Below an overview of the teachers and contributors for each week (TU Delft unless otherwise noted)
Course leader:
Professor Arno Smets
Dr. Arno H.M. Smets is Professor in Solar Energy in the Photovoltaics Material and Devices group at the faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, Delft University of Technology. From 2005-2010 he worked at the Research Center for Photovoltaics at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) in Tsukuba Japan. His research work is focused on processing of thin silicon films, innovative materials and new concepts for photovoltaic applications. He is lecturer for BSc and MSc courses on Photovoltaics and Sustainable Energy at TU Delft. His online edX course on Solar Energy attracted over 150.000 students worldwide. He is co-author of the book “Solar Energy. The physics and engineering of photovoltaic conversion technologies and systems.
LECTURERS:
Week 1: Energy use
Arno Smets, Professor of Solar Energy, (Electrical Engineering, Mathematics & Computer Science)
Week 2: Renewable Energy Generation
Arno Smets, Professor of Solar Energy, (Electrical Engineering, Mathematics & Computer Science)
Week 3: Energy Balances
Kornelis Blok, Professor of Energy Analysis (Technology, Policy & Management)
Week 4: Sustainable Energy Policies
Laurens de Vries, Associate Professor Restructured Electricity Markets (Technology, Policy & Management)
Laurens de Vries is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management of Delft University of Technology. Laurens studied Mechanical Engineering in Delft, specializing in environmental and energy technology and obtained a second Master’s Degree, in Environmental Studies, from The Evergreen State College (Olympia, Washington State, USA) in 1996, focusing on environmental economics. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in June, 2004 from Delft University of Technology, this time at the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management. He researches and teaches in the field of electricity market design. His focus is on the long-term development of European electricity markets, in particular on the impact of various policy instruments on investment in generation and transmission, in view of the transformation towards a low-carbon energy system.
Emile Chappin, Assistant Professor Simulation of Energy Infrastructure (Technology, Policy & Management)
Week 5: Wind Energy
Carlos Ferreira, Associate Professor Wind Turbine Aerodynamics (Aerospace Engineering)
Carlos Simão Ferreira is an associate professor at the faculty of Aerospace Engineering at TU Delft, researching Wind Turbine Aerodynamics, with a focus on multi-megawatt offshore VAWTs. He is also the coordinator of the Erasmus Mundus European Wind Energy Master (EWEM), a joint program by Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and the Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg (UniOl).
Carlos earned his Master's degree cum laude in Aerospace Engineering at TU Delft, together with a Licenciatura em Engenharia Aerospacial at the Technical University of Lisbon. He obtained his PhD cum laude at TU Delft in 2009, with the dissertation "The near wake of the VAWT: 2D and 3D views of the VAWT aerodynamics".
Axelle Viré, Assistant Professor Wind Energy (Aerospace Engineering)
Dr. Axelle Viré is an Assistant Professor in Wind Energy at the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Delft University of Technology. She also holds an honorary visiting lecturership at Imperial College London (UK). She graduated in Mechanical Engineering in 2006 at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium), where she also completed a PhD in computational fluid mechanics. She then worked at Imperial College London until late 2013 as a postdoctoral research fellow under a FP7 Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship. She specialises in the numerical modelling of floating wind turbines and airborne wind energy devices. Aside from her research and teaching activities, she is engaged in promoting diversity in science and engineering. She was also the Vice-Chair of the Marie Curie Alumni Association (MCAA) until early 2016, helping the career development of early-stage researchers.
Henk Polinder, Associate Professor Electrical Power Engineering (Electrical Engineering, Mathematics & Computer Science)
Week 6: Solar Energy
Arno Smets, Professor of Solar Energy (Electrical Engineering, Mathematics & Computer Science)
Week 7: Biomass Energy
Ruud van Ommen, Professor Dispersed Multiphase Reactors (Applied Sciences)
Wiebren de Jong, Professor Biomass (Mechanical Engineering)
Week 8: Integration in the electricity network
Laura Ramirez, Assistant Professor of Energy Conversion (Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science)
Week 9: Storage
Bernard Dam, Professor Materials for Sustainable Energy (Applied Sciences)