New elected ISES President and upcoming Executive Committee (ExCo)

Prof. Viktoria Martin is Professor in Energy Technology at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. A graduate from KTH (MSc in Chemical Engineering 1993) and the University of Florida (PhD in Mechanical Engineering 1998), she has pursued a career in international research collaborations within the International Energy Agency as well as the EU, providing insight into a variety of leading research and education arenas. Dr. Martin has over 25 years of experience in education, research, and entrepreneurship in the area of sustainable energy, with special focus on energy systems analysis, sector-coupling, and thermal energy storage. She is the author/co-author of 100+ publications within her research area. Equally important to research is her work on high quality education within the field, and she is presently the director of an engineering BSc degree programme in Energy and Environment, and teaches master level courses in sustainable energy systems.

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 the Chair of the Board at the Bavarian Center for Applied Energy Research, ZAE Bayern, with about 60 scientists. There he is responsible for all national and international research and development projects focussed on thermal and electrical energy storage, thermal driven heat pumps / chillers for industrial and building applications. Dr. Hauer is an international known expert on sector coupling, energy storage in general and specialized on thermal energy storage. Today he is leading working groups within Energy Storage Programme of technology network of the International Energy Agency, IEA, where he is member of the Executive Committee. Within the World Banks partnership on energy storage (ESMAP/ESP) he leads a working group on “"Energy Storage for C&I – Decarbonizing Commerce and Industry by Implementing Energy Storage Capacities in Developing Countries". 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.

Chiel Boonstra works as independent expert of his own company Trecodome in the application of advanced solutions for buildings and cities. He has international experience in applied research and real life construction and renovation projects at building and communities scale. He works with industrial partners, social housing organisations, architects, city planners. Focusing on low demand profiles and seasonal energy storage at community and city scale with the purpose of achieving real time 100% renewable energy driven communities.

Prof. Dr. Michael K.H. Leung is a Chair Professor in the School of Energy and Environment, Shun Hing Education and Charity Fund Professor of Energy and Environment, and Director of the Ability R&D Energy Research Centre at the City University of Hong Kong. He received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, U.S.A. in 1995.

He has 20+ years academic experience in energy engineering. His particular research interests include solar photocatalysis, fuel cell, and advanced refrigeration. He has published 200+ papers in peer-reviewed journals and is listed as the top 2% of the world’s most highly cited scientists according to metrics complied by Stanford University. He is also a Fellow Member of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers.

Prof. Klaus Vajen served as ISES President from 2020-2024. He is director of the Institute of Thermal Engineering at the University of Kassel, Germany, where he holds the chair of Solar- and Systems Engineering, and furthermore distinguished professor of the Technical University of Kyrgyzstan in Bishkek. He holds a PhD in applied physics and is (co-)author of 300+ publications about (solar) thermal engineering, university education and energy policy. He is founder and director of the MSc-programme “Renewable Energies and Energy Efficiency” at the University of Kassel, as well as founder and head of the council “University Educations on Renewable Energies” with 150+ professors from German speaking countries.  .
Klaus was member of the ISES Board of Directors from 2003-2011 and is a member again since 2018. He was Vice-president of ISES 2006-2007, founder of Young ISES (together with J. McIntosh) as well as Chair of the Solar World Congress 2011 and of the EuroSun 2022, both in Kassel.