Dr Ausilio Bauen is a director of E4tech. He has extensive research and consulting experience on technical, economic, environmental and policy issues relating to decentralised generation and alternative fuel production and infrastructure. His focus is on biomass energy, fuel cells and related fuels for stationary and transport applications, and decentralised generation integration into energy systems. Ausilio has worked with industry, government, non-government and international organisations. He has co-authored journal articles and books, including two Financial Times Energy reports. Ausilio holds degrees in Physics and Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, in Environmental Technology with Energy Policy from Imperial College, and has a PhD on techno-economic and environmental aspects of biomass energy from King's College London. He is a Senior Research Fellow at Imperial College London’s Centre for Energy Policy and Technology. Ausilio has also worked in Switzerland and Brazil and speaks English, French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese.

Expertise
New and renewable energy technologies and systems, fuel cycle analysis, environmental impacts and external costs, energy and environmental policy, and sustainable development.

Adam Chase is based in our London office and leads our work on energy policy, strategy and finance. He has degrees in Economics, Engineering, Energy & Environmental Technology. Adam has been a Director of E4tech since joining in 2000 and he has played a role in most of the projects which E4tech has undertaken through its London office. His project work often relates to corporate or national strategy and involves an understanding of how energy systems operate, rather than technologies in isolation. Adam’s particular interest is low carbon innovation in the energy and automotive sectors. He also has operational responsibility for the London office.

Adam was previously a manager with the global management consulting firm A.T.Kearney, where he took part in and led teams engaged in a wide range of strategic and operational projects across the international energy and chemicals sectors. Prior to this, Adam worked for seven years in the upstream and downstream oil and gas industry and also spent time as a journalist with the Financial Times organisation, focusing on energy, environment and automotive issues. He speaks English and French.

Expertise
Strategy and operations consulting, project management, market assessment, business growth, oil and gas industry, automotive industry, energy technology, hydrogen energy systems.

Flavio Foradini is a director of E4tech. He specialises in building physics, sustainable buildings design and related software development from our Lausanne office. He leads our work on sustainable buildings and software development. He also has expertise in renewable energy projects and planning. Flavio has worked on these issues with industry, government and academic institutions. He has participated in a variety of Swiss and European research and development projects such as IAQ Audit and Airless, Hope, Euro Islas and Green Hotel. He is a member of the Swiss Society of Engineers and Architects (SIA) and sits on the panel of SIA commission 2031 ("The building energy certificate"). Flavio has authored many journal and conference papers, and has participated as an expert evaluator for DG TREN for EU Framework Projects. He speaks French, English, Italian, German and Spanish.

Expertise
Building physics and Sustainable Buildings design, in particular indoor air quality, ventilation and thermal analysis. Related software applications. Renewable energy systems.

Dr David Hart  has consulted and carried out research on fuel cell and hydrogen issues for a wide range of organisations worldwide, including national governments, major industrial companies, financial organisations and NGOs. In addition to his work as a Director of E4tech, he is also Head of Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Research at Imperial College London's Centre for Energy Policy and Technology (ICEPT), and sits on the Steering Committee of the Grove Fuel Cell Symposium, one of the leading global fora for fuel cell experts.

David is recognised as one of the leading experts in hydrogen energy technology and infrastructure, and the associated policy and environmental issues; and in fuel cells used for transport, portable and stationary decentralised power generation. He has led over a dozen fuel cell and hydrogen assessments for due diligence work, in addition to strategic analyses and a wide variety of reports and papers, and has been an invited keynote speaker on fuel cell and hydrogen issues on five continents. David holds degrees in Mechanical Engineering with German from the University of Bath and in Environmental Technology from Imperial College, and his PhD at Imperial College was in Hydrogen Energy Systems. He has worked in Germany and Japan as a control systems engineer, and speaks English, German, Japanese and French.

Expertise
Strategic, technical, economic, environmental, market and policy analysis of fuel cell and hydrogen energy systems.

Edouard Westphal Is an electrical engineer and IT expert. He is specialised in the development of software and internet applications. In particular he has extensive experience of programming languages such as Delphi, C++, Java, Cold Fusion, ASP, ActiveX, Corba and SQL. Edouard speaks French and English.

Jo Howes is a Managing Consultant with E4tech and has a background in materials science and hydrogen energy research. She has worked on a very wide range of policy and commercial client projects, covering novel technologies, estimates of future technology and market potential, and innovation systems. She has previously worked with the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST), writing their briefing note 'Prospects for a hydrogen economy'. Jo holds degrees in Materials Science and Metallurgy from the University of Cambridge and in Environmental Technology with Energy Policy from Imperial College. She has also studied at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) and at the University of Cape Town and has worked in Thailand. She speaks English and French.

Expertise
Biomass and waste technology and policy, analysis and modelling of hydrogen energy systems, including renewable energy integration, transport fuels and policy, materials for energy technologies.

Claire Chudziak is a Senior Consultant based in E4tech's London office and has a background in energy and climate policy. She has previously worked in the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, where she worked on policy and communications relating to the EU Emissions Trading Scheme. Claire has worked in the waste management sector at Mouchel Parkman, preparing Environmental Impact Assessments and scoping documents and also undertook an internship in the Sustainable Business Solutions team at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Claire holds a BA in Zoology from Cambridge (specialising in molecular and developmental biology) and an MSc in Environmental Technology from Imperial College (specialising in Energy Policy).

Expertise
Sustainable energy and climate policy, biological sciences and scientific research.

Philip Watson  is a Senior Consultant based in E4tech's London office.  He has worked on a range of projects at E4tech, including market sizing in the hydrogen and fuel cell sectors, market due diligence and development of methods for assessing the carbon intensity of products.  Philip has led E4tech’s work for the UK’s Department for Transport to develop a method for assessing the carbon intensity of biofuels within the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation – an approach which has received international recognition.  He has a strong technical knowledge of energy use with a degree in Energy Management from the University of Otago in New Zealand. Philip has focused on applying this technical knowledge in transport and energy efficiency policy development - particularly in the area of greenhouse gas abatement policy. Prior to joining E4tech he worked with the Royal Society in London on alternative transport fuels, and the OECD in Paris reviewing transport CO2 abatement policies in a range of countries. For several years after his studies Philip worked with the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority in New Zealand.

Expertise
Transport sector greenhouse gas abatement policy, sustainable energy and climate change policy, alternative transport fuels and technical analysis.

Dr François Vuille has been working as a strategic consultant in the transport and energy sectors for the past 9 years. His activities on energy have been concentrating mostly on projects in the fields of photovoltaics and bioenergy (biomass & waste to energy) with a particular focus on understanding the prospects and the barriers (technical, policy and socio-economic) to novel technology deployment. Francois is one of the lead authors of the Bioenergy Review commissioned by the International Energy Agency, due for publication in 2009.

Francois has worked for several years at the leading-edge of technology innovation and has acquired a global understanding of the potential for innovative solutions (e.g. novel materials for solar cells, advanced biofuels, novel biomass to power technologies, etc.). Francois has worked in several European Framework project related to renewable energy and energy efficiency. Recently, Francois has been increasingly helping finance institutions understand the complexities and seize the opportunities in the energy sector. For these clients, he has mostly been taking part to sector reviews, due diligence works and technology scouting.

He is also experienced in the techno-economic assessment of large-scale projects, in particular in the domain of energy and innovative transport systems. He has also know-how in the field of risk assessment of complex systems and is expert in the field of safety and reliability for the Swiss Federal Office of Transport. Francois has worked with industry (leading car manufactures, power utilities, oil majors, etc.), financial organisation (hedge funds, World Bank, etc.), governments (Swiss, UK, Chile, etc.), non-government and international organisations (International Energy Agency, World Bank, European Commission, European Space Agency).

François holds master degrees in Physics (1995) and in Energy Engineering (2002) from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, as well as a PhD in Astrophysics from the University of Cape Town (1998). Francois is lecturing at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in the fields of Energy and Risk Analysis & Management. He speaks French, English and German, as well as some Spanish and Swiss German.

Expertise
Photovoltaics technologies, bioenergy technologies, technology deployment strategies, project and technology appraisal, system optimisation (availability, safety), risk analysis & management, Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), techno-economic analysis, economical analysis (profitability study, financial planning, market assessment).

Robert Ball is a Consultant with E4tech, based in the London office. Robert has an MSc in Energy and a BEng in Mechanical Engineering with Energy Resource Engineering from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh.  His studies covered a wide range of renewable energy topics and his MSc dissertation focused on the role heat pumps could play in meeting the UK’s domestic heating demand.  Robert’s BEng Honours project involved the design, manufacture and testing of low-cost thermal diode roofing insulation for use in dwellings in hot climates. He speaks English and French. 

Expertise
Renewable Energy Technology, Energy in Buildings and related Software Development.

Richard Taylor is a Consultant based in E4tech's London office. He has previously worked for REpower UK, monitoring wind turbine operations, and he also undertook an internship at the investment bank Rothschild. Richard holds an MMathPhys from Warwick University (specialising in applied Mathematics and theoretical Physics) and an MSc in Environmental Technology from Imperial College (specialising in Energy Policy).

Expertise
Electricity networks, renewable energy integration, reliability modelling.

Fabio Montemurro is a Consultant based in the London Office. Prior to joining E4tech he worked at EADS Astrium Satellite in Germany as a system engineer and simulator developer for scientific space missions. Fabio holds degrees in Aerospace Engineering (University of Pisa) and Industrial Engineering (Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies). He also obtained an MSc in Sustainable Energy Futures (Imperial College) with a project on the impact of the electric vehicles on the UK electric system. Other recent project experience includes analysis of PV systems for investors. Fabio speaks Italian, English, German and French.

Expertise
System engineering; control engineering; modelling and optimization; electric vehicles; demand side management; integration of renewable power sources; investments in large-scale PV plants.

Kathrine Vad is a consultant based in E4tech’s Lausanne office. Kathrine has an MSc in Industrial Ecology from the Dutch Universities of Leiden, Delft and Rotterdam and a master in Comprehensive Engineering from the French engineering school Ecole Centrale Marseille. Prior to joining E4tech, she worked at the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency in the Global Sustainability and Climate team.
She has strong knowledge on environmental analytical tools, such as Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), which she has used to analyze different green power generation technologies (wind, bioenergy, etc.).
Kathrine speaks French, English and Danish, as well as some German and Dutch.

Expertise
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), external costs, bioenergy technologies.

Dr Luca Bertuccioli is a Senior Consultant based in the Lausanne office and has a background in fluid mechanics and thermal sciences. Prior to joining E4Tech he worked at United Technologies Research Center where he participated and managed projects in a wide range of areas such as the thermo-economic analysis of aircraft and building energy systems, the aerodynamic design and aerothermal analysis of gas turbine components, and the concurrent engineering of synthetic fuels and thermal systems for hypersonic engines. He also has experience developing intellectual property strategies and preparing patent filings and has been awarded six patents. Luca holds a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University, a Post Graduate Diploma from the von Kármán Institute for Fluid Dynamics and an M.A. in Engineering from Cambridge University. He speaks English, French, Italian and German.

Expertise
Thermo-economic analysis, modeling and analysis of energy systems, concurrent engineering, development of intellectual property strategies

Raffaella Chanson-Candiloro is based in E4tech’s Lausanne office. After training in architecture and construction, she received a degree in Media Management from the Haute Ecole d’Ingénierie et de Gestion du Canton de Vaud (School of Business and Engineering Vaud). Raffaella brings her long standing interest in sustainable buildings as well as her experience in customer service and training to her role as Sales Engineer, supporting E4tech’s suite of software tools.

Expertise
Communications, IT, requirements analysis, market research

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