Climate Action Programme lecture "Harnessing the elements for a sustainable future"

You are cordially invited to our November lunch lecture. This lecture is organised together with the TU Delft Energy Initiative.
The lunch will take place during National Climate Week and the TU Delft Energy Hub Week.

Date: Thursday 14 November 2024
Time: 12:45 - 13:45 (free vegan lunch from 12:15 if registered)
Location: TU Delft; Faculty of CEG hall C
Moderator: Pier Siebesma
Registration: is mandatory via this link

"Harnessing the elements for a sustainable future: Solar nowcasting and the dynamic Dutch North Sea"
By Angela Meyer and Louise Nuijens

Angela Meyer will talk about AI techniques and optimization for (offshore) wind energy
Angela is Assistant Professor of energy meteorology and artificial intelligence at TU Delft since October 2023 and Profesor of Applied Machien Learning at Bern Univeristy of Applied Sciences.
She obtained her PhD in Atmospheric Phisics from ETH Zurich and a master’s degree in mathematics from the University of Cambridge. She also gained industry experience as a data scientist at Hexagon AB and co-leader of a R&D program at Siemens Smart Infrastructure.
"My research interests lie at the intersection of data science, atmospheric science and energy applications. Since 2022, I have been leading a research group in machine learning and renewable energy applications at Bern University of Applied Sciences. Research in my group is supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation and the Innovation Agency Innosuisse."

Louise Nuijens will show that the Netherlands is facing global challenges due to climate change that include not only sea level rise, but also unprecedented warm North Sea temperatures and changing rainfall patterns. She will explain that clouds, solar radiation and wind over the North Sea and coast are part of a dynamic interconnected system that shapes weather and regional climate. Understanding this coupled system is very important as we face our future climate and requires advanced models and extensive data collection. More accurate information of wind, rain, fog and sunshine over the North Sea, one of the busiest coastal seas in the world, is becoming urgent. The North Sea is facing escalating challenges from shipping regulations and marine protection, while evolving into a renewable energy hub with a planned ten-to-twentyfold expansion of wind energy production to make the Netherlands climate-neutral by 2050. 

Louise Nuijens is an associate professor in Atmospheric Science in the Geoscience & Remote Sensing Department at TU Delft since 2017 and an ECMWF Fellow since 2019. Before coming to TUD, she worked as a Postdoctoral fellow at MIT, and as a group leader of the Observations and Process Studies group in the Atmosphere Department of the Max-Planck Institute for Meteorology in Germany. Her research focuses on unraveling the physical processes that underlie the interaction of convection and clouds with atmospheric circulations (winds) and the implication of such processes for weather and climate. She combines field observations with high-resolution simulations and theoretical models.