The speakers

Brian Vad Mathiesen

Henrik Lund

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Professor with Specific Responsibilities

Department of Development and Planning, Ballerup
A.C. Meyers Vænge 15
Room: A2
2450 København SV, DK

Phone: 9940 7218
bvm@plan.aau.dk

Professor, PhD, Energy planning, Aalborg University, Department of Development and Planning, Denmark
Program Director MSc in Eng. Sustainable Cities
Deputy Head of 4DH Centre Research Centre
Research coordinator of The Sustainable Energy Planning Research Group
Thomson Reuters 2015 highly cited researcher worldwide
Vice-Chair of the EU’s Horizon 2020 Advisory Group for Energy (AGE)

Website: http://people.plan.aau.dk/~bvm/
Short biography: http://pds.aau.dk/pds/file/3073351
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Vad_Mathiesen
Twitter: www.twitter.com/BrianVad
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/brianvadmathiesen

Thierry Hance

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Professeur at Université catholique de Louvain
Ecology, Entomology, Evolutionary Biology

https://www.uclouvain.be/287023.html
thierry.hance@uclouvain.be

Enseignement

Biologie Animale (BIO1231, invertébrés, Bac2, 15h-30h),
Diversité et Phylogénie du vivant BIO 1214 (15h-15h, Bac2)
Ecologie des individus et des population (BIO 1351, Bac3: 17h)
Evolution biologique (BOE 2111, Master1, 17h),
Ecologie des interactions (BOE 2160,15h) (Master1, biologie)
Question d’Ethique dans les sciences et les techniques (Master1, 5-10 h),
Entomologie appliquée à l’agriculture (Master1, BRPP 2201, 11,3-15 h)
Ecologie des forêts et milieux ouvert (Master1, BREF 2105: 7,5h)
Evolution et hominisation (SC2004: 7.5)
Lutte biologique (BRPP 2206 15h + BOE2166, 8-12h, Master 2,).
Stage de terrain en Ecologie (BOE2110: 40h)
Questions d’actualités en Environnement.

Parcours professionnel

1982 – 1985 graduate fellowship from IRSIA, Belgium
1985 – 1988 research assistant, IRSIA, Ecology and Biogeography Research Unit, UCL
1989-1991 Senior Research assistant FNRS, Ecology and Biogeography Research Unit, UCL & Post Doc Agriculture Canada Research Station, St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Québec
1991- 1998 Research associate FNRS, Ecology and Biogeography Research Unit, UCL
1996, Lecturer part time, UCL.
1998, Lecturer full time
2000, Professor
Since 1996 Head of the Ecology and biogeography research unit, UCL
Founder and past president of the Biodiversity research centre (BDIV), UCL
Founder and past director of the Doctoral school on Biodiversity (EDIV), UCL
Co-founder of VIRIDAXIS, SA, Spin off of UCL and member of the advisory board
September 2005, President of the Biology Department, UCL
Octobre 2006, Senior Professor, UCL
2006-2009: Invited professor to the “Institut national d’agriculture, Tunis, INAT”.

Prizes and honors

Travel fellowship, Ministère de la Communauté Française (1988), 92/100
Nato fellowship, 1989-1990, 10 months of postdoctoral stay in Canada
OCDE fellowship October 1994, 3 weeks stay in a research station of the Japan Ministry of Agriculture, , NIVOT, Kanaya, Dr. Yamaguchi.
Price Adolphe Wetrens 2001, Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-art, Belgium.
2001, Invited professor FNDP, Namur, Ecoethology, 15h
May 2002, Invited professor, University of Rennes1, France.
Octobre 2003 : Honorary award, Ministry of forest, water and environment, Romania for an outstanding contribution to forestry research in Romania

Gérard Magnin

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Gérard Magnin (born 1951) was Executive Director of Energy Cities between 1994 and 2014, after having been the original founder of this European network that brings together about 1000 local authorities from 30 European countries. He has been Regional Director for the French Agency for the Environment and Energy Management (ADEME) in Franche-Comté region (FR) for ten years. Initially trained in electrical engineering, followed by economics and politics, he taught economic and social sciences for eight years.

A supporter of social innovation, he strives to integrate the energy and climate issue into the concerns of all of society’s stakeholders, especially those of local authorities. He regularly highlights the fact that the major innovations came from the field and that the networking of experiments and those responsible for them is a powerful factor for change. He continues to persuade national and European levels to acknowledge the fact that none of the EU objectives can be achieved without heavy involvement on behalf of the local authorities.

Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A9rard_Magnin
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A9rard_Magnin

Dirk Vansintjan

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Dirk Vansintjan is quite known in the European corridors. He is the President of REScoop.eu. Dirk holds a Master’s degree in Germanic Philology and is one of the founding members Ecopower, a Belgian renewable energy cooperative with nearly 50,000 members. He has been working in the renewable energy sector since 1985 and still pushes for an energy transition that leads to energy democracy. Today he is a board member of Ecopower and REScoop.be. Dirk is an expert on community energy and well-experienced with European projects. He was the coordinator of REScoop 20-20-20 and is now closely involved in CITYnvest, Community Power, Nobel Grid, PV Financing, REScoop MECISE, REScoop Plus and WISE Power.

dirk.vansintjan@rescoop.eu

Homepage: https://dirkvansintjan.wordpress.com/
Linkedin : https://be.linkedin.com/in/dirk-vansintjan-9a27a78
Twitter : https://twitter.com/dirkvansintjan

Yves Marenne

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General Secretary & HRM of ICEDD
L’Institut de Conseil et d’Etudes en Développement Durable
Web : http://www.icedd.be
E-mail : ym@icedd.be

Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/dirk.vansintjan
Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/in/yves-marenne-b34819bb

Specialisation

Energy expert : energy balances, production technologies and demand management, public policies.

Main activities and responsibilities

Since 2015, General Secretary & HRM of ICEDD.
Since 2012, Director, environment team at ICEDD (Institut de Conseil et d’Etudes en Développement Durable, asbl)
From 2001 to 2011, Director, energy team at ICEDD (Institut de Conseil et d’Etudes en Développement Durable, asbl)
Human resources management of the team’s members (researchers and projects managers) and contacts with
partners and clients.
Monitoring, coordination and management of projects undertaken by Regional and Federal Belgian Energy or Environment Administration such as energy or waste balances (sectoral and reference approaches), renewable energies, energy prices, energy and environment policies and measures, potential and prospective studies in energy and environment fields ,….
Providing technical and scientific assistance, research support and advice to public authorities at regional and national level in the field of energy and environment report obligations (transposition of European Directives, adaptation of reports according to regulation on statistics,…) and policies and measures. Monitoring of policies and assessing their impacts.
Member of ICEDD’s Management Board (from 2002 to 2014). Approval of the human resources management policy and the strategy of the company, supervision and approval of the management undertaken by the General Secretary of the company, approval of the budget and of the company accounts

Craig Morris

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Blogger / Journalist
Energy Transition / Heinrich Böll Stiftung

Website: www.energytransition.de
Email: energiewende@us.boell.org

Born in the United States, Craig has been living in Germany since 1992 and working in the renewables sector since 2001. In 2002, he founded Petite Planète, a translation and documentation agency focusing on renewables. He is the author of two books in German and English, has served as editor of several energy magazines, and is contributing editor at Renewables International. In 2013 and 2014, he served as technical editor of IRENA’s REmap 2030, and in 2014, he won the IAEE’s award for journalism in energy economics. He is co-author of the book “Energy Democracy.”

Craig Morris has been working in the renewables sector since 2001. He is one of the authors of the Website/Blog “Energy transition – The German Energiewende” which is funded by the Heinrich Böll Stiftung, a foundation associated with the German Green Party (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen). The project aims to explain what the energy transition is, how it works, and what challenges lay ahead.

Morris has also served as editor of several energy magazines, and currently writes daily at Renewables International.

Dr. Peter Heck

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Institute for Applied Material Flow Management (IfaS),
Environmental Campus Birkenfeld

University of Applied Sciences Trier

P.O. Box 1380, 55761 Birkenfeld, Germany
Phone: +49 (0)6782-17-1221
Fax: +49 (0)6782-17-1264
E-Mail: p.heck(at)umwelt-campus.de

Current positions

2004-today: Head of the master programmes “International Material Flow Management IMAT”
2001-today: Managing Director, Institute for Applied Material Flow Management (IfaS)
1999-today: Professor for Material Flow Management, environmental policy, international trade, sustainable development, renewable energies, environmental protection and East Asia, University of Applied Sciences Trier, Environmental Campus Birkenfeld

Academic Background

Prof. Dr. Peter Heck holds a diploma as well as a PhD degree in Geography by the Saarland University, Germany.