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>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>Emanuele Tondi is Associate Professor in the School of Environmental Sciences of the University of Camerino, Italy. His research activity is mainly addressed to the study of brittle deformation, and on its applications to solving regional and seismotectonic problems, as well as the recovery of geofluids from the subsurface. Specifically, he has carried out investigations on: 1) active tectonics of central and southern Italy, focusing on the seismogenic potential of active faults; and 2) nucleation and growth processes of faults and fractures in carbonate rocks. He is the co-Director of the research project "Reservoir Characterization Project; www.rechproject.com” funded by a Consortium of Oil Company, the National Coordinator of the "The deformation in carbonate rocks: implications for the characterisation and modelling of natural reservoirs of geofluids", project funded by the italian Ministry of Education, Universities and Research (Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Università e della Ricerca, or MIUR) from 2011-2013.</p>
<p>Emmanuel De Jaeger (born in Namur, Belgium, 1962) is a 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 class="MsoNormal">Etienne Pierson is Scientific Director and Director of Human Resources and Operational Support at Laborelec, a technical competence and research center in energy processes and energy use, with 230 highly skilled experts and technicians performing innovative research and providing operational assistance for electrical power generation, transmission, distribution and energy end-use.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">He holds a M.Sc. degree in Physics Engineering from the University of Louvain in Belgium, where he started his R&D career in the field of solar cells and surface analysis techniques.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">He joined Laborelec in 1989 to work in the department of Materials Technology, where he specialized in nickel based alloys for nuclear power plants. Thereafter he was responsible for several multidisciplinary projects and held different operational management positions in various technical domains ranging from lighting to electrical insulating materials. </span></p>
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<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>Graduated from ENSTA ( Ecole Nationale de Techniques Avancées) in 1975 as Ocean Engineer.</p>
<p>He joined Ifremer ( Institut Français de Recherche pour l’Exploitation de la Mer, formerly CNEXO) in 1977,where he was first in charge of simulation tasks within the scope of a polymetallic nodule mining development program</p>
<p>From 1980 to 1985, he was involved in research and feasibility studies in the field of marine renewable energy; in particular wave and ocean thermal energy.</p>
<p>Since 1985, he has performed research and computational activities related to the behaviour of flexible slender structures( towing and deployment cables, mooring lines, risers, umbilicals). He has conducted a number of at-sea experiments to collect data on towed or cable-deployed systems in order to validate numerical models. He also conducted a number of experiments in Ifremer ocean engineering tank on the dynamic behaviour of mooring lines and steel catenary risers.</p>
<p>He is currently coordinating Ifremer research, testing and expertise activities related to the behaviour of structures in marine environment and he is head of Ifremer hydrodynamic and metocean laboratory, member of Marinet (http://www.fp7-marinet.eu/)</p>
<p>He is a member of the CLAR_OM (French club for research activities on offshore structures) board.</p>
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<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Jean-Pierre Keustermans is a Materials Science Engineer </span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">graduated in 1988 from University of Louvain in Belgium.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">He spent more than 25 years in various R&D environments ranging from pure academic to pure industrial application world.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">-</span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Jean-Pierre started his R&D career at the University of Louvain in Belgium </span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">by a PhD on "Fractal fractography and fracture mechanic". He spent then 5 years at the Research Facilities of Shell-Chemical, first in Belgium and then in Amsterdam on improving low temperature impact resistance of a new engineering thermoplastic polymer.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">-</span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">In 1999, Jean-Pierre joined Laborelec where he became active in the department of Materials Technology, advising Electrabel on issues related to high temperature materials, essentially dealing with hot gas path components of gas turbines.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">-</span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">In 2004, he became responsible for R&D projects management with a progressively enlarging scope, first on Materials & Mechanics of CCGT technologies, then enlarging to all R&D activities that improve operational excellence of operated CCGT and Renewable technologies in the GDF-SUEZ Groups, addressing Availability, O&M Cost, Efficiency, Flexibility and Environmental footprint (> 5M€ R&D activities). In the mean time, he became also responsible for coordinating a large spectrum of prospective R&D activities (>1.5M€) for assessment of emerging Renewable technologies such as Wind-offshore, Concentrated Solar, Tidal & Waves Marine, Biomass conversions and Biogas technologies.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">-</span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Since 2013, Jean-Pierre is in chage of the coordination of the Collaborative Research activities at Laborelec, which involves setting up collaborative projects and their potential (public) funding construction for a selected portfolio of topics of strategic importance for Laborelec. </span></p>
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<p>Jean-Christian MARCEL works for energy systems application with more than 20 of experience. He now belongs to Tenesol, a French company in the field of photovoltaic (PV) systems.</p>
<p>Since 1983, TENESOL is involved in modules PV manufacturing, systems design, integration, supervision and even exploitation (roughly 1 million of m² installed).</p>
<p>As an engineer, he is in charge of R&D programme co-ordination within the company in the fields of:</p>
<p>·Modules PV processing and performances</p>
<p>·Building Integrated PV structures</p>
<p>·Balance of system (inverter, dataloggers, charger ...)</p>
<p>·Rural electrification applications design (SHS, Hybrid ...)</p>
<p>·Grid connected PV for production and smart grid ancillary services</p>
<p>·Low consumption buildings with auto-production with PV</p>
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<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>
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<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>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 Hammer, Senior Principal Research Scientist</p>
<p>Biography</p>
<p>Thomas Hammer graduated in physics at the University Hannover, Germany, in 1983. In 1987 he made his PhD at the Institute for Plasma Physics, University Hannover. Since 1988 he is with the Corporate Technology of the Siemens AG. </p>
<p>His experience covers environmental application of atmospheric pressure plasma technology, environmental catalysis, gas turbine combustion processes, fuel reforming and gasification, CO2 separation and utilization, waste heat recovery, and water treatment technologies. </p>
<p>Currently he is Senior Principal Research Scientist for the Technology Field Power and Energy Technologies being responsible for energy conversion as well as power transmission and distribution technologies required in future energy systems. </p>
<p>Thomas Hammer is member of IEEE, German Physical Society, German Society for Plasma Technology, and board member for several international conferences. In his fields of activity he participated in several German, European, and US DoE funded projects. He is the author or co-author of more than 30 reviewed publications, more than 50 conference papers, and more than 70 granted patents. </p>
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