From Storage to Stability: Technologies for Tomorrow's Grid

Dr Paksoy is currently a professor in the Chemistry Department and also the Director of the Center for Environmental Research at Çukurova University, Adana, Turkey.  She is a leading researcher in thermal energy storage, with over 160 scientific publications and extensive international collaboration. She serves as the Turkish Delegate and was the former Chair of the Executive Committee of the International Energy Agency Energy Conservation through Energy Storage (IEA ECES). Representing Turkey, Dr Paksoy has signed the Implementing Agreement of IEA ECES with the International Energy Agency on behalf of Çukurova University in 1995. Halime Paksoy leads the thermal energy storage research team at Cukurova University with main focus is on fundamental and applied energy storage studies, as well as on developing thermal energy storage materials and their applications on using renewable and alternative energy in buildings and industry. She is associate editor responsible for energy storage in the International Journal of Solar Energy Society.

Nathalie Monnerie holds two M. Sc degrees, one in chemical engineering and one in Management from the University of Strasbourg, France. She has worked at the Solar Research Division of the German Aerospace Center DLR in Cologne (Germany) during 20 years as a scientist and project leader in the field of solar high temperature applications, in particular on the production of hydrogen and solar fuels from water and carbonaceous feedstock. She has been coordinator and DLR responsible of several national and international projects. She is member of the German Hydrogen Research Network and since 2021 she is head of department “Solar production assessment” in Institute of Future Fuels at DLR.

Dr.  Andreas Hauer studied Physics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, Germany. He made his PhD at the technical University in Berlin. Now he is director of the Bavarian Center for Applied Energy Research, ZAE Bayern, an independent research institute. Today he is leading several working groups within the Energy Storage Technology Collaboration Programme of the International Energy Agency, IEA, and he is member of the Executive committee. He is member of the Board of Directors of the International Solar Energy Society, ISES. Within the World Banks partnership on energy storage (ESMAP/ESP) he leads a working group on “sector coupling”. He is also active in the “Investors Dialogue on Energy” of the European Union, member of the steering committee of the working group on energy storage. On the national level, he is Vice-President of the 2012 established Bundesverband Energiespeichersysteme (BVES), German Energy Storage Systems Association and member of the board of directors of the Forschungsverbund Erneuerbare Energien, FVEE, the renewable energy research association. He is Editor in Chief for the Wiley publication “Advances in Energy Storage”, which was published in May 2022.

Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Ingo Stadler researches and teaches at TH Köln, where he is responsible for renewable energies and energy management and is involved in the Cologne Renewable Energy Institute (CIRE), which he co-founded. He received his doctorate and habilitation from the University of Kassel. His work covers the grid integration of renewable energies and renewable energy systems and focuses on non-electrical storage and load management beyond electricity. He is a member of the scientific advisory board of the International Centre for Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environmental Systems (SDEWES). For more than a decade, he represented Germany in the photovoltaic system programme of the International Energy Agency (IEA). Together with Prof. Dr. Michael Sterner from OTH Regensburg, he is also the editor of the standard work on energy storage – demand, technologies, integration, published by Springer-Verlag. Ingo Stadler was a member of the energy group of the Climate Council of the City of Cologne. In addition, he has been involved in various projects in Brazil for over twenty years, including at the University of Fortaleza and in projects with the Society for Cooperation and the regulatory authority ANEEL. In 2022, he was a visiting professor at UFRJ in Rio de Janeiro. Since 2024, he has been director of the Resources and Sustainability Department of the North Rhine-Westphalia Doctoral College.