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You are warmly invited to join this 73st EIRES Lecture online.

The lecture is scheduled as follows:

Date
Friday 2 October 2026

Time
12h00-13h00 CET

Location (hybrid)
ºÚÁϸ£ÀûÍø building Disruptor, room 0.30 and online

Speaker
Prof. Dr. André P.C. Faaij | TNO

Organized by
Ass. Prof. Silvia Gaastra-Nedea | ºÚÁϸ£ÀûÍø, EIRES

Topic: Industrial transformation within the transition of the energy system and circular economy.

Introduction
The energy transition, a circular economy and maintaining competitive industrial production are all major priorities for the EU and countries like the Netherlands. The talk will go into whether or to what extent that is possible and if so with what technology base and implementation pathways we may be able to achieve that.

About the speaker

Prof. Dr. André P.C. Faaij is Director of Science & Technology and principal scientist of TNO Energy & Material Transition, The Netherlands largest energy research organization with some 1,100 co-workers. He combines this with part time Professor chairs ‘’Energy System Analysis’’ at Utrecht University (UU) and University of Groningen (RUG).

Ongoing research covers energy system integration solutions & modelling, industrial transformation & circular economy, transition processes towards sustainable energy systems and industry and related innovation and policy questions.

He is appointed as fellow at the Netherlands Academy of Engineering (since 2024)

Listed at Research.com at # 115 globally for Environmental Sciences and # 71 globally for Engineering & Technology. For the Netherlands #4 and #3 respectively (2022). More information can be found at: (5) Andre Faaij | LinkedIn

He is a member of a variety of (inter) national expert groups in energy policy, biobased economy, research and strategic planning. Advisor for governments, the EC, IEA, the UN system (including UNIDO, UNEP, FAO), GEF, OECD, WEF, IAEA, WEC, the energy sector & industry, strategic consultancy, NGO’s, etc.

He is chair of the NERA; Netherlands Energy Research Alliance and Executive Committee member of the European Energy Research Alliance (EERA). Furthermore, he is appointed as member of the national Energy Council.

Listed as ‘highly cited researcher’ by Clarivate Web of Science Group (previously Thomson Reuters); top 1% of research field.

As IPCC member, awarded with the Nobel Peace Prize for the IPCC in 2007.

Awarded the Linneborn Priz

Format
Hybrid