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Martha M. Roggenkamp

Prof. dr. Martha Roggenkamp is a specialist in International, European and Dutch Energy law. She holds a degree in law and Scandinavian languages and a PhD of the University of Leiden on the legal framework of pipelines in the oil and gas sector. She is the principal investigator of the DOSTA project and supervisor and promotor of Liv Malin Andreasson. She received here PhD at the University of Leiden and worked in private practice before she was appointed in 2005 at the University of Groningen as the first professor of energy law in the Netherlands. In 2021 she holds an emeritus status. She also established and chairs the Dutch Association of Energy Law.

Liv Malin Andreasson

Liv Malin Andreasson is a PhD researcher at the Faculty of Law, University of Groningen. Prior to her PhD, she worked as a researcher at the Groningen Centre of Energy Law and Sustainability. She carried out the legal research in the North Sea Energy project and the Havenschets project on the planning, production, transport and supply of (green) hydrogen in the North Sea and in Dutch port areas, respectively. She has a LL.M in International and European Law at the University of Gothenburg (graduated in 2017) and an LL.M in Energy and Climate Law at the University of Groningen (graduated in 2018). She is bilingual in Swedish and Norwegian.

Antonis Vakis

 

Prof. dr. Antonis I. Vakis is Associate Professor in the Mechanics and Tribology of Engineering Systems (MeTrES) and Chair of the Computational Mechanical and Materials Engineering (CMME) research group of the Engineering and Technology Institute Groningen (ENTEG), Faculty of Science and Engineering (FSE) of the University of Groningen. He supervises the PhD candidate Robbert Nienhuis. His research interests lie in the field of mechanical engineering and received his PhD at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in December 2011, working on nanoscale interface mechanics with application to magnetic storage. He is Program Director of the MSc program in Industrial Engineering and Management (IEM), an Academic Fellow of the Cyprus Marine and Maritime Institute (CMMI), as well as a co-founder and scientific advisor for spin-off company Ocean Grazer B.V.

Bayu Jayawardhana

 

Prof. Dr. Bayu Jayawardhana received the Ph.D. degree in electrical and electronics engineering from Imperial College London, London, U.K., in 2006 and afterwards he conducted postdoctoral research at Bath University and Manchester University in U.K.. He joined University of Groningen in 2008, where he now is a professor of mechatronics and control of nonlinear systems in the Faculty of Science and Engineering and is the co-supervisor of the PhD candidate of the PhD candidate Robbert Nienhuis. He was the first director of Mechanical Engineering master program and is currently the scientific director of Engineering and Technology Institute Groningen. He received the Ben Feringa Impact Award in 2020 and co-founded, amongst others, the startup company Ocean Grazer BV that has won the CES Best Innovation Award 2022.

Robbert Nienhuis

 

Robbert Nienhuis is a PhD researcher at Engineering and Technology Institute Groningen, Faculty of Science and Engineering at the University of Groningen. He has a background in FEM analysis and design optimization. Within the DOSTA project, he is in addition to his academic research also working for the Ocean Grazer Company where he further focuses on the development of the Ocean Battery. Robert holds an M.Sc. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Groningen.

Chris Zuidema

Prof. dr. Christian Zuidema is an associate professor at the Department of Spatial Planning and Environment, Faculty of Spatial Sciences, University of Groningen. After his PhD that focused on environmental planning, he increasingly engaged with topics such as sustainable urban management and integrated energy planning. He is and has been involved in numerous international research projects, notably on the topic of Integrated Energy Planning. Within the Dosta project, he is supervising PhD candidatyew Juul Kusters.

Juul Kusters

 

Juul Kusters is a PhD researcher at the Department of Spatial Planning and Environment, Faculty of Spatial Sciences, University of Groningen. She has specialized in marine spatial planning and is greatly interested in offshore energy. She holds an M.Sc. in Environmental and Infrastructure Planning (University of Groningen) and an M.Sc. in Water and Coastal Management (University of Oldenburg, Germany).

Madeleine Gibescu

 

Madeleine Gibescu is a full professor in the area of Integration of Intermittent Renewable Energy in the Energy & Resources group of the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University. Her research interests are in the modelling and simulation of power systems and electricity markets with a large penetration of renewable energy sources. Dr. Gibescu received her PhD in Electrical Engineering from University of Washington, U.S. in 2003. Before joining the University of Utrecht, she was has also worked at TU Delft and TU Eindhoven. Her research involves smart grids, system integration, long-term network planning under severe uncertainty, cross-border balancing and new concepts for wholesale and local electricity market design. Within the DOSTA project, she is involved in the topic of optimal sizing and operation of offshore energy systems, and acts as the promoter of PhD candidate Jan Wiegner.

Matteo Gazzani

 

Dr. Matteo Gazzani is an associate professor in the group of Energy & Resources of the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, at the University of Utrecht. His research focuses on energy systems and integrates technical concepts from chemical, mechanical and electrical engineering. He is particularly interested in CO2 capture and storage, enhanced gas separation, optimization of decentralized energy systems, water-energy nexus, and decarbonization of energy intensive industries. Together with Madeleine Gibescu he supervises the PhD candidate Jan Wiegner.

Jan Wiegner

 

Jan Wiegner is a PhD researcher at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development at the University of Utrecht. He has a strong background in energy system modeling and data analysis and is passionate about the transition towards a sustainable world. Jan holds an M.Sc. in Energy Science (University Utrecht) and M.Sc. in Economics (University of Bayreuth).

Administrative staff – DOSTA management

Alma Erenstein – Funding Officer at the Faculty of Law, University of Groningen
Claudi Reinicke – Project Manager at the Faculty of Law, University of Groningen

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