(HyPT-3) Overview of Session 4B - Redox Thermochemical

Wednesday 13th September 2023 6:00pm - 7:30pm ACST (UTC+9:30)

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Dr Remo Schäppi (ETHZ), Dr. Alicia Bayon (CSIC), Nathalie Monnerie (DLR), PANELLISTS Prof Christian Sattler (DLR), Prof Jinjia Wei (Jiaotong), CHAIR Prof Gus Nathan

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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Dr Remo Schäppi (ETHZ)

Remo Schäppi is a doctoral student at the professorship of renewable energy carriers at ETH Zurich. He holds a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from ETH Zurich and is focusing his research activities on the production of solar fuels and the demonstration of the entire production chain from sunlight and air to liquid hydrocarbons.

Dr. Alicia Bayon (CSIC)

Dr. Alicia Bayon has 13 years of experience in the development of new materials for thermal energy storage and solar hydrogen production via thermochemical redox cycles. She completed her doctoral studies at IMDEA Energia in Spain, specializing in synthesizing and characterizing materials for hydrogen production. She joined CSIRO Energy in Australia as Postdoctoral Fellow (2014-2020) where she conducted techno-economic evaluations and worked on optimizing thermochemical processes. After that she has held a position as an Assistant Research Scientist at Arizona State University (2020-2022), where she worked on projects funded by ARPA-E and DOE in thermochemistry.

Since 2022, she is a Researcher at Institute of Catalysis and Petrochemistry of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) in Madrid, thanks to the prestigious Talent Attraction Program, focusing on the accelerated discovery of novel materials for thermochemical hydrogen production. Her achievements include securing over 3 million euros in funding as both a Co-PI and a PI. She has supervised to completion 3 doctoral thesis (2 more ongoing). She has published 45 research articles (with 25 in Q1 and 7 in D1), with an h-index of 18, and has presented her work at more than 50 conferences worldwide (9 times as invited speaker). Dr. Bayon has received recognition through four awards in Australia, the USA, and Spain for her contributions to the field of thermochemistry and hydrogen.

Nathalie Monnerie (DLR)

Nathalie Monnerie is acting head of the department “Solar production assessment” in Institute of Future Fuels at DLR since beginning of 2021. She holds two M. Sc degrees, one in chemical engineering and one in Management from the University of Strasbourg, France. She has worked at the Solar Research Division of DLR in Cologne (Germany) during 20 years as a scientist and project leader in the field of solar high temperature applications, in particular on the production of hydrogen and solar fuels from water and carbonaceous feedstock.

She has been coordinator and DLR responsible of several national and international projects. She was active in the project HYDROSOL, which has been awarded by the Descartes Prize 2006 for Scientific Collaborative Research and she is member of the German Hydrogen Research Network.

PANELLISTS

Prof Christian Sattler (DLR)

Professor Christian Sattler studied chemistry at the University of Bonn, Germany. He is Acting Divisional Board Member for Energy and Transport of the German Aerospace Center (DLR), Director of DLR’s Institute of Future Fuels, and Professor for solar fuel production at RWTH Aachen University, Germany.

Professor Sattler serves as Vice President of the Association Hydrogen Europe Research representing the European research institutions in the European Clean Hydrogen Partnership. He is the national representative to tasks of the IEA’s SolarPACES Implementing Agreement, and member of the ASME’s Clean Energy Technical Group.

Prof Jinjia Wei (Jiaotong)

Jinjia WEI is a professor of Xi’an Jiaotong University, China. His research interests include solar thermal/ chemical conversion and utilization, and two-phase flow and heat transfer. 

He is the national Coordinator of Task II, Solar Power and Chemical Energy Systems (Solar PACES), International Energy Agency, the council member of International Center of Heat and Mass Transfer, and the editorial board member of 5 international journals.

He has published more than 300 peer reviewed international journal papers, and gave 27 invited presentations in international conferences. He was authorized more than 30 national invention patents and one international invention patent.