This summer, EIRES - Eindhoven Institute for Renewable Energy Systems will celebrate its second birthday. Time to reflect on what has been achieved to date and to explore how TU/e can further play its part in realizing the energy transition.

Join EIRES on Friday 1 July 2022 for an energizing day of talks, discussions, and networking.

09h30 WALK-IN | registration with coffee & tea

Chair of the day: Mark Boneschanscher - TU/e | EIRES

10h00 Opening
Robert-Jan Smits - TU/e | Executive Board

10h05 Climate change and the need to speed up the energy transition
Heleen de Coninck - TU/e | Industrial Engineering and Innovation Sciences

10h25 EIRES strategy on (integration of) systems for energy storage and conversion
Richard van de Sanden - TU/e | EIRES
10h40 Five minute pitches by EIRES principal scientists

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

11h00 BREAK | with presentations on exhibition floor

11h30 From resource technologies to water electrolysis: flow on particle-laden air bubbles and oscillating hydrogen bubbles
Kerstin Eckert - Helmholtz Center Dresden-Rossendorf & TU Dresden

12h15 Thermal Energy - The sleeping giant of the energy transition starts moving
Andreas Hauer - Bavarian Center for Applied Energy Research, ZAE Bayern

13h00 WALKING LUNCH | with presentations on exhibition floor

14h00 A system view for an 'optimal' energy transition

André P.C. Faaij - TNO & Utrecht University & University of Groningen

14h45 Topic: to be confirmed
Beatriz Roldán Cuenya - Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society (online participation)

15h30 BREAK | with presentations on exhibition floor

16h00 Roundtable - Interactive panel discussion - speeding up the transition

Barry W. Fitzgerald - Roundtable host, TU/e
Olaf Adan - Cellcius
Marius Ponten - VDL Groep
Andrea Ramirez Ramirez - TU Delft
Anne-Marie Spierings - The province of Noord-Brabant (reserved )

16h30 DRINKS | Networking with speakers, panel and participants

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