtained both a BSc and PhD in Chemical Engineering. He is a theme leader for the Oil and Gas network, part of the Energy Futures Lab at Imperial College, and the Head of the departmental Petroleum Research Section. <br /><br />His research is in modelling transport phenomena and his expertise is in thermophysical properties, with special emphasis on reservoir fluids. The work encompasses both fundamental and applied research. The applied research focuses on: CO2 enhanced oil recovery and CCS; hydrate formation; modelling spreading and vaporization of LNG following accidental spillage; prediction of the viscosity and diffusion coefficients of reservoir fluids and the influence of different transport phenomena on compositional segregation. He is the co-developer of a very successful theoretically-based scheme for the predictions of viscosity of dense fluid mixtures, namely the VW methodology.<br /><br />Prof. Vesovic has published over a hundred papers and reviews in the refereed scientific literature. He also acts as a consultant to the chemical and petroleum industry in the fields of energy, fluid characterisation, transport phenomena and accidental releases</p>
<p>MSc Industrial Engineer by the Universidad de Navarra. Executive MBA by the University Politecnica of Catalunya and Master in Renewable Energy<br /><br />Joined ACCIONA Energia in 2004 as International Asset Manager, and moving in 2006 to lead all corporate actions in Offshore and becoming the Technical Director of Wind and Marine Renewable within Acciona Energia. <br /><br />He has intensive experience in coordination of large R&D projects such as the EOLIA project (34M€ budget, 17M€ funding and 16 partners), he currently coordinates the MARINA Platform Project (EU FP7 project with 12,7M€ budget, 8,7M€ funding and 17 partners from 12 different countries) among other major projects in the areas of Offshore and Marine Renewable, Wind, Asset management and life cycle cost analysis. He is also part of several steering committees of large projects like AZIMUT, HiPRwind and OceanLider and serves as technical advisor in others.<br /><br />He is the leader under the Spanish Wind Technical platform for the Offshore Working Group, member of the European Wind Technology Platform (TPWind) within the Offshore working group, member of the European Offshore Wind Industry Advisory Group (ExCo Member), and he is the Vice President of EUROGIA+, the low carbon and renewable energy industrial cluster under the Eureka program.</p>
<p>Dr. Thomas J.J. Meyer (born in Soulac, France, 1980) is a senior researcher at Teknova (Norway) specialized in novel photovoltaic concepts. With an academic background in both physics [1,2] and chemistry [3,4] Thomas worked on the development of a new type of concentrating solar cells where the concentrating flux of fluorescent light increases the efficiency of c-Si solar cells. His interests includes photon management using organic (fluorophores) or inorganic (quantum dots) compounds, ray tracing of optical system and light concentration. <br /><br />Commissioned in 2010 by the research council of Norway as a technical expert for the Eureka cluster Eurogia+ Thomas is regularly evaluating/promoting large energy projects (> 1 to 5 M Euros) dealing with low carbon technologies. <br /><br />Recently appointed (2011) research program manager for Vetro Solar AS (solar glass producer) Thomas is leading several research projects which aim to optimize the solar glass for the photovoltaic industry. His goal is to modify the properties of the glass cover so that it becomes an active component in the design of photovoltaic modules. <br /><br />[1] PhD& Mphil on new photovoltaic devices from Southampton University, UK.<br />[2] BSc (Hons) instrumentation system from Sheffield Hallam University, UK.<br />[3] License of physical and chemical measurement technologies from University of Bordeaux I, France.<br />[4] Technical university diploma (DUT) of physical and chemical measurement technologies from University of Bordeaux I, France.<br /><br /><br /></p>
