I´m CTO at Banke Accessory Drives ApS and have a long industrial background in several different companies, mainly within mechatronics and electronics. Before joining Banke Accessory Drives I was Director of Product Development and Product Management at Danfoss Solar Inverters.
B.Sc.EE, mechatronics 1986.
A native of Denmark, Prof. Schougaard received his Masters degree (Cand. Scient) from the University of Copenhagen under the supervision of Prof Bjørnholm in 1998. He subsequently moved to the University of Texas at Austin, where he received his Ph.D. in 2002. Remaining in Austin, he completed a post doctoral fellowship with Prof. Goodenough, in 2004. Shortly hereafter he returned to Denmark to work at RISØ, Danish national laboratories. It was from here that he was recruited to the Université de Québec à Montréal (UQAM), Canada.
At UQAM he has developed in collaboration with General Motors Canada and Clarian Canada inc. a research program that focuses on the development and characterization of advanced batteries.
Ola Nilsen is currently an associate professor in nanotechnology at the University of Oslo. His main topic is within growth of materials by the atomic layer deposition technique, focusing on complex oxides, organic-inorganic hybrid materials, and the tasks for realisation of all-solid-state microbatteries. He is also co-founder and CEO of Baldur Coatings, which offers coating services by ALD.
Mie is a Ph.D. student at DTU Energy conversion and is working with development of cathodes and cathode materials for Li-air batteries. The cathodes are offen based on carbon black, graphene or reduced graphene oxide. The cathodes materials are usually characterised by XRD, Raman, XPS, BET and SEM. To further understand the processes inside the Li-air battery an In situ battery for syncrotron XRD has also been developed.
Daniel Stroe received the Dipl.-Ing. degree in control engineering from “Transilvania” University of Brasov, Romania, in 2008. In 2010, he received the M.Sc.degree in the field of wind power systems from the Department of Energy Technology, Aalborg University. He is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree at Department of Energy Technology, Aalborg University; his PhD thesis title is: “Lifetime models for Lithium-ion batteries in Grid Support Applications”.
He is co-author of the “Industrial/PhD course Storage Systems based on Li-ion Batteries for Grid Support and Automotive Applications”. His research interests are in the area of renewable energy systems, energy storage and Li-ion battery testing and modelling.
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Martin Søndergaard obtained his Master and Ph.d. degrees in materials chemistry from Aarhus University in 2009 and 2013, respectively, under the supervision of Professor Bo Brummerstedt Iversen.
His main research focus has been synthesis and characterization of inorganic thermoelectric materials. He is currently employed at Aarhus University as an industrial postdoc in a collaboration with Haldor Topsøe A/S. In this project the main work consists of synthesizing electrode materials for Li-ion batteries and relating the synthesis method to the structural and electrochemical properties.
Steinar Birgisson received his bachelor degree in Chemistry from The University of Iceland in 2011. After that he worked for a year as a research scientist at Carbon Recycling International, a small innovation company in Iceland. There he participated in the commissioning of the first methanol plant in the world that produces methanol from CO2 emission in a renewable way.
In 2012, he came to Aarhus University and is currently working in Prof. Bo B. Iversen's group as a PhD student. His PhD project concerns synthesis and characterization of nano-sized battery materials with emphasis on in-situ measurements on hydrothermal reactions.
Morten Brix Ley received his bachelor degree at iNANO, Aarhus University in Nanoscience in 2009. He studied Applied Mechanics at the Aarhus University School of Engineering for a year, before becoming a PhD student in Assoc. Prof. Torben R. Jensens group in 2010. His research focuses on multifunctional complex hydrides for solid-state hydrogen storage and solid-state electrolytes.