Kristina Lynegrud works with business model innovation for sustainability, predominantly in the field of district energy. Other areas of expertise are risk management (ERM) and innovation processes. As senior expert at IVL Kristina is building up a new branch of activity supporting cities in the energy transition (read more here www.ten21.eu). Kristina has specialized in low temperature business models and innovation projects and coordinates the REUSEHEAT project (www.reuseheat.eu). Since 2021 Kristina is chair of the platform for district energy research, DHC+ and she works part time at Halmstad University as Assistant Professor in Industrial and Financial Economics.
Urban Persson is a Swedish researcher in the academic field of energy and environmental technology with a special focus on district heating and cooling systems in a European perspective. Special interests include heat and cold demands, assessments of excess heat and renewable heat resources, waste generation and management, heat distribution investment economics, and spatial data analysis in geographical information systems. Urban has been employed at Halmstad University in Sweden since 2006, where he today is professor in renewable energy systems. In the sEEnergies project, Urban represents Halmstad University as lead of work package 5, Spatial analyses of energy efficiency potentials and development of a GIS visualization platform.
Prof. Dr. Bernd Möller is professor in Sustainable Energy Systems Management at Europa-Universität Flensburg, Germany. His research includes geospatial analysis in energy planning, sustainable energy access and development. He chairs the international M.Eng. programme Energy and Environmental Management in Developing Countries.
Brian Vad Mathiesen, Professor in Energy Planning and Renewable Energy Systems at Aalborg University, holds a PhD in fuel cells and electrolysers in future energy systems (2008). His research focuses on technological and socio-economic transitions to renewables, energy storage, large-scale renewable energy integration and the design of 100% renewable energy systems.
He is one of the leading researchers behind the concepts of Smart Energy Systems and electrofuels. He is on the Clarivate, Web of Science Highly Cited list (2015-2020), thus among the top 1% most cited researchers globally. Among other positions, he is member of the EU Commission expert group on electricity interconnection targets in the EU and The newly founded Science Advice for Policy by European Academies (SAPEA) Expert Group on A Systemic Approach For the Energy Transition In Europe. He is the Research Coordinator of the Sustainable Energy Planning Research group, Principal Investigator (PI) of the RE-INVEST and sEEnergies projects, and Programme Director for the MSc in Sustainable Cities.
He has been PI, work package leader and participant in more than 60 research projects as well as editorial board member of The Journal of Energy Storage (Elsevier) and The Journal of Sustainable Development of Energy, Water & Environment Systems; Associate Editor of Energy, Ecology and Environment (Springer) and Editor of the International Journal of Sustainable Energy Planning and Management. Recently he started the new Elsevier Journal Smart Energy. Furthermore, he is a member of The Danish Academy of Technical Sciences (ATV) and a board member at The Danish Energy Technology Development and Demonstration Program (EUDP).Furthermore, he is a member of The Danish Academy of Technical Sciences (ATV) and a board member at The Danish Energy Technology Development and Demonstration Program (EUDP).