Pavol Bauer is full Professor with the Department of Electrical Sustainable Energy of TU Delft and head of DC Systems, Energy Conversion and Storage group. He received his master's in Electrical Engineering at the Technical University of Kosice (‘85), PhD from TU Delft (’95) and title Prof. from the President of the Czech Republic at the Brno University of Technology (2008) and TU Delft (2016). He is also an honorary professor at Politehnica University Timisoara in Romania, where he also obtained an honorary doctorate. From 2002 to 2003, he worked partially at KEMA (DNV GL, Arnhem) on different projects related to power electronics applications in power systems. He published over 180 journals and 500 conference papers in his field (with H factor Google Scholar 55, Web of Science 39). He is an author or co-author of 8 books, holds 10 international patents and organized several tutorials at international conferences. He has worked on many projects for industry concerning wind and wave energy, power electronic applications for power systems such as Smarttrafo; HVDC systems, projects for smart cities such as PV charging of electric vehicles, PV and storage integration, contactless charging; and he participated in several Leonardo da Vinci, H2020 and Electric Mobility Europe EU projects as project partner (ELINA, INETELE, E-Pragmatic, Micact, Trolly 2.0, OSCD, P2P, Progressus, Tulip, Flow) and coordinator (PEMCWebLab.com-Edipe, SustEner, Eranet DCMICRO). His main research interest is power electronics for charging electric vehicles and DC grids. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE (’97), former chairman of the Benelux IEEE Joint Industry Applications Society, Power Electronics and Power Engineering Society chapter, chairman of the Power Electronics and Motion Control (PEMC) council,  chairman of Benelux IEEE Industrial Electronics chapter, member of the Executive Committee of European Power Electronics Association (EPE) and also a member of the international steering committee at numerous conferences.

Dr. Ir. Arjan van Voorden is 50 years old. He obtained his master's degree at TU Delft in 1998 and his PhD in 2008. Arjan has been working at Stedin since 2007, currently as a system strategist. He is nationally involved in the integrated infrastructure exploration 2030 – 2050. Since January 2023, he has been a research fellow at ESE.

Shoshan Abrahami is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) at the TU Delft. Motivated to make using our modern materials more sustainable has led her to research the extraction of rare earths from post-consumer wastes and study alternatives to hexavalent chromium in the surface pretreatment and coating of metals. Currently, her research group is developing recycling techniques for various hybrid and complex products, including lithium-ion batteries, waste electrical and electronic equipment, and various plastic-metal composites.

Prof. Dr. Ir. M. Wagemaker received his PhD in physics at TU Delft in 2003, and since May 2017, he has been head of the section Storage of Electrochemical Energy and full professor at TU Delft. His expertise includes the fundamental battery processes, simulation/modelling (atomic scale DFT and meso-scale modelling) and characterization (Neutron and X-ray scattering, solid state NMR, Electrochemistry) thereof, aiming at improved understanding and the development of next generation battery materials. Focus areas include the development of novel liquid and solid-state electrolytes and electrodes based on non-critical elements (for Li-ion and Na-ion batteries). Currently he holds a VICI grant on battery research, coordinates the BatteryNL research consortium (NWA-ORC national project) and is initiator of e4batteryDelft, focussing on the development of future circular battery technology.

Norah Hornsveld is the CTO of HyET Lithium, a start-up company focused on developing solid-state lithium-ion batteries. Norah has a background in Applied Physics, and during her PhD, she studied thin-film materials which can be used as an interphase layer to improve lithium-ion batteries. Norah has always been interested in R&D and knowledge sharing. After spending several years as a teacher at the University of Applied sciences, she decided to follow her passion for renewable energy technology development and apply the knowledge she obtained during her PhD in practice. HyET lithium aims to manufacture high energy density solid-state lithium-ion batteries. Solid-state batteries can provide potential solutions for many problems of conventional liquid Li-ion batteries, such as flammability, limited energy density and voltage. For HyET Lithium’s solid-state batteries, high-performance battery materials are being developed, such as silicon anodes. HyET Lithium’s silicon anodes are produced roll-to-roll by plasma-enhanced chemical vapour deposition (PE-CVD). Early market introduction of these silicon anodes is expected due to years of extensive experience in large-scale PE-CVD of silicon within the HyET Group. In addition, HyET Lithium focuses on developing innovative roll-to-roll producible electrolytes. Large-scale roll-to-roll processing of these components is expected to significantly reduce manufacturing costs. HyET Lithium plans to become a commercial organization that sells its technology worldwide.

 

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