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Richard van de Sanden

Member of the AES Domain Board (NWO) – Eindhoven University of Technology / EIRES

Physicist Richard van de Sanden is Professor of Applied Physics at Eindhoven University of Technology and scientific director of the Eindhoven Institute for Renewable Energy Systems (EIRES). He also leads a research group at the Dutch Institute for Fundamental Energy Research (DIFFER). At this NWO institute, he carries out research into the indirect conversion of renewable energy into synthetic fuels and chemical substances. He has been a member of the KNAW since 2013. 

Van de Sanden is active at the boundary of science and industry. For example, he has advised various international companies, and in 2009, he received the Valorisation Prize from the former Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter (FOM) for his achievements in the area of transferring scientific knowledge to industry. He also has extensive administrative experience. For example, he is chair of the advisory committee of the platform Electrochemical Conversion and Materials (ECCM), which advises the Dutch government in the area of the energy transition within industry, and from 2011 to 2020, he was the director of DIFFER.