Nils Anders Røkke

Nils Anders Røkke (born 10 April 1963) is a Norwegian scientist and business leader. He is the Executive Vice President Sustainability SINTEF.[1] He is as of May 2017 the Chairman of The European Energy Research Alliance.[2] EERA is the public research pillar of the EU Strategic Energy Technology Plan(SET-Plan). The SET-Plan aims at accelerating the development and market uptake of key low carbon technologies. EERA brings together more than 170 research centres and universities, working together on 17 joint research programmes, they build on national research initiatives.

Nils Anders Røkke
Born
(1963-04-10) 10 April 1963
NationalityNorwegian

Nils A. Røkke is a promoter of sustainable solutions in energy and mobility, especially in the Norwegian public debate and on the European research arena. His research interests are in energy and climate strategies, renewable energy, CCS technologies and policies, climate mitigation and the European energy research community.

He has a Msc. in Mechanical Engineering from NTNU from 1986. He has a PhD in Thermal Energy and combustion from NTNU from 1994. He worked as Gas Turbine Design and Development Manager in Rolls Royce Marine from 1998, before returning to SINTEF in 2002. He has been the coordinator of several large European CCS projects in FP6 and FP7, as well as NORDICCS, a CCS research project funded by the Nordic Top Level Research Initiative.[3]

He is the Chair of ECCSEL, the European CCS Lab infrastructure. He is the standing chairman and originator of the Trondheim CCS conferences (TCCS).[4]

Selected publications

List of publications by Nils Anders Røkke in CRIStin

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References
  1. http://www.sintef.no/en/all-employees/employee/?empId=631
  2. https://www.eera-set.eu/eera-announced-nils-rokke-sintef-as-new-chairman-during-eera-high-level-political-event/
  3. http://www.toppforskningsinitiativet.org/en/programmer-1/program-6
  4. https://www.sintef.no/projectweb/tccs-9/scientific-and-organizing-committees
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