Annual meeting in the Danish Electric Vehicle Alliance
On 25 November from 1 pm to 5 pm, the Danish Electric Vehicle Alliance host their annual meeting with the topic Battery development including talks from researchers, companies and politicians. Speakers include members of the Danish Battery Society Lars Barkler from Lithium Balance and Søren Dahl from Haldor Topsøe A/S. Details about the meeting and signup info is found in the official flyer.
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The Danish Electric Vehicle Alliance is an independent trade association under the Danish Energy Association. The mission of the Alliance is to ensure Denmark as a pioneering country when it comes to implementation of electric vehicles. The members represent a wide range of industries – ranging from large industrial players and well known brands, to smaller- and medium sized Companies.
Jonathan Højberg
Jonathan Højberg received his Cand. Polyt. in Physics and Nanotechnology from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) in 2011 with a specialization within atomic scale physics related to sustainable energy solutions.
He is currently pursuing a PhD within the field of Lithium-air batteries in a collaboration between DTU Energy Conversion and Haldor Topsøe A/S. He has been heavily engaged in building up state-of-the-art test facilities for Lithium-air batteries at both places and deciding which experiments to conduct.
Jonathan is highly motivated by the interplay between universities and industry, and how the synergies can accelerate the development of new and sustainable energy technologies. In 2009 he founded a company to leverage a newly developed technology to harvest ocean wave energy. The proof-of-concept was developed by making bachelor projects and courses for 15 students at DTU with different competences and coordinating this work. The work resulted in a top-3 in the national start-up competition Venture Cup in the cleantech category and the ideas were adapted in a national collaboration granted 48 MDKK by the Advanced Technology Foundation in 2011 to further develop the technology.
Besides ocean wave power and batteries, Jonathan has worked extensively with the development of cathode materials for Solid Oxide Fuel Cells at the Fuel Cells and Solid State Chemistry Division at Risø, DTU (now part of DTU Energy Conversion). The work focussed on building electrochemical models to describe the cathode, and identify and optimize the most important parameters.
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